巫鸿是芝加哥大学东方艺术中心创始人和主任、斯马特美术馆顾问策展人及该校艺术史系和东亚语言和文化系特殊贡献讲座教授。他也是美国文理科学院院士。
巫鸿的研究领域涵盖传统和当代艺术。在当代艺术方面,他于1980年代中期在哈佛大学组织了一系列展览。1999年到2002年间,他策展了《瞬间:20世纪末的中国实验艺术》(芝加哥,斯马特美术馆,1999年)、《取缔:在中国展览实验艺术》(芝加哥,斯马特美术馆,2000年)以及名为《重新解读:中国实验艺术十年(1990-2000年)》的第一届广州三年展(广州,广东美术馆,2002年)。他为这三个展览撰写的画册深入地分析了中国实验艺术的发展。他随后策划的大型展览包括《过去和未来之间:中国新影像展》(纽约国际摄影中心和芝加哥斯马特美术馆,2004年)、在柏林世界文化宫举行的《‘美’的协商》(2005年)、《第6届光州双年展》(第一部分,2006年)、《书:中国当代艺术中的文字和书籍》(纽约,中国协会博物馆,2006年)、《亚洲再想象”( 柏林世界文化宫,2008年3月)、《位移:三峡大坝和中国当代艺术》(芝加哥,斯马特美术馆,2008年)以及一系列中国著名当代艺术家的个展。
Wu Hung is the founder and director of the Center for the Art of East Asia at the University of Chicago, the Consulting Curator at the Smart Museum, and the Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor in Chinese Art History at the Department of Art History and the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at that university. He is also an elected member of the American Academy of Art and Science.
Wu Hung’s research interests include both traditional and contemporary fields. Regarding contemporary art, in the mid-eighties he organized a series of exhibitions of contemporary Chinese art at Harvard University. From 1999 to 2002 he curated Transience: Chinese Experimental Art at the End of the Twentieth Centur (Chicago, Smart Museum of Art, 1999), Canceled: Exhibiting Experimental Art in China (Chicago, Smart Museum of Art, 2000), and the First Guangzhou Triennial entitled Reinterpretation: A Decade of Experimental Art in China (1990-2000) (Guangzhou, Guangdong Art Musem, 2002). The catalogues he wrote for these three exhibitions provide in-depth analyses of the development of experimental Chinese art. His more recent curatorial projects include Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China (International Center of Photography and Smart Museum of Art, 2004), About Beauty in Berlin’s Haus der Kulturen der Welt (2005), the 6th Gwangju Biennale (First Chapter,2006), Shu: Books in Contemporary Chinese Art (New York, China Institute Museum, 2006), Re-imagining Asia (Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, March 2008), Displacement: The Three Gorges Dem and Contemporary Chinese art (Chicago, Smart Museum of Art, 2008), and many solo exhibitions of important contemporary Chinese artists.