Huirong Ye
2024 Fall Fellow
Huirong Ye is a researcher and writer specializing in art, architecture, and
cultural studies. Her research focuses on Chinese and Sinophone visual
and media cultures; spatial formations and their interplay with labor,
production, and construction; transpacific island and ocean studies;
elemental media; and environmentalism as expressed in aesthetic forms
such as maritime photography, environmental documentaries, and
borderland literature. She investigates the concept of archives and their
absences, weaving historiography, ethnography, and representation to
interrogate epistemology.
Her recent projects explore the intersections of meteorology with religion, commerce, colonialism, race, and labor in modern China—socio-cultural institutions that have both disciplined and been disciplined by the once-mercurial patterns of air, wind, and water. Her work has been exhibited at Kirkland Gallery (Cambridge, MA) and Fotografiska Museum (Shanghai), and she has gained professional experience at The Noguchi Museum, TANK Shanghai, and CAMLab. Ye recently graduated with Distinction from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design and holds a BA in History of Art and Architecture and a BS in Journalism from Boston University. She was the 2023 Historical Datasets Fellow at Harvard Library and the recipient of the 2024 Design Studies Narratives Domain Award at Harvard GSD.
Her recent projects explore the intersections of meteorology with religion, commerce, colonialism, race, and labor in modern China—socio-cultural institutions that have both disciplined and been disciplined by the once-mercurial patterns of air, wind, and water. Her work has been exhibited at Kirkland Gallery (Cambridge, MA) and Fotografiska Museum (Shanghai), and she has gained professional experience at The Noguchi Museum, TANK Shanghai, and CAMLab. Ye recently graduated with Distinction from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design and holds a BA in History of Art and Architecture and a BS in Journalism from Boston University. She was the 2023 Historical Datasets Fellow at Harvard Library and the recipient of the 2024 Design Studies Narratives Domain Award at Harvard GSD.
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