Cynthia Fang

Cynthia Fang is a Doctoral Fellow at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz (Max Planck Society) as a Samuel H. Kress Institutional Fellow (2024–2026). She is a PhD candidate in Art History at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where she also earned her MA. Her research focuses on transalpine artistic exchanges between Augsburg and Italy, examining early modern architectural cabinets and transcultural connections between Europe and China during the Qing dynasty. Her dissertation, *Crossing the Alps: Information, Invention, and the Architectural Cabinet (1550–1680)*, explores material and intellectual mobility in Renaissance and Baroque art.

• Education: BFA in Painting and Art History from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA).
• Awards: Kress Fellowship supporting her research on transcultural networks and material culture.

Her work bridges art history, architectural studies, and global cultural history, emphasizing how objects and ideas traversed borders to shape early modern aesthetics and diplomacy.