Meiqin Wang

Meiqin Wang received a doctorate degree in Art History from the State University of New York at Binghamton and currently is a professor of Art Department at California State University Northridge teaching Asian art history courses. She researches contemporary art from China in the context of commercialization, globalization, and urbanization of the Chinese world and has written on topics such as artist villages and cultural industries, art and urbanization, and socially engaged art. Her major...See more

Meiqin Wang received a doctorate degree in Art History from the State University of New York at Binghamton and currently is a professor of Art Department at California State University Northridge teaching Asian art history courses. She researches contemporary art from China in the context of commercialization, globalization, and urbanization of the Chinese world and has written on topics such as artist villages and cultural industries, art and urbanization, and socially engaged art. Her major publications include two research monographs 'Urbanization and Contemporary Chinese Art' (2015) and 'Socially Engaged Art in Contemporary China: Voices from Below' (2019), as well as a co-edited volume entitled 'Visual Arts, Representations and Interventions in Contemporary China' (2018). See less