Jacob Zhicheng Zhang

PhD Student (he/him)
jacobzhicheng.zhang@mail.utoronto.ca

Campus

  • Downtown Toronto (St. George)

Fields of Study

  • Modern/Contemporary
  • East Asian
  • Diaspora
  • Art Historiography

Areas of Interest

  • Modern and contemporary Asian North American art
  • Sinophone studies
  • Modern and contemporary Chinese art and visual culture
  • Contemporary East Asian and Southeast Asian art
  • Queer theory
  • Performance studies
  • Theory of art criticism

Working Dissertation

Supervisors

Yi Gu

Biography

Selected Publications

  • “A Diasporic Artist’s Performance of Passing: Dissecting Tseng Kwong Chi’s Appropriation of the Mao Suit." Rutgers Art Review, vol. 40, 2023–2024. Forthcoming.
  • “Two Comparative Studies: Repositioning the Work of Antoni Starczewski.” University of the Arts Poznań: Zeszyty Artystyczne, no. 39, 2021.
  • “Book Review: Maud Lavin, Yang Ling, and Zhao Jing Jamie, eds. 2017. Boy’s Love, Cosplay, and Androgynous Idols: Queer Fan Cultures in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Hong Kong University Press.” Concordia University: Synoptique: An Online Journal of Film and Moving Image Studies, vol. 9, no. 1, 2020, pp. 132–136.
  • “Robert Adams.” Material Meanings: Selections from the Constance R. Caplan Collection, edited by Matthew S. Witkovsky, Art Institute of Chicago and Yale University Press, 2020, pp. 30–33.

Honours, Awards and Grants

  • 2022 Connaught International Scholarship for Doctoral Students, University of Toronto
  • 2017–19 New Artist Society Scholar, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Education

MA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019
BA, Colby College, 2016

Presentations

“A Diasporic Artist’s Performance of Passing: Dissecting Tseng Kwong Chi’s Appropriation of the Mao Suit.” Translating Home: Views from the Diaspora, the 12th Annual Rutgers Art History Graduate Student Symposium, Rutgers University, 22 April 2022.
“Not Tongzhi: The Dialectic between Chinese Photographer Ren Hang and the “Chinese Homosexual.” Narratives of (Il)legibility in East Asia, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 5 May 2018.
“Not Tongzhi: The Dialectic between Chinese Photographer Ren Hang and the “Chinese Homosexual.” The Ohio University Graduate Student Art History Symposium, Ohio University, 5 April 2018.

Administrative Service

Co-Editor-in-Chief, University of Toronto Art Journal, 2022–2023
Symposium Co-Organizer (with S. Dvareckas, S. Jenkins, and N. Ni) and Panelist, Reminiscing/Reinventing, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 26 October 2018
Founding Board Member, Museum Student Advisory Board, Colby College Museum of Art, 2014–2016

Cohort

  • 2022-2023