About
Professor Peter Sturman is a faculty member in the Department of Art History at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), within the College of Letters and Science. His expertise focuses on Chinese painting and calligraphy, particularly text-image relationships across historical periods. He holds a B.A. from Stanford University and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University.
His research emphasizes Northern Song literati culture, Song-Yuan transition art, and 17th-century Chinese painting/calligraphy. Notable works include Mi Fu: Style and the Art of Calligraphy in Northern Song China (1997) and The Artful Recluse (2012), which won the Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award. Current projects include a book on late Northern Song literati painting and collaborative studies on Xu Wei, a Ming-dynasty artist.
Publications span topics like Huizong's court art, Li Cheng's landscape iconography, Mongol reunification's impact on art, and Tang-Song scroll analysis. He organized international conferences, including a Song dynasty painting conference in Hangzhou (2014).
- Awards: Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award for The Artful Recluse
- Advising: No listed advisees. Current projects include collaborative research and book projects.
- Labs/Teams: No dedicated lab mentioned, but collaborates on Xu Wei studies.
