Collegiate Affiliation
Art History
Faculty,
Religious Studies
Affiliate Faculty,
Asian & Middle Eastern Studies

Daniel M. Greenberg is an assistant professor of Asian art at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.  He specializes in early modern Chinese art; his first book, Mapping Without Maps explores the relationship between painting, state ritual, and Qing empire.  He is also a curator that co-curated Layers of Joy: A Celebration of Black Art in Minneapolis at the Quarter Gallery of the Regis Center for Art in 2024.  He also co-curated C.C. Wang: Lines of Abstraction, which opened at Hunter College in 2023.  Greenberg took his Ph.D. from Yale University in 2015.  He holds a B.S. from Rutgers University and completed graduate coursework for an M.A. in History of Chinese Calligraphy at the Graduate Institute of Art History, National Taiwan University.  He served as a United States Peace Corps Volunteer in Sichuan, China from 2000-2002.  

Educational Background & Specialties
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Educational Background

  • Ph.D.: Chinese Art, Yale University
  • MA Coursework: Chinese Calligraphy, National Taiwan University
  • B.S.: Biology and Philosophy, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences

Specialties

  • East Asian Art
  • Qing History
  • Chinese Painting
  • Chinese Calligraphy
  • Curatorial Studies