Education
Matteini earned his Doctor of Philosophy in Chinese Art History at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, with a dissertation titled Painting in the Age of Evidential Scholarship (kaozheng): Luo Ping’s Late Years, ca. 1770-1799. His supervisor was Shitao scholar Jonathan Hay. Research for his dissertation was supported by an Ittleson Fellowship from the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington District of Columbia. From the Institute of Fine Arts he also received an Master of Arts and before that he obtained a laurea in Chinese Language and Literature from the Ca" Foscari University of Venice, Italy.
Career
A graduate from the Institute of Fine Arts of the New York University, Mattini is a published author and co-curator of the show Eccentric Visions: The Worlds of Luo Ping, sponsored by Zurich"s Museum Rietberg, Switzerland, which traveled to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. The New York Times called the catalogue "superb." He currently lives in New York City and teaches at New York University, where he is Assistant Professor of East Asian Art, Architecture and Visual Culture. Before joining the New York University faculty, Michele Matteini has taught at Reed College and Oberlin College.
In 2013-2014 he was The Andrew West. Mellon Foundation member at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton.
