Zhu Qingsheng 2009-03-17
Chinese Modern Art Archive,
Beijing University
“During my time at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, we received special authorization—Yi Ying and I were allowed to buy lots of books. If you look at books on art history and other materials at the Central Academy, you’ll probably see that many important Western theoretical works were bought between 1982 and 1984, and it is many of these kinds of books that we read.”
Biography:
Zhu Qingsheng (b. 1957, Zhenjiang) is an artist and professor at the School of Arts of Peking University.
Zhu studied oil painting at Nanjing Normal University between 1978 and 1982 and gained his M.A. in Art History in 1985 from the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA). Zhu remained at CAFA as a teaching assistant, and in 1986 initiated the Chinese Modern Art Archive. Between 1990 and 1995, Zhu pursued his Ph.D. under the supervision of Professor Lothar Ledderose in the Institute for East Asian Art History at the University of Heidelberg.
In addition to his teaching and archiving work, Zhu continues to paint and exhibit widely.
