Department of Modern Culture and Media
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Junyuan (Julian) Feng

Research Interests Critical AI Studies, History of Computation, STS, Animation, Media Theory, Game Studies, Labor, Contemporary Art
Year Entered 2026

Biography

Julian Junyuan Feng is an artist and writer based between China and the United States. He is currently a PhD student in the Department of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. He received a BS in Physics from Fudan University (2015) and an MFA in Fine Arts from the University of Pennsylvania (2018). His writing has appeared in e-flux Architecture, Frieze, Artforum, Flash Art, Heichi Magazine, and LEAP. His work has been exhibited at institutions including ICA Philadelphia (2026), Fudan Art Museum (2025), Long March Independent Space (2023), Surplus Space (2023), Inside-Out Art Museum (2020), and Guangdong Times Museum (2018), alongside three solo exhibitions. He has also co-curated exhibitions at the Goethe-Institut China, Para Site (Hong Kong), and UCCA Dune. Feng has held full-time and visiting lectureships at NYU Shanghai, Duke Kunshan University, and BNBU. He is the recipient of grants from the Asia Culture Center (South Korea) and a Vermont Studio Center Fellowship.