Yueqin Luo

Visiting Student
yueqin.luo@mail.utoronto.ca

Campus

  • Downtown Toronto (St. George)

Fields of Study

  • Post-colonialism/Decolonization
  • Photography
  • North American
  • Modern/Contemporary
  • African
  • East Asian

Areas of Interest

  • Visual Culture Studies
  • Image & Media & Power
  • 20th Century China
  • Structure and Infrastructure
  • Photography History

Biography

Honours, Awards & Grants

  • Sept. 2022, Industrial Bank Scholarship, Industrial Bank of China.
  • Sept. 2021-2026, Research Assistantship Scholarship of Peking University.

Selected Publications

  • Yueqin Luo (2022) Tethered Lamb in the Flow: The Tension Between Historical Contemplation and Present Aliveness in the Odes of Taca Sui, Photography and Culture, 15:3, 297-301, DOI: 10.1080/17514517.2022.2099339

Education

2024-2025, University of Toronto, IVGS, Art History
2021-2026, Peking University, PhD, Art Theory
2017-2021, Peking University, BA, Art History and Theory

Presentations

"Drilling Down to 'Authenticity': The Great Discussion on Photojournalism in PRC (1951-1959)," International Doctoral Student Forum of Art Studies, Peking University, August 2024.
"The Sight of Retrospect: Historical Consciousness of Contemporary Chinese Landscape Photography," Chinese Contemporary Art and The World 2024, School of Arts, Peking University, China.16th March 2024.
"Aquatic Landscapes: Reservoirs, Photogrammetry, and Picturing in 1958 China," "Beyong The Horizon" 2023 International Art and Design Doctorial Forum of Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University, December 2023.
“Photograph and Drawing for Governance: Image and Media Study of the Indentured Chinese Laborers’ Affair in British South Africa, 1904-1910.” “Visual Modernity in China” Workshop, Archives of Contemporary Art in China, Beijing. Jan 2023.

Cohort

  • 2024-2025