Art Connects | The Founding of Yishu Journal

A Conversation with Zheng Shengtian and Keith Wallace

Tuesday, June 16 | 1:30 PM

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In this edition of Art Connects, Zheng Shengtian and Keith Wallace will discuss the founding of Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, the first English-language journal to focus on Chinese contemporary art and culture.

Celebrating its 18th anniversary of publication last month, Yishu has become a diverse platform for a wide range of voices who are living and telling the story of contemporary Chinese art. The journal provides dialogue and debate around current visual and literary forms constituting an expanded understanding of contemporary Chinese art. Featuring scholarly essays, interviews with artists and curators, and critical commentary on exhibitions and books, Yishu’s high standard of critical writing by thinkers from around the world allows them to voice ideas that communicate across cultures.

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ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Keith Wallace has been a curator of contemporary art since 1979. From 1991 to 2001, he was Curator, then Director/Curator, of the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver, where he developed a program of regional, national and international exhibitions. He has also organized exhibitions for the Vancouver Art Gallery, National Gallery of Canada, The Power Plant, Centre A and the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, where he was Associate Director/Curator from 2005 to 2008 and 2012 to 2015. Since 2004, Wallace has been Editor-in-Chief of Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art.

Zheng Shengtian is the Adjunct Director of Institute for Asian Art at the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Founding Managing Editor of Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art and a Trustee of Asia Art Archive in America. He was the Chair of the Oil Painting Department in China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, and a visiting professor at the University of Minnesota and San Diego State University. He was a founding member of the Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art (Centre A) and has organized and curated numerous exhibitions, including Shanghai Modern (Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, 2004); Art and China’s Revolution (Asia Society Museum, New York, 2009); and Yellow Signal: New Media from China (Vancouver, 2012). He has been the Senior Curator for Asia of Vancouver Biennale since 2009, and received the Sorel Etrog Lifetime Achievement Award for Scholarship and Curatorial Excellence in 2011. His current project Crossing Pacific focuses on the cultural dialogue between China and Latin America in the twentieth century. In 2013, four volumes of Zheng Shengtian’s selected writings on art were published by China Academy of Art Press. He received an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from Emily Carr University of Art and Design that same year.