Professor Paul Gladston
Professor

Professor Paul Gladston

  • 2004 - PhD Critical Theory, University of Nottingham: Art History after Deconstruction: Is There Any Future for a Deconstructive Attention to Art History?
  • 1997 - MA Critical Theory, University of Nottingham 
  • 1992 - Post-Graduate Certificate of Education, Nottingham-Trent University
  • 1986 - BA (hons.) Drawing and Painting, 1st Class, Edinburgh, Edinburgh College of Art 
Arts,Design & Architecture
School of Art & Design

Paul Gladston 教授 ·葛思 is the inaugural UNSW Judith Neilson Chair Professor of Contemporary Art (2018-ongoing), a Distinguished Affiliate Member of the UK-China Humanities Alliance, Tsinghua University, Beijing (2022-ongoing) and an award-winning scholarly author. His research has had a significant impact on the direction of critical Chinese contemporary art/cultural studies inside and outside China, as evidenced by invitations to work with major international institutions, the translation of several of his publications into languages other than English and supervision of Ph.D. candidates from the PR China.

He was previously Chair Professor of Contemporary Visual Cultures and Critical Theory (2015-2018), Director of the Centre for Contemporary East Asian Visual Cultures (2012-2018) and Associate Professor in Culture, Film and Media (2010-2014) at the University of Nottingham (UK). He was seconded from the University of Nottingham as inaugural Head of the School of International Communications and Director of the Institute of Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Nottingham Ningbo, China (2005-2010). Under his leadership, the School of International Communications at the University of Nottingham Ningbo, China grew from 38 undergraduate students in 2005-6 to over 250 undergraduate and postgraduate students and 1,000 language learners in 2009-10. As an undergraduate student he was an Ellen Battell Stoeckel scholar, Yale University (1985).

His numerous book-length publications include the co-edited collection, Visual Culture Wars at the Borders of Contemporary China: Art, Design, Film, New Media and the Prospects of “Post-West” Contemporaneity (Palgrave-Macmillan 2021), and the monographs, Contemporary Chinese Art, Aesthetic Modernity and Zhang Peili: Towards a Critical Contemporaneity (Bloomsbury 2019) and Contemporary Chinese Art: A Critical History (Reaktion 2014), "publication of the year" at the Awards of Art China (2015). He recently co-organised the online academic conferences, Chinese Cultures, Translation and Contemporaneity: Literature – Cinema – Performance - the Visual Arts, in association with Institute for World Literatures and Cultures (IWLC), Tsinghua University (2022), and Rethinking the Curation of Chinese Contemporary Art, in association with the School of Art History and Archaeology, University of Maryland and the Asia Society, Australia (2021). He was a Visiting Professor at Sotheby’s Institute, London (2016-2018). He has recently contributed to a book by UNESCO celebrating the organisation's 75th anniversary.

He is inaugural co-editor of the peer reviewed book series Contemporary East Asian Visual Cultures, Societies and Politics (Palgrave-Macmillan 2019-ongoing) and was founding principal editor of the peer-reviewed Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art (Intellect 2014-2017). He was an academic adviser to the internationally acclaimed exhibition "Art of Change: New Directions from China"Hayward Gallery-South Bank Centre, London (2012).

He has published essays and scholarly captions in support of exhibitions at the Hayward Gallery-South Bank Centre, London; Powerhouse Museum, Shanghai; Galerie Jaeger-Bucher, Paris; Fundación Francisco Godia, Barcelona; Flowers Gallery, London; Long Museum, Chongqing; Broad art Museum, Michigan; Arriata Beer Gallery, Berlin; Aroundspace Gallery, Shanghai; and Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai. 

He was "Author of the Month" at the Zentrum für Kunst and Medientechnologie Karlsruhe (ZKM) website (2013). Other ZKM authors of the month include the internationally renowned scholars, Prof James Elkins (Chicago) and Prof Terry Smith (Chicago).  He is a regular expert contributor to international media, including Der Spiegel, Al Jazeera, Nikkei Media, Bloomberg Media, ARD (Germany), South China Morning Post, the BBC and ABC, and is the organiser and moderator of online panels as part of the Brooklyn Rail series, ‘The New Social Environment’. Brooklyn Rail has a print readership of 20,000 and 2,000,000 worldwide online. The New Social Environment has hosted such luminaries at Noam Chomsky and Ai Weiwei.

He was co-curator - with Dr. Lynne Howarth-Gladston - of the ground-breaking exhibitions, ‘New China/New Art: Contemporary Video from Shanghai and Hangzhou’, Djanogly Gallery, University of Nottingham (2015) and ‘Dis-/Continuing Traditions: Contemporary Video and Sound Art from China’, Salamanca Art Centre, Hobart, Tasmania (2021). He was moderator and co-organiser - with the Asia Society, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney and UNSW Built Environment - of the prestigious annual Lloyd Rees Memorial Lecture (2019). 

“From the painstaking walk-through of theoretical issues and historical/cultural context appearing in his Prolegomenon, through the concise yet bracing conclusion, Paul Gladston's study of Zhang Peili and contemporaneity is far more than a mere biographical sketch of a single artist; it is a treatise on visual art of the present and China's particularized presence in that sphere. It is a landmark work both in terms of cultural-criticism and art-historical analysis.” –  Paul Manfredi, Professor of Chinese, Pacific Lutheran University, USA

"Paul Gladston's Contemporary Chinese Art: A Critical History is a vital book for future excursions in the field of contemporary Chinese Art research." - Wang Chunchen, Professor Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing and curator of the China Pavilion, 55th Venice Biennale 2013

"Paul Gladston's book "Avant-Garde" Art Groups in China, 1979-1989 fills gaps in our knowledge of the contemporary Chinese art scene and provides an inspiring and mind-opening narrative." - China Quarterly

“Gladston, first with his Contemporary Chinese Art: a Critical History and now with this volume of selected writings, has distinguished himself as the most brilliant Western scholar working in this field. What makes Gladston's work so indispensable is not only his prose — it is both elegant and precise — but also that he so effectively subjects Chinese work to the same criticality that anyone reasonably would expect for any first-rate writing on art from any country.” - Drew Hammond, award-winning critic and gallerist

"Gladston's analysis of the post-1989 period, and the impact of the Tiananmen Square protest on art and culture, is particularly acute and astute." - The Art Newspaper

Phone
+61 2 8936 0778
Location
UNSW | Art & Design UNSW Sydney Paddington campus Cnr Oxford St & Greens Rd, Paddington, NSW 2021
  • Books | 2024
    2024, Dis-/Continuing Traditions: Interventions with Confucian Aesthetics by Chinese Contemporary Artists and Curators
    Books | 2023
    2023, Художественные группы "Авангард" в Китае - 1979-1989 [‘Avant-garde' Art Groups in China, 1979-1989], Academic Studies Press, Boston MA USA, https://www.academicstudiespress.com/contemporary-eastern-studies-books/9798887191966
    Books | 2019
    2019, Contemporary Chinese Art, Aesthetic Modernity and Zhang Peili Towards a Critical Contemporaneity, Bloomsbury Academic, London, https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/contemporary-chinese-art-aesthetic-modernity-and-zhang-peili-9781350041974/
    Books | 2016
    2016, Paul Gladston, Deconstructing Contemporary Chinese Art: Selected Critical Writings and Conversations, 2007-2014, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg
    Books | 2015
    2015, Yu Youhan, 3030 Press, ShanghArt, Shanghai
    Books | 2014
    2014, Contemporary Chinese Art: A Critical History, Reaktion Books, London
    Books | 2013
    2013, Avant-garde Art Groups in China, 1979-1989: The Stars - The Northern Art Group - The Pond Association - Xiamen Dada, A Critical Polylogue, INTELLECT LTD, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000329513400007&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a
    Books | 2011
    2011, Contemporary Art in Shanghai: Conversations with Seven Chinese Artists, Blue Kingfisher Limited
    Books | 2005
    2005, Art History after Deconstruction: Is There Any Future for a Deconstructive Attention to Art History?, Magnolia
  • Book Chapters | 2024
    2024, '‘Humour/Youmo in Chinese Contemporary Art and Online Visual Culture: Identifying the Intertextual Traces of Confucian-literati Aesthetics’', in Gieskes M; Williams GH (ed.), Humor, Globalization, and Culture-specificity in Contemporary Art, Bloomsbury, London
    Book Chapters | 2023
    2023, ''Reading Transcultural Aesthetics through Images'', in Coalter C (ed.), Bloomsbury Philosophy Library – Bloomsbury Contemporary Aesthetics/History of Modern Aesthetics, Bloomsbury, London and New York, http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350892989-0001
    Book Chapters | 2022
    2022, '‘Chinese Confucian-literati Culture and Post-Enlightenment Philosophical Aesthetics’', in Coalter C (ed.), Bloomsbury Philosophy Library – Bloomsbury History of Modern Aesthetics, Bloomsbury., London and New York, http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350930377.001
    Book Chapters | 2021
    2021, 'Foreword', in Hogan J (ed.), Survival Aesthetics © Interview Series: On Post-Contemporary Art Practice in Japan, Japan Foundation
    Book Chapters | 2021
    2021, 'Rendering Frontiers: From China's Historical Dynastic-Imperial to Modern Republican Borders and the Changing Significances of Chinese Art', in Gladston P; Turner M; Kennedy-Schtyk B (ed.), Visual Culture wars at the Borders of Contemporary China: Art, Design, Film, New Media and the Prospects of "Post-West" Contemporaneity, Palgrave Macmillan, London and Singapore
    Book Chapters | 2021
    2021, '‘#15 Change – Mountain in Full Bloom, Yicong Guo’', in UNESCO Art Collection: Selected Works, UNESCO, Paris, pp. 94 - 97
    Book Chapters | 2021
    2021, '超越鄙视(当代性:论关于国际后现代主义艺术理论和中国当代艺术理论的多方对话 (Beyond Contemp(oranei)t(y): toward a polylogue of international and localized perspectives on the significances of Chinese contemporary art),', in Lu CY (ed.), China as an Issue: Artistic and Intellectual Practices Since the Second Half of the Twentieth Century vol.4, Inside-Out Art Museum, Beijing, pp. 61 - 85
    Book Chapters | 2020
    2020, 'Case study: The work of Zhang Peili and the Pond Association (Chi she)', in CONTEMPORARY CHINESE ART, AESTHETIC MODERNITY AND ZHANG PEILI: TOWARDS A CRITICAL CONTEMPORANEITY, BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC, pp. 137 - 170, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000607455800006&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
    Book Chapters | 2020
    2020, 'Critical art and aesthetics within China and Euro-America before modernism', in CONTEMPORARY CHINESE ART, AESTHETIC MODERNITY AND ZHANG PEILI: TOWARDS A CRITICAL CONTEMPORANEITY, BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC, pp. 43 - 74, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000607455800003&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
    Book Chapters | 2020
    2020, 'Modernisms within and outside China', in CONTEMPORARY CHINESE ART, AESTHETIC MODERNITY AND ZHANG PEILI: TOWARDS A CRITICAL CONTEMPORANEITY, BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC, pp. 75 - 104, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000607455800004&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
    Book Chapters | 2020
    2020, 'Postmodernisms and contemporaneity within and outside China', in CONTEMPORARY CHINESE ART, AESTHETIC MODERNITY AND ZHANG PEILI: TOWARDS A CRITICAL CONTEMPORANEITY, BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC, pp. 105 - 135, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000607455800005&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
    Book Chapters | 2020
    2020, 'Prolegomenon Post-Enlightenment aesthetic modernity, postmodernity and contemporaneity', in CONTEMPORARY CHINESE ART, AESTHETIC MODERNITY AND ZHANG PEILI: TOWARDS A CRITICAL CONTEMPORANEITY, BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC, pp. 11 - 41, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000607455800002&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
    Book Chapters | 2019
    2019, '‘Rethinking Contemporaneity: Zhang Peili’s Video Installation A Gust of Wind (Zeng feng) as an Index of Polylogic Aesthetic Social Engagement’', in Sharing and Participating - 'The Commons': Art and Social Aesthetic Education, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou
    Book Chapters | 2019
    2019, '‘Rethinking Contemporaneity: Zhang Peili’s Video Installation A Gust of Wind (Zeng feng) as an Index of Polylogic Critical resistance’', in Proceedings of the Conference Aesthetics, Society and the Travels of Critical Theory International Conference, Beijing Normal University, Beijing
    Book Chapters | 2018
    2018, '‘A/n (Disjunctive) Encycling of Notes on the Work of the Artist Setsuko Ono’,', in Setsuko Ono, Parallax-Asia House, London
    Book Chapters | 2018
    2018, '‘Critical Reflections on Yu Youhan’s Paintings as a Locus of Aesthetic Modernity’', in Yu Youhan: Representational-Abstract, Long Museum, Chongqing
    Book Chapters | 2018
    2018, '‘Of Nühua (‘women’s painting’) and the Absenting of Ink: A Critical Meditation on Works by the Artist Fu Xiaotong’,', in Fan F; Wang C (ed.), New Debates on Ink Art: The Genealogy of Ink Art and Its Conceptual Changes – The Historical Identity Dimensions, Wuhan Art Museum – Hebei Fine Arts Publishing House, Wuhan - Hebei, pp. 432 - 488
    Book Chapters | 2017
    2017, '‘Conversación con Paul Gladston and Lynne Howarth-Gladston’', in La Construcción de la(s) historia(s) del arte contemporáneo en China, Edicions Ballatera, Barcelona
    Book Chapters | 2017
    2017, '‘Critical Reflections on Yu Youhan’s Paintings as a Locus of Aesthetic Modernity’', in Yu Youhan – PSA Collection Series, Power Station of Art, Shanghai
    Book Chapters | 2016
    2016, 'A Short Essay About the Work of Wang Xin and Chen Yongwei', in Chinese Contemporary Art Series, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 183 - 184, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46488-5_24
    Book Chapters | 2016
    2016, 'Answering the Question—‘What is the Chinese Avant-Garde?’', in Chinese Contemporary Art Series, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 121 - 123, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46488-5_14
    Book Chapters | 2016
    2016, 'Collaboration as Struggle and Non-cooperation', in Chinese Contemporary Art Series, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 129 - 132, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46488-5_16
    Book Chapters | 2016
    2016, 'Cultural Translation and Post hoc Intellectual Conceit', in Chinese Contemporary Art Series, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 55 - 64, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46488-5_5
    Book Chapters | 2016
    2016, 'Disjuncture—Tradition—Indirectness', in Chinese Contemporary Art Series, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 125 - 128, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46488-5_15
    Book Chapters | 2016
    2016, 'Inside the Yellow Box', in Chinese Contemporary Art Series, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 95 - 104, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46488-5_11
    Book Chapters | 2016
    2016, 'International Curatorial Practice and the Problematic De-Territorialization of the ‘Identity’ Show', in Chinese Contemporary Art Series, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 17 - 29, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46488-5_2
    Book Chapters | 2016
    2016, 'Low Resolution', in Chinese Contemporary Art Series, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 115 - 120, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46488-5_13
    Book Chapters | 2016
    2016, 'Objectless Desire', in Chinese Contemporary Art Series, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 167 - 171, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46488-5_21
    Book Chapters | 2016
    2016, 'Qianwei (‘Avant-Garde’) Art in Reform-Era China', in Chinese Contemporary Art Series, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 31 - 41, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46488-5_3
    Book Chapters | 2016
    2016, 'Silence and Recuperation', in Chinese Contemporary Art Series, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 83 - 84, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46488-5_8
    Book Chapters | 2016
    2016, 'The (Continuing) Story of Ai', in Chinese Contemporary Art Series, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 89 - 91, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46488-5_10
    Book Chapters | 2016
    2016, 'The 14th Month (After the Great Flood)', in Chinese Contemporary Art Series, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 177 - 181, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46488-5_23
    Book Chapters | 2016
    2016, 'The Cult of Ai', in Chinese Contemporary Art Series, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 85 - 87, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46488-5_9
    Book Chapters | 2016
    2016, 'The Double Way', in Chinese Contemporary Art Series, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 79 - 81, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46488-5_7
    Book Chapters | 2016
    2016, 'Time, Life and Nature', in Chinese Contemporary Art Series, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 133 - 137, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46488-5_17
    Book Chapters | 2016
    2016, 'Track Changes', in Chinese Contemporary Art Series, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 105 - 113, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46488-5_12
    Book Chapters | 2016
    2016, '‘Besiege Wei to Rescue Zhao’: A Stratagem Towards a Post-crisical Art', in Chinese Contemporary Art Series, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 65 - 77, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46488-5_6
    Book Chapters | 2016
    2016, '‘Sound Can Be Seen and Form Can Be Heard’', in Chinese Contemporary Art Series, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 139 - 145, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46488-5_18
    Book Chapters | 2016
    2016, '“Beyond Contemp(oranei)t(y): towards a discursive polylogue of international postmodernist and Chinese contemporary art theory”', in Gao M (ed.), Criteria-Method-Context, Central Compilation and Translation Press, Beijing
    Book Chapters | 2015
    Gladston P; Gladston LH, 2015, 'Overlit realm/inner world: A loosely articulated series of notes on the work of the artist Lu Xinjian', in Deconstructing Contemporary Chinese Art: Selected Critical Writings and Conversations, 2007-2014, pp. 161 - 166, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46488-5_20
    Book Chapters | 2015
    2015, 'Entry on the artist Xu Bing', in Berkshire Dictionary of Chinese Biography, Vol. 4, Oxford University Press
    Book Chapters | 2015
    2015, '‘A (Disjointed) Series of Notes on Works by the Artist Jia’', in The Chinese Version: Jia, Walther König, Köln:
    Book Chapters | 2015
    2015, '‘A (Disjointed) Series of Notes towards a Reading of Lu Xinjian’s Series of Paintings, Constellations’', in Lu Xinjian: Constellations, Art Labour Gallery, Shanghai
    Book Chapters | 2015
    2015, '‘Within and Between Floating Wor(l)ds: a (Disjointed) Series of notes on the Work of the Artist Paul Furneaux’', in Paul Furneaux: Outside-Inside, a Contemporary Use of Japanese Woodcut Printing, Edinburgh Printmakers Workshop, Edinburgh
    Book Chapters | 2014
    2014, '‘(Re-)Constructing (Contemporary) Chinese Art: Towards a Polylogue between International and Chinese Theoretical Paradigms’', in Post-Conflict Cultures: Topographies of Reconstruction, CCCP
    Book Chapters | 2014
    2014, '‘Immersion: Song Ling’s Early Development as an Artist in the PRC’', in Ghosts in the Mirror – Song Ling, 1985-2013, Today Art Museum, Beijing
    Book Chapters | 2014
    2014, '‘International Curatorial Practice and The Problematic (De-)Territorialization of the International Survey Show: Critical Reflections on the Third Guangzhou Triennial, Farewell to Post-Colonialism and the Asia Triennial Triennial II’', in Triennial City: Localising Asian Art, Cornerhouse Manchester
    Book Chapters | 2014
    2014, '‘Interpreting Contemporary Chinese Art: Towards a “Telepathic” Polylogue’', in Future Returns: Contemporary Art from China, Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University
    Book Chapters | 2014
    2014, '‘Overlit Realm/Inner World: a Loosely Articulated Series of Notes on the Work of the Artist Lu Xinjian’', in Lu Xinjian City DNA IV, Hua Gallery, London
    Book Chapters | 2013
    Gladston P, 2013, 'China's Post-Maoist 'Avant-garde' in Context: Modern and Contemporary Art in China, 1911-2011', in AVANT-GARDE ART GROUPS IN CHINA, 1979-1989: THE STARS - THE NORTHERN ART GROUP - THE POND ASSOCIATION - XIAMEN DADA A CRITICAL POLYLOGUE, INTELLECT LTD, pp. 9 - 36, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000329513400002&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
    Book Chapters | 2013
    Gladston P, 2013, 'THE STARS - THE NORTHERN ART GROUP - THE POND ASSOCIATION - XIAMEN DADA', in AVANT-GARDE ART GROUPS IN CHINA, 1979-1989: THE STARS - THE NORTHERN ART GROUP - THE POND ASSOCIATION - XIAMEN DADA A CRITICAL POLYLOGUE, INTELLECT LTD, pp. 37 - 81, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000329513400003&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
    Book Chapters | 2013
    Gladston P, 2013, 'The Northern Art Group (Beifang yishu qunti)', in AVANT-GARDE ART GROUPS IN CHINA, 1979-1989: THE STARS - THE NORTHERN ART GROUP - THE POND ASSOCIATION - XIAMEN DADA A CRITICAL POLYLOGUE, INTELLECT LTD, pp. 83 - 119, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000329513400004&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
    Book Chapters | 2013
    Gladston P, 2013, 'The Pond Association (Chi she)', in AVANT-GARDE ART GROUPS IN CHINA, 1979-1989: THE STARS - THE NORTHERN ART GROUP - THE POND ASSOCIATION - XIAMEN DADA A CRITICAL POLYLOGUE, INTELLECT LTD, pp. 121 - 157, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000329513400005&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
    Book Chapters | 2013
    Gladston P, 2013, 'Xiamen Dada (Xiamen Dada)', in AVANT-GARDE ART GROUPS IN CHINA, 1979-1989: THE STARS - THE NORTHERN ART GROUP - THE POND ASSOCIATION - XIAMEN DADA A CRITICAL POLYLOGUE, INTELLECT LTD, pp. 159 - 175, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000329513400006&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
    Book Chapters | 2013
    2013, '‘(W)Est [by] Non-(W)Est: A Series of (Dislocated Critical Reflections on the Staging of the Third Guangzhou Triennial, “Farewell to Post-colonialism/Towards a Post-West Society?”’', in The Third Guangzhou Triennial: Reader 3, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou
    Book Chapters | 2013
    2013, '‘Objectless Desire: a Loosely Articulated Series of Notes on Works by the Painter Tang Shu’', in Still Waters Run Deep: Tang Shu Works, Aroundspace Gallery, Shanghai
    Book Chapters | 2012
    2012, 'Scholary captions for works by Zeng Fanzhi and Weng Peijun', in Barcelona Colecciona: Arte contemporáneo en les colecciones prvidas, Fundación Francisco Godia, Barcelona:
    Book Chapters | 2012
    2012, 'Scholary captions for works by Zeng Fanzhi, Zhang Huan and Weng Peijun', in Barcelona Colecciona/col-lecciona, Fundación Francisco Godia, Barcelona
    Book Chapters | 2012
    2012, '‘A Concise Series of Statements (that May or May not be) About the Work of the Artist Han Feng’', in Han Feng: Works, Aroundspace Gallery, Shanghai
    Book Chapters | 2012
    2012, '‘Somewhere (and Nowhere) between Modernity and Tradition’', in Art of Change: New Directions from China, Southbank Centre, Hayward Gallery, London
    Book Chapters | 2012
    2012, '‘Towards a Polylogue of Chinese and Western Contemporary Art Criticism’', in China and the West: Encounters with the Other in Culture, Arts, Politics and Everyday Life, Cambridge Scholars
    Book Chapters | 2012
    2012, '‘Traces of Empire: Deconstructing Hou Hanru’s “Post-colonialist” Reading of Contemporary Chinese Art’', in Contemporary Chinese Art and Film: Theory Applied and Resisted, New Academia, Washington DC
    Book Chapters | 2011
    2011, '‘Locating Displacement: Envisioning the Complex “Diasporization” of Contemporary Chinese Art’', in Negotiating Difference: Contemporary Chinese Art in the Global Context, VDG, Weimar
    Book Chapters | 2011
    2011, '‘Low Resolution: Towards an Uncertain Reading of the Art of Zhang Peili’', in Zhang Peili: Certain Pleasures, Mingsheng Gallery, Shanghai
    Book Chapters | 2011
    2011, '‘State of the Art: Davide Quadrio in Conversation with Paul Gladston’', in Negotiating Difference: Contemporary Chinese Art in the Global Context, VDG, Weimar
    Book Chapters | 2011
    2011, '‘The 14th Month (After the Great Flood): Towards an Alternative Reading of Yang Jiechang’s Stranger than Paradise’', in Yang Jiechang: Tale of the 11th Day, Galerie Jaeger Bucher, Paris
    Book Chapters | 2011
    2011, '‘What the Fu*@k is Birdhead?: the Critic Ge Si Di in Conversation with Paul Gladston’', in Birdhead: Welcome to Birdhead World Again, London, Paradise Row Gallery, London
    Book Chapters | 2011
    2011, '‘Zhang Peili in Conversation with Paul Gladston’', in Zhang Peili: 2010 Chinese Contemporary Art Awards – Lifetime Contribution, Chinese Contemporary Art Awards (CCAA), Hong Kong
    Book Chapters | 2010
    2010, '‘Searching for the Truth (Within the Facts): The Art of Wei Chu Yu’', in Transvision: the Art of Wei Chu Yu, Sunbow Gallery, Shanghai
    Book Chapters | 2010
    2010, '‘Towards a Discursive Polylogue of Chinese and Western Contemporary Art Theory’ - alongside essays by Profs. Alan Munslow and Donald Preziosi', in Parallax the first En Avant group exhibition, Chris Barlow Fine Art, London
    Book Chapters | 2010
    2010, '‘Towards a Discursive Polylogue of Western and Chinese Contemporary Art Criticism’ in The Second “China Contemporary Art Forum”’', in 2010 Beijing International Conference on Art Theory and Criticism – Presentation Outline, Dossier and Reference, Wall Art Museum, Beijing
    Book Chapters | 2009
    2009, '‘Bloody Animals! - Reinterpreting Acts of Sacrificial Violence against Animals as Part of Contemporary Chinese Artistic Practice’', in Crossing Cultural Boundaries: Taboo, Bodies and Identities, Cambridge Scholars
    Book Chapters | 2009
    2009, '‘Critical Reflections on the Staging of the Third Guangzhou Triennial, Farewell to Post-Colonialism: Towards a Post-West Society’', in The Third Guangzhou Triennial, Farewell to Post-Colonialism: Towards a Post-West Society, Printed Projects, Dublin
    Book Chapters | 2009
    2009, '‘Shu Qun in Conversation with Paul Gladston’', in Shu Qun: Collected Works, The OCT Art and Design Gallery at the He Xiang Ning Art Museum, Shenzhen
    Book Chapters | 2008
    2008, '‘Something (and Nothing) Beyond the Text: An Essay on the Work of Song Kun’', in Fragments: Xijia River Lethe - catalogue for an exhibition of work by the artist Song Kun, Timezone 8 / Boers-Li Gallery, Beijing
    Book Chapters | 2008
    2008, '‘Zhang Peili in Conversation with Paul Gladston’', in Artistic Working Manual of Zhang Peili, The OCT Art and Design Gallery at the He Xiang Ning Art Museum, Shenzhen
    Book Chapters | 2007
    2007, '‘An Interview with He Sai Bang’', in He Sai Bang: Listening to Shapes, China 2000 Fine Art, New York
    Book Chapters | 2007
    2007, '‘Overcoming the Anxiety of Displacement: Song Tao and B6’s Yard’', in Diaspora(s) Movements and Cultures, CCCP
    Book Chapters | 2006
    2006, '‘Sublime Ruins – Monumental Follies: The Photo(historio)graphy of Erasmus Schroeter’', in Post-conflict Cultures: Rituals of Representation, Zoilus Press, London
  • Edited Books | 2023
    Gladston P; Howarth-Gladston L; Kuo J, (eds.), 2023, Rethinking the Curation of Chinese Contemporary Art: “post-West” artworlds, political economies, spatial practices and historiographies, Palgrave-Macmillan
    Edited Books | 2023
    Gladston P; Jin H; Yan H, (eds.), 2023, Translation Studies and China, Routledge
    Edited Books | 2021
    Gladston P; Kennedy-Schtyk B; Turner M, (eds.), 2021, Visual Culture Wars at the Borders of Contemporary China: Art, Design, Film, New Media and the Prospects of "Post-West" Contemporaneity, Palgrave Macmillan
    Edited Books | 2020
    Gladston P; Vigneron F; Howarth-Gladston L; Koon YK; Wang C, (eds.), 2020, Contemporary East Asian Visual Cultures, Societies and Politics (book series, 2020-ongoing), Palgrave Macmillan, https://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/16532
    Edited Books | 2017
    Gladston P; Lu D, (ed.), 2017, Journal for Cultural Research - special edition ‘Art, Curatorial Practice and Social Engagement in Contemporary China’
    Edited Books | 2015
    Gladston P, (ed.), 2015, Modern China Studies - special edition ‘Cultural Translation and Contemporary Chinese Visual Culture’
    Edited Books | 2014
    Gladston P, (ed.), 2014, Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art (three volumes, 2014-2017)
    Edited Books | 2012
    Gladston P; Hill K, (ed.), 2012, Journal of Contemporary Art Practice - special edition ‘Contemporary Chinese Art and Criticality’, Intellect
    Edited Books | 2009
    Gladston P, (ed.), 2009, China and Other Spaces: Selected Essays from the Research Seminar Series of the Institute of Comparative Cultural Studies, Ningbo 2005-07, CCCP
  • Journal articles | 2023
    2023, 'Tasmania’s Museum of Old and New Art and the Intertextual Traces of English Romanticism', Journal of Curatorial Studies
    Journal articles | 2022
    2022, 'Book Review: The Future History of Contemporary Chinese Art', CHINA QUARTERLY, 249, pp. 304 - 306, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0305741022000108
    Journal articles | 2021
    2021, '‘Pushing the Limits: Tianxia (‘all under heaven’) and Beijing’s seemingly flagrant disregard for internationally recognised frontiers’', The UK National Committee on China (UKNCC) Guest Contributor Programme., https://ukncc.org/guest-contributors
    Journal articles | 2020
    2020, '‘Beyond the Pale: Critical Reflections on Society, and Politics Within and at the Borders of China’', di’van: a Journal of Accounts
    Journal articles | 2020
    2020, '‘Going Over the Edge: COVID-19, contemporary artworlds, the global artistic-industrial complex and NIRIN’', di’van: a Journal of Accounts
    Journal articles | 2020
    2020, '‘ROCI China and the Prospects of “Post-West” Contemporaneity’', Journal of Transcultural Studies, 11, pp. 150 - 177, https://heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/index.php/transcultural/index
    Journal articles | 2019
    2019, '‘Beyond Dialogue: Interpreting Recent Performances by Xiao Lu’', di’van: a Journal of Accounts
    Journal articles | 2019
    2019, '“Xiao Lu: Dis-/Continuing Tradition”', TAASA Review – The Asian Arts Society of Australia Journal
    Journal articles | 2018
    Howarth-Gladston L; Gladston P, 2018, 'Seven Paintings', SENSES & SOCIETY, 13, pp. 120 - 125, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17458927.2017.1411089
    Journal articles | 2018
    2018, '‘From Both, and Inconclusively, from Neither: Critical Reflections on the Significances of Yu Youhan's Paintings as a Locus of Aesthetic Modernity’', Eyeline
    Journal articles | 2017
    Gladston P; Howarth-Gladston L, 2017, 'Datong Dazhang, Power Station of Art, Shanghai', Journal for Cultural Research, pp. 1 - 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14797585.2017.1308088
    Journal articles | 2017
    Gladston P; Howarth-Gladston L, 2017, 'Inside the yellow box: Cultural exceptionalism and the ideology of the gallery space', Journal of Curatorial Studies, 6, pp. 194 - 211, http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jcs.6.2.194_1
    Journal articles | 2017
    Gladston P, 2017, '(Bad) faith in painting(?): Critically re-evaluating the significance of Yu Youhan's political pop series', JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY PAINTING, 3, pp. 137 - 156, http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jcp.3.1-2.137_1
    Journal articles | 2016
    Gladston P, 2016, 'Principal editor's foreword', JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY CHINESE ART, 3, pp. 211 - 213, http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jcca.3.3.211_2
    Journal articles | 2016
    2016, '‘Review of Creativity Class: art school and culture work in postsocialist China by Lily Chumley (Princeton University Press, 2016)’', China Review International: a journal of reviews of scholarly literature in Chinese studies
    Journal articles | 2015
    Gladston P, 2015, 'Found materials: Paul Gladston in conversation with Rudi Stanzel', JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY CHINESE ART, 2, pp. 249 - 256, http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jcca.2.2-3.249_1
    Journal articles | 2015
    Gladston P, 2015, 'International Curatorial Practice and the Problematic De-territorialization of the 'Identity' Show: Deconstructing the Third Guangzhou Triennial, Farewell to Post-Colonialism', JOURNAL OF CURATORIAL STUDIES, 4, pp. 7 - 32, http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jcs.4.1.6_1
    Journal articles | 2015
    Gladston P, 2015, 'Just what is it that makes today's Chinese art so fashionable, so appealing?', JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY CHINESE ART, 2, pp. 3 - 6, http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jcca.2.1.3_2
    Journal articles | 2015
    Gladston P, 2015, 'Xi Jinping's state visit to the United Kingdom and attendant cultural myths', JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY CHINESE ART, 2, pp. 141 - 145, http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jcca.2.2-3.141_1
    Journal articles | 2015
    Tsong-Zung C; Howarth-Gladston L; Gladston P, 2015, 'Inside the Yellow Box: Chang Tsong-Zung (Johnson Chang) in conversation with Lynne Howarth-Gladston and Paul Gladston', JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY CHINESE ART, 2, pp. 103 - 117, http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jcca.2.1.103_1
    Journal articles | 2015
    2015, 'Creativity Class: Art School and Culture Work in Postsocialist China by Lily Chumley', China Review International, 22, pp. 109 - 111, http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cri.2015.0025
    Journal articles | 2015
    2015, '‘Cultural Translation and Post hoc Intellectual Conceit: Critical Reflections on the Conflating of Traditional Chinese Cultural Thought and Practice and the Theory and Practice of Deconstruction in relation to the Theorizing of Contemporary Chinese Art’', Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art Studies
    Journal articles | 2014
    2014, 'EDITORIAL', JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY CHINESE ART, 1, pp. 3 - 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jcca.1.1.3_2
    Journal articles | 2014
    2014, 'Editorial', Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, 1, pp. 3 - 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jcca.1.1.3_2
    Journal articles | 2014
    2014, 'Measures of Distance (to HomeShop): A conversation with Elaine W. Ho and Edward Sanderson', Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, 1, pp. 275 - 287, http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jcca.1.2-2.275_1
    Journal articles | 2014
    2014, 'Reviews', Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, 1, pp. 309 - 319, http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jcca.1.2-2.309_5
    Journal articles | 2014
    2014, '‘Deconstructing Gao Minglu’', Journal of Art Historiography
    Journal articles | 2014
    2014, '‘Interviews and Documentary Sources in Chinese Contemporary Art Research: Towards the Critical Use of Polylogues’', Art Libraries Journal
    Journal articles | 2014
    2014, '‘Qianwei (Avant-garde) Art in Reform-era China: Divergence, Reversal and the Persistence of (Subjective) Realism’', Journal of East-Asian Popular Culture
    Journal articles | 2014
    2014, '‘Somewhere (and Nowhere) between Modernity and Tradition: Towards a Polylogue between Differing International and Indigenous Perspectives on the Significance of Contemporary Chinese Art’,', Tate Papers
    Journal articles | 2013
    2013, '‘Cultural Translation and Post hoc Intellectual Conceit: Critical Reflections on the Conflating of Traditional Chinese Cultural Thought and Practice, and the Theory and Practice of Deconstruction in relation to the Theorizing of Contemporary Chinese Art’', Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, China
    Journal articles | 2013
    2013, '’(Re-)Constructing Contemporary Chinese Art: Towards a Polylogue between International and Chinese Theoretical Paradigms’', Zentrum für Kunst and Medientechnologie Karlsruhe website
    Journal articles | 2012
    Gladston P; Hill K, 2012, 'Contemporary Chinese art and criticality: From the general to the particular', Journal of Visual Art Practice, 11, pp. 99 - 116, http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jvap.11.2-3.99-2
    Journal articles | 2012
    2012, '‘Problematizing Contemporaneity: Towards a Polylogue between International Postmodernist and Chinese Contemporary Art Theories’', Culture and Dialogue
    Journal articles | 2012
    2012, '‘Problematizing the New Cultural Separatism: Critical Reflections on Contemporaneity and the Theorizing of Contemporary Chinese Art’', Modern China Studies – Art and Politics in Today’s China and Taiwan
    Journal articles | 2011
    2011, '‘Lost in Translation: Contemporary Chinese Art and the Waning of Criticality’', Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art
    Journal articles | 2010
    2010, '‘Locating Displacement: Envisioning the Complex “Diasporization” of Contemporary Chinese Art’', The Transit Labour Digest
    Journal articles | 2010
    2010, '‘Permanent (R)Evolution: Contemporaneity and the Historicisation of Contemporary Chinese Art – Part 1’', Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art
    Journal articles | 2010
    2010, '‘Permanent (R)Evolution: Contemporaneity and the Historicisation of Contemporary Chinese Art – Part 2’', Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art
    Journal articles | 2010
    2010, '‘State of the Art: Davide Quadrio in Conversation with Paul Gladston’', Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art
    Journal articles | 2009
    2009, '‘Recurring Intimations of Disorder: A Conversation with Zhang Peili’', Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art
    Journal articles | 2009
    2009, '‘Spoiling at the Margins: A Critical Review of Re-writing Culture in Taiwan’', Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art
    Journal articles | 2008
    2008, '‘A(n) (In)Decisive Act of Disclosure: Reflections on the ‘85 New Wave Exhibition at the Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art in Beijing’', Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art
    Journal articles | 2008
    2008, '‘Chan-Da-da(o)-De-construction or, The Cultural (Il)Logic of Contemporary Chinese “Avant-Garde” Art’', Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art
    Journal articles | 2008
    2008, '‘Song Ling in Conversation with Paul Gladston’', Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art
    Journal articles | 2008
    2008, '‘Writing On The Wall – (and Entry Gate): A Critical Response to Recent Curatorial Meditations on the ‘Chineseness’ of Contemporary Chinese Visual Art’', Tsinghua Arts: Contemporary Chinese Art Criticism
    Journal articles | 2007
    2007, '‘(More Writing on) The Wall: Reshaping (Gao Minglu’s Vision of) Contemporary Chinese Art’', Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art
    Journal articles | 2007
    2007, '‘Writing On The Wall – (and Entry Gate): A Critical Response to Recent Curatorial Meditations on the ‘Chineseness’ of Contemporary Chinese Visual Art’', Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art
    Journal articles | 2006
    2006, '‘No Matter From Which Side It Is Still Possible To See: A Review of Karen Smith’s Nine Lives: the Birth of Avant-Garde Art in New China’', Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art
  • Conference Presentations | 2022
    2022, ''Dis-/Continuing Traditions: Interpreting the Translation of Endogenous Techne by Chinese Contemporary Artists from Parallaxic Trans-cultural Perspectives'', presented at Chinese Cultures, Translation and Contemporaneity: Literature – Cinema – Performance - the Visual Arts, 20 May 2022
    Conference Presentations | 2021
    2021, '‘Pushing the Boundaries: Intersections between China’s Current National Self-image, Tianxia (‘all under heaven’) and Confucian Aesthetics.’', presented at University of Sydney, Department of Chinese Studies in collaboration with the China Studies Centre 'Language, Literature, Culture and Education' series., 08 September 2021
    Conference Presentations | 2021
    2021, '“Thinking (and Practice In-/) Outside the (Yellow) Box: toward the curation of an artistic-cultural poly/cacophony'', presented at Rethinking the Curation of Chinese Contemporary Art: toward “post-West” artworlds, political economies, spatial practices, and historiographies, 28 April 2021
    Curatorial Outputs | 2021
    2021, Dis-/Continuing Traditions: Contemporary Video Art from China, exhibited at: Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart, Tasmania, 19 February 2021 - 07 March 2021, https://www.salarts.org.au/event/dis-continuing-traditions/
    Conference Presentations | 2019
    2019, ''A Closer Look at Contemporary Chinese Art'', presented at 'A Closer Look at Contemporary Chinese Art', Ottawa Art Gallery, supported by Carleton University, Canada. In conjunction with the exhibition, 'Howie Tsui: Retainers of Anarchy'
    Conference Presentations | 2019
    2019, ''Beyond Dialogue: Interpreting Xiao Lu’s Performance, One (Yi) in the Context of Contemporaneity'', presented at The China/Avant-Garde Exhibition and Xiao Lu: 30 Years On, in conjunction with an exhibition of Xiao Lu’s work at the 4A Center for Contemporary
    Conference Presentations | 2019
    2019, ''Contemporary Chinese Art, Aesthetic Modernity and Zhang Peili: Towards a Critical Contemporaneity'', presented at post-graduate workshop, Carleton University, Ottawa Canada.
    Conference Presentations | 2019
    2019, ''Contemporary Chinese Art: towards a critical contemporaneity'', presented at 'Contemporary Chinese Art: towards a critical contemporaneity', moderator Alan Cruickshank (di’van), 4A Centre for Asian Art, Sydney
    Conference Presentations | 2019
    2019, ''Inside and Outside the Yellow Box: Rethinking Displays of Asian Art'', presented at Art Gallery of the University of Western Australia, “Conversations” series
    Conference Presentations | 2019
    2019, ''Inside and Outside the Yellow Box: Rethinking Displays of Asian Art'', presented at Seminar series, University of Tasmania, Hobart
    Conference Presentations | 2019
    2019, ''Rethinking Contemporaneity: Zhang Peili’s Video Installation A Gust of Wind (Zeng feng) as an Index of Polylogic Aesthetic Social Engagement'', presented at Sharing and Participating - 'The Commons': Art and Social Aesthetic Education Summit 2019, China Academy of Art Hangzhou, Practice Base of Social Aesthetic Education, Qianfengxi Village, Ping'nan County, Ningde, Fujian Province, PR China.
    Conference Presentations | 2019
    2019, ''Rethinking Contemporaneity: Zhang Peili’s Video Installation A Gust of Wind (Zeng feng) as an Index of Polylogic Critical Resistance'', presented at Aesthetics, Society and the Travels of Critical Theory International Conference, Beijing Normal University
    Conference Presentations | 2019
    2019, 'Discussant, public tour of the exhibition, The China/ Avant-Garde Exhibition and Xiao Lu: 30 Years On, 4A Center for Asian Art, Sydney', presented at Public tour of the exhibition, The China/ Avant-Garde Exhibition and Xiao Lu: 30 Years On, 4A Center for Asian Art, Sydney
    Conference Presentations | 2019
    2019, 'Keynote speaker, Western Sydney University, Australia-China Institute for Arts and Culture (ACIAC), Emerging Scholars’ Forum on Australian and Chinese Arts and Culture, Contrast, Converge and Commingle', presented at Emerging Scholars’ Forum on Australian and Chinese Arts and Culture, Contrast, Converge and Commingle
    Conference Presentations | 2019
    2019, 'Panel moderator and organiser, 'Diffractions: Daoist, Buddhist and Confucian Aesthetics in Trans-Cultural Contemporary Art', Sydney Contemporary 2019', presented at 'Diffractions: Daoist, Buddhist and Confucian Aesthetics in Trans-Cultural Contemporary Art', Sydney Contemporary 2019
    Conference Presentations | 2019
    2019, 'Panel moderator, Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran and Tim Silver in Conversation with Prof Paul Gladston, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney.', presented at Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran and Tim Silver in Conversation with Prof Paul Gladston, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney.
    Conference Presentations | 2019
    2019, 'Panel moderator, with FX Harsono and Albert Yonathan Setyawan, in conjunction with the exhibition, 'Future Past', Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney.', presented at panel moderator, in conjunction with the exhibition, 'Future Past', Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney
    Curatorial Outputs | 2019
    2019, Sullivan+Strumpf, West Bund Art Fair: Sydney Ball Estate, Lindy Lee, Dane Lovett, Tim Silver, Dawn Ng, and Karen Black, exhibited at: West Bund Art Fair, Shanghai, -
    Conference Presentations | 2018
    2018, ''Asia Society @ MCA | Conversation Starters: ‘Truth and Censorship behind the great firewall of China’', presented at Asia Society @ MCA | Conversation Starters: ‘Truth and Censorship behind the great firewall of China’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
    Conference Presentations | 2018
    2018, ''Inside and Outside the Yellow Box: Asian Interventions in the White Cube'', presented at Research Talk, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
    Conference Presentations | 2018
    2018, '‘Accessing contemporary art in/from China and its near neighbours’', presented at ‘Accessing contemporary art in/from China and its near neighbours’
    Conference Presentations | 2018
    2018, '‘Contemporary Chinese Art and Aesthetic Modernity: Towards a Critical Contemporaneity’', presented at Invited speaker, Department of Fine Arts, Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Conference Presentations | 2018
    2018, '‘Setsuko Ono in Conversation with Paul Gladston: Contemporary Art and Global Change in the Twenty-First Century’', presented at ‘Setsuko Ono – Solo Exhibition’, Asia House, London
    Conference Presentations | 2017
    2017, 'Panel Chair, 'Contemporary Chinese Art'', presented at Oxford China Forum, Said Business School, Oxford University
    Conference Presentations | 2017
    2017, '‘(Bad) Faith in Painting(?):Critically Re-evaluating the Significance of Yu Youhan’s Political Pop Series’', presented at research seminar series, University of Barcelona
    Conference Presentations | 2017
    2017, '‘Critical Mass: Contemporary Video Art from Shanghai and Hangzhou’', presented at Research seminar series, University of Barcelona and Autonomous University of Barcelona
    Conference Presentations | 2017
    2017, '‘Inside the Yellow Box: Cultural exceptionalism and the problematic traces of neo-Confucianism’', presented at Research seminar series, University of Barcelona
    Conference Presentations | 2017
    2017, '‘Of Nühua (‘women’s painting’) and the Absenting of Ink — A Critical Meditation on Works by the Artist Fu Xiaotong’', presented at Wuhan’s First Ink Painting Biennale International Academic Forum: The Chinese Ink Painting System and Its Ideological Change - ‘Exploring the Contemporary Transformation of Chinese Ink Painting’,, Wuhan Art Museum
    Other | 2017
    Conference Presentations | 2016
    2016, 'Distinguished Speaker, ‘Wordimage: visual-verbal interstices in contemporary Chinese Art’', presented at ‘Wordimage: visual-verbal interstices in contemporary Chinese Art’,
    Conference Presentations | 2016
    2016, 'Distinguished keynote speaker and panel chair, ‘Contemporary Art and the Margins of Criticality’', presented at Visualizing Chinese Borders, Manchester Metropolitan University,
    Conference Presentations | 2016
    2016, 'Invited Panel Chair, ‘Perspectives on Contemporary Art’, Ecologies of Art: a Modern and Contemporary Chinese Art Debate', presented at ‘Perspectives on Contemporary Art’, Ecologies of Art: a Modern and Contemporary Chinese Art Debate
    Conference Presentations | 2016
    2016, '‘(Bad) Faith in Painting(?):Critically Re-evaluating the Significance of Yu Youhan’s Political Pop Series’', presented at Invited Speaker, research seminar series, Department of Art History, Edinburgh College of Art
    Conference Presentations | 2016
    2016, '‘(Bad) Faith in Painting(?):Critically Re-evaluating the Significance of Yu Youhan’s Political Pop Series’', presented at Research seminar series, Department of Asian, Middle Eastern and Turkish Studies, University of Stockholm
    Conference Presentations | 2016
    2016, '‘Critical Mass: Contemporary Video Art from Shanghai and Hangzhou’', presented at Research seminar series, Department of Art Science, University of Stockholm
    Conference Presentations | 2016
    2016, '‘Power-Corruption-Lies: Gordon Cheung’s New Order Series, Lens-based Painting and East-West Cultural Intersection’', presented at Gordon Cheung’s solo exhibition, Here be Dragons at the Nottingham Castle Museum
    Conference Presentations | 2015
    2015, 'Distinguished Speaker, Constructing and Deconstructing Histories of Contemporary Cultural and Aesthetic Practices', presented at Constructing and Deconstructing Histories of Contemporary Cultural and Aesthetic Practices, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
    Conference Presentations | 2015
    2015, 'Keynote speaker and panel chair, (In)direct Speech: Chineseness in Contemporary Chinese art Discourse and Practice , University of Lisbon', presented at (In)direct Speech: Chineseness in Contemporary Chinese art Discourse and Practice, University of Lisbon
    Conference Presentations | 2015
    2015, 'Public Panel, Djanogly Gallery, University of Nottingham', presented at Contemporary Video from Shanghai and Hangzhou
    Curatorial Outputs | 2015
    2015, New China/New Art: Contemporary Video from Shanghai and Hangzhou, exhibited at: Djanogly Gallery, University of Nottingham, Nottingham UK, 04 September 2015 - 01 November 2015, http://www.lakesidearts.org.uk/exhibitions/event/2931/new-china-new-art.html
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2014
    McGhee J; Bailey B; Faux S; Bou-Haidar P; Thompson Butel A, 2014, Immersion, Body Image, UNSW Galleries, Sydney, 06 September 2014 - 09 November 2014, medium: Computer based 3D Head Mounted Virtual Reality, at: https://www.artdesign.unsw.edu.au/unsw-galleries/body-image
    Conference Presentations | 2014
    2014, 'Invitation by the internationally renowned artist Wang Guangyi to give a keynote public talk as part of the symposium, Implosion and Crises: International Forum on Contemporary Art at Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China', presented at Implosion and Crises: International Forum on Contemporary Art, Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China
    Conference Presentations | 2014
    2014, 'Keynote Speaker, What Work Does the Artwork Do?: Criticality and Context, Institute of Contemporary Art London', presented at What Work Does the Artwork Do?: Criticality and Context, Institute of Contemporary Art London
    Conference Presentations | 2014
    2014, '‘Avant-Garde Art in Reform-Era China’', presented at Exploring Ideological Translation: An Interdisciplinary Conference, Centre for the Study of Political Ideologies, University of Nottingham
    Conference Presentations | 2014
    2014, '‘Non-antagonistic’ Art from the PRC and Taiwan’', presented at Taiwanese Contemporary Art Symposium, Site Gallery, Sheffield
    Conference Presentations | 2014
    2014, '‘Writing around Contemporary Art: A Talk by Matthew Collings and Emma Biggs’', presented at Public talk and panel, University of Nottingham, University of Nottingham, Djanogly Theatre
    Conference Presentations | 2013
    2013, ''Chinese Contemporary Art and Cultural Memory'', presented at China and Memory in the Yangtze Delta since 2001, University of Nottingham Ningbo, China
    Conference Presentations | 2013
    2013, 'Seminar: Contemporary Chinese Art and Socialist Realism', presented at Contemporary Chinese Art and Socialist Realism, TATE Modern
    Conference Presentations | 2013
    2013, '‘Academic Publishing in China: from Hard Copies to Digital Networks (and Back Again)’', presented at Invited Speaker, Conference: From Print to Publishing: The Changing Role of the Book in China and the UK, Chinese Contemporary Art Centre, Manchester
    Conference Presentations | 2013
    2013, '‘Somewhere (and Nowhere) between Modernity and Tradition: Towards a Polylogue between Differing International and Indigenous Perspectives on the Significance of Contemporary Chinese Art’', presented at Invited Speaker, Conference: Negotiating Histories: Traditions in Modern and Contemporary Asia-Pacific Art, Tate Modern
    Conference Presentations | 2013
    2013, '‘Somewhere (and Nowhere) between Modernity and Tradition: Towards a Polylogue between Differing International and Indigenous Perspectives on the Significance of Contemporary Chinese Art’', presented at Invited speaker, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, Network Beaux-arts: Going Global – Avant-gardes, Academies, Revolutions, 1900-2013
    Conference Presentations | 2012
    2012, 'Keynote speaker, Education in Contemporary Art Museums in China, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai', presented at Education in Contemporary Art Museums in China
    Other | 2011
    Rose DB (ed.), 2011, Introduction, Australia,
    Conference Presentations | 2011
    2011, 'Guest Speaker, Fundación Francisco Godia, Barcelona, on the occasion of the acquisition of paintings by Zeng Fanzhi and Zhang Huan', presented at acquisition of paintings by Zeng Fanzhi and Zhang Huan
    Conference Presentations | 2011
    2011, '‘Theorizing Contemporary Chinese Art : Towards a Polylogue of International Post-Modernist and Contemporary Chinese Perspectives’', presented at Guest Speaker, the University of Maryland – sponsored by the Center for East Asian Studies, Confucius Institute, Department of Art History and Wang Fangyu Endowment for Calligraphy Education at the University of Maryland
    Conference Presentations | 2010
    2010, 'Invited Panel Member, Double Infinity: The Last Two Decades of Contemporary Chinese Art Revisited at the Dutch Cultural Centre, Shanghai', presented at Double Infinity: The Last Two Decades of Contemporary Chinese Art Revisited (organised by the Van Abbe Museum and ArtHub)
    Conference Presentations | 2010
    2010, '‘Projecting China: On the East-West (De)Construction of (Art-Historical/Critical) Space(s)’', presented at Post-Conflict Cultures: Topographies of Reconstruction, University of Bologna
    Conference Presentations | 2010
    2010, '‘Towards a Discursive Polylogue of Western and Chinese Contemporary Art Criticism’', presented at Invited Speaker, The 2nd Beijing International Forum on Chinese Contemporary Art (Contemporary Chinese Art Criticism) at the University of Beijing/Wall Art Museum (organised by Prof. James Elkins of the University of Chicago):
    Conference Presentations | 2010
    2010, '‘Towards a Polylogue of Chinese and Western Art Criticism’', presented at Guest Speaker, The Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture, The University of Westminster
    Conference Presentations | 2010
    2010, '‘Transnational Chinese Cultural Networks and the Interpretation of Contemporary Chinese Art’', presented at Regionalism and Social Mobilities, Shanghai (part of the Australian Research Council Project ‘Culture in Transition’)
    Conference Presentations | 2009
    2009, '‘Contemporary Chinese art as “Diaspora”’', presented at ‘Translating Regions: Aesthetic Movements, Labour Regimes, Cultural Geographies’, Inter-Asia cultural Typhoon, Inter-Asia cultural Typhoon at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
    Conference Presentations | 2009
    2009, '‘Curatorial Discourse and the Limits of Speech: Critical Reflections on the Third Guangzhou Triennial, Farewell to Post-Colonialism’', presented at nvited Speaker, Modernity’s Cultural Politics: China in Context at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London
    Conference Presentations | 2008
    2008, '‘(W)Est – [by] Non-(W)Est: A Series of (Dislocated) Critical Reflections on the Staging of the Third Guangzhou Triennial, “Farewell to Post-Colonialism: Towards a Post-West Society?"'', presented at Keynote Speaker, Farewell to Post-Colonialism: Towards a Post-West Society?: 7th Station of Forums in Motion of the 3rd Guangzhou Triennial at the Guandong Museum of Art, Guangzhou China
    Conference Presentations | 2008
    2008, '‘Bloody Animals! – Violence against Animals in Contemporary Chinese Art and the Persistence of Chinese Sacrificial Culture’', presented at Invited Speaker, the Department of History of Art and Architecture; the University of Pittsburgh
    Conference Presentations | 2008
    2008, '‘Chan-Da-da(o)-De-construction or, The Cultural (il)Logic of Contemporary Chinese “Avant-Garde” Art’', presented at Keynote Speaker, Under Construction: Strategies-Models-Links at the Zendai Museum of Art, Shanghai China
    Conference Presentations | 2008
    2008, '‘China’s Cultural Diaspora and the Uncertain Boundaries of Contemporary Chinese Art’', presented at Diasporas: Cultural Transfer, University of Hong Kong
    Conference Presentations | 2008
    2008, '‘Contemporary Chinese Visual/Urban Culture as a Site of Complex Cultural Translation’', presented at Keynote Speaker, Urban Culture and Visual Production at the China Academy of Art Hangzhou, China
    Conference Presentations | 2008
    2008, '‘“Elusive and Vague as It Is”: The Aesthetic Hybridity of Yang Fudong’s No Snow on the Broken Bridge’', presented at Transnational Cinema in Globalising Societies: Asia and Latin America, Universidad Iberoamericana, Puebla, Mexico
    Conference Presentations | 2007
    2007, '‘Bloody Animals! - Justifiable Criticism of Transgressive Western Art by the Chinese ‘Avant-Garde’’', presented at Crossing Cultural Boundaries, Institute of Comparative Cultural Studies, the University of Nottingham Ningbo, China
    Conference Presentations | 2007
    2007, '‘Overcoming the Anxiety of Displacement Song Tao and B6’s Video Installation Yard’', presented at Invited Lecture, The Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, China
    Conference Presentations | 2007
    2007, '‘Representing the ‘Monster City’: the Unbearable Blandness of Song Tao and B6’s Yard’', presented at The Association of Art Historians 33rd Annual Conference, University of Belfast
    Conference Presentations | 2007
    2007, '‘Yang Fudong and the Use(lessnes)s of Contemporary Chinese Art’', presented at The Institute of Comparative Cultural Studies, the University of Nottingham Ningbo, China; Research Seminar Series 2007-08, University of Nottingham Ningbo, China
    Conference Presentations | 2006
    2006, '‘(Un)holy Communion: Eucharistic Performativity as (An)Aesthetic Strategy in the Work of Masaccio and Duchamp’', presented at Invited Lecture, The Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, China
    Conference Presentations | 2006
    2006, '‘(Un)holy Communion: Eucharistic Performativity as (An)Aesthetic Strategy in the work of Masaccio and Duchamp’', presented at Invited Lecture, Ningbo Museum of Art Ningbo, China
    Conference Presentations | 2006
    2006, '‘‘Three Days Ago’: Artistic Representation of the City as a Site of Population Dispersal in Contemporary China’', presented at Diasporas Workshop, Jointly held by University of Queensland, Australia/Institute of Comparative Cultural Studies, University of Nottingham:, University of Queensland, Australia
    Conference Presentations | 2005
    2005, '‘(Un)holy Communion: Eucharistic Performativity as (An)Aesthetic Strategy in the work of Masaccio and Duchamp’', presented at Invited Lecture, MA in Fine Art, The Birmingham Institute of Art and Design
    Conference Presentations | 2005
    2005, '‘Hiding in Plain Sight: The Photography of Erasmus Schroeter’', presented at Invited Speaker, Rugby Museum and Art Gallery

  • 2019 - 'Inside and Outside the Yellow Box: Rethinking Displays of Asian Art', Asia Institute and School of Creative Arts, University of Tasmania27 May 2019 - with Lynne Howarth-Gladston. Made possible by UTAS Asia Institute Award, $2,000.
  • 2018-ongoing - Judith Neilson Chair Professor of Contemporary Art endowment (AU$6,000,000)
  • 2017 – Sichuan China Fine Arts Institute Award, 2018 (£30,000) to support international conference, ‘Seeing the Unseen: Trans-cultural Perspectives on Contemporary Art in/from Asia’ Sichuan China Fine Arts Institute, People’s Republic of China. Conference Organisers: Professor Paul Gladston, University of Nottingham and Professor Lü Peng, Sichuan China Fine Arts Institute.
  • 2015 Co-I successful bid to Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation (US$25,000) to support staging of the international symposium ‘Wordimage: visual-verbal interstices in contemporary Chinese Art’, Seattle, October 2016.
  • 2014 – Funding from ShanghArt Gallery, Shanghai (£25,000) to support the publication of Paul Gladston, Yu Youhan (Shanghai: 3030 Press and ShanghArt Gallery, 2015); 300 full-colour illustrations. 
  • May 2014 - Named investigator AHRC Network Project, ‘Culture, Capital and Communication: Visualising Chinese Borders in the twenty first century’. Principal Investigator Dr Rebecca Kennedy, Manchester Metropolitan University, School of History of Art and Design, Co-Investigator Dr Ming Turner, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan (AHRC contribution £26,500). Paul Gladston is cited on the successful bid as a ‘key international academic in the areas of contemporary Chinese art and border Studies’.
  • May 2014 - ‘Contemporary Art, Curating and Social Engagement in Twenty-first Century China’– PI on research project involving Guggenheim NYC, Tate, City University HK, CAFA Hangzhou, Rockbund Art Museum (RAM) Symposium and bid preparation workshop November 2014 (first meeting November 2013). Supported by CAS award (£4,700), CEACS (£500) and RAM (£20,000).
  • November 2013 - British Council award (£1,000) to support Research Workshop: ‘The Social Function of Contemporary Art in the PRC’, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai.
  • 2012 – Successful application to British Council, Shanghai to fund attendance at the first ‘Sino-UK Higher Education Symposium on Creative Media Industry, 2012’– Guangzhou and Nanjing, 2012, flights and accommodation. Also supported by successful application to University of Nottingham Inter-campus Mobility Fund (£8,000).
  • 2013 - Paul Gladston, ‘Avant-garde Art Groups in China, 1979-1989 (Bristol: Intellect and Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013); 30 full-colour reproductions. Colour reproduction costs supported by ShanghArt Gallery, Shanghai (£2,000).
  •  October 2009 – The University of Nottingham Ningbo, China Conference Travel Grant: Invited Speaker, Modernity’s Cultural Politics: China in Context at the Courtauld Institute of Art: ‘Curatorial Discourse and the Limits of Speech: Critical Reflections on the Third Guangzhou Triennial, Farewell to Post-Colonialism’.
  •  July 2009 – The University of Nottingham Ningbo, China ‘Light Semester’ Scheme. Completion of the manuscript for Paul Gladston, ‘Avant-garde Art Groups in China, 1979-1989 (Bristol: Intellect and Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013)
  •  June 2009 – The University of Nottingham Ningbo, China Conference Travel Grant; Panel Member, Inter-Asia cultural Typhoon at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies ‘Translating Regions: Aesthetic Movements, Labour Regimes, Cultural Geographies’.
  •  September 2008 – The University of Nottingham Ningbo, China Inter-Campus Research Award, in support of the conference ‘Digital Hollywood-Digital China’ held jointly by The Institute of Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Nottingham Ningbo, China and The Institute for Film and Television Studies at the University of Nottingham in March 2009, (£11,000).
  •  June 2007 - The University of Nottingham, New Researchers Award, ‘Chinese Avant-Garde Art Groups and Associations of the late 1970s and 1980s’ (£7,500).
  •  April 2006 - The University of Nottingham Ningbo, China Small Research Grant, ‘A Case Study of Chi She or the ’85 New Space Group of Chinese Artists’.
  •  December 2006 – The University of Nottingham Ningbo, China Conference Travel Grant; The Association of Art Historians Annual Conference April 2007: “Representing the ‘Monster City’: The Unbearable Blandness of Song Tao and B6’s Yard”.

 

  • 2022 - Distinguished Affiliate of the UK-China Humanities Alliance, Tsinghua University
  • 2018 - Nominated for University of Nottingham Staff Oscar, ‘Teaching: makes best use of technology to enhance learning’ category.
  • 2017 - Winner ‘International Strategy of the Year’ category Times Higher Education Leadership and Management Awards (THELMA). UoN was nominated for the THELMA on the strength of its Creative Hub, which brings together science, technology and the arts to respond to changes in government policy in China and the UK, including  its museums CPD in China.  
  • 2014-16 - Paul Gladston, Joint Academic Chair, University of Nottingham China Cultural Visiting Hub (CCVH) development group. Successful development of curatorial training programme for museums and galleries in China in collaboration with the Victoria and Albert Museum.
  • 2017 - UNNC/UNUK International Creative Economy Leadership Academy (ICELA) screen industry and museum masterclasses shortlisted for the Guardian University Awards under the ‘Best International Project’ category. 
  • 2016 - Nominated for University of Nottingham Knowledge Exchange Award. 
  • 2015 – Winner ‘Publication of the Year’, 9th Art Awards China 2015 for monograph Contemporary Chinese Art: A Critical History (Reaktion, 2014)
  • 2013 - Nominated for University of Nottingham Staff Oscar, ‘Teaching: most inspirational teacher’ category.
  • 2012 – Freeman of Berwick-upon-Tweed
  • 1986 – Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Award for Drawing
  • 1985 - Eileen Stoekel-Batell Scholar, Yale University USA
  • 1985 – Andrew Grant Travelling Scholarship, Edinburgh Colege of Art

Paul Gladston is currently working on three related research projects funded by the Judith Neilson Endowment:

  1. ‘The Global Thames Arcadia’
  • Output - (PR) (FC - in press) Paul Gladston and Lynne Howarth-Gladston (2022), ‘Tasmania’s Museum of Old and New Art, Self-Deconstructed: David Walsh’s Anti-culturalist Curatorial Vision and the Durable Traces of English Romanticism’, Journal of Curatorial Studies
  • Output - (PR) (in preparation) Monograph: Paul Gladston and Lynne Howarth-Gladston, The Global Thames Arcadia
  1. ‘Contemporary Global Aesthetics’
  • Output – Bloomsbury ‘Contemporary Global Aesthetics’, three-book series, Paul Gladston general series editor (2022-2032)
  • Output - (FC - in press – invited publication) Paul Gladston (2022), ‘Image Bank’, Bloomsbury Philosophy Library – Bloomsbury Contemporary Aesthetics/History of Modern Aesthetics, London: Bloomsbury.
  • Output - (PA– invited publication) (PR) Paul Gladston and Lynne Howarth-Gladston (2022), ‘Chinese Confucian-literati Culture and Post-Enlightenment Philosophical Aesthetics,’ Bloomsbury Philosophy Library – Bloomsbury Contemporary Aesthetics/ History of Modern Aesthetics, London: Bloomsbury.

https://www.bloomsburyphilosophylibrary.com/article?docid=b-9781350930377&tocid=b-9781350930377-001

  • Dedicated Ph.D. research project/s 
  1. ‘Rethinking Displays of Chinese Contemporary Art’ 
  • International Conference, Rethinking the Curation of Chinese Contemporary Art (2021) 
  • Output - Collected conference edition proposal to Palgrave Macmillan (March 2022) – under review
  • International conference and related publication developed as the basis for a research exhibition and conference project with the Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Beijing (2023-2025) - involving the participation of Ph.D. students from UNSW and CAFA
  • Dedicated Ph.D. research project/s
  • With CAFA, translate and publish a series of Chinese language books on western contemporary art criticism and theory.

Lead author of the REF Impact Case 2013 (UK), ‘Adding Complexity to the Curatorial Presentation of Contemporary Chinese Art’.

‘Dr Paul Gladston's (Associate Professor of Critical Theory and Visual Culture, Nottingham, 2005-present) research has served to problematize and add complexity to the public understanding of the relationship between contemporary Chinese art and the wider conditions of its making and showing both within and outside the Peoples' Republic of China (PRC). The Chief Curator of the Hayward Gallery exhibition Art of Change: New Directions from China (2012) drew on Gladston's expertise in the exhibition's presentation. The exhibition attracted over 22,000 visitors, with international media coverage leading to wider critical engagement in broadcast and social media. A challenging review of the exhibition in The Guardian by the high-profile artist Ai Weiwei, followed by Gladston's response, stimulated broader public debate around contemporary Chinese art.’

My Research Supervision

 

  • 2021-continuing - Jianxiong Jing – A Multi-modal Analysis of the Interrelated Technical, Sociopolitical and Artistic/aesthetic Cultural Significances of Ancient Chinese Maps and their Relevance to Contemporary “Post-West” Cartography. Co-supervised with Dr. Marnie Feneley, ADA Humanities and Dr. Ian McArthur, ADA Art and Design. Recipient of a UNSW international scholarship.
  • 8 Ph.D applications in development

My Teaching

Author and co-convenor of the UNSW UG programme:

  • ‘Contemporary East Asian Art: Theories and Practices’ DART231

Lead author of the BA International Communications and MA International Communications, and of the Ph.D. programme in Critical Theory/Cultural Studies at the University of Nottingham Ningbo, China (UNNC). In 2007 the BA International Communications achieved Special degree status in Zhejiang province – the first programme to do so at UNNC.