Graduate Student
Specialization:
Areas of Concentration: Premodern Chinese painting and calligraphy; intermediality and text-image relations; literati cultural spheres of the 13th and 14th centuries; landscape and plant-life painting
Faculty Advisor: Peter Sturman
M.A. Thesis: "The Social and the Ritual: Reconsidering Ni Zan’s Painting and Inscription” (The Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, completed 2020)
Bio:
Shelly Zhang is a Ph.D. student in the History of Art & Architecture Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research focuses on Chinese painting and calligraphy of the 13th and 14th centuries, with particular attention to the intermedial relationships among text, image, and artistic practice. She is especially interested in landscape and plant-life painting, and in how these genres intersected with literary culture. Before coming to UCSB, she interned in the Department of Asian Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and worked as a research specialist at a contemporary art museum in China.
She received her B.A. in Global Liberal Studies from NYU in 2018 and her M.A. in History of Art and Archaeology from The Institute of Fine Arts, NYU in 2020.