Yuhua Ding

Ph.D. Student in History of Art

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Yuhua Ding is a PhD candidate in art history at Cornell University. Her research focuses on the cultures of collection and collecting of Chinese ancient art and antiquities, in particular their accumulation by diverse social classes and dissemination through domestic and foreign collectors. Her dissertation “Antiquarianism in a Time of Crisis: On the Collecting Practice of Deng Shi and His Contemporaries” sheds light on art collecting and art publishing at a moment when China was transforming from empire to republic. During her PhD studies, Yuhua participated in "Chinese Object Study" workshops at the Freer & Sackler Museum and the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, and received the National Museum of Korea 2015 Museum Network Fellowship. She was also invited to guest curate exhibitions at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art in both 2016 and 2018. Before arriving in the US, Yuhua studied in China, Germany and Japan. She was a curatorial researcher at the Liu Haisu Art Museum where she curated and co-curated exhibitions on Chinese painting and photography ranging from the pre-modern to the contemporary periods. Currently she is a curatorial assistant in the Asian Department of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art.

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