Ellen Larson is Associate Director of the Center for the Art of East Asia at the University of Chicago, specializing in modern and contemporary art from Asia and Asian diasporic art. Larson’s current book project is focused on Chinese video art and exhibition practices from the late 1980s through the first decade of the twenty-first century. Larson holds a PhD in contemporary Chinese art from the University of Pittsburgh, as well as master’s degrees in global contemporary art history and modern Chinese history from the University of Pittsburgh and Minzu University of China, Beijing, respectively.