About Dr. Chuong
about
Jennifer Chuong’s research centers on the art, architecture, and material culture of the transatlantic world as they relate to histories of environment and race. In her work Dr. Chuong prioritizes the intelligence of makers and making in order to expand our understanding of what art is, and who makes it.
Current projects include a book manuscript, “Surface Experiments: Art, Nature, and the Making of Early America,” which recovers the artistic, scientific, and philosophical fascination with surfaces as sites of physical transformation in the eighteenth-century transatlantic world. In this project, Dr. Chuong explores a range of experimental surface techniques, including mezzotint engraving, paper marbling, veneer furniture, and oil painting.
Prior to joining the Art History Program at UIUC, Dr. Chuong held postdoctoral fellowships in the Harvard Society of Fellows and at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.