Sizhao Yi

Sizhao Yi is the Rhoades Foundation Curatorial Intern working in Arts of Asia this year. She is a PhD candidate in art history at the University of Chicago. Specializing in the visual and material culture of late imperial China, she is working on her dissertation, tentatively titled “Between Object and Subject: The Visual Discourse of Things in the Works of Chen Hongshou (1599–1652).”

Prior to starting her PhD, she interned at the textile conservation department in the Archaeology Institute at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and worked as a freelance journalist at Quartz. At the Art Institute of Chicago, Sizhao is co-mentored by Tao Wang, curator of Chinese art and Pritzker Chair of Arts of Asia, and Seung Hee Oh, assistant curator of Chinese art.