Professor Jason Kuo
Chinese Art

Art History & Archaeology
Mail: 1211-D Art-Sociology Building
Office: 4221 Art-Sociology Building
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742-1335
Email: inkpine@yahoo.com
Telephone: (301) 405-1499

Professor Jason Kuo is the author of Wang Yüan-ch'i's Art of Landscape Painting; Trapping Heaven and Earth in the Cage of Form; Innovation within Tradition: The Painting of Huang Pin-hung; The Austere Landscape: The Paintings of Hung-jen; Word as Image: The Art of Chinese Seal Engraving; Chen Chikwan; Practicing Art History and Art Criticism; Transforming Traditions in Modern Chinese Painting: Huang Pin-hung's Late Work, and Rethinking Art History and Art Criticism. He is the editor of Heirs to a Great Tradition: Modern Chinese Painting from the Tsien-hsiang-chai Collection and Discovering Chinese Painting: Dialogues with American Art Historians. His articles have appeared in numerous journals, including Art Journal, Asian Culture Quarterly, Chinese Studies, Art in America, Orientations, China Quarterly, Journal of Asian Studies, Journal of Asian and African Studies, and Ars Orientalis. He has received an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship, a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, two Stoddard Fellowships in Asian Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts, two fellowships from the J.D. Rockefeller III Fund and many other scholastic honors. In 1991-1992, he received the Lilly Fellowship for teaching excellence. In 1992-1993 he organized and directed a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute for College Teachers on "The Art of Imperial China." From 1993 to 1998, he undertook the study of the nineteenth- and twentieth-century art of Shanghai, a research project, funded by the Henry Luce Foundation, combining the work of six scholars from China and six from the United States. He directed the Summer Institute of Connoisseurship in Chinese Calligraphy and Painting from 2001 to 2003, also funded by the Luce Foundation. He was a Fulbright Scholar in Taipei in 2001-2002.