The conference committee is delighted to announce that this year’s keynote speaker will be Dr Melissa Chiu, Director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington D.C.
AAANZ 2016 Conference | The Work of Art
Dr Melissa Chiu
How has the work of art changed in the 21st century?
Keynote Speaker for AAANZ 2016
December 1, National Gallery of Australia
Dr. Melissa Chiu is Director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the national museum of modern art, a Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. She was previously Museum Director and Senior Vice President, Global Art Programs at Asia Society in New York responsible for overseeing the programming for museums in New York, Houston, and Hong Kong. As a leading authority on international art, with a specialization in the Asia-Pacific region, she has organized nearly 30 exhibitions including a retrospective by Zhang Huan, a survey of Yoshitomo Nara, and an exhibition of art from China’s Cultural Revolution. Chiu earned a M.A. in Arts Administration (1994) and a PhD (2005) in Art History and is the author of numerous articles and books including Breakout: Chinese Art Outside China (2007), Chinese Contemporary Art: 7 Things You Should Know (2008), Asian Art Now (Monacelli Press, 2010, co-authored with Benjamin Genocchio) and an anthology Contemporary Art in Asia: A Critical Reader (MIT Press, 2011, co-edited with Benjamin Genocchio). She has lectured widely including at Yale University, Harvard University, New York University, as well as Cornell University. She has taught seminars and courses in Museum Studies and Asian contemporary art at the Rhode Island School of Design and Columbia University, New York.
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