Eugene Wang

· Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art
· Founding Director of Harvard FAS CAMLab
Professor Eugene Wang
485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138 Room 515
617.495.0845
eywang@fas.harvard.edu
East Asian Art Program
Harvard FAS CAMLab
Eugene Wang's CV

Eugene Y. Wang is the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art at Harvard University. A Guggenheim Fellow and art-history editor of the Encyclopedia of Buddhism, he is the author of Shaping the Lotus Sutra: Buddhist Visual Culture in Medieval China, recipient of Japan’s Sakamoto Nichijin Academic Achievement Award.

Focused on the cognitive study of art, Wang’s research explores how images add up to function as worldmaking systems, and how art extends into biocosmic and psychocosmic dimensions. His work ranges from Asian Buddhist art and Chinese art history to immersive environments and digital media. He is the founding director of Harvard CAMLab, dedicated to the cognitive modeling of cultural systems.

In 2024, Wang curated Mawangdui: Art of Life, an immersive exhibition designed and produced by CAMLab that attracted more than one million visitors and received the 2025 iF Design Award in Germany. CAMLab’s Digital Gandhara was named a 2026 AWHEIC Star of Outstanding by a global heritage-education initiative of WHITRAP, a UNESCO Category 2 Centre. Wang is currently leading a new CAMLab project, Digital Borobudur.