Student Information
Graduate StudentDesign, Environment and the Arts (History, Theory, and Criticism)
Herberger Institute
Shen Qu is a Ph.D. candidate in the art history program at the School of Art. She specializes in modern and contemporary art, post war art market, and pre-modern East Asian craftsmanships and art theories.
Modern contemporary art history; pre-modern East Asian art theory and material culture; feminist art history
https://doi.org/10.1080/09647775.2023.2275968.
Qu, Shen, Hollow Snowball: a brief discussion on public art, Art Monthly, 03/2020
“Everlasting/Evergrowing Materiality: Ching Ho Cheng’s Alchemical Works in Time,” Session
Materiality in Modern and Contemporary Art, SECAC (Southeastern College Art Conference), Atlanta, 10/24-10/26/2024
“Ching Ho Cheng-not your typical Chinese son,” Session 8 Past as Prologue:
Asian American Artists Today, Representations of East Asian Migrants and Settlers in the Western United States ca. 1850-1929 conference, Museum of the Rockies, 09/26-09/28/2024
“Rediscover Ching Ho Cheng (1946-1989),” Session
Diasporic and globally dispersed art markets, 7th Annual Conference of The International Art Market Studies Association, University of Melbourne, 07/10-07/13/2024
“Metal, Water, and Oxygen: Ching Ho Cheng’s Alchemical Works in Time,” Session
Energy Consumption in Art History: State of the Interdisciplinary Field, AAH (Association for Art History) 2024 Annual Conference, University of Bristol, 04/03/2024
“The Revival of Materiality: Aesthetics, an Alternative Art History,” Session
Decolonial Aesthetics: Toward Artistic and Philosophical Interventions, SECAC (Southeastern College Art Conference), Richmond, 10/13/2023
“Token Female contemporary Chinese Artist in art history writing: self-censorship, institutional ne
glect and cultural omissions,” Present at Where are our women artists? Linda Nochlin’s Question in the Age of Feminist Visual Culture Graduate Conference, Rice University, 04/14/2023
“Artistic Education as a political strategy, the social function of Art in premodern China,” Present
at COLLECTIVE Graduate Symposium, University of Arizona, 03/17/2023
“A Brief Discussion on the Publicity and Privacy of the Public Bathrooms as a Social Domain of
Youth Subculture,” Present at the 12th Association for Cultural Studies "Crossroads in Cultural Studies" conference, Shanghai University, 08/11/2018
Courses
2026 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ARS 473 | Art of Japan |
| ARS 473 | Art of Japan |
| ARS 201 | Art of Asia |
| ARS 201 | Art of Asia |
2025 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ARS 201 | Art of Asia |
2025 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ARS 201 | Art of Asia |
| ARS 201 | Art of Asia |
2024 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ARS 201 | Art of Asia |
2024 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ARS 394 | Special Topics |
2023 “The Structure of Contemporary Art Market,” JIC Bookstore, Shanghai, China
2021 “The History of Modern and Contemporary Art History in West Bund Museum,” Yijian Library, Shanghai, China
2021 “A brief Introduction to Art History in Museum of Art Pudong,” JIC Bookstore, Shanghai, China