Meet Our Fellows

Fellowship Project

Dr. Chen Fong-fong spent seven months (August 2013 – March 2014) at the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley, U.S.A., where she gained curatorial experience and conducted research on the museum’s Chinese painting collection. Dr. Chen participated in the exhibition “Beauty Revealed: Images of Women in Qing Dynasty Chinese Painting”. She also curated “Multiple Encounters” in collaboration with the artist Yang Fudong.

Biography

Dr. Chen Fong-fong is a Research Assistant Professor at the Lingnan University. Prior to her position at Lingnan University, she is a Lecturer in the Department of History at Hong Kong Baptist University. Dr. Chen received her PhD in Chinese Art History from the Department of Fine Arts from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research focuses on the representation of women and fashion in 18th to 20th century Chinese art. Her other research interests include photography, 20th century transnational history of Chinese art, museum studies and Hong Kong art. Dr. Chen was previously an Associate Curator at the University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong. In 2020, Dr Chen received a MacLean Fellowship which supported her research on the maps of Shanghai, Hong Kong and other regions at the MacLean Collection Map Library in Chicago, USA.