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Join us for a Talk & Tour of "Ink Shower: Taiwanese Artists Reimagine Tradition" 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. On view at Krannert Art Museum (Nov 6, 2026–Feb 27, 2027).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).
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
Ink Shower is organized by InART Space and Krannert Art Museum. Advised by Jamie Tu, Rita Chang, Chien-Hui Kao, Yu-Chia Chang. The exhibition was produced in collaboration with the Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies at the University of Illinois, with special thanks to Director Matt Winters and Associate Director Yuchia Chang.
Made possible with grant support from the Ministry of Culture, Taiwan; Center for Advanced Study MillerComm Lecture Series; and Illinois Arts Council. Additional funding is provided by the J. Fred and Donna Giertz Exhibition Support Fund.
About the exhibition:
kam.illinois.edu/ink-shower
Image: Detail, Chen Chun-Hao, Copy after Snowy Mountains and Xiao Temple, Attributed to Fan Kuan, Northern Song Dynasty, 2023. Mosquito nails, canvas, and carbonized wood. Courtesy of the artist. © Chen Chun-Hao.
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EVENT HIGHLIGHTS
FALL 2026
SEPTEMBER
26 · Artventures for Kids! 1–3 pm
OCTOBER
1 · SPEAK Café, 6–7:30 pm
2 · Noontime Gallery Talk & Tour, 12 pm
3 · Teen Artist's Retreat, 10 am–3 pm · Anita Purves Nature Center & Krannert Art Museum. Sign up at urbanaparks.org. (15 participants)
8 · Opening Day | In Search of a Future
10 · Curator Talk & Tour | In Search of a Future, 10:30 am
10 · In the Studio: Thrown and Altered Clay Workshop, with Catherine Wiesener, 1–3 pm · U of I Allen Hall, 1005 W. Gregory Dr., Urbana. Sign up at kam.illinois.edu. (10 participants)
17 · Kids at KAM: Artmaking and More! 10:30 am–12:30 pm
22 · Visiting Artist Talk | Tyson E. Lewis, 5:30–7 pm
NOVEMBER
Nov 3–7 · Weeklong Residency with Exhibiting Artist Yao Jui-Chung
4 · Reception & MillerComm Lecture | Landscape as Storytelling | The Journey of "Yao’s Black Divine Comedy" with Yao Jiu-Chung in conversation with Kao Chien-Hui, 4 pm Reception, 5 pm Event; Part of the MillerComm Lecture Series; Levis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W. Illinois St., Urbana
5 · Opening Reception | Ink Shower: Contemporary Taiwanese Artists Reimagine Tradition, 5–7 pm
6 · Ink Shower Artists Panel Discussion, 2–3:30 pm, Temple Buell Hall,Plym Auditorium, 611 E. Lorado Taft Dr., Champaign
7 · Curator Talk & Tour | Ink Shower, 10:30 am
12 · SPEAK Café, 6 pm
13 · Noontime Gallery Talk & Tour, 12 pm
14 · Improvisers Exchange: Sonic Location, 1–3 pm
DECEMBER
3 · Day With(out) Art: Film Screening & Discussion for World AIDS Day, 5:30 pm
4 · Noontime Gallery Talk & Tour, 12 pm
5 · Artventures for Kids! 1–3 pm
10 · FAA Finals Fest, 12–3:30 pm · For U of I students.
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Krannert Art Museum endeavors to be accessible to all. If you have an accessibility question or would like to request an accommodation, please email us at [email protected].
Krannert Art Museum acknowledges support from the Illinois Arts Council.
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