Meet Our Fellows

Fellowship Project

Mr. Ling Lizhong spent six months (April – October 2013) at the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in Washington D.C., U.S.A. where he conducted research on the museum’s collections of calligraphy and paintings from Song to Qing and enriched the museum’s online resources with his research findings. During the fellowship, Mr. Ling made an important discovery by identifying the “Mu Furong Tu”, originally designated as an anonymous work from the Qing Dynasty, as a work of Wang Yuan from the Yuan Dynasty.

Biography

Mr. Ling Lizhong is currently Director of the Department of Painting and Calligraphy and Curator of the Shanghai Museum. He is also a Visiting Researcher at The Palace Museum Research Institute, and a Doctoral Supervisor at the China Academy of Art. Mr. Ling graduated from Shanghai University with a bachelor’s degree in Chinese painting and a master’s degree in fine arts. He has long been engaged in the connoisseurship and research of ancient Chinese paintings and calligraphy. Mr. Ling was a visiting scholar at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (2006), British Museum (2007), and Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery (2013).

He has participated in the curation of numerous exhibitions including “Dong Qichang and His Circle” (2006, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston), “Against or Away: Artworks by Ming Loyalist in Early Qing Dynasty from the Collection of Shanghai Museum” (2009, Macao Museum of Art), “Telling Images of China: Narrative and Figure Paintings” (2010, Chester Beatty Library, Ireland), a special exhibition of the Wu Hufan painting and calligraphy collection (2015, Shanghai Museum) and other special exhibitions.