# Vivian K. SHENG
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# Vivian K. SHENG 盛况
##### Lecturer 講師 UG Coordinator
Tel: 3917-2613\
Email: [vksheng@hku.hk](mailto:vksheng@hku.hk)\
Office: Room 10.20, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus
**BA *Hunan University*; MA *Loughborough University*; MA, PhD *University of York***
Vivian K. Sheng is an art historian working on contemporary Chinese and East Asian art in transnational contexts. Her forthcoming book—*Contemporary Art and Transnational East Asia: women, migration and homemaking* (Manchester University Press, Rethinking Art’s Histories) provides insights into women’s engagements with both mundane domesticity and art practices in contexts of intensified cross-border movements and exchanges that unsettle the territorial fixity of nation-states. Her research resonates with the recent call to decolonise the Anglo-American dominated scholarships in art history, posing challenges to the persistent hegemony of the Global North in the production of knowledge and discourses about nation, gender, history and otherness.
- [#### Areas of Expertise](#tab-77e5b734398811f230e)
- [#### Current Research Interest](#tab-8ffea772fe9cdf74afa)
- [#### Areas of Expertise](#tab-77e5b734398811f230e)
**Contemporary Chinese and East Asian art**
- [#### Current Research Interest](#tab-8ffea772fe9cdf74afa)
**Feminist and queer theories relating to affect, intimacy and (dis)identification; new materialisms; migration, diaspora, exile and ‘homemaking’ in modern and contemporary art.**
### Selected Publications
‘Shen Yuan: Angling for “Home” in Displacement’, *PARSE Journal*, Issue 20, Spring 2025 on ‘Feminist Art: Practices of Co-Existences’, [https://doi.org/10.70733/wehmnbb4j5i3](https://doi.org/10.70733/wehmnbb4j5i3 "https://doi.org/10.70733/wehmnbb4j5i3").
‘One Morning of the World: The Notion of Trans-Asia’, in Alpesh K. Patel and Jane Chin Davidson (eds.) ‘Conceptualizing TRANS-ASIA’, *ASAP/Journal*, Issue 9.3, 2024, pp. 427-431. [https://doi.org/10.1353/asa.2024.a957246](https://doi.org/10.1353/asa.2024.a957246 "https://doi.org/10.1353/asa.2024.a957246") .
‘DRC No. 12: A “Migratory” Site of Glocal Specificity’, *Art Journal*, 83:3, 2024, pp. 14-33. [https://doi.org/10.1080/00043249.2024.2403928](https://doi.org/10.1080/00043249.2024.2403928 "https://doi.org/10.1080/00043249.2024.2403928").
‘Yin Xiuzhen’s Portable Cities: “Homemaking” via Domestic Preservation’, *Third Text*, 173, volume 35, issue 6, 2021, pp. 733-50.[https://doi.org/10.1080/09528822.2021.2017197](https://doi.org/10.1080/09528822.2021.2017197 "https://doi.org/10.1080/09528822.2021.2017197") .
‘Multiple Selves: Nikki S. Lee’s Projects’, *INDEX JOURNAL*, Issue No. 1 Identity, 2020.[http://dx.doi.org/10.38030/index-journal.2020.1.6](http://dx.doi.org/10.38030/index-journal.2020.1.6 "http://dx.doi.org/10.38030/index-journal.2020.1.6").
‘Yin Xiuzhen’s Fluid Sites of Participation: A Communal Space of Communication and Antagonism’, *Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art*, 82, vol.16, no. 5, 2017, pp. 65-77.
‘Yin Xiuzhen’s Fabric Cavities: Fabricating “Strange Encounters”’, *Sculpture Journal*, 2014, Issue 23.3, pp. 393-402. [https://doi.org/10.3828/sj.2015.10](https://doi.org/10.3828/sj.2015.10 "https://doi.org/10.3828/sj.2015.10").
### Exhibition Catalogue Essay
‘Kim Woo-Young’s Urban Odyssey: Inhabiting the Uninhabited City’, *Urban Odyssey*, 2019, Soluna Fine Art, Hong Kong. [KWY-Urban-Odyssey-print-pdf\_compressed.pdf (solunafineart.com)](https://www.solunafineart.com/_files/ugd/7eab8e_dad402ffc90d4ba9a2d3eeba0bb1b583.pdf).
### Fellowships and Activities
2025: Panel Convenor: *From Local to Global: Feminist Activism and Documentary* *Photography,* Association for Art History Annual Conference, 9-11 April 2025. University of York, UK.
2024: Visiting Fellowship, Social Archive of Chinese Photography, China Academy of Art, PRC.
2022: University of St Andrews Global Fellowship, UK.
### Selected Conference Papers
Angling *for Habitats: Homemaking in Displacement*, Understanding Displacement in Visual Art and Cultural History: 1945 to Now, University of Manchester, UK.
One Morning of the World: *Transnational Dwelling via Conflictual Connections*, Conceptualising Trans-Asia (Panel), Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP) Annual Conference, Arts of Fugitivity, University of Washington, US.
*Caring and Transnational Homemaking: Yin Xiuzhen’s Art of Domestic Preservation* (invited), Cooking, Cleaning, Caring: Care Work as a Global Issue in Contemporary Art, Ruhr Universität Bochum, Germany.
*Fiona Tan’s* Provenance (2008)*: Inhabiting the World as a ‘Professional Foreigner’*, Exiled and Female: Visualising Identity in the Work of Women Artists (Panel), Association for Art History (AAH) Annual Conference, Birmingham, UK.
### Current Courses
**[ARTH2061](https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/academic-programmes/undergraduate/courses/arth2061/)**Contemporary Chinese art: 1980 to the present
**[ARTH2101](https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/academic-programmes/undergraduate/courses/arth2101/)** Installation and Participation
**[ARTH3039](https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/academic-programmes/undergraduate/courses/arth3039/)** Exile, Diaspora and Migration in Contemporary Art (to be approved)
**[ARTH4009](https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/academic-programmes/undergraduate/courses/arth4009/)** Perspective in contemporary art
### Past Courses
[**ARTH2100**](https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/academic-programmes/undergraduate/courses/find2100/)Body, Gender, and Sexuality in Contemporary Art
**[ARTH3020](https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/academic-programmes/undergraduate/courses/arth3020/)** Women making art after 1960
[**ARTH2096**](https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/academic-programmes/undergraduate/courses/arth2096/) Contemporary art: 1960s to the present
[**ARTH7008**](https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/academic-programmes/master-of-arts-in-art-history/ma-courses/arth7008/) Seminar in contemporary art
##### PROFILE @ HKU Library
[HKU Scholars Hub research page](http://hub.hku.hk/cris/rp/rp02282)
##### Reaching beyond HKU
###### Vivian K. Sheng at Asia Society Hong Kong Center – [Song of Spring: Pan Yu-Lin in Paris](https://asiasociety.org/hong-kong/exhibitions/hong-kong-jockey-club-presents-song-spring-pan-yu-lin-paris)
###### Interdisciplinary KE Project – [Enhancing Community Empathy for and Wellbeing of Sexual Minority Youth through Arts](https://www.ke.hku.hk/assets/doc/Interdisciplinary_KE_Project_2019-21_Summary_online_eng.pdf)