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Dr. Shuo Hua

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Associate Curator University Museum and Art Gallery

Contact
2/F, T. T. Tsui Building
Telephone: +852 3917 5502
Email Shuo Hua

Website
https://hku-hk.academia.edu/ShuoHua

Education
Ph.D. in Art History, University of Hong Kong
B.A., University of Pennsylvania 

Bio

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Shuo Hua is an Associate Curator at the University of Hong Kong, University Museum and Art Gallery (UMAG). She was a Lee-Hysan visiting PhD fellow at the Cluster of Global Art History, University of Heidelberg. Her research interest focuses on the intersection of modern East Asian paintings and collecting and exhibition history and culture as well as the ongoing transformation of the creative economy of visual arts in China and its historical nuances. Hua’s recent research has been published by the University of Amsterdam Press, Routledge, Brill and sehepunkte. She is currently working on a book manuscript on exhibiting and commoditizing modern Chinese painters in Hong Kong.

Research Interests

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  • Modern Chinese art (curatorial practice)

  • Art market studies

  • Transcultural interpretation of Chinese Art and its creative strategies of circulation

  • Exhibition history and culture

Courses

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Selected Publications and Exhibitions


Peer-reviewed

  • “When Art and Law Meet: A Brief Case Study of the Shanghai Free Trade Zone,” in Law and Finance in International Art Markets: Past and Present, edited by Elisabetta Lazzaro, Nathalie Moureau and Adriana Turpin, London: Routledge (forthcoming 2025/6). 

  • “Rise of Art Fairs in Hong Kong,” in The Art Fair: The Rise of a Global Phenomenon, edited by Johannes Nathan, London: Brill (forthcoming 2025/6)

  • “Transcultural Interpretations of Twentieth-Century Chinese Art: Exhibiting Wu Guanzhong in Hong Kong,” in Histories, Politics, and Practices: Exhibiting Chinese Art in Asia, edited by Selina Ho, Amsterdam University Press, 2025. 

 

Edited volume

  • Shuo Hua, ed. Across Time and Space: Re-visit Twentieth-Century Chinese Oil Paintings, Hong Kong: University of Hong Kong, University Museum and Art Gallery (forthcoming 2026).

  • Shuo Hua, Florian Knothe, Ben Chiesa eds. Reflected Beauty: Chinese Reverse Glass Paintings from the Mei Lin Collection Hong Kong: University of Hong Kong, University Museum and Art Gallery, 2022.

 

Essay

  • “Mystical Symbolism: Capturing the Zeitgeist of the Spirit of Antiquity in Y. Y. Ting’s Oil Painting,” in Enduring Strength and Passion: Ting Yin Yung and His Chinese and Western Art, edited by Sarah Ng, Hong Kong: University of Hong Kong, University Museum and Art Gallery, 2024.

 

Book review

 

Conference

  • “Exhibiting Émigré Chinese art in Hong Kong (1950s-1970s),” The 13th Forum for East Asian Art History, Freie Universität Berlin, 2025. 

  • “Performative Fusion in Curating and Practicing Modern Ink Painting in Hong Kong (1970s-80s), ” in panel From ‘ Guohua’ to Ink Painting: Metamorphosis of National Painting from a Transcultural Perspective, The AAS Annual Conference, Ohio, 2025.

  • Convenor: International Symposium: Digital Transformations in Art, Museums and Digital Cultures, University of Hong Kong, University Museum and Art Gallery and the Nanjing University, School of Arts [grant recipient for the Jiangsu-Hong Kong-Macao University Alliance Open Bid Funding], 2023

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