Professor
Wenrui Huang, Professor of Finance (Practice-Track) at International School of
Finance in Fudan University.
Professor
Wenjui Huang used to be the board and senior partner for Motif Art Group in
New York and the faculty at the Graduate Center of City University
of New York, New York University, Yale University. And he held a forum of
Semiotics of Visual Languages in Contemporary Art at University of Oxford. His
research interests also cover the topics of Art Theory and Criticism in Modern
Art, Consumption Behavior in Art Market and Culture Studies, Art Index and
Investment in Art. He was also a former research curator at Museum of Modern
Art in New York, a panel advisor for National Endowment for the Arts (USA), a
fund manager at JP Morgan, and previously Vice President and CEO of Motif Art
Group. His books include 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, and many of his articles
have been published by Art Journal, Art Forum, Art in
America, Journal of
Aesthetics and Art Criticism as well as a variety of museum journals worldwide.
Currently he also serves as an
art advisor to private, corporate, foundation, and European and Middle-East
royal art collections.
(Updated by March 2024)