Ziyu Cheng

PhD student

Campus

Areas of Interest

  • History of Venice Biennale
  • Contemporary Chinese art
  • (Post-)Cold War hauntology
  • Montage and anachronism as method
  • Historical and Comparative study of socialism

Working Dissertation

Title

Art Before the System: Network, China Contemporary, and the Venice Biennale (1987-2005)

Supervisors

Alberto Zambenedetti

Biography

Honours & Awards

  • 2023 Italian Graduate Program Award
  • 2023 Lucile Wakelin Dunlevie Graduate Award
  • 2023 Melissa Pulver Goggio Graduate Award
  • 2022 Italian-Canadian Immigrant Graduate Fellowship in Italian Studies
  • 2021-2025 Connaught International Scholarship, University of Toronto
  • 2021-2025 Jackman Junior Fellowship, University of Toronto

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