Tiffany Wai-Ying Beres

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Biography:

Tiffany Wai-Ying Beres is a Doctoral Candidate in the PhD Program in Art History, Theory and Criticism at the University of California, San Diego with a specialization in Asian Art. Beres is currently completing her dissertation on the ways that antiquity is critically reinterpreted and recontextualized in Chinese ink painting and how antiquarian practices seep into popular culture. Her research is supported by the Bei Shan Tang foundation.

Beres is also a curator and cultural worker who is broadly interested in the transnational, cross-geographic flows of visual culture that characterize the global art world. She has curated more than 30 exhibition projects for museums and institutions around the world such as the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego, the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, the Hong Kong University Museum and Art Gallery, the Pagoda Paris in France, the Today Art Museum in Beijing, and more. For more information, please visit tiffanywaiying.com.

A strong advocate for community engagement and DEAI, Beres directs an online Asian art calendar of events, Insight Asian Art, to make the field more accessible and is also involved with the local California arts and culture scene as Asian community activist and member of the San Diego Public Art Committee.

Recent Publications:

“The Creative Journey of the Master of the Water, Pine and Stone Retreat,” Through the Gates of Wonder, CA Design, Hong Kong: 2022
“Lang Jingshan and early Chinese photography,” Smarthistory, September 4, 2020, https://smarthistory.org/lang-jingshan-early-chinese-photography/.
“Ai Weiwei, Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn,” in Smarthistory, August 25, 2020, https://smarthistory.org/ai-weiwei-dropping-a-han-dynasty-urn/.
“Out of the Shadows”, exhibition catalog essay, Museum of Photographic Arts, March 2020.
“The Outlier: Chen Chi-kwan and his Views on Chinese Painting,” Orientations, March/April 2020.

Awards:

Bei Shan Tang Doctoral Thesis Grant, Bei Shan Tang Foundation, Hong Kong, 2022
Mellon Chinese Object Workshop Fellow, National Museum of Asian Art, Washington D.C., 2022
Russell Grant, UC San Diego Department of Art History, 2021
Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies Predissertation Travel Grant to China, ACLS, Washington D.C., 2020
Institute of Arts and Humanities Graduate Summer Fellowship, UC San Diego, 2020
Grantee for the Graduate Student Podcasting Institute, National Humanities Center and the Digital Humanities Center of San Diego State University, 2020

Tiffany Wai-Ying Beres

“The Creative Journey of the Master of the Water, Pine and Stone Retreat,” Through the Gates of Wonder, CA Design, Hong Kong: 2022

“Lang Jingshan and early Chinese photography,” Smarthistory, September 4, 2020, https://smarthistory.org/lang-jingshan-early-chinese-photography/.

“Ai Weiwei, Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn,” in Smarthistory, August 25, 2020, https://smarthistory.org/ai-weiwei-dropping-a-han-dynasty-urn/.

“Out of the Shadows”, exhibition catalog essay, Museum of Photographic Arts, March 2020.

“The Outlier: Chen Chi-kwan and his Views on Chinese Painting,” Orientations, March/April 2020.

Bei Shan Tang Doctoral Thesis Grant, Bei Shan Tang Foundation, Hong Kong, 2022

Mellon Chinese Object Workshop Fellow, National Museum of Asian Art, Washington D.C., 2022

Russell Grant, UC San Diego Department of Art History, 2021

Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies Predissertation Travel Grant to China, ACLS, Washington D.C., 2020

Institute of Arts and Humanities Graduate Summer Fellowship, UC San Diego, 2020

Grantee for the Graduate Student Podcasting Institute, National Humanities Center and the Digital Humanities Center of San Diego State University, 2020

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