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Faculty Profile
Dr. PoYin AuYeung
Education:
- Ph.D., Art History, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York
(CUNY)
- M.A., Art History, Brooklyn College (CUNY)
- M.A., Urban Planning, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
- B.A. (Honors), Media Studies, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
Research and Scholarly Interests:
Twentieth-century art and architectural history; the intersection of public art, urbanism, and political economy in the 20th century and beyond; the history and theory of public art and public space; contemporary Chinese art and urbanism; postcolonial theories; and contemporary art in the global arena, with particular emphasis on the development of biennials and other recurrent international art exhibitions.
Publications:
- “The Urban Landscape of ‘Creative Destruction’: Contemporary Public Art and Urban Redevelopment in Beijing: 1990s-2000,” in Transformative Cities, edited by Janet Ng-Dudley, Ida Susser, and Stephen Tonnelat (forthcoming).
- “Aesthetics and Politics: Merging Local Histories and Western Avant-garde Influences – The Stars Art Group of Beijing (1979 to early 1980s),” in Reinventions in Modern and Contemporary Chinese Art, Occasional Paper Number 10, edited by Bassam K. Abed (New York: New York University Alpha Sigma Lambda Honor Society, 2007), pp. 7-12.
- “Die Kultur privatisieren, den Wunschen ein Image geben,” Dérive magazine (Austria), December 2001, pp. 23-29.
- “Museum Space: Privatizing Culture/Imaging Desire,” in The Meaning of Site, edited by Katya Sander, Simon Sheikh, and Cecilie Høgsbro Østergaard (Copenhagen: The University of Copenhagen, 2000), pp. 96-119.
- “RepoHistory: Sign Bites,” Index magazine (Sweden), No. 23, Fall 1998, pp. 36-39.
- “Utopia, Dystopia, and Bliss in the Summer of 1997: Review of Documenta X, Münster Sculpture Project, and the Venice Biennial,” Part, Fall 1997 (electronic journal of the Art History Department, The Graduate Center, CUNY).
- “Reconsidering Site-specificity: Narration and Intervention in Urban Space,“ Afterimage, Vol. 25, No. 3 (Rochester, NY: Visual Studies Workshop, 1997), pp. 16-17.
- “Consent and Rupture: The Flag and the Media,” Consensus and Conflict: The Flag in American Art, exhibition catalogue (Champion, CT: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1996), pp. 19-24.
- “Photographer Lorne Greenberg’s Chinatown: Multiple Exposures of Violence, History, and Culture,” Vancouver Cultural Alliance Quarterly, Fall 1993, pp. 3-5.
- The Arts Resource Book, co-editor (Vancouver: The Assembly of British Columbia Arts Councils, 1991).
Conference Papers and Special Lectures:
- “The Specter of Critical Public Art in Contemporary China.” Paper presented in the session “Public Art and Pedagogy,” College Art Association Conference, Los Angeles, February 2009.
- “Reconsidering Sustainability: from Expediency to Agency.” Concluding remarks for the final session, which I moderated, of the symposium Culturally and Ecologically Sustainable Urban Conservation and Development, Roger Williams University, Bristol, Rhode Island, July 2008.
- “Western Avant-garde Influences and the Stars Art Group of Beijing, 1979-1980.” Paper presented at the symposium Reinventions in Modern and Contemporary Chinese Art, New York University, New York, December 2006.
- “Contemporary Art and Urbanism in Chinese Cities.” Served as session moderator at the symposium New Chinese Urbanism, The Graduate Center, CUNY, May 2005.
- “Contemporary Chinese Art in Public Spaces.” Paper presented at the symposium Art and the Public Sphere, Pratt Institute, New York, March 2004.
- “Contemporary Art Biennials and the International Art Market.” Special lecture delivered at Baruch College (CUNY), November 2003.
- “The Postmodern Museum in Europe and America.” Public lecture delivered at the Guggenheim Museum, New York, October 2001.
- “Museum Space: Privatizing Culture/Imaging Desire.” Paper presented at the symposium The Meaning of Site, the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, November 1998.
- “The Malling of Museums.” Paper presented in the conference American Culture: Contemporary Art and Architecture, organized by the American Popular Culture Association, Orlando, Florida, April 1998.
- “Consensus and Conflict: The Flag in American Art.” Served as panel discussant at a symposium held in conjunction with an exhibition I co-curated, Whitney Museum of American Art, Champion, Connecticut, May 1996.
- “Contemporary American Art: Crossing Boundaries between the Public and Private Spheres.” Paper presented at a panel discussion, Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York, December 1995.
Awards and Scholarships:
Pratt Institute Faculty Development Fund Award, 2005-2006
New York University Adjunct Faculty Professional Development Fund Award, 2005-2006
CUNY Distinguished Scholar Award: Milton Brown Dissertation Fellowship, 2004-2005
CUNY Center for Place, Culture, and Politics Fellowship, 2004-2005
CUNY Graduate Teaching Fellowship, 2003-2004
CUNY Graduate Fellowships, 1998-2001
Whitney Museum of American Art Helena Rubenstein Fellowship, 1995-1996
Other Activities:
Member of College Art Association, Public Art Dialogue Association, and the Asia Society (New York)
Curatorial experience includes co-curating an exhibition for Whitney Museum of American Art, organizing exhibitions for the Vancouver Art Gallery and Vancouver Cultural Alliance (Canada), and conducting research for the Shedhalle Art Space (Zurich, Switzerland).
Courses Taught/Teaching:
- ART 403, American Art: 18th to 20th Century
- LLRN 209, The Roots of Modern Age: Art
Contact Information:
Page last updated by M. LaMonica: August 2009
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