Adam Monohon is an art historian, critic, and curator specializing in the history and theory of photography and Chinese art. He is a PhD candidate in Art History at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and holds an MA in the History of Art and Archaeology of East Asia from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London and a BA in the History of Art and Design from Pratt Institute.
His dissertation, "Bohea Views: Photography, Landscape, and the Tea Trade in Late Qing Fujian, 1860–1888," attends to the production, circulation, and reception of topographic photographs made in Fujian in the late nineteenth century. His doctoral research has been supported by the Bei Shan Tang Foundation, the Harvard-Yenching Library, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, among others.
Prior to beginning doctoral studies at UCLA, Monohon held curatorial positions at the Center for Creative Photography, the Henry Art Gallery, and the J. Paul Getty Museum’s Department of Photographs. Exhibitions organized include A/political Rocks (2023), Farewell Photography: The Hitachi Collection of Postwar Japanese Photographs, 1961–1989 (2022), and Edward Weston's Leaves of Grass (2019).
His writing has appeared in Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles, Harvard Design Magazine, History of Photography, and Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, among other venues.
His dissertation, "Bohea Views: Photography, Landscape, and the Tea Trade in Late Qing Fujian, 1860–1888," attends to the production, circulation, and reception of topographic photographs made in Fujian in the late nineteenth century. His doctoral research has been supported by the Bei Shan Tang Foundation, the Harvard-Yenching Library, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, among others.
Prior to beginning doctoral studies at UCLA, Monohon held curatorial positions at the Center for Creative Photography, the Henry Art Gallery, and the J. Paul Getty Museum’s Department of Photographs. Exhibitions organized include A/political Rocks (2023), Farewell Photography: The Hitachi Collection of Postwar Japanese Photographs, 1961–1989 (2022), and Edward Weston's Leaves of Grass (2019).
His writing has appeared in Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles, Harvard Design Magazine, History of Photography, and Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, among other venues.