Join us for a Talk & Tour with curators Kai-Ching Hsiao and Maureen Warren. Gain insights about the history of ink wash painting and how contemporary artists are reimagining those traditions.
ABOUT THE CURATORS
Kai-Ching Hsiao is a PhD candidate in Art History at the National Tainan University of the Arts and holds a Master’s degree from the University of Leeds. Since 2018, he has worked as an assistant curator at the Tainan Art Museum, focusing on interdisciplinary curation integrating sound and visual arts. He is the co-curator of Ink Shower: Contemporary Taiwanese Artists Reimagine Tradition (2026). He has curated exhibitions on architect-ink painter Chen Chi-kwan 陳其寬 (2024), the temple painter “Chun Yuan Painting Studio 春源畫室” family (2023) & Tsai Tsao-ru 蔡草如 (2022), and a sound art exhibition (2021). His writings have been published in exhibition catalogues by the Tainan Art Museum, the Conference Proceedings on Curating as an Art Historical Method by the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art (2023), and the Graduate Journal of Art History and Visual Culture by NTNU (2022). He was also nominated for "Curator of the Year" by CANS Asia Contemporary Art News (2025). Through innovative approaches, he seeks to redefine artistic display and create new dialogues between tradition and contemporary perception.
Maureen Warren is Curator of European and American Art at Krannert Art Museum and an affiliated faculty member of the University of Illinois School of Art & Design (PhD, Northwestern University). She studies early modern (1500–1800) European art and ceramics, and works on paper more broadly. At the museum, Warren has curated exhibitions on medieval manuscripts, early modern European art and natural history, early modern European religious and mythological prints, Dutch political prints, blue and white ceramics, and the ink paintings of Shozo Sato (1933–2025). She is the co-curator of Ink Shower: Contemporary Taiwanese Artists Reimagine Tradition (2026).
Before coming to the museum, Warren was an Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Research Fellow in the Prints and Drawings Department of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her dissertation was supported by a two-year Kress Institutional Fellowship to Leiden University, a Scaliger Fellowship, and a Swann Foundation for Caricature and Cartoon Fellowship. Warren has published essays in Death, Torture and the Broken Body in European Art, 1300-1650 (2015); Van Dyck, Rembrandt, and the Portrait Print; Word & Image; and Early Modern Low Countries. She is content editor and lead author of Paper Knives, Paper Crowns: Political Prints in the Dutch Republic (ARTBOOK D.A.P., 2022).
