Susan Zheng

Susan Zheng is a first-year MODA student in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University. Her research is centered on global contemporary art and its intersection with and intervention by transnational feminist theories. More broadly, she is also interested in modern and contemporary art’s engagement with critical translation and affect theories. Susan graduated cum laude from Barnard College with departmental honors in Art History, and was the recipient of the Josephine Paddock Fellowship. Her undergraduate thesis, “Female Nude, Feminist Worlding: Rethinking Chinese Women’s Art (1990-2010),” investigates the nude as a site wherein Chinese women artists locate their encounter with feminism(s) in a local-global conversation. Previously, she has held internships at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Sotheby’s New York, Gurr Johns, and Chambers Fine Art.