# Yeewan KOON
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# Yeewan KOON 官綺雲
##### Associate Professor 副教授 Chair of the Department Associate Dean (Global), Faculty of Arts
Tel: 3917-2899\
Email: [koonyw@hku.hk](mailto:koonyw@hku.hk)\
Office: Room 10.21, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus
**BA, MA *University of London*; PhD *New York University***
Yeewan Koon is Associate Dean (Global) and Chair of the Department of Art History at the University of Hong Kong. She is the author of *Nara Yoshitomo* (translated into Japanese and Korean), *A Defiant Brush: Su Renshan and the Politics of Painting in 19th Century Guangdong*, *A Chinese Canton? Painting the Local in Export Art*, and *Where is Hong Kong Now?*, as well as “Where Are We Now? M+ and the Uncertain Future of Hong Kong,” among other publications. Her current research includes co-editing the 19th century volume of *The Cultural History of Asian Art Project* (Courtauld Institute) and developing the Hong Kong Art Timeline website. She has been awarded a Fulbright Senior Fellowship, an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, and visiting scholarships at Cambridge and Columbia Universities. She is also a recipient of Hong Kong wide University Grants Committee’s Teacher Award. An active critic and curator in contemporary art, Koon is on the board of several art institutions.
- [#### Areas of Expertise](#tab-a8769fe3c48aa0563bf)
- [#### Current Research Interest](#tab-e7cd205e54a9c27871c)
- [#### Areas of Expertise](#tab-a8769fe3c48aa0563bf)
**Chinese painting, Guangdong art history, contemporary art in Asia**
- [#### Current Research Interest](#tab-e7cd205e54a9c27871c)
**Nara Yoshitomo**
### Selected Publications
*Yoshitomo Nara*. London: Phaidon Press Limited, 2020.
A *Defiant Brush: Su Renshan and the Politics of Painting in 19th Century Guangdong*. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2014.
*It Begins with Metamorphosis: Xu Bing*. Hong Kong: Asia Society Hong Kong Center, 2014.
“A Chinese Canton? Painting the Local in Export Art.” In *Eighteenth-century Art Worlds: Global and Local Geographies of Art*, edited by Michael Yonan and Stacey Sloboda, 71-94. London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019.
“Faultlines.” In *12th Gwangju Biennale 2018: Imagined Borders*, edited by Gwangju Biennale editorial committee. Gwangju, Republic of Korea: Gwangju Biennale Foundation, 2018.
“The Artist Behind the Camera: Yoshitomo Nara.” In *Once in a Life: Encounters with Nara*, edited by Dominique Chan and Fumio Nanjo, 83-117. Hong Kong: Asia Society Hong Kong Center, 2016.
### Awards
2021 UGC Teaching Award (General Faculty Members) ([read more](https://tl.hku.hk/2021/09/2021-ugc-teaching-award/))
2020 Teaching Excellence Award: Outstanding Teaching Award (individual award) ([read more](https://tl.hku.hk/2020/11/2020-teaching-excellence-awards/))
Faculty Knowledge Exchange Award 2020 ([r](https://www.ke.hku.hk/assets/doc/KEAward/2020/Arts.pdf)[ead more](https://www.ke.hku.hk/assets/doc/KEAward/2020/Arts.pdf))
Fulbright-RGC Hong Kong Senior Research Scholar Awards 2018/2019 ([read more](https://hk.usconsulate.gov/pr-2018051601/))
### Other Activities
Hong Kong Art Timeline (2021) ([read more](https://arthistory.hku.hk/hkarttimeline/))
Curator of the exhibition “So long, thanks again for the fish” at Levyhalli, Suomenlinna (2021) ([read more](https://www.hiap.fi/event/so-long/))
Selected curator for the co-curated exhibition “Faultlines,” at *12th Gwangju Biennale* (2018) ([read more](https://arthistory.hku.hk/afterwords-faultlines/))
Guest curator of the exhibition “It Begins with Metamorphosis: Xu Bing*“* at the Asia Society, Hong Kong Center (2014) ([read more](https://asiasociety.org/hong-kong/exhibitions/it-begins-metamorphosis-xu-bing))
### Current Course
**[ARTH1008](https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/academic-programmes/undergraduate/courses/arth1008/)** Introduction to the arts of Asia: past and present
### Past Courses
**[ARTH2048](https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/academic-programmes/undergraduate/courses/arth2048/)** Arts of Japan
[**ARTH2051**](https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/academic-programmes/undergraduate/courses/arth2051/) Art, politics, and society in modern China
**[ARTH2055](https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/academic-programmes/undergraduate/courses/arth2055/)**Crossing cultures: China and the outside world
[**ARTH3013**](https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/academic-programmes/undergraduate/courses/arth3013/) Hong Kong art workshop
**[ARTH7004](https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/academic-programmes/master-of-arts-in-art-history/ma-courses/arth7004/)** Seminar in Chinese art
##### PROFILE @ HKU Library
[HKU Scholars Hub research page](http://hub.hku.hk/cris/rp/rp01183)
##### Reaching beyond HKU
###### An interactive 360 tour of “So Long, Thanks Again for the Fish”
###### Five Artists in Conversation: Introducing the exhibition “So long, thanks again for the fish”
###### Public lecture online – [An Unexpected Masterpiece: Luo Ping’s Ghost Amusement Scroll](https://youtu.be/FQEOSUilJzQ)
###### Public book launch online – [Writing Nara Yoshitomo](https://youtu.be/jZgSCm73ciM?t=936)
###### Yeewan Koon on RTHK Radio 3 – [The Big Idea: The Dunhuang Caves](https://www.rthk.hk/radio/radio3/programme/thebigidea)
###### KE Impact Project – [Afterwords: A library reading section of the exhibition FAULTLINES @ Gwangju Biennale 2018](https://finearts.hku.hk/afterwords-faultlines/)