Ink Society at Ink Asia 2023: Summoning Memories: Ink Art Beyond Chinese Traditions
Dr. Susan L. Beningson, Independent curator
Susan Beningson gave an overview of how established and emerging artists of Chinese descent reinterpret artistic practices, materials and cultural traditions in dynamic and innovative ways. As the former curator at the Brooklyn Museum, she spoke on the artworks that she acquired for the Museum's permanent collection of Asian Art. Susan also spoke about the inspiration behind her recently curated group exhibition Summoning Memories: Ink Art Beyond Chinese Traditions held at the Asia Society Texas, which featured experimental ink painting and calligraphy.
Dr. Susan L. Beningson is an independent curator and professor of Asian Art history at New York University. Her forthcoming exhibition, the retrospective Xu Bing: Word Alchemy, will open at Asia Society Texas (AST) in February 2024. Recent exhibitions include Summoning Memories: Art Beyond Chinese Traditions (AST, 2023) on contemporary ink painting by artists of Chinese descent; We the People: Xu Bing and Sun Xun Respond to the Declaration of Independence (Asia Society Triennial NY, 2021); and One: Xu Bing (2019-2020) and Infinite Blue (2016-2019) at the Brooklyn Museum. From 2013 through 2019 she was a curator of Asian Art at the Brooklyn Museum and reinstalled the permanent Arts of China galleries and co-curated the Arts of Korea galleries. Dr. Beningson was also responsible for the acquisition of more than fifty contemporary works of art for the Brooklyn Museum’s permanent Asian Art collection. She formerly worked at Princeton University Art Museum. Dr. Beningson received her PhD in Chinese art and archaeology from Columbia University focusing on Buddhist cave-temples at Dunhuang and the ancient Silk Roads.
