About - Eugene WANG

Eugene Wang

is Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art at Harvard University. A 2005 Guggenheim Fellow, his book, Shaping the Lotus Sutra: Buddhist Visual Culture in Medieval China, received an academic achievement award from Japan. He is the art history associate editor of the Encyclopedia of Buddhism, and now serves on the advisory board of the Center for Advanced Studies for Visual Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. His extensive publications encompass a wide range of topics, including ancient Chinese bronzes, tombs, sarcophagi, cave murals, reliquaries, landscapes, scroll paintings, calligraphy, woodblock prints, photography, and film. His current research interests explore the shifting boundaries of interiority / exteriority in ancient Chinese conceptions of body and cosmos, the cognitive sequencing of images in Buddhist art, the pictorial art of the ineffable, and modern/ contemporary Chinese art and mediality.