Overview
Ting-Li Fina Chu specializes in modern and contemporary Taiwanese art and visual culture, with broader interests in East Asian art, global modernisms, and museum studies. Her research examines transnational art historiography and the institutional formation of artistic canons, with a particular focus on postwar Taiwan. Drawing on art-historical and visual-studies methodologies, she investigates how museums, collections, and curatorial practices shape the production and circulation of art-historical knowledge, especially in relation to artistic modernity across local and transnational contexts.
Her research focuses on questions of classification, collecting, and historiography, with particular attention to the role of museums and cultural institutions in shaping understandings of Taiwanese art. Her work is grounded in archival, curatorial, and collection-based research at institutions including the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, the National Palace Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, and the Yingge Ceramics Museum. She has contributed to research and curatorial projects at these institutions and recently presented her paper “Curating the Immaterial: Evolving Approaches to Collecting New Media Art at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts” at Rice University’s 2026 Graduate Art History Conference, Materiality and the Making of Art: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference.
Chu received her M.A. in Museum Studies from Taipei National University of the Arts in 2025 and her B.A. in Art History from Tainan National University of the Arts in 2020.