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Minglu Gao

Pittsburgh, USA

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Gao Minglu has been an active critic, curator, and scholar of contemporary Chinese art since the mid 1980s. His exhibitions on the subject are among the most important ever assembled in the U.S. and China. His many publications explore the changing relationship between global art movements and Chinese tradition.

He holds both an MA and a PhD in Art History from Harvard University. He is currently Research Professor at the University of Pittsburgh.

Selected Publications:

The Wall: Reshaping Contemporary Chinese Art, The Albright Knox Art Gallery and China Millenium Museum of Art, New York/Beijing, 2005.

Chinese Maximalism, Chongqing Publishing House, Chongqing, 2003.

The Art and Methodology of Xu Bing, The Elite Corporation, Taipei, 2003.

“Seeking a Model of Universalism: The United Nations series and other Works,” in: Mark H. C. Bessire (ed.), Wenda Gu: Art from Middle Kingdom to Biological Millennium, MIT Press, Cambridge MA, 2003, pp. 20-29.