Gao Minglu
| Gao Minglu | |
|---|---|
| Native name | 高名潞 |
| Residence | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
| Nationality | Chinese |
| Education | PhD, Harvard University |
| Known for | The founder of the Chinese avant-garde movement and genre |
Gao Minglu (born 29 October 1949) is a leading scholar in Chinese contemporary art. He holds professorship in the History of Art and Architecture department at the University of Pittsburgh.
Gao was the Chair of the Department of Art History and Professor for Distinguished Service at Sichuan Fine Art Institute, China. He has been able to communicate the importance, relevance, influence and nature of Chinese art to the eastern and western worlds. His efforts in advancing Chinese avant-garde visual arts in his most recent exhibition has been described: "Gao Minglu...discovered and defined a new genre in China, ... [and] he persevered through a years-long struggle with Chinese bureaucracy to get permission for the show".
In 1985, Gao graduated from the China National Academy of Art. In the same year he worked as an editor of one of China’s art magazines. Minglu has been described as a scholar, curator and art critic and founder of the Chinese avant-garde movement. During the cultural revolution "Up to the Mountains and Down to the Countryside Movement" he traveled to Inner Mongolia and worked as a herdsman for five years. After the Cultural Revolution, he attended the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts to study art history. In 1982 he attended the Graduate School of Chinese Art Research Institute where he received his Master's Degree. From 1984–1989 he was the editor of "Art" magazine. While there, he regularly wrote about Chinese Art news. He was forced to study Marxism–Leninism in China from 1989–1991.
He planned a Chinese avant-garde art exhibition entitled "Inside Out: New Chinese from 1995 to 1998. During the same time He was showing his work in the "Global Concept Art Exhibition from 1950s to 1980s". He also participated in the exhibition of the "Global Concept Art Exhibition from 1950s to 1980s", In 1999 he showed his work in the "Five Continents and a City" exhibition in Mexico in and was one of the curators from China. During this same time, Minglu wrote an English monograph describing the exhibitions. He wrote other papers on Chinese art.
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