Hao Sheng, M.A. 2004

Hao Sheng is an independent curator of Chinese art. He served as the Wu Tung Curator of Chinese Art at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts from 2004 to 2012. During his tenure, he curated a series of groundbreaking exhibitions including Fresh Ink: Ten Takes on Chinese Tradition, in which contemporary artists created works in direct response to masterpieces from the Museum’s historical collection. Having been an independent curator since 2012, Sheng continues to advise museums and arts foundations in the U.S. and in Asia. He served as a guest curator for Universe is Flux at the Asia Society Texas Center and for Xu Bing: Book From the Sky at the Blanton Art Museum of University of Texas at Austin, in addition to advising the Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation on the initiative to reimagine Buddhist art installations in American museums. Hao received a BA in Architectural History from the College of Wooster and an MA in Chinese History from Harvard University.