Shiyu Gao

Shiyu GAO is a PhD candidate at the University of Edinburgh. She is Research Assistant to Dr Chia-Ling Yang, Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Chinese Art. Shiyu worked as a curator for museums and galleries in China and the UK, including Stills Gallery in Edinburgh, CAFA Art Museum in Beijing, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and the National Art Museum of China in Beijing.  Her recent interests include:

• Technology and art
• Gender, subjectivity and the body in art
• East Asian art and visual culture
• Feminist and queer technoscience
• Posthumanism and post-anthropocentrism

Her recent publications include:

• Reshaping Posthuman Subjectivity: Lu Yang’s Representation of Virtual Bodies in the COVID-19 Pandemic in Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art by Intellect (forthcoming), 
• Body as Landscape: Body Representation in Contemporary Chinese Art
• Synthesis and Transformation: The Nude in Xu Beihong’s Painting
• About the Body and Thinking of Art – A Dialogue Between Geng Xue and Gao Shiyu, 
• The Representation of the Space in Chinese Painting and Poetry. 

Shiyu participated in various international academic conferences including:

• The Centre for Chinese Visual Arts (CCVA) 13th Annual Conference 2020: The World, Two Metres Away
• The Third Annual China Humanities Graduate Conference at the University of Oxford in 2019
• British Postgraduate Network for Chinese Studies Annual Conference at the University of Oxford in 2018
• The 34th CIHA World Congress of Art History organised by the Comité International d’Histoire de l’Art (CIHA) in 2016. S

She organises and chairs the session ‘The Digital Turn in Contemporary Chinese Art’ at the Christie’ Education Conference 2020: The Chinese Art Market in 2020 and the panel ‘Engaging Technologies’ at the 22nd Biennial Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies in 2018.