Paul Gladston

Paul Gladston is the inaugural Judith Neilson Chair Professor of Contemporary Art at the University of New South Wales, Sydney.[1]

Research

Gladston's award-winning research and writing on Sinospheric contemporary art has been widely recognized for its development of trans-cultural narratives informed by contemporary critical theory (for comments see the section on publications below). There has been published criticism of his work for its (supposedly culturally inappropriate) use of deconstructivist methodologies and unrelenting problematization of nationalist essentialist interpretations of Chinese and European/American cultural identity, including in a published exchange of articles with the Chinese art historian and curator Gao Minglu in the journal Yishu.[2][3][4]

Gladston's research, writing and curatorship over the last two decades has sought to counter such criticism by situating deconstructivist theory/practice and localized Chinese discourses in mutually transformative critical polylogues.[5]

His most recent writing places Chinese contemporary art and visual culture in relation to historical relays of transculturality between Chinese and other cultures and the continuation of such relays under the multi-polar conditionalities of present-day post-Cold War contemporaneity.[6] His work has been translated into Chinese[7] and Russian.[8]

Career

2023–present — Member of the Board of Trustees of the journal Third Text[9]

Exhibitions

  • 2024 – Curatorial Co-ordinator of the exhibition 'Yique's Way', Ugly Duck, London UK[10]
  • 2024 – Co-curator of the exhibition 'Rain on the Platform: Tan Lijie - Selected Works', the National Chen-kung University Gallery, Taiwan[11]
  • 2023– Co-curator of the exhibition 'Enchanted Realities: Tan Lijie - Selected Works, 2013-2020', Salamanca Arts Centre and Derwent Arts, Hobart Australia[12]
  • 2021 – Co-curator of the exhibition 'Dis-/Continuing Traditions: Contemporary Video Art from China', Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart Australia[13]
  • 2015 - Co-curator of the exhibition 'New China/ New Art: Contemporary Video from Shanghai and Hangzhou', Djanogly Gallery University of Nottingham UK[14]
  • 2012 - Advisor to the internationally acclaimed exhibition 'Art of Change: New Directions from China', Hayward Gallery-South Bank Centre, London UK[15]

References

  1. ^ "Professor Paul Gladston". UNSW Sites. Retrieved 2024-12-18.
  2. ^ See Paul Gladston (2007), '(More Writing on) The Wall: Reshaping (Gao Minglu's Vision of) Contemporary Chinese Art', Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art 6(3) (September 2007), 103–110 (https://yishu-online.com/wp-content/uploads/mm-products/uploads/2007_v06_03_gladston_p_p103.pdf)
  3. ^ "Who is Pounding The Wall? A Response to Paul Gladston's "Writing on the Wall and (Entry Gate): A Critical Response to Recent Curatorial Meditations on the 'Chineseness' of Contemporary Chinese Art" | Yishu Online". Retrieved 2025-06-10.
  4. ^ "Writing on The Wall (and Entry Gate): A Critical Response to Recent Curatorial Meditations on the "Chineseness" of Contemporary Chinese Visual Art | Yishu Online". Retrieved 2025-06-10.
  5. ^ Gladston, Paul. "Somewhere (and Nowhere) between Modernity and Tradition: Towards a Critique of International and Indigenous Perspectives on the Significance of Contemporary Chinese Art – Tate Papers". Tate. Retrieved 2025-06-10.
  6. ^ "New book: Rethinking Displays of Chinese Contemporary Art". UNSW Sites. Retrieved 2025-06-10.
  7. ^ Lu, Carol Yinghua, ed. (2025). Artistic and Intellectual Practices in Contemporary China. doi:10.1007/978-981-99-8815-0. ISBN 978-981-99-8814-3.
  8. ^ Paul Gladston (2023), Художественные группы "Авангард" в Китае - 1979-1989 ['Avant-garde' Art Groups in China, 1979–1989], Boston MA: Academic Studies Press. [Contemporary Eastern Studies in the Russian Language] - Revised Russian language translation of Paul Gladston (2013), Avant-garde Art Groups in China, 1979–1989, Bristol: Intellect and Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  9. ^ "Professor Paul Gladston Joins Third Text Board of Trustees". UNSW Sites. 2024-02-15.
  10. ^ "Yique's Way — Mutuality in Extremes".
  11. ^ "Rain on the Platform - Tan Lijie, Selected Works".
  12. ^ "Enchanted Realities – Tan Lijie Selected Works 2013-2022".
  13. ^ "Dis-/Continuing Traditions".
  14. ^ "New China/New Art".
  15. ^ "Art of Change: New Directions from China – in pictures". the Guardian. 7 September 2012.
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