Articles and Essays
“Ink in Motion: Wesley Tongson’s Calligraphy,” in Singing and Dancing with Brush and Ink: The Art of Wesley Tongson, ed. Yi Yi Mon (Rosaline) Kyo and Julia M. White, 74-85. Hong Kong: Asia Society Hong Kong Center, 2026.
“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, ed. Tiffany Wai-Ying Beres, Einor Cervone, and Owen Duffy. Translated by Keyu Yan. Houston, TX: Asia Society Texas Center; Hong Kong: Asia Society Hong Kong Center; Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2026. (English to Chinese)
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