Dr. Nancy Lin received her Ph.D. from the Department of Art History at the University of Chicago in June, 2015. Her dissertation, “Representing Difference: Early 20th Century Japanese and Korean Art,” reconsiders the formation of the modern East Asian artistic canon by emphasizing the mutual engagement between Japan and Korea during the colonial occupation of Korea (1910-45). As Japanese and Korean artists experimented with new forms of representation and responded to Western artistic movements, they developed a shared visual culture despite the history of their uneven and frequently oppositional relationship under colonialism. In reconsidering these images as a single corpus, this project seeks to expand the conceptualization of modernist painting to include images that were previously discounted as artifacts of imperial conflict. She was a recipient of the Fulbright-Hays DDRA fellowship for research in Japan and Korea and has taught courses on East Asian art at the University of Chicago and the University of Zurich. Currently, she is a Predoctoral Fellow at the Getty Research Institute.