Xi Zhang

Bio

Xi Zhang received her Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Chicago in 2022. Her research and teaching focus on modern and contemporary East Asian and Asian diasporic art and architecture, with particular attention to the interplay of spatial practices and visual culture in transcultural contexts from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries. Xi has taught at several institutions, including the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Scripps College, and George Mason University. She also serves as an Exhibition Manager for the Dispersed Chinese Art Digitization Project (DCADP) at the Center for the Art of East Asia at the University of Chicago. Alongside her teaching and exhibition projects, she is currently developing her first book project, Green Modernities: Urban and Visual Culture of Garden Spaces in Shanghai and Beyond. The project examines Shanghai’s garden culture and its role in shaping urban modernity in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.