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Wu Hung (Chinese: 巫鴻; born 1945) is a Chinese-American art historian.

Wu was raised in Beijing,[1] and earned a bachelor's degree and Master of Arts from the Central Academy of Fine Arts, then completed a PhD in art history and anthropology at Harvard University.[2][1] He began teaching at Harvard in 1987, and was promoted to full professor in 1994.[1] At the University of Chicago, Wu holds the Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professorship of Art History and the College.[3] Wu was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship in 1999,[4] and elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2007.[5] From 2015 to 2016, he was the Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford University, and gave the 2016 Slade Lecture.[6][7]

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  1. ^ a b c "Exhibiting Experimental Art in China". University of Chicago Library. Retrieved 5 August 2024.
  2. ^ "WU Hung". University of Chicago Global. Retrieved 4 August 2024.
  3. ^ "Wu Hung". University of Chicago Department of Art History. Retrieved 4 August 2024.
  4. ^ "Wu Hung". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 4 August 2024.
  5. ^ "Professor Wu Hung". American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 4 August 2024.
  6. ^ Pickles, Matt (19 January 2016). "Free public lectures on Chinese art begin this week". Oxford University. Retrieved 4 August 2024.
  7. ^ "Slade Lectures: Feminine Space: An Untold Story of Chinese Pictorial Art". Oxford University. Retrieved 4 August 2024.

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