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Dr Sarah Ng 吳秀華

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Curator (Chinese Visual Culture)

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Dr Sarah Ng 吳秀華

Title:
Curator (Chinese Visual Culture)

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Sarah Ng

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Dr. Sarah Ng is an historian of visual arts and material culture specializing in late imperial Chinese painting, calligraphy and ink rubbings. She rejoins the Hong Kong University Museum & Art Gallery (UMAG) as a curator for both historical and contemporary arts of China. The relationship and reinterpretation of the Chinese tradition in contemporary art practice is her primary area of scholarly interest. Her work also addresses collecting, connoisseurship, canon formation, workshop practices, art conservation, museum studies and bookplates. She lectures on these subjects and other areas of expertise internationally. 

Professional Qualifications
YearAwarding InstitutionQualification
The Hong Kong University of Science and TechnologyBBA in Management of Organizations and minor in Humanities
The Chinese University of Hong KongMPhil in the History of Chinese Arts (paintings)
University College LondonMA in the Principles of Conservation
The University of OxfordPhD in History of Art (Chinese Art)
Biography

Dr. Sarah Ng is an historian of visual arts and material culture specializing in late imperial Chinese painting, calligraphy and ink rubbings. She rejoins the Hong Kong University Museum & Art Gallery (UMAG) as a curator for both historical and contemporary arts of China. The relationship and reinterpretation of the Chinese tradition in contemporary art practice is her primary area of scholarly interest. Her work also addresses collecting, connoisseurship, canon formation, workshop practices, art conservation,  museum studies and bookplates. She lectures on these subjects and other areas of expertise internationally. 

Dr. Ng received her DPhil in Art History from the University of Oxford supported by the Bei Shan Tang Foundation and KS Scholarship Oxford. She was a Chevening scholar and has a Master’s Degree in art conservation from University College London and an MPhil in Art History at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She was a research assistant professor at the Academy of Visual Arts of the Hong Kong Baptist University between 2016 and 2020, and worked at UMAG between 2013 and 2016.

吳秀華博士於博物館及大學工作多年,現任香港大學美術博物館館長(中國書畫及視覺藝術)。她是藝術史學家, 研究帝制中國晚期的繪畫、書法、拓印和藏書票,而目前的研究項目更涵蓋社會歷史、博物館學和藝術保育。她曾擔任香港浸會大學視覺藝術院研究助理教授,除研究古代中國視覺文化和近當代中國藝術收藏外,一直活躍於策劃藝術展覽。她分別在牛津大學、倫敦大學學院和香港中文大學考獲藝術史哲學博士、藝術保育碩士和中國藝術史研究碩士等,更曾獲頒發英國政府頒發的「志奮領」奬學金、牛津大學獎學金和北山堂基金獎學金等。她曾在中央研究院歷史語言研究所、中央研究院近代史研究所、台灣漢學研究中心和普林斯頓大學做訪問學人並進行研究和發表演講。

 

 
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