Wu Hung (; born 1945) is a Chinese-American art historian.
Wu was raised in Beijing,[1] and earned a bachelor's degree and Master of Arts from the Central Academy of Fine Arts, then completed a PhD in art history and anthropology at Harvard University.[2] [1] He began teaching at Harvard in 1987, and was promoted to full professor in 1994.[1] At the University of Chicago, Wu holds the Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professorship of Art History and the College.[3] Wu was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship in 1999,[4] and elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2007.[5] From 2015 to 2016, he was the Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford University, and gave the 2016 Slade Lecture.[6] [7]