Zixiao Huang

Zixiao Huang's research focuses on the communication between Renaissance Italy and China, and he studies how "China" as a geographical concept is visually depicted and viewed in Italy and the rest of the Europe.

Prior to his study at Pitt, Zixiao spent several years working and interning for major museums and non-profit organizations in Philadelphia and Chengdu, China, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Barnes Foundation, the Association for Public Art, the Penn Museum, Temple Contemporary, and the Chengdu Museum. In 2020, he was part of the curatorial team at the exhibition Floating Lights and Shadows: 500 Years of European Paintings co-organized by the Chengdu Museum and the Indianapolis Museum of Art, and participated in writing and publishing the exhibition catalog. During his time at the Art History department of Temple University, Zixiao studied Early Modern Italian arts and European missionaries' outreach in China, and wrote his thesis titled The Jesuits in China: Translation, Localization, and Failure. Part of his graduate thesis won the selection of the 42nd Annual Susman History Graduate Student Conference (canceled due to Covid-19) at Rutgers University and the SECAC 2023 in Richmond, Vermont. 

His most recent participation of professional workshops including the Sangalli Institute's seminar "the Archives of the Religious Orders and their Education Institutions: A New Perspective on Global Catholicism (Rome, Italy)" and the Middlebury Language School for Italian (Bennington, Vermont).