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Wei-Cheng Lin is Associate Professor of Art History and the College at the University of Chicago, specializing in Chinese art and architecture. He serves as Faculty Director of the Dispersed Chinese Art Digitalization Project, sits on the steering committee of the Center for the Art of East Asia, and acts as Architectural Studies Advisor. His office is located in CWAC 268 with weekly office hours on Wednesdays.
Educational background details are not explicitly provided in the text; however, he held an appointment as Assistant Professor of East Asian Art and Architecture at Iowa State University during 2006–2007.
Lin’s research interrogates the intersections of visual and material culture in medieval Chinese Buddhist art and architecture and the ritual dimensions of Chinese funerary practices. Current book projects include Performative Architecture of China, which explores how architecture enacts meaning through historical performance, and Necessarily Incomplete: Fragments of Chinese Artifacts, which investigates the active roles of fragmentary artifacts in shaping multivalent cultural significance.
Across more than twenty publications, Lin’s scholarship ranges from detailed studies of Mount Wutai and Dunhuang to theoretical inquiries into architectural historiography, materiality, and contemporary Chinese art. His work bridges art history, architectural history, religious studies, and digital humanities.
Grants & Digital Initiatives:
- Faculty Director, Dispersed Chinese Art Digitalization Project (DCADP) — supported by the Cyrus Tang Foundation
- Manages DCADP publication series, including Beijing Zhihua Temple (2024) and Exhibiting East Asian Art in a Global Context (2025, co-edited with Chelsea Foxwell)
Laboratories & Teams: Lin leads collaborative efforts through the Center for the Art of East Asia and the UChicago Center in Beijing, organizing exhibitions, international conferences, and digital humanities workshops that integrate art-historical research with cutting-edge visualization technologies.
