Daniel M Greenberg

Early Modern China; Chinese Painting; Chinese Calligraphy; Qing History

Daniel M. Greenberg is an assistant professor of Asian art at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.  He specializes in early modern Chinese art; his first book, Mapping Without Maps explores the relationship between painting, state ritual, and Qing empire.  He is also a curator that co-curated Layers of Joy: A Celebration of Black Art in Minneapolis at the Quarter Gallery of the Regis Center for Art in 2024.  He also co-curated C.C. Wang: Lines of Abstraction, which opened at Hunter College in 2023.  Greenberg took his Ph.D. from Yale University in 2015.  He holds a B.S. from Rutgers University and completed graduate coursework for an M.A. in History of Chinese Calligraphy at the Graduate Institute of Art History, National Taiwan University.  He served as a United States Peace Corps Volunteer in Sichuan, China from 2000-2002.  

Chinese Painting; Buddhist art; Jesuit Art; Curatorial Practice

Books:

From Rome to Beijing: Sacred Spaces in Dialogue with Mari Yoko Hara (Brill: Leiden, 2024)

C.C. Wang: Lines of Abstraction with Wenshing Chou (Hirmer Virlag; University of Chicago: Chicago, 2023)

Selected Articles:

“Writing Time: The Shufa of Fung Ming Chip” Art Journal, Vol. 83 (April 5, 2024)

“Crossing Bridges; Crossing Borders: Merrymaking in the Palace, Ten Thousand Countries Bringing Tribute, and Lunar New Years’ Celebrations in the Forbidden City” Chapter 5 in Daniel Greenberg and Yoko Hara (eds.) From Rome to Beijing: Sacred Spaces in Dialogue (Brill: Leiden, 2024)

“An Old Diehard?: C.C. Wang’s Deconstruction of Literati Line” Chapter 2 in Daniel Greenberg and Wenshing Chou (eds.) C.C. Wang: Lines of Abstraction (Hirmer Virlag; University of Chicago: Chicago, 2023)

“Taxonomy of Empire: The Compendium of Birds as an Epistemic and Ecological Representation of Qing China” Journal18, No. 7 (Spring, 2019)

“The Invisible, Ever-present Past:  Taca Sui’s Steles/Huang Yi Project” Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art 17, No. 3 (May/June 2018)           

“Weird Science: European Origins of the Fantastic Creatures in the Qing Court Painting, the Manual of Sea Oddities” Chapter 7 in Jerome Silbergeld and Eugene Wang (ed.) The Zoomorphic Imagination in Chinese Art and Culture. (Hawai’i: University of Hawai’I Press, 2016)                                                                                                                    

“Yuancang ‘Hai Guai Tu Ji’ Chutan - Qinggong Huazhong De Xifang Qihuan Shengwu ”《院藏〈海怪圖記〉初探-清宮畫中的西方奇幻生物》

(A Brief Consideration of the National Palace Museum’s ‘Manual of Sea Oddities’ – Surprising Western Animals in a Qing Court Painting). Gugong Wenwu Yuekan, 故宮文物月刊 (National Palace Museum Monthly), No. 297 (December, 2007), 38-51.

Exhibitions:

Layers of Joy: A Community Celebration of Black Art and Artists in Minneapolis

Quarter Gallery, Regis Center for Art, University of Minnesota, Nov. 19 – Dec. 14, 2024

Healing Words/ Healing Mind

Rhymesayers Gallery, Minneapolis, Sep. 7 – Sep. 20, 2024

C.C. Wang: Lines of Abstraction

Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery (Hunter College), Feb 2 – Apr. 29, 2023

Kalamazoo Institute of the Arts, Sep. 16 – Dec. 31, 2023

Fung Ming Chip: Traces of Time 

Fu Qiumeng Gallery, Mar. 17 –May 20, 2023

Introduction to Asian Art (1000-level)

Buddhist Art and Architecture (3000-level)

Curatorial Practice (3000-level)

Chinese Landscape Painting (5000-level)

Art, Science, and Jesuits in East Asia (5000-level)

Art, Imitations, Forgeries (8000-level)