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Yechen Zhao

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Bio

Yechen Zhao (he/him) is the assistant curator of Photography and Media at the Art Institute of Chicago. He specializes in twentieth-century American photography and East Asian photography during the Cold War and its aftermath. He has served as a visiting critic for the Yale School of Art, and his writing has appeared in History of Photography and Aperture. He received his PhD in art history from Stanford University, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Yale University Art Gallery.

Courses

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Description

Taken every semester, the Graduate Projects courses allow students to focus in private sessions on the development of their work. Students register for 6 hours of Graduate Project credit in each semester of study.

Class Number

2369

Credits

3 - 6