Yeewan Koon is Associate Dean (Global) and Chair of the Department of Art History at the University of Hong Kong. She is the author of Nara Yoshitomo (translated into Japanese and Korean), A Defiant Brush: Su Renshan and the Politics of Painting in 19th Century Guangdong, A Chinese Canton? Painting the Local in Export Art, and Where is Hong Kong Now?, as well as “Where Are We Now? M+ and the Uncertain Future of Hong Kong,” among other publications. Her current research includes co-editing the 19th century volume of The Cultural History of Asian Art Project (Courtauld Institute) and developing the Hong Kong Art Timeline website. She has been awarded a Fulbright Senior Fellowship, an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, and visiting scholarships at Cambridge and Columbia Universities. She is also a recipient of Hong Kong wide University Grants Committee’s Teacher Award. An active critic and curator in contemporary art, Koon is on the board of several art institutions.