Department of Art History

Congratulations to Wu Hung (Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor of Art History and the College and Faculty Adjunct Curator at The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art) for receiving the College Art Association 2022 Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award for Writing on Art! The CAA Awards for Distinction honor individual artists, art historians, authors, curators, and critics whose accomplishments transcend their individual disciplines and contribute to the profession as a whole and the world at large. 

Having joined the University of Chicago in 1994, Wu Hung is an invaluable colleague to the department and monumental scholar to both the fields of traditional and contemporary Chinese art. His scholarship and teaching crosses disciplinary divides and have been influential in transforming the discipline into a global art history. Through the course of his career, Wu Hung has published numerous books, articles, and exhibition catalogues on Chinese visual culture, situating his scholarship not from an object viewpoint, but from the human perspective. His dedication to the field extends beyond the department into his current leadership role as the Director of the Department of Art History's Center for the Art of East Asia and beyond the department as Faculty Adjunct Curator at the The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art.  

Wu Hung will be recognized for the award at CAA’s 110th Annual Conference Convocation which will take place virtually on Wednesday, February 16, from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. (CST). The event is open to the public and if you would like to attend please RSVP to development@collegeart.org.  

Read the CAA News article on the CAA 2022 Awards for Distinction.