ShiPu Wang 王士圃

The exhibition that Dr. Wang has curated, Pictures of Belonging: Miki Hayakawa, Hisako HIbi, and Miné Okubo, received the competitive Terra Foundation for American Art Exhibition Grant in November 2022. See the Foundation's newsletter: https://www.terraamericanart.org/home/grants-awarded-november-2022/. Curated and pitched to the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles, which agreed to be the organizing institution, Pictures of Belonging will embark on an ambitious national tour, between February 2024 and January 2027, to the following museums: the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT; the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC; the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; the Monterey Art Museum, Monterey, CA; and the Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, CA. Details about the exhibition and tour schedule to come on this website in the near future.

Prof. Wang was chosen from a national search to serve as a senior fellow at the Brooklyn Museum to advise and facilitate its curatorial team to increase the museum's representation of Asian American artists (pre-1960). Dr. Wang helped identify and prioritize artists and artworks for acquisition, and connected artist estates/collectors with the museum's curators to carry on further discussions about placing works by underrepresented artists into the Brooklyn Museum's new vision for its American art galleries. 

https://www.si.edu/sidedoor/chiura-obatas-glorious-struggle

Panorama, the official journal of the Association of Historians of American Art, is a peer-reviewed, open-access, online publication dedicated to American art and visual culture (broadly defined). 

Prof. Wang was nominated and confirmed by the Smithsonian Board of Regents to join the National Portrait Gallery's Board of Commissioners: https://npg.si.edu/about-us.

Watch the lecture online: https://youtu.be/wO3TDdlkn0Y or https://americanart.si.edu/videos/chiura-obatas-america-159190

Click here to learn more about the exhibition and read its press coverage and reviews.

Prof. Wang received the 2014-15 Terra Foundation in American Art Senior Fellowship at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Fall 2014. (http://newsdesk.si.edu/releases/smithsonian-american-art-museum-announces-2014-2015-fellowship-appointments).

https://www.okeeffemuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Georgia-OKeeffe-Museum-Announces-Winner-of-2018-Book-Prize.pdf