Permanent
Professor/Chair
Office： Liberal Arts Building #2 A-327
Tel： (03)4227151 ext 33655
E-mail：sctseng@ncu.edu.tw
Specializes in modern and contemporary art. Primary areas of study include representations of the body and sporting modernity; construction of cultural memory through artistic practices; discourses and aesthetic politics of photography; repurposing and creative reuse of old and discarded objects.
Field of Specialty
modern art and visual culture,contemporary art,photographic discourse and history
Education
1998
PhD. Art History, University of Iowa
1993
M.A. Art History, University of Iowa
1990
B.A. Foreign Languages and Literature, National Taiwan University
Experience
2024-2026
Co-Convenor, Journal of Taipei Fine Arts Museum
2024-2025
NCU Outstanding Research Award
2022-2023
Nominator and jury member for Taishin Arts Award
2020, 2022
NCU Excellent Teaching Award
2016-2018
co-convenor in arts, Department of the humanities and social science, Ministry of Science and Technology
2013
NCU Outstanding Research Award
2013, 2017
Visiting Scholar, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica
2012
CAA-Getty International Program Grant Recipient
2012-
Professor, Graduate Institute of Art Studies, National Central University
2009-2011
Director, National Central University Art Center
2004-2012
Associate Professor, Graduate Institute of Art Studies, National Central University
2003-2004
Assistant Professor, Graduate Institute of Art Studies, National Central University
1999-2003
Assistant Professor, General Education, Tamkang University
1998-1999
Assistant Curator, National History Museum
Publications
2025
"A Glimmer of Hope: Photographing the Taiwanese Wilderness and Eco-Cultural Land in the 1980." Wayfaring: Photography in Taiwan, 1950s-1980s. Edited by Chen Shuxia & Olivier Krischer, pp. 172-196. Canberra: Australian Centre on China in the World, Australian National University, 2025.
2025
"Joy of Life: The Challenge of Modern Painting." The National Palace Museum Monthly of Chinese Art, vol. 508 (July 2025): 68-75.
2023
"Crystalized Time in the Changing World." Andante: Photography of Kuo-Lung Liang 2018-2021. Taoyuan: Hakka Public Communication Foundation, pp. 104-107.
2023
"Reading the Family of Light and Shadow." Simile-Metaphor: Chasing Light, Shadows, and Alternative Meanings. Taichung: National Art Museum, 2023, pp. 46-52.
2023
"In Praise of Craftsmen and Tools: Liu Po-Chun's Sculptural Archaeology." Archaeology and Contemporary Iron Art: Liu Po-Chun's Solo Exhibition 2022. New Taipei City: Liu Po-Chun Studio, 2023, pp. 56-66.
2023
"Changing Perspectives on Photography: Henri Cartier-Bresson in Taiwan." Horizontal Art History: Art HIstoriography in Taiwan. Taichung: National Art Museum, pp. 386-419.
2023
"From Landscape to Place: Fūdo and Dwelling in Taiwanese Photography in the 1970s." Journal of Art Studies, no. 33 (December 2023): 65-118.
2022
"The Photographic Story-Telling of Yeh Wei-Li: On the Action and Art of Cultural Memory." Constellations: Yeh Shih-Chiang / Yeh Wei-Li, pp. 167-176. New York: Rizzoli, 2023.
2022
Picturing the Modern Body: Sports Culture in Nineteenth-Century Western Art. Taipei: National Taiwan University Press, 2022.
2021
"Whipped Cream and Molotov Cocktails: Lin Yi-Chi's Universe of Images," Between Screenings, Taipei: dmp editions, 2021.
2021
"How To Read Taiwanese Landscape Photography." In the Present Tense: Documenting Taiwanese Art History, pp. 141-164. Taipei: Showwe.
2021
"The Intimate Avant-Garde: Shiota Chiharu's Affective Space." Modern Art Quarterly, n. 202 (Oct 2021), Taipei Fine Arts Museum, pp. 6-15.
2020
"Un plasir dur and uncertain moments," Introduction, Pierre Assouline, Henri Cartier-Bresson: L'oeil du siecle, Taipei: Acropolis, 2020, pp.7-14.
2020
"Dispersing the Pure Gaze: Ben-Kuan Yu's Social Landscape Photography," Photographers of Taiwan: Ben-Kuan Yu, Taichung: National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, 2020, pp.12-20.
2019
"Delacroix, Signac, and the Aesthetic Revolution in Fin-de-Siecle France." Romantic Legacies: Transnational and Transdisciplinary Contexts, ed. Shun-liang Chao and John Michael Corrigan.
2019
"Expanded Field of Modern Aesthetics." Modern Art, no. 194 (September 2019), Taipei: Taipei Fine Arts Museum, pp. 53-66.
2018
"Relaying Images and Transmitting Desires," Art Accrediting, no. 81, pp. 12-19.
2017
"Sport and Embodiment: Degas's Racecourse Scenes," in Perspectives on Degas, ed. Kathryn Brown. New York: Routledge, 2017, chapter 2.
2015
"Material Consciousness in Paul Signac's Neo-Impressionism." Nineteenth-Century Studies Association Annual Conference. Boston, March 2015.
2014
"Reenchanting the Modern World: Henri Rousseau's Performative Exoticism." College Art Association Annual Conference, Chicago, February 2014.
2014
"Nadar's Photography of Subterranean Paris: Mapping the Urban Body," History of Photography, vol. 38, no. 3 (August 2014), 233-254.
2013
"Odilon Redon's Nature Imagery and Spiritual Evolution," in Reproduction, Representation, and Communication: Modern Print Culture, ed. Kui-Ying Huang, Taipei, Socio Publishing.
2012
"Honore Daumier's 'Histoire ancienne': Cultural Memory and Social Type," Contesting the Meanings of Modern Portraiture, ed. Jui-Chi Liu, Taipei, Yuan-Liu Publisher.
2011
“Beyond Millet: Thoughts on Western Art Mega-Exhibitions in Taiwan.” Artitude (January 2011): 44-46.
2011
“Natural History and Social Caricature in Grandville’s Un Autre Monde.” Taida Journal of Art History 33 (March 2011): 217-278.
2011
“Odilon Redon’s Nature Imagery and Spiritual Evolution.” NCU Journal of Art Studies 8 (May 2011): 1-70.
2011
"Positivism, Memory, and Allegory: Courbet's Landscape Paintings," The Journal of Art Theory and Practice, volume 12 (December 2011), 91-122.
2010
”Reading the Western Canon of Modern Art.” In From Manet to Picasso: Masterworks from the Philadelphia Museum of Art, 26-34. Exhibition catalogue. Taipei: Taipei Fine Arts Museum, 2010.
2008
“The Spatial Story and Aesthetic Use: The Teahouse + Photography Project.” Modern Art Studies no. 15 (May 2008):11-38.
2008
“Contested Terrain: Gustave Courbet’s Hunting Scenes,” The Art Bulletin, volume 90, no. 2 (June 2008), 218-234.
2008
“Millet’s Farmer Persona and Naturalist Aesthetic.” Bulletin of the National History Museum 181 (August 2008): 25-37.
2006
“Martha Rosler’s Video Essay on Fashion.” In Art and Identity, 217-251. Taipei: SMC Publishing Inc., 2006.
2006
“Victor Burgin’s Urban Photo-Text: Flanerie and the Genius of Place.” Router: A Journal of Culture Studies (March 2006): 35-80.
2004
"Scenes of Pain: Barbara Kruger’s Depiction of the Social Body.” In Changing Bodies: Images and Concepts of the Body in Western Art, 209-238. Taipei: SMC Publishing Inc., 2004.
2003
“I Shop, Therefore I Am: Barbara Kruger and Consumer Culture.” Humanitas Taiwanica 58 (May 2003): 251-295.
2002
“The Confluence of Art and Sociology: Hans Haacke and Pierre Bourdieu’s Free Exchange.” EurAmerica 32. 1 (March 2002): 45-105.
2002
“Hans Haacke’s Artistic Enquiry into Cultural Politics.” Taida Journal of Art History 12 (March 2002): 213-284.
1999
“Utopianism in Modern Art: Between Realities and Ideals.” Visual Arts Journal 2 (May 1995): 23-46.
1999
“The Bohemian Artists: The Cultural Phenomenon during the Romantic Period.” Journal of National History Museum 12 (March 1999): 197-213.
1999
“From Challenge to Dialogue: Contemporary Western Art and Museums.” In World Culture Centenary 1901-2000, 251-288. Taipei: National History Museum, 1999.
1998
“Daumier’s Salon Caricatures: Making a History of Spectatorship.” Journal of National History Museum 11 (December 1998): 95-116.
1998
"Honore Daumier's L'Imagination Series." Oculus : Journal for History of Art 1 (1998): 72-86.
"A Glimmer of Hope:Photographing the Taiwanese Wilderness and Eco-Cultural Land in the 1980." Wayfaring: Photography in Taiwan, 1950s-1980s. Edited by Chen Shuxia & Olivier Krischer, pp. 172-196. Canberra: Australian Centre on China in the World, Australian National University, 2025.
Research Projects
The research projects funded by Ministry of Science and Technology
2024-2026, The Aesthetics and Politics of Nature Photography
2021-2024, A Study in Taiwanese Landscape Photography, 1970-2020
2019-2021, Realism and Classicism: Thomas Eakins’s Representations of the Human Body
2017-2019, Embodied Imagescape of Sporting Modernity
2013-2016, Nature and Utopia in Neo-Impressionist Works of Paul Signac and Henri Edmond Cross
2011-2013, The Spectacle of Nature: A Study on Henri Rousseau's Jungle Scenes
2010-2011, Pictures and Documents of a Modern City: Nadar's Photographs of Paris
2008-2010, The Artistic Resonance and Social Meanings of Evolutionary Theory, 1860-1900
2006-2008, Nineteenth-Century Natural History and Fantastic Art: A Study in J.-J. Grandville and Odilon Redon
2005-2006, Revisiting Gustave Courbet’s Landscape Painting
2003-2004, A Study in Victor Bugin’s Visual Works and Theories
2002-2003, Bridging Representation and Experience: The Art of Martha Rosler
2001-2002, A Study in Barbara Kruger’s Usage of Images and Words
2000-2001, Hans Haacke’s Artistic Inquiry of Cultural Politics
Courses
Graduate seminars: Modern Art and Popular Culture, Contemporary Painting Aesthetics, Landscape and Space, Art History Theories and Methods, Photographic History and Discourse. Undergraduate courses: Photography and Culture, Modern Art History, Art Writing
Professor/Chair
Office： Liberal Arts Building #2 A-327
Tel： (03)4227151 ext 33655
E-mail：
sctseng@ncu.edu.tw
Specializes in modern and contemporary art. Primary areas of study include representations of the body and sporting modernity; construction of cultural memory through artistic practices; discourses and aesthetic politics of photography; repurposing and creative reuse of old and discarded objects.
Field of Specialty
modern art and visual culture,contemporary art,photographic discourse and history
Education
1998
PhD. Art History, University of Iowa
1993
M.A. Art History, University of Iowa
1990
B.A. Foreign Languages and Literature, National Taiwan University
Experience
2024-2026
Co-Convenor, Journal of Taipei Fine Arts Museum
2024-2025
NCU Outstanding Research Award
2022-2023
Nominator and jury member for Taishin Arts Award
2020, 2022
NCU Excellent Teaching Award
2016-2018
co-convenor in arts, Department of the humanities and social science, Ministry of Science and Technology
2013
NCU Outstanding Research Award
2013, 2017
Visiting Scholar, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica
2012
CAA-Getty International Program Grant Recipient
2012-
Professor, Graduate Institute of Art Studies, National Central University
2009-2011
Director, National Central University Art Center
2004-2012
Associate Professor, Graduate Institute of Art Studies, National Central University
2003-2004
Assistant Professor, Graduate Institute of Art Studies, National Central University
1999-2003
Assistant Professor, General Education, Tamkang University
1998-1999
Assistant Curator, National History Museum
Publications
2025
"A Glimmer of Hope: Photographing the Taiwanese Wilderness and Eco-Cultural Land in the 1980." Wayfaring: Photography in Taiwan, 1950s-1980s. Edited by Chen Shuxia & Olivier Krischer, pp. 172-196. Canberra: Australian Centre on China in the World, Australian National University, 2025.
2025
"Joy of Life: The Challenge of Modern Painting." The National Palace Museum Monthly of Chinese Art, vol. 508 (July 2025): 68-75.
2023
"Crystalized Time in the Changing World." Andante: Photography of Kuo-Lung Liang 2018-2021. Taoyuan: Hakka Public Communication Foundation, pp. 104-107.
2023
"Reading the Family of Light and Shadow." Simile-Metaphor: Chasing Light, Shadows, and Alternative Meanings. Taichung: National Art Museum, 2023, pp. 46-52.
2023
"In Praise of Craftsmen and Tools: Liu Po-Chun's Sculptural Archaeology." Archaeology and Contemporary Iron Art: Liu Po-Chun's Solo Exhibition 2022. New Taipei City: Liu Po-Chun Studio, 2023, pp. 56-66.
2023
"Changing Perspectives on Photography: Henri Cartier-Bresson in Taiwan." Horizontal Art History: Art HIstoriography in Taiwan. Taichung: National Art Museum, pp. 386-419.
2023
"From Landscape to Place: Fūdo and Dwelling in Taiwanese Photography in the 1970s." Journal of Art Studies, no. 33 (December 2023): 65-118.
2022
"The Photographic Story-Telling of Yeh Wei-Li: On the Action and Art of Cultural Memory." Constellations: Yeh Shih-Chiang / Yeh Wei-Li, pp. 167-176. New York: Rizzoli, 2023.
2022
Picturing the Modern Body: Sports Culture in Nineteenth-Century Western Art. Taipei: National Taiwan University Press, 2022.
2021
"Whipped Cream and Molotov Cocktails: Lin Yi-Chi's Universe of Images," Between Screenings, Taipei: dmp editions, 2021.
2021
"How To Read Taiwanese Landscape Photography." In the Present Tense: Documenting Taiwanese Art History, pp. 141-164. Taipei: Showwe.
2021
"The Intimate Avant-Garde: Shiota Chiharu's Affective Space." Modern Art Quarterly, n. 202 (Oct 2021), Taipei Fine Arts Museum, pp. 6-15.
2020
"Un plasir dur and uncertain moments," Introduction, Pierre Assouline, Henri Cartier-Bresson: L'oeil du siecle, Taipei: Acropolis, 2020, pp.7-14.
2020
"Dispersing the Pure Gaze: Ben-Kuan Yu's Social Landscape Photography," Photographers of Taiwan: Ben-Kuan Yu, Taichung: National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, 2020, pp.12-20.
2019
"Delacroix, Signac, and the Aesthetic Revolution in Fin-de-Siecle France." Romantic Legacies: Transnational and Transdisciplinary Contexts, ed. Shun-liang Chao and John Michael Corrigan.
2019
"Expanded Field of Modern Aesthetics." Modern Art, no. 194 (September 2019), Taipei: Taipei Fine Arts Museum, pp. 53-66.
2018
"Relaying Images and Transmitting Desires," Art Accrediting, no. 81, pp. 12-19.
2017
"Sport and Embodiment: Degas's Racecourse Scenes," in Perspectives on Degas, ed. Kathryn Brown. New York: Routledge, 2017, chapter 2.
2015
"Material Consciousness in Paul Signac's Neo-Impressionism." Nineteenth-Century Studies Association Annual Conference. Boston, March 2015.
2014
"Reenchanting the Modern World: Henri Rousseau's Performative Exoticism." College Art Association Annual Conference, Chicago, February 2014.
2014
"Nadar's Photography of Subterranean Paris: Mapping the Urban Body," History of Photography, vol. 38, no. 3 (August 2014), 233-254.
2013
"Odilon Redon's Nature Imagery and Spiritual Evolution," in Reproduction, Representation, and Communication: Modern Print Culture, ed. Kui-Ying Huang, Taipei, Socio Publishing.
2012
"Honore Daumier's 'Histoire ancienne': Cultural Memory and Social Type," Contesting the Meanings of Modern Portraiture, ed. Jui-Chi Liu, Taipei, Yuan-Liu Publisher.
2011
“Beyond Millet: Thoughts on Western Art Mega-Exhibitions in Taiwan.” Artitude (January 2011): 44-46.
2011
“Natural History and Social Caricature in Grandville’s Un Autre Monde.” Taida Journal of Art History 33 (March 2011): 217-278.
2011
“Odilon Redon’s Nature Imagery and Spiritual Evolution.” NCU Journal of Art Studies 8 (May 2011): 1-70.
2011
"Positivism, Memory, and Allegory: Courbet's Landscape Paintings," The Journal of Art Theory and Practice, volume 12 (December 2011), 91-122.
2010
”Reading the Western Canon of Modern Art.” In From Manet to Picasso: Masterworks from the Philadelphia Museum of Art, 26-34. Exhibition catalogue. Taipei: Taipei Fine Arts Museum, 2010.
2008
“The Spatial Story and Aesthetic Use: The Teahouse + Photography Project.” Modern Art Studies no. 15 (May 2008):11-38.
2008
“Contested Terrain: Gustave Courbet’s Hunting Scenes,” The Art Bulletin, volume 90, no. 2 (June 2008), 218-234.
2008
“Millet’s Farmer Persona and Naturalist Aesthetic.” Bulletin of the National History Museum 181 (August 2008): 25-37.
2006
“Martha Rosler’s Video Essay on Fashion.” In Art and Identity, 217-251. Taipei: SMC Publishing Inc., 2006.
2006
“Victor Burgin’s Urban Photo-Text: Flanerie and the Genius of Place.” Router: A Journal of Culture Studies (March 2006): 35-80.
2004
"Scenes of Pain: Barbara Kruger’s Depiction of the Social Body.” In Changing Bodies: Images and Concepts of the Body in Western Art, 209-238. Taipei: SMC Publishing Inc., 2004.
2003
“I Shop, Therefore I Am: Barbara Kruger and Consumer Culture.” Humanitas Taiwanica 58 (May 2003): 251-295.
2002
“The Confluence of Art and Sociology: Hans Haacke and Pierre Bourdieu’s Free Exchange.” EurAmerica 32. 1 (March 2002): 45-105.
2002
“Hans Haacke’s Artistic Enquiry into Cultural Politics.” Taida Journal of Art History 12 (March 2002): 213-284.
1999
“Utopianism in Modern Art: Between Realities and Ideals.” Visual Arts Journal 2 (May 1995): 23-46.
1999
“The Bohemian Artists: The Cultural Phenomenon during the Romantic Period.” Journal of National History Museum 12 (March 1999): 197-213.
1999
“From Challenge to Dialogue: Contemporary Western Art and Museums.” In World Culture Centenary 1901-2000, 251-288. Taipei: National History Museum, 1999.
1998
“Daumier’s Salon Caricatures: Making a History of Spectatorship.” Journal of National History Museum 11 (December 1998): 95-116.
1998
"Honore Daumier's L'Imagination Series." Oculus : Journal for History of Art 1 (1998): 72-86.
"A Glimmer of Hope:Photographing the Taiwanese Wilderness and Eco-Cultural Land in the 1980." Wayfaring: Photography in Taiwan, 1950s-1980s. Edited by Chen Shuxia & Olivier Krischer, pp. 172-196. Canberra: Australian Centre on China in the World, Australian National University, 2025.
Research Projects
The research projects funded by Ministry of Science and Technology
2024-2026, The Aesthetics and Politics of Nature Photography
2021-2024, A Study in Taiwanese Landscape Photography, 1970-2020
2019-2021, Realism and Classicism: Thomas Eakins’s Representations of the Human Body
2017-2019, Embodied Imagescape of Sporting Modernity
2013-2016, Nature and Utopia in Neo-Impressionist Works of Paul Signac and Henri Edmond Cross
2011-2013, The Spectacle of Nature: A Study on Henri Rousseau's Jungle Scenes
2010-2011, Pictures and Documents of a Modern City: Nadar's Photographs of Paris
2008-2010, The Artistic Resonance and Social Meanings of Evolutionary Theory, 1860-1900
2006-2008, Nineteenth-Century Natural History and Fantastic Art: A Study in J.-J. Grandville and Odilon Redon
2005-2006, Revisiting Gustave Courbet’s Landscape Painting
2003-2004, A Study in Victor Bugin’s Visual Works and Theories
2002-2003, Bridging Representation and Experience: The Art of Martha Rosler
2001-2002, A Study in Barbara Kruger’s Usage of Images and Words
2000-2001, Hans Haacke’s Artistic Inquiry of Cultural Politics
2024-2026, The Aesthetics and Politics of Nature Photography
2021-2024, A Study in Taiwanese Landscape Photography, 1970-2020
2019-2021, Realism and Classicism: Thomas Eakins’s Representations of the Human Body
2017-2019, Embodied Imagescape of Sporting Modernity
2013-2016, Nature and Utopia in Neo-Impressionist Works of Paul Signac and Henri Edmond Cross
2011-2013, The Spectacle of Nature: A Study on Henri Rousseau's Jungle Scenes
2010-2011, Pictures and Documents of a Modern City: Nadar's Photographs of Paris
2008-2010, The Artistic Resonance and Social Meanings of Evolutionary Theory, 1860-1900
2006-2008, Nineteenth-Century Natural History and Fantastic Art: A Study in J.-J. Grandville and Odilon Redon
2005-2006, Revisiting Gustave Courbet’s Landscape Painting
2003-2004, A Study in Victor Bugin’s Visual Works and Theories
2002-2003, Bridging Representation and Experience: The Art of Martha Rosler
2001-2002, A Study in Barbara Kruger’s Usage of Images and Words
2000-2001, Hans Haacke’s Artistic Inquiry of Cultural Politics
Courses
Graduate seminars: Modern Art and Popular Culture, Contemporary Painting Aesthetics, Landscape and Space, Art History Theories and Methods, Photographic History and Discourse. Undergraduate courses: Photography and Culture, Modern Art History, Art Writing