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Yechen Zhao

Yechen Zhao is assistant curator, Photography and Media, at the Art Institute of Chicago and a former undergraduate intern in the department from 2012 to 2013. He received his PhD in Art History from Stanford University in 2022. His writing has appeared in History of Photography and Aperture magazine.

“Share Everything”: Music with Pixy and Moro

Artist Pixy Liao and her partner, musician and fellow artist Moro, share a playlist containing some of their favorite music, songs that form the soundtrack to their home.

Yechen Zhao
Creative Chicago

Curators Yechen Zhao and Stephanie Strother discuss our city’s dynamic artistic atmosphere as revealed in two very different current exhibitions.

Yechen Zhao and Stephanie Strother
Celebrating Lunar New Year: The Year of the Dragon

Six Asian and Asian American staff members find connections between objects in the collection and their memories of Lunar New Year celebrations.

Nancy Chen, Craig Lee, Arianne Nguyen, Alice Yasi Xie, Yilin Yang, Sizhao Yi, and Yechen Zhao
In the Room with David Goldblatt

One family’s morning in bed offers a window into South African life under apartheid—and a photographer’s efforts to reckon with its legacies.

Leslie Wilson and Yechen Zhao

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