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Discipline: Post: Research direction: Tutors Categories: GraduateSchool: China Academy of Art Office Tel: Location: PostCode: Email: zuyuart@163.com |
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Discipline: Post: Research direction: Tutors Categories: GraduateSchool: China Academy of Art Office Tel: Location: PostCode: Email: zuyuart@163.com |
Personal Information
Associate Professor
Department of Image and Video Art, Zhejiang Gongshang University
No.18, Xuezheng Str
Hangzhou, 310018 China
Phone: +86 13777866931
Email: zuyuart@163.com
Current Positions
Associate Professor of Image and Video Art Department
Major Fields of Concentration
Period: Modern
Region: Transnational & International, East Asia
Specialism: History of Art and Photography, Visual Culture
Supervision: Masters Supervision
Yu Zu is a scholar and curator specializing in the history ofphotography and contemporary image art. She currently lives and works in Hangzhou, China. With over 15 years of experience, she has taught art and photography history at various universities. Zu is a postdoctoral fellow in art and design theory at the China Academy ofArt, and she holds the position of associate professor and master tutor in image and video art at Zhejiang Gongshang University, where she also serves as the academic vice dean of the College of Art and Design.
Zu earned her Master's degree in Image and Communication from Goldsmiths, University of London, where her research into photography's history began. She later completed her Ph.D. in Art History at the China Academy ofArt, with her doctoral research focusing on early 20th-century photography, which became the basis for her first book.
She has authored several books and essays, including Appreciation and Criticism of Photography (2022),
The Shaping of Photography History: Research on the History of Photography of Beaumont Newhall (2021),
‘A Case in the History of Chinese Photography: Liu Xucang and Chinese Photography in the Early 20th Century ’ (2016), ‘The Image-Text Relationships Construction in Chinese Photography with the Background of Chinese Language ’ (2016), and ‘Self-Assessment: A Study of Selfies ’ (2015).
Zu also translated The Photobook: A History, Volume I (2017, Chinese edition).
As a curator, Zu has held the position of curator-in-residence at the nonprofit art organization No Longer Empty in New York and is currently a working committee member of the Shanghai Doland Museum of Modern Art.
She has curated numerous contemporary art exhibitions, including ‘Time Indexes: Alabaster's Albumen Prints Photobook China ’ (Hangzhou, 2020), ‘This is Our Land: Speaking in Photos ’(Farnham, UK, 2019), ‘Resort: Anna Fox ’ (Hangzhou, 2017), ‘Shan Shui Strategy: ZENG Han ’ (Hangzhou, 2017), ‘A Space-Time of Transitional Desires ’ (New York, 2016), and ‘Light Writers: Contemporary Image Art in China ’ (Hangzhou, 2016).
Period: Modern
Region: Transnational & International, East Asia
Specialism: History of Art and Photography, Visual Culture
Supervision: Masters Supervision
Teaching and Supervising
Teaching
China Academy of Art:
Photography Appreciation (undergrad),
History of Art(undergrad), Film Appreciation (undergrad).
Zhejiang University of Technology:
Graphic Design (undergrad),
Layout Design (undergrad).
Zhejiang University of Media and Communication:
World History of Photography(undergrad),
Photo Management and Curation (undergrad),
Photography Techniques and Techniques (undergrad),
Fundamentals of Photography (undergrad), History of Chinese Photography (undergrad),
Theatre and Planning (undergrad),
Art Marketing and Curation (undergrad),
Graduate Creative Practice (undergrad).
Zhejiang Gongshang University:
Imaging Experiments (undergrad),
Photography Appreciation: Moments and Eternity (undergrad),
Appreciation of Classic Photogrphy Works (undergrad),
Graduate Creative Practice (undergrad),
Photography Techniques (undergrad),
Moment and Eternity: Appreciation of Classic Video Works (postgraduate),
Design Critics (postgraduate).
Graduate Supervision
MA Supervisor.
University Service and Administrative Duties
Department of Image and Video Art, Zhejinag Gongshang University:
Director of Digital Media Lab.
Center for Intellectual Media Communication and Humanities Preservation, Zhejinag Gongshang University:
Director of Center for Intellectual Media Communication and Humanities Preservation.
Yearbook of Chinese Contemporary Image Art, Head of Yangtze River Delta Research Station .
Head of Research Base of China National Social Science Foundation.
Zhejinag Gongshang University
Academic Vice Dean of School of Art and Design.
Service at Other Universities
Researcher of Postdoctoral Research Station ofDesign, China Academy of Art.
Consulting
Consultant, Yu Design Office, 2010 until now.
Consultant, Light Gallery (Hangzhou), 2016-2019.
Consultant, Quan Shan Shi Art Center, Overseas Works Liaison Consultant,
2015-2017.
Consultant, Master Craftsman Heart Design, 2015 until now.
Academic and Professional Experience
Mar. 2023 - present | Postdoctoral Researcher in Design Studiest, China Academy |
Dec. 2020 - present | Associate Professor, Department of Image and Video art, Art |
Sep. 2009 - Jun.2020 | Lecture, Department of Photography, Design and Art College, |
Oct. 2016-Dec. 2016 | Curator in residence, New York Foundation for the Arts |
Professional Service
Member of China Literary and Art Critics Association.
‘ Professional Member of Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art.
Art Director of Yu Design Office.
Resident Curator ofNo Longer Empty.
Deputy Director of Mission Department of Quan Shan Shi Art Center.
Mid-term Supervision Expert ofNational Art Fund of the People's Republic of China.
National First class Curriculum Evaluation Expert of Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China.
Community Service
Deputy Director of Theoretical Committee of Zhejiang Photographers Association.
Conference Organization
Co-Organizer and Academic Host,
‘Photography, Image, and Its History-The Fourth Academic Forum on Urban Culture and Visual Production (2020)’, Advanced School of Art and Humanities, China Academy of Art, November 2020.
Secretary General of the Conference and Academic Host of the Main Venue,
‘Co-Fusion: Reconstruction and Innovation of Art Education Community International Academic Forum (2024)',
Zhejiang Gongshang University, April 2024.
Academic Honors and Awards
2023.8 German Red Dot Design Award, Brand and Communication Design
Award, Jingdezhen Taoxichuan Art Museum and Ceramic Industrial Heritage Museum (Lighting Installation Design)
2014.07 Work Visual Identity Design of Quanshan Stone Art Center
selected for the 12th National Fine Arts Exhibition
2017.11 Curated exhibition Image Hyperlink - Sino-British Photography
Education Enlightenment recommended by experts at the China Photographers Association Lishui Photography Festiva
2017.12 Creator of Baoji Changleyuan Anti-Japanese Industrial Heritage
Museum Group (Baoji ShenXin Textile Factory Site) planning, exhibition space and visual design was listed in the first batch of national industrial heritage list by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology
2017 .12 Creator of Jingdezhen Taoxichuan Art Museum and Ceramic
Industrial Heritage Museum (Jingdezhen State-owned Universe
Porcelain Factory Site) curated exhibition, display design, interior
space design and visual identity design was listed in the first batch of
national industrial heritage list by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology
2019 .10 Creator of Baoji Changleyuan Anti-Japanese Industrial Heritage
Museum Group (Baoji Shenshin Textile Factory Site) planning,
exhibition space and visual design were announced as one of the
eighth batch key cultural relics protection units by the State Council
2019 .10 Creator's work on display and visual identity design for Jingdezhen
Taoxichuan Art Museum and Ceramic Industrial Heritage Museum won a bronze award in culture & exhibition engineering category at China Interior Design Competition
2019 The 9th Top Ten Teaching at Zhejiang Media College in 2019
2018 Third prize in the 2018 Micro-Class competition at Zhejiang
Media College
2017 Curated exhibition Image Hyperlink - Sino-British Photography
Education Enlightenment was recommended by experts at Lishui Photography Festival, Lishui Municipal Government/China
Photographers Association
2016 Personal article Self-Identification Report - About 'Selfies' won the
second prize in the article category of the Second Zhejiang Literary and Art Review Award, organized by Zhejiang Provincial Federation of Literary and Art Circles and Zhejiang Provincial Critics
Association
Moment and Eternity: Appreciation of Classic Video Works (postgraduate),
Design Critics (postgraduate).
Zhejiang Gongshang University:
Imaging Experiments (undergrad),
Photography Appreciation: Moments and Eternity (undergrad),
Appreciation of Classic Photogrphy Works (undergrad),
Graduate Creative Practice (undergrad),
Photography Techniques (undergrad).
Publications
(i) Refereed Books
1) Yu, Zu, The Shaping of Photography History: Beaumont Newhal's Research on the History of Photography, Hangzhou: China Academy of Art Publishing House, 2021.
2) Yu, Zu, Photography Appreciation and Criticism, Hangzhou: Zhejiang University Press, 2022.
(ii) Articles in Refereed Journals
1) Yu, Zu, Media Awakening and Aesthetic Transcendence: On Beaumont Newhall's 'Formalist' Photography Aesthetics, New Arts 42 (2021):187-198.
2) Yu, Zu, Today, N Ways to Approach Mona Lisa, Wen Wei Po 26（May 2020): 11
3) Yu, Zu, Photography: 1839-1937 - A Three-Dimensional History of Photography, Chinese Photographer 3 (2020): 48-53.
4) Yu, Zu, Research Scope and Basic Methods ofUrban Version Aesthetics, New Arts 40 (2019): :108-111.
5) Yu, Zu, Beaumont Newhall and the First Orthodox History of Photography,
New Arts 40 (2019): 119-122.
6) Yu, Zu, Beaumont Newhall's Research Strategy on the History of Photography, Chinese Photographer 2 (2019): 108-114.
7) Yu, Zu, A Serious Beginning is Needed for Research on 'Chinese Photographic History', Chinese Photographer 8 (2018): 140-143.
8) Yu, Zu, The 'Universe' in a Fruit Shell - Chu Chu's 'Object' and 'Book of Objects', Poetry Book Painting 218 (2018): 135-141.
9) Yu, Zu, The Documentary Nature of Photography and Its Historical Research Methods, New Arts 38 (2017): 107-109.
10) Yu, Zu, Flash New York - A Site-Specific Gaze, Chinese Photography 3 (2017): 147-151 .
11) Yu, Zu, In Search of Liu Xucang, China Photographer 10 (2017): 104-109.
12) Yu, Zu, The Construction of Visual Grammar in Chinese Photography, China Photographer 8 (2016): 22-28 .
13) Yu, Zu, Self-Identification Report - On 'Selfies', Chinese Photography 1 (2015): 62-67.
14) Yu, Zu, Bleeding Photos, Chinese Photography 5 (2015): 56-59. This article is also included in the photography book 50 Contemporary Photobooks from China 2009-2014.
15) Yu, Zu, The Origin of Contemporary Photography, Future Communication 3 (2015): 91-95 . Outstanding Paper of the Year.
16) Yu, Zu, The Original Intention of Documentary Photography, Future Communication 5 (2012): 80-86.
17) Yu, Zu, Research on Film Posters in the 1950s-60s and 80s, Packaging World 5 (2011): 32-37.
18) Yu, Zu, Seeing 'Historical Facts' through 'Reality' - Exploring the Origin of Documentary Photography Creation, Packaging World 3 (2011): 56-61.
(iii) Newspaper Articles
1) Yu, Zu, Landscape Strategies, Fine Arts News, No. 1256, December 23, 2017. p.15.
2) Yu, Zu, The End Point of Photography is Photography Itself, China Photographers Newspaper, No.49, June 27, 2017. p.3.
3) Yu, Zu, Viewing Art Life as a Cultural Development Tool - Sketch of the New York Art Map, Fine Arts News, No. 1221, April 22, 2017. p.17
4) Yu, Zu, Photography's Threshold is High, China Photographers Newspaper, No.67, Friday, August 26, 2017.p.9.
5) Yu, Zu, Natural Growth - Starting from 'TOP20·2015 China Contemporary Photography Emerging Exhibition', China Photographers Newspaper, No.94, August, 2017. p.9.
Research Grants & Funding
2023.10- | National Social Science Fund Art General Project | CNY ¥200,000 |
2023.2- | Zhejiang Province's First Batch of New Liberal Arts, New Engineering, New Medical Science, and New Agricultural Science Key Construction Textbooks | CNY ¥20,000 |
2022.10 | Major Projects Funded by Zhejiang Province Humanities and Social Sciences Services | CNY ¥798,000 |
2021.7 | Provincial First-Class Undergraduate Course Funded by Zhejiang Provincial Department of Education in 2020 | CNY ¥30,000 |
2020.10 | National First-Class Undergraduate Courses Funded by Ministry ofEducation | CNY ¥100,000 |
2020.4 | Provincial First-Class Undergraduate Course Funded by Zhejiang Provincial Department of Education in 2019 | CNY ¥50,000 |
2018.6-2021.6 | Youth Fund Project for Humanities and Social Sciences Research funded by Ministry of Education | CNY ¥80,000 |
2018.7-2020.5 | Research Project Funded by Zhejiang Provincial Social Science Federation | CNY ¥50,000 |
2018.1-2020.6 | Zhejiang Provincial Department of Culture Funding | CNY ¥30,000 |
2017.5-2022.4 | Project Approved for The New Form of Textbooks in Zhejiang Province | CNY ¥30,000 |
2018.6-2019.6 | Bilingual Course Construction Project funded by Zhejiang University ofMedia and Communication | CNY ¥20,000 |
2018.3-2020.3 | Online Fine Course Construction Project Funded by Zhejiang University ofMedia and Communication | CNY ¥30,000 |
2015.2-2017.2 | Key Course Construction Project Funded by Zhejiang University ofMedia and Communication | CNY ¥10,000 |
2013.5-2015.5 | Key Research Project Funded by Zhejiang University of Media and Communication | CNY ¥5,000 |
2010.9-2012.9 | Research Project Funded by Zhejiang University ofMedia and Communication | CNY ¥5,000 |
Latest Publication
Zu’s first book, The Shaping of Photography History: Beaumont Newhal's Research on the History of Photography (2021), addresses the question How does photography make history, and focuses on the first photography exhibition held by the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1937. This exhibition resulted in two significant accomplishments: an exhibition titled 'Photography: 1839-1937' and a book titled The History of Photography: From 1839 to the Present.
Both clearly illustrate Beaumont Newhall's approach to the study of historical photography.
Zu has investigated the divergent viewpoints of Newhall and the photography division at the Museum of Modern Art in the early 20th century, comparing and contrasting the five editions of Newhall's The History of Photography: From 1839 to the Present.
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