A conversation and lunch with Christina Yu, PhD, Matsutaro Shoriki Chair, Art of Asia, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Saturday, March 7, 2020
12:00-1:30pm, CWAC lounge
RSVP is required at this link by March 5
This event is sponsored by the University of Chicago Center for the Art of East Asia.
Persons with concerns regarding accessibility please contact Zhenru Zhou (zhenru@zhenruzhou.com) and Yin Wu (yinwu@uchicago.edu).
Google spreadsheet URL link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jD0kaB1Bb_vb12zyQFQBaFYKDwDwhrXPtwVOZnWx1p0/edit?usp=sharing
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Christina Yu Yu is Matsutaro Shoriki Chair of Asian Art of Asia at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA). Prior to this position, Christina has served as the director of the University of Southern California Pacific Asia Museum (USC PAM), and as an assistant curator of Chinese and Korean art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). She has also held positions at Chambers Fine Art, a gallery based in New York and Beijing, and the Yokohama Museum of Art in Japan. Yu Yu attended Wellesley College for her undergraduate studies. She earned her master’s degree from Boston University and completed her Ph.D. at the University of Chicago, with a dissertation focused on paintings from China’s Yuan dynasty.
