Wenjui (Terry) Huang

Education Background:Ph.D. in History of Art, Harvard University

Research Interests:Art Theory and Criticism, Semiotics of Visual Languages, Consumption Behavior in Art Market and Culture Studies, Art Index and Investment in Art

Primary Email:terryhuang@fudan.edu.cn

Overview

 

Professor Wenjui (Terry) Huang is a Professor of Finance (Practice Track) at International School of Finance, Fudan University, and a Chair Professor at Yale University.

Professor  Huang concurrently serves as the Executive Director and Senior Partner at Motif Art Group in the United States. He holds a Ph.D. in Art History from Harvard University and has previously taught at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, New York University, Yale University, and as a Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. His teaching repertoire includes courses on Semiotics of Visual Languages, Theory and Criticism of Modern Art, Art Market and Cultural Studies, and Independent Studies on European and American Modern and Contemporary Artists. He has also held positions as a Research Fellow and Curator at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, a Panel Advisor for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), a fund manager at JP Morgan, and Vice President and Chief Executive Officer for the Asia-Pacific region at Motif Art Group.

Professor Huang has authored numerous publications in both Chinese and English, including “Chasing Pollock,” “Rebellion and Succession: Art Theories and Criticism in the Modernist Era,” “An Art Odyssey in the Modernist Era,” “Art Market and Investment Decoded,” “Maze of the Walls: Critical Issues in Public Art,” “Nudity, Identity and Parody: Response to Marcel Duchamp in the Éntant Donnés Era,” “Philip Guston: Night Studio and His Art in Woodstock,” His research papers have been published in Art Journal, Art Forum, Art in America, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, and various major museum journals.

He currently also serves as an art advisor for major private, corporate, and foundation collections, as well as for European and Middle Eastern royalty.

 

(Updated by July 2024)