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On May 25, 2020, the major retrospective of artist Chiura Obata (1885-1975), curated by Prof. Wang, closed at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., where the exhibit stayed on display in an empty museum since March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. By March of 2020, though, the...

Professor ShiPu Wang /wong/ joined UC Merced in 2006 and was the founding faculty of the Global Arts Studies Program (GASP), as well as the founding director and curator of the UCM Art Gallery. He became the first Coats Family Chair in the Arts at UC Merced in 2018, the same year he began a four...