Publications

Articles and Essays

“Ink in Motion: Wesley Tongson’s Calligraphy,” exhibition catalogue essay for Asia Society Hong Kong (forthcoming)

“Contested Traditions: Contemporary Chinese Fiber Art and Gu Wenda’s Wisdom Comes from Tranquility (1986).” World Art 14, no. 1 (2024): 55-82. (peer-reviewed)

“Modernizing Sculpture: Print Culture and the New Discourse on Sculpture in China, circa 1880-1929.” East Asian Publishing and Society 13, no. 2 (2023): 133-169. (peer-reviewed)

Reviews

Exhibition review of Xu Bing: Word Alchemy. Burlington Contemporary (July 2024). https://contemporary.burlington.org.uk/reviews/reviews/xu-bing-word-alchemy.

Review of Sasha Su-Ling Welland, Experimental Beijing: Gender and Globalization in Chinese Contemporary Art (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018). ASAP/J: The Open Access Platform of the Association of the Arts of the Present Journal (November 2023). https://asapjournal.com/sasha-su-ling-wellands-experimental-beijing-gender-and-globalization-in-chinese-contemporary-art-keyu-yan/.

Review of Sianne Ngai, ed., Documents of Contemporary Art: The Cute (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2022). InVisible Culture (June 2023). www.invisibleculturejournal.com/pub/5h4105bd.  

Translations

Hung Hsien: Between Worlds 洪嫻: 乾坤之間, exhibition catalogue, edited by Tiffany Wai-Ying Beres, Einor Cervone, and Owen Duffy. Translated by Keyu Yan. Houston, TX: Asia Society Texas; Hong Kong: Asia Society Hong Kong; Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida (English to Chinese, forthcoming).