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Dr. FENG, Eric Fan

ORCID: 0000-0001-9786-550X

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Research Project Officer,

The Research Centre for Creative Arts and Public Value (RCCAPV),

The Education University of Hong Kong.

Office Hours: 9:00-17:00 (Mon-Fri)

Email: efeng@eduhk.hk

Tel: +852 2948 7220

Add: B3-1/F- 33, The Education University of Hong Kong.

About

Dr. Eric Fan FENG is an artist, researcher, and educator. He is the Project Officer at the Research Centre for Creative Arts and Public Value (RCCAPV) at the Education University of Hong Kong, hosting “Comparative Cultures of Care” and “Art and Science and Culture: Sustainable Humanities,” two flagship (10 million Hong Kong dollars in funding) interdisciplinary research projects at the faculty of humanities, EdUHK.

Before joining EdUHK, he served as an Associate Professor and Deputy Chair of the Department of Painting at the Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University, from 2016 to 2022. He was also the Associate Director of Tsinghua Art Museum, 2022-2023. His previous roles included Visiting Assistant Professor at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York (2020), and MFA Advisor for the Tsinghua University-Sotheby’s Art Institute Art Management Master Program and the Tsinghua University-HEC Paris Media, Art & Creation Executive Program.

Professional Experience

2016-2020 Assistant Professor, Tsinghua University, Beijing

2020 Visiting Assistant Professor at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo

2020-2023 Associate Professor, Tsinghua University, Beijing

2022-2023 Associate Director, Tsinghua University Art Museum, Beijing

2022-Present Project officer, The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR

Degrees

2016 Ph.D.   Tsinghua University, Academy of Arts & Design. Dissertation: "Gods and Innocents: On Mythological Theme Paintings of Cy Twombly", Beijing

2009 M.A.    Tsinghua University, Academy of Arts & Design, Beijing

2006 B.A.    Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Department of Painting​​, Chongqing

Research

Eric Fan FENG was trained as a visual artist and has exhibited work across China, the U.S., and Japan. Eric Fan FENG’s work is in several museum collections. As an expert in museum public art planning, he supervises public art design in multiple national and provincial museums in China. His contributions to the art world and art scholarship include:

  • Appointed as the Artistic Director of the Public Art display at the Chinese Medicine Hospital & Government Chinese Medicines Testing Institute in Tseung Kwan O, Hong Kong.

  • FENG’s large-scale paintings are housed in the prestigious Museum of the Communist Party of China.

  • Feng's work has been recognized nationally with the "Annual Award for Ten Excellent Exhibition Display of Chinese Museums."

  • His project on global warming for The Lancet Asia Office further highlights his ability to address critical global issues through art.

  • Feng's achievements extend beyond his artistic output. He has made significant strides in art history research, earning him the prestigious "Eastern Asian Fellowship" by ARIAH (Association of Research Institutes of Art History), which affirms his research prowess and influence in academia.

  • His scholarly contributions include his role as a contributing editor to Digital Humanity, a Chinese Social Sciences Citation Index journal, since 2019, and his involvement with the National Higher Art Education Association under the Ministry of Education of China.

Publications

  • “Art in Hospitals: The Aesthetic-Social Turn of Caring Space,” European Journal of Cultural Studies, 2025, DOI: 10.1177/13675494251350373

  • Zhou Zhong, Fan Feng, et al. “Making University and Curricular Sustainable Entrepreneurship: A Case Study of Tsinghua University,” Asia Pacific Education Review, No.5, November 2022, DOI: 10.1007/s12564-022-09797-y

  • “The Concepts of Teaching and the Teaching of Concepts: The Pathways of Chinese and Western Modern Art Education,” Journal of Tsinghua University Education Research, no.12 (December 2019): 56-58 DOI: 10.14138/j.1001-4519.2019.S1

  • “8 B.C. and the Alternative Art Space in the 1980s East Village New York”, New Art, no.10 (November 2017): 104-133

  • “Cataract and Unknown Object: The Ecological Consciousness in Shang Yang’s Recent Works,” New Art, no.06(2018 January): 128-131

  • “The Artistic Style of Roman Mosaic in Pre-Christian Era,” Journal of Tonghua Normal University, no.01 (2018 January): 34-43

  • “The Human Touch in the Cyber Space: cyclo. and Digital Aesthetics of Media Art”, Zhuangshi, no.11 (2015 November): 56-60

  • “The Construction Principles of the Contemporary Art Database”, Archival Management, no.3 (2015 March): 39-41

  • “Garbage and Archaeology: from Benjamin to Foucault’s Archival Theory,” Archival Management, no.5 (2015 May): 10-12

  • “The ‘other’ and the Emotions in Modernism Art,” Art and Design, no.12 (2015 December): 121-124

  • “University, Art Education and our Duty,” Journal of Industrial Design, no.9(2019 September): 10-12

  • “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Papal Images through Out the Art History,” Art Bank, no.10 (2013 October): 56-69.

Contact

Office Hours: 9:00-17:00 (Mon-Fri)

Email: efeng@eduhk.hk

Tel: +852 29487220

Add: B3-1/F- 33, The Education University of Hong Kong, Tai Po, Hong Kong, SAR

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