Ling U

Museum and curatorial studies, creative arts and industries, art production and consumption in Asia.

Book

• 2024. ed. (accepted/in press). Exhibiting Chinese Art in Asia: Histories, Politics, and Practices, Amsterdam University Press.

• 2020. Museum Processes in China: Institutional Regulation, Production, and Consumption of art museums in the Greater Pearl River Delta region, Amsterdam University Press.

Recent Journal Articles and Book Chapters

• 2024/25. with Vivian Ting. ‘Community as a material basis of creative citizenship in Taiwan and Hong Kong’. [forthcoming]
  
• 2024. (accepted/in press) 'Rethinking the Study of Exhibitions of Chinese Art' in Exhibiting Chinese Art in Asia: Histories, Politics, and Practices, Amsterdam University Press.

• 2024. (accepted/in press) 'Curating Chinese Art as Creative Heritage' in Exhibiting Chinese Art in Asia: Histories, Politics, and Practices, Amsterdam University Press

• 2023. with Tong Kai Cheung. 'Sensing Things and Being Moved: The Artistic Connection between Human and Things', Sensing Things, Lingnan University, 16-29.

• 2022. 'Borderscaping Hong Kong: Lo Ting and Its Creative Agency' Third Text, 36(5), 513-531.

• 2021, 'Thinking About Curatorial Education Through An Imagined Museum' University Museums and Collections Journal, 13(2), 113-120.

• 2019. ‘Curatorial Agencies and the National Museum Dilemma at He Xiangning Art Museum in China’, Journal of museum management and curatorship, 34(3): 290-305.

• 2019. with Vivian Ting. ‘Museological Activism and Cultural Citizenship: Collecting the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement’, Robert Janes and Richard Sandell, eds., Museum Activism, Routledge, 197-207. (Book recipient of Canadian Museum Association Awards of Outstanding Achievement for research in the cultural heritage sector).

• 2018. ‘MAURIZIO PELEGGI. Monastery, Monument, Museum: Sites and Artifacts of Thai Cultural Memory, Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press’, Asian Studies Review, 43(2): 360-361.

• 2016. ‘Between the Museum and the Public: negotiating the “Circuit of Culture” as an analytical tool for researching museums in China’, The International Journal of the Inclusive Museum, 9(4): 17-31.

• 2014. with Vivian Ting. ‘Meeting Warhol in the Exhibition: Visitors’ experience with art in the Hong Kong Museum of Art’, Vincent Tong, ed., Hong Kong Visual Arts Yearbook 2013, Hong Kong: Department of Fine Arts, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 178-195.

• 2007. ‘Huigui shinian qianhouhua ─ cong xianggang shijiao yishu lishi tanqi’ (Talkover/Handover: A perspective on the history of art creation in Hong Kong), Twenty-First Century, The Institute of Chinese Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 102:108-112. Reprinted in 2010, Contemporary Art & Investment, China: Inner Mongolia Daily, 5:11-13.

• 2021-2024 ‘Chinese Art in Asia: Histories, Politics and Practices’

• 2021-2024 ‘Art, Museums and Heritage: The Creative Citizens in Hong Kong and Taiwan’
• 2014-2018 ‘Museum Circuit in Contemporary China: Institutional Regulation, Production and Consumption of Art Museums in the Pearl River Delta Region of China

• 'Sensing Things' Exhibition at Chamber of Young Snow Art Exhibition Hall, Lingnan University (2023-2024)

• ‘Collection Image Database’ project, Hong Kong Museum of Education (HKME), Hong Kong University of Education (2011-12)

• ‘Hong Kong’s Education Heritage: A Joint Exhibition of the Historical Treasures of School Sponsoring Bodies’ at HKME (2012)

• ‘Revisiting Modern Teacher Education in Pre-1949 Chinese Universities - an exhibition of Minguo books donated by Dr. Lai Kwok Chan’ at HKME (2012)

• ‘The Future of School Architecture’ at HKME (2012)

• ‘Evolving Schools Pavilion for HK Exhibits Thematic Exhibition for the Hong Kong - Shenzhen Bi-City Biennial of Urbanism and Architecture’ (in collaboration with the School of Architecture, CUHK), at Kowloon Park (2012)

• ‘Rooftop schools to post-millennium schools: Post-war evolution of school buildings in Hong Kong’ at HKME (2011)

• ‘Grantham College of Education Diamond Jubilee Art Exhibition - Exhibition of Artwork and History of GCE & its Past Students’ Association’ at HKME (2011)

• ‘In Memory of Mr Szeto Wah Exhibition’ at HKME (2011)

• ‘The Evergreen Classic -Transformation of the Qipao’ at Hong Kong Museum of History (2010)

• ‘Exhibition experiment, experimenting exhibitions’ project, presented by Wrongplace at Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre, HK (2010)

• ‘Re-orientation’ exhibition for Heritage × Art × Design, presented by Hulu Culture at Former Police Married Quarters in Central, HK (2010)

• ‘Reverse Reality - Hong Kong and United States exchange program cum exhibition’, at Worksound gallery in Portland, the United States (2008), and at OC gallery of Sino Group, HK (2009)

• ‘Dialogues: Post-1997 Art Documentation Exhibition’, co-presented by Asian Art Archive and 1a space, at 1a space, Cattle Depot Artist Village, HK (2007)

• ‘Culture.Nature.Wanchai - art community project’ at Tai Wong East Amenity Park, Wanchai (2006)

• ‘Turf in To Kwa Wan - by Emma Rushton and Derek Tyman’ (British artists-in-residence and community program) at 1a space, Cattle Depot Artist Village, HK (2006)

• ‘The treasure of Film Archive: 10th Anniversary Exhibition’ at City Hall, HK (1997)

• Chamber of Young Snow Company Limited & LU Research Matching Fund, RGC (2021-2025)

• UGC Early Career Scheme (ECS), RGC (2020/2021)
• Research & Knowledge Fund Award, Lingnan University (2021)
• Young Researcher Output Award, Lingnan University (2021)
• Graduate Research Award, Asia Institute, University of Melbourne (2017)
• Graduate Research in Arts Travel Scholarship, University of Melbourne (2017)
• Fieldwork Grant, the Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne (2015)
• Melbourne International Research Scholarship, University of Melbourne (2014-2017)
• Melbourne International Fee Remission Scholarship, University of Melbourne (2014-2017)

• Reviewer, ‘Competitive Research Funding Schemes for the Local Self-financing Degree Sector’, Research Grants Council, Hong Kong (2024)

• External examiner, PhD thesis, School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester, UK (2024)
• Panel Moderator and Discussant, ‘Transformation in Museums through Digital Initiatives’ Symposium, University Museum and Art Gallery, HKU (12 Jan 2024).

• Project supervisor, ‘Creative Citizen Projects’ (supported by ECS fund) in collaboration with the Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong Diocesan Pastoral Centre for Workers (Sept – Dec 2023).

• Co-editor, Sensing Things, exhibition catalogue, LU (2023 August)

• Organizer, ‘Get into Art: Jeff Leung's Journey in Curating', public lecture by Jeff Leung at LU (2023)

• Programme Director, Master of Arts in Curating and Art History, DACI, LU (mid-Aug 2023-)

• Chair, Panel: Why island? Why now? Society for Hong Kong Studies Annual Conference 2023: Informality, HKU (16 June 2023)

• External Reader, ‘BA (Hons) Art Histories and Curatorial Practices: Asia and the World’ Programme, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore (2022)

• Discussant, UMAG Lecture Series: Re-examining Modernity and Contemporaneity through Chinese Art (2022/23) Nationalist Internationalism: International Exhibition of Chinese Art, 1935, UMAG, HKU (18 May 2022)

• Acting Head, Department of Visual Studies, LU (Sept 2021-Dec 2022)

• Programme Director, Master of Arts in Curating and Art History, VS, LU (Mar 2020-Aug 2021)

• Organizer, Then and Now: Collecting Art and Exhibiting Cultures in Asia Conference, LU (20-21 May 2021)

• Organizer, ‘Thinking Contemporary Curating’, public lecture by Prof. Ho Hing Kay, Oscar (Chinese University of Hong Kong) at LU (2020)

• Invited speaker, GRF/ECS: Writing Quality Proposals – Sharing on Zoom, organised by the Office of Research and Knowledge Transfer, LU, 23 July 2020.

• Journal Reviewer, Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites (2019)

• Organizer, ‘What is Your Name? (Siapa Nama Kamu): The Making of the National Gallery Singapore’, public lecture by Seng Yu Jin (Senior Curator of the National Gallery Singapore) at LU (2017)

• Organizer, ‘Experiments in Museum Learning in the 21st Century’, public lecture by Stella Fong (Lead Curator, Learning and Interpretation, M+) at LU (2017)

• Associate Editor, International Journal of the Inclusive Museum (2015)

• Invited Speaker, ‘The Art Market and the Art Ecology in Hong Kong’, Public lecture: Asian art worlds: Collectors, curators and critics, organized by Asialink and Asia Institute, The University of Melbourne, (2014).

• Placement Supervisor, Postgraduate Diploma in Museum Studies, Hong Kong University Space & University of Sydney (2012)

• Invited Speaker, ‘Spaces of Learning and Experiment ─ Open Collection: Development of an image database’, Asian Museum Network Conference, organized by Leisure Cultural Services Department of Hong Kong SAR Government in collaboration with Vitra Design Museum, HK Design Centre, Hong Kong Polytechnic University (2012).

• Invited Speaker, ‘Oral History Collecting and Display’, Voices and Hong Kong History ─ Oral History Seminar and Workshop, organized by HK Archives Society, The Hong Kong Heritage Project, and Hong Kong University Space (2012).

• Invited Speaker, ‘School Memory Project’, lecture, organized by the Hong Kong Memory Project, Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, HKU, 2012.

• Initiator and Coordinator, ‘Museum and Good Society’, public seminar by Professor Richard Sandell (then Director of School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester), co-presented by Hong Kong Museum of History (HKMH) & Hong Kong Museum of Education at HKMH (2011)

• Invited Speaker, ‘Glocality of Post 97 Hong Kong Art’, Round table, organized by Department of Culture and Religion, CUHK (2007).