Intellect

Dr. ShiPu Wang is an art historian and assistant professor in the School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts, University of California, Merced, United States. He teaches global arts and visual culture surveys and seminars on American art, in addition to a photography history and practice course. Wang’s research and scholarship focus on rediscovering the diverse body of work by émigré Asian and Asian American artists who contributed to many vanguard artist groups as prominent members in pre-war American art. His forthcoming book, Becoming American? The Art and Identity Crisis of Yasuo Kuniyoshi (University of Hawaii Press), presents an in-depth critical re-evaluation of the artistic production of Yasuo Kuniyoshi (1889–1953), a prominent American artist of Japanese descent, in the pivotal decades preceding and following Pearl Harbor and explores ways in which his work interrogates issues of race, diasporas and nationalism in American art.

He has published critical essays in English and Chinese, and is a regular contributor to several international art and visual culture journals and magazines.