Curator Panel—Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection
Join curators Cecilia Alemani and Sabine Eckmann as they engage with collector Komal Shah, founder of the Shah Garg Foundation, in conversation about the exhibition Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection.
Part of the Sam Fox School Public Lecture Series
This panel is preceded by the Member and WashU preview at 4:30 pm and is followed by the public opening at 6:30 pm.
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Apr 15 at 5:30pm • Museum Lobby
Being and Becoming in Contemporary Chinese Art
This talk by Peggy Wang, associate professor of art history and Asian studies at Bowdoin College, addresses the conflicting pressures that artists in China confronted during the 1990s and early 2000s, including rapid urbanization and cultural globalization. Even as they navigated political constraints and deficits in resources, contemporary artists enacted productive strategies for making and exhibiting their art. This lecture foregrounds artists’ assertions of being and becoming, both as critical tactics for configuring identity and generative topics unto themselves. Wang will particularly examine how artists studied the vibrant dynamics of change through temporal, historical, and material dimensions in their art.
This lecture is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Looking Back Toward the Future: Contemporary Photography from China, on view at the Kemper Art Museum from February 27 to July 27, 2026.
Part of the Sam Fox School Public Lecture Series