EDUCATION

• Ph.D. Candidate in Art Education with minors: Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Curriculum and Instruction, The Pennsylvania State University, PA, USA, 2022-Expected graduation date: May 2026

• M.A. Arts and Humanities in Education, Taipei National University of the Arts, Taipei, Taiwan, 2015-2017'

• B.F.A. Western Painting with middle and high school art teacher certificate, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan, 2007-2011

• Art Teacher Certification, Ministry of Education, Taiwan

RECOGNITION (Selected)

• 2025 Art Education Research Institute (AERI) Honorable Mention Dissertation Award, Art Education Research Institute, USA.

• 2025  A&A Graduate Student Research Support program, Penn State University, USA.

• 2023, 2024, 2025  Dorothy Hughes Young Endowed Scholarship for Music and Art Education Award, Penn State University, USA.

• 2024  PAEA Clyde M. McGeary Scholarship, The Pennsylvania Art Education Association, USA.

• 2023, 2024, 2025  Thomas D. and Joanna Ritenbaugh Research Fund, Penn State University, USA.

• 2024  John Roe Sustainability Impact Award Outstanding Activist/Community Project, Penn State University (USD 1000) 

• 2024-2025 A&A Sustainability Graduate Student Fellowship, Penn State University, USA. (USD 500) https://www.psu.edu/news/sustainability-institute/story/penn-state-celebrates-2024-sustainability-award-winners

• 2024 Outstanding Activist/Community Project Award, National Art Education Association (NAEA) Ecology and Environment Interest Group Awards (EEIG), USA. https://naeaecologyandenvironment.weebly.com/awards.html

• 2024 a2ru Scholar Award, Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities, USA. https://a2ru.org/event/2024-emerging-creatives-student-summit-play-the-impact-of-play-on-how-we-create-and-relate-to-the-world/

• 2024  Student Leadership Scholarship, Penn State University, USA.

• 2024  Selected as Student Representative of Penn State University attend Emerging Creatives Student Summit, Rochester Institute of Technology, NY, USA.

• 2022   Selected as Taiwan's Educator Representative for the 2022 Study of U.S. Institutes (SUSIs), fully funded by the U.S. Department of State, but was unable to attend due to unforeseen circumstances.

• 2022-2025 Graduate Teaching Assistantship, The Pennsylvania State University, PA, USA.

• 2021 Hsiu-Hsiung Wang Excellent Art Theory Research Award, Taiwan. https://pr.ntnu.edu.tw/ntnunews/index.php?mode=data&id=20415

• 2019  Selected as Artist-teacher, Draw+er Pedagogy toward Art Education. The Process of Knowledge exhibition, Haiton Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan. (Fully Founded by National Culture and Arts Foundation, Taiwan) https://archive.taishinart.org.tw/event/talks/2019041804

• 2015  Excellent Teacher Award, New Taipei City Education Bureau, Taiwan.

• 2015   Outstanding Art Star in Teaching, New Taipei City Education Bureau, Taiwan.

• 2013   Selected as Residency Artist in Flow, Banqiao 435 Art Zone Residency, New Taipei City, Taiwan. (Founded by Department of Cultural Affairs, New Taipei City, Taiwan)

FEATURED NEWS

• Goodstein D. (2024, April 23). Pin-Hsuan Tseng recognized as a John Roe Sustainability Impact Awardee. The Pennsylvania State University News, USA.

  https://www.psu.edu/news/sustainability-institute/story/pin-hsuan-tseng-recognized-john-roe-sustainability-impact-awardee

• Goodstein D. (2024, April 15). Penn State celebrates the 2024 Sustainability Award Winners. The Pennsylvania State University News, USA. https://www.psu.edu/news/sustainability-institute/story/penn-state-celebrates-2024-sustainability-award-winners

• A&A Sustainability (2024, March 22). Arts and Architecture names fourth cohort of 2024 Sustainability Fellows. The Pennsylvania State University News, USA. https://www.psu.edu/news/arts-and-architecture/story/arts-and-architecture-names-fourth-cohort-2024-sustainability-fellows

• Rochester Institute of Technology (2024, March 17). PLAY: The Impact of Play on How We Create and Relate to the World, a2ru, 2024 Emerging Creatives Student Summit. The Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities News, USA.

  https://a2ru.org/event/2024-emerging-creatives-student-summit-play-the-impact-of-play-on-how-we-create-and-relate-to-the-world/

• ArtsandArch. (2024, January 1). We are Sustainable with Pin Hsuan Tseng [Video]. YouTube.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zn9nmcVwD30

• Sun, Y.-H. (2023, August 11). Art Education for the Real World: An Interview with an Artist Teacher Pin-Hsuan Tseng (Yi-Yu Lai, Trans.). Taiwan Insight. University of Nottingham, UK.

  https://taiwaninsight.org/2023/07/26/art-education-for-the-real-world-an-interview-with-an-artist-teacher-pin-hsuan-tseng/

• Penn State Art+Feminism (2023, November 7). Art+Feminism Wikistorming 2023 ‪@pennstate - Pin-Hsuan Tseng [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=KOTc9gpEOXQ

• The National Education Radio, Taiwan (2013, November 14). Representative teacher for Gongliao Junior High School [Broadcast]. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmIczOiXwW8

• TED Arts Education, Central Group Guest Room, Ministry of Education Republic of China (Taiwan) (2023, July 17). Great Ideas for Art Teaching (Sharing USA Art EducaiExperiences) feat. Pin-Hsuan Tseng, Visual Arts Teacher at Gongliao Junior High School, New Taipei City [Podcast Episode 34]. Spotify.

  https://open.spotify.com/episode/1ZfAWWbbATtlUz7QA4tx5R?si=lcSNZ7gIQ4CmbKarIrZjZg

• Association of the Visual Arts in Taiwan. (2021, November 14). 2021 Reimagining-Art Education Experimental Institute Project Experience Sharing Session.

  https://avat-art.org/en/author/acopyofacopy/page/11/

• Qin, K. (2017, June 16). In Taiwan, lettuce is commonly called Mainland Girl, which involves discrimination; the new generation promotes renaming it. HK01.

  https://www.hk01.com/article/98484

• Central News Agency of Taiwan. (2017, June 15). Promoting the renaming of Mainland girl: University faculty and students hope to call it Fushan lettuce. [推大陸妹正名 大學師生盼稱呼福山萵苣].

  https://www.cna.com.tw/news/ahel/201706150215.aspx

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Tseng, P.-H. (2024). Mapping Tiers/Tears/Tear: Augmented Reality Wandering Histories as Transnational Counter-Narratives to Patriarchy. Visual Arts Research, 50(2), 60-73. https://doi.org/10.5406/21518009.50.2.05 [Scopus]

• Tseng, P.-H. & Chiang, S. Y. (2021). A Pilot Study of the Impact of Art Education Therapy on Underprivileged Teenagers' Resilience. Research in Arts Education, 42, 35-78. https://doi.org/10.6622/RAE.202112_(42).0002 [THCI Tier1]

• Tseng, P.-H. (2025). Collective zine-making: Building a cross-school community in K-12 art education. In M. Riedler (Ed.), Fault lines: InSEA World Congress 2023 proceedings (pp. 391–401). InSEA Publications. https://doi.org/10.24981/2025-FL2023

• Tseng, P.-H. (2025). My tent as my studio: Reshaping transnational feminist identity through artmaking. In M. Riedler (Ed.), Fault lines: InSEA World Congress 2023 proceedings (pp. 464–473). InSEA Publications. https://doi.org/10.24981/2025-FL2023

• Tseng, P.-H. (2023). A pilot study of the impact of art education therapy on underprivileged teenagers’ resilience in Shi-Ming Pai (Ed.), Hsiu-Hsiung Wang Art Theory Proceedings. Taiwan, Department of Fine Arts, National Taiwan Normal University (ISBN／ISSN：9786267048832). https://gpi.culture.tw/books/1011200975

• Tseng, P.-H. (2020). Rethinking teaching for excellence: The milieu to teaching and learning through emotional experiences in S. L. Wong, Y. Cooper & Y. S. Hung (Eds.), InSEA Asia Regional Congress, 2018, Hong Kong & 7th World Chinese Arts Education Symposium: Proceedings (pp. 70-77). Hong Kong, Department of Cultural and Creative Arts, Education University of Hong Kong. https://reurl.cc/nqM8nv

• Tseng, P.-H., Chou, L.-Y., & Chu, H.-C. (2024). Walking away from macro-institutional identity through curriculum as activism. In A. B. Pratt, K. Donley, S. Hatch, S. L. Tharp, & F. Calderon-Berumen (Eds.), Walking away: Refusing and resisting reactionary curriculum movements (pp. 39-58). Information Age Publishing. https://www.infoagepub.com/products/Walking-Away

  MA Thesis

• Tseng, P.-H. (2017). Rethinking Teaching for Excellence: The Milieu to Teaching and Learning through Emotional Experiences (Unpublished Master’s thesis). Taipei National University of the Arts, Taipei, Taiwan. https://hdl.handle.net/11296/9v58jn Advisor: Dr. Dai-Rong Wu

  Invited Articles

• Bertling, J., Tseng, P.-H., & Danker, S. (2024 Summer). Ecology and Environment Interest Group Outstanding Activist/Community Award. [National Art Education Association]. https://www.arteducators.org/news/articles/1376-naea-news-summer-2024

• Tseng, P.-H. (2024). Summary for iDSAE Virtual Forum Publication: Critical Disability Studies: Dialogue of Timely Issues with Artists, Activists & Educators. International Disability Studies, Art and Education. https://www.idsae.net/publications

• Tseng, P.-H. (2024). Integrating Gender Equity Education into Curriculum and Teaching – Art Discipline/Visual Arts [Supplementary Examples]. Ministry of Education, Taiwan. https://gdoc.pub/doc/e/2PACX-1vSS4QsUDWrzfF7NvPGeA7ODaSqs7FynEqedfSNpOy3JrmJRtMz84BxHWOUX5Fj_I5fPZofMX12C7woH.

• Tseng, P.-H. (2023). International Insights into Aesthetic Education: Drawing Implications from the U.S. National Arts Curriculum Standards and Choice-Based Visual Arts Pedagogy for Taiwan (國家藝術課程綱要和選擇性教學法對臺灣的啟示). In Huang, C.-H., & Hung, Y.-S. (Eds.), Asia-Pacific Office for Aesthetic Education. National Academy for Educational Research.

• Tseng, P.-H. (2023). Crossing boundaries: I am Speaking/Speechless in the classroom. Arts Counselor Journal, 3, 12-13.

• Tseng, P.-H. (2017, August 11). Socks. The Merit Times. https://www.merit-times.com.tw/NewsPage.aspx?unid=482827

• Tseng, P. H. (2017). A Room of One's Own to three Guineas: Virginia Woolf in contemporary Taiwan society. Womany. https://womany.net/read/article/14208 

• Tseng, P. H. (2017). Why is “Water Bambo” called beautiful and white legs in Taiwan? Naming as power. Womany. https://womany.net/read/article/14691

• Tseng, P. H. (2017). Lettuce is not Mainland girl. Taipei E-education Paper, 813. https://enews.tiec.tp.edu.tw/

SELECTED REFERRED PRESENTATIONS

• Tseng, P.-H. (2025, July 24). Hydrofeminist Insights of Disposability: Marine Debris Art Encyclopedia in Middle School. 2025 InSEA World Congress, Olomouc, Czechia.

• Sherman, C., & Tseng, P.-H. (2025, May 23). Material(s) explorations: Reflexive and affective praxis within the preservice classroom. Paper presented at the 2025 Arts Education Forum: New Horizons in Arts Education and Interdisciplinary Integration, National Changhua University of Education, Changhua, Taiwan.

• Tseng, P.-H., Chu, H.-C., Tsai, P.-J., & Chou, L.-Y. (2025, April 25). Decolonial participatory arts-based curriculum as activism for social justice. American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, United States.

• Tseng, P.-H. (2025, March 21). Tent as art studio: Exploring transnational feminist art storytelling. National Art Education Association, Louisville, KY, USA.

• Tseng, P.-H., Liao, S., & Sherman, C. (2024, November). Misogyny on the menu: Transnational gendering and sexualization of the food and drink. National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA), Detroit, MI, USA.

• Condit-Summerson, M.-R., Hwang, E., Lewis, B., & Tseng, P.-H. (2024, November). Emergent threads and current conversations in feminist arts-based research. National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA), Detroit, MI, USA.

• Lewis, B., Tseng, P.-H., Lordan Heron, C., & Danner, I. (2024, November). Water and trash: Arts-based ecofeminist pedagogies. National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA), Detroit, MI, USA.

• Tseng, P.-H. (2024 September). Public art diary within transnational art educator community. University of Cambridge (Online).

• Tseng, P.-H., Cheng, A. Y.-C., Lin, H. M., Hong, T. (2024, June). Public art dialogue-diary as transnational artistic knowledge. United States Society for Education Through Art (USSEA), Santa Fe, NM, USA.

• Sherman, C. & Tseng, P.-H. (2024 June). Material(s) explorations: Reflexive and affective praxis within the preservice classroom. United States Society for Education Through Art (USSEA), Santa Fe, NM, USA.

• Fang, H., Tseng, P.-H., Cheng, A. Y.-C., Chou, L.-Y (2024, May). Distilling pedagogy: Arts-based inquiry into gender, place, culture, and teaching reflection. 20th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Champaign, IL, USA.

• Tseng, P.-H. (2024, April). Exploring affective pedagogy within the transnational art educator community. American Educational Research Association, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

• Tseng, P.-H. (2024, April) (Award presentation). Creating a Sustainable Future through Marine-Debris-Encyclopedia. National Art Education Association, Minneapolis, MN, USA.

• Tseng, P.-H., Hong, T., Cheng, A. Y.-C., Chen C. L. (2024, April). Art across borders: Transnational public art dialogue-diary as reflective and affective pedagogy. National Art Education Association, Minneapolis, MN, USA.

• Tseng, P.-H., Cooper, Y., Fang, H., W.-H., Chen C. L. (2024, April). Sensory matters: Embracing the power of kinesthetic, aesthetic, and multimodal techniques. National Art Education Association, Minneapolis, MN, USA.

• Lewis, B., Tseng, P.-H., Holt, A. (2024, April). The power of collaborative artmaking as pedagogy and reflection: Feminist facilitations of multimodal, intercultural dialogues. National Art Education Association, Minneapolis, MN, USA.

• Cheng, A. Y.-C., Tseng, P.-H., Chou, L.-Y., Chu, H.-C. (2024, April). From palette to activism: Reflecting and teaching for social justice through collaborative artmaking. National Art Education Association, Minneapolis, MN, USA.

• Tseng, P.-H., & Lewis, B. (2023, November). Drawing lines and crossing borders: Art, feminism, and intercultural community building through collaborative artmaking. 2023 iJADE conference (Virtual), Chester, UK.

• Tseng, P.-H. (2023, November). Let us (lettuce) change the menu: Collective feminist art actions in Art+Feminism Wikistorming. National Art Education Association (NAEA) Women’s Caucus 50th anniversary (Virtual), USA.

• Tseng, P.-H. (2023, October). Exploring the intersection of new materialism and Asian mythology to promote the sustainability of art-debris knowledges. Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru) National Conference, State College, Pennsylvania, USA.

• Tseng, P.-H. (2023, October). Collaborative public diary-dialogue: Fostering allied teacherhood for professional self-growth in global art education. Pennsylvania Art Education Association Conference (PAEA), Erie, Pennsylvania, USA.

• Lewis, B., Hwang, E., Condit-Summerson, M.-R., Tseng, P-H., Danner, I. P. (2023, October). Aesthetic interventions: Approaches to feminist arts pedagogy. National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA), Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

• Tseng, P.-H. (2023, October). Shaping tomorrow's teachers with arts-based research: Utilizing online art reflection workshops to nurture resilience. Curriculum and Pedagogy (C&P) Conference, State College, Pennsylvania, USA.

• Keifer-Boyd, K., Lordan-Heron, C., Sherman, C., Oliver, K., Tseng, P.-H., Lewis, B., Adalumo, A., O’Hara, C., Zargaran, S. (2023, October). Dr. Melanie L. Buffington Commons: A site for social justice. Curriculum and Pedagogy (C&P) Conference, State College, Pennsylvania, USA.

• Tseng, P.-H. (2023, September). Collective Zine-Making: Fostering Art-Teacherhood Alliance, Challenging Normative Power Structures in K-12 Art Education. International Society of Education through the Arts (InSEA): World Congress (Virtual), Çanakkale, Turkey.

• Tseng, P.-H. (2023, September). My Tent as Art Studio: Reshaping Transnational Feminist Identity and Untethering the Privilege of Eurocentrism. International Society of Education through the Arts (InSEA): World Congress (Virtual), Çanakkale, Turkey.

• Tseng, P.-H., Cooper, Y., Sung, J. S., Wei, Y., Fang, H. (2023, April). Contemporary Art Education in Taiwan: Implementation, Collaboration, and Assessment. National Art Education Association, San Antonio, TX, USA.

• Tseng, P.-H., Alzahrani, F. A., Park, Y. S., Oliver, K. (2023, March). Beyond Belonging: Non-Immigrant Student Perspectives on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Public Space. 2023 National Art Education Association Research Preconvention (Virtual), PA, USA.

• Tseng, P.-H. (2023, February). Pierce/Pieces, Keeping Public Art Diary as a Personal Positionality Statement Becoming a Transnational Feminist. Breaking Barriers: Agents of Change conference held by the Graduate Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies association, Pennsylvania State University, PA, USA.

• Keifer-Boyd, K., Tseng, P.-H., Alzahrani, F. A., Park, Y. S., Oliver, K. et al. (2022, October) Participatory Arts-Informing Critical Encounters in Public Spaces. Curriculum & Pedagogy Conference, State College, PA, USA.

• Tseng, P.-H. (2018, December). Rethinking Teaching for Excellence: The Milieu to Teaching and Learning through Emotional Experiences. The

  International Society for Education Through Art Conference (InSEA), Hong Kong.

• Tseng, P.-H. (2017, December). Gender Issue of Mainland Girl (Chinese Lettuce). Symposium of Cultural Resources, Taipei National University of the Arts, Taipei, Taiwan.

• Tseng, P.-H. (2016, December). Learning of Excellent Teaching: Rethink Milieu of Teaching and Learning. Symposium of Cultural Resources, Taipei National University of the Arts, Taipei, Taiwan.

SELECTED INVITED PRESENTATIONS

• Tseng, P.-H. (2025, June 26). Tenting ourselves through art storytelling. The Pennsylvania State University | School of Visual Arts, Palmer Museum of Art. https://sites.psu.edu/sica/

• Note: The workshop received the top evaluation score among art educators.

• Tseng, P.-H. (2025, January). Marine-Debris-Encyclopedia and Let US (Lettuce) Change the Menu in Participatory Arts-Based Research. Virginia Commonwealth University (Online), VA, USA.

• Tseng, P.-H., & Cheng, A. Y.-C. (2024, November). Public art diary-dialogue as transnational feminist stories. 50/50 Actions for NAEA Coalition for Feminisms in Art Education (NAEA) (Online).

• Tseng, P.-H. (2024, March). Feminist Art Tearing Patriarchy Linguistic Fabrics. 10th Art +Feminism Wikistorming Event, PA, USA.

• Tseng, P.-H (2024, January) My Academic Adventure at Penn State. Invited presentation, Department of Fine Arts, National Changhua University of Education, Taiwan.

• Tseng, P.-H (2024, January) A Cross-Cultural Journey in Art Education] Pin-Hsuan Tseng and Jinna Sun Online Talk Show. New Taipei Municipal Zhonghe Junior High School, Taiwan.

• Tseng, P.-H. (2023, March). Let Us (Lettuce) Change the Menu: Collective Feminist Art Actions. 9th Art +Feminism Wikistorming Event, PA, USA.

• Tseng, P.-H. & Holt, A. (2023, March). Robin Hammond: Documenting and Sharing LGBTI Global Stories of Discrimination and Survival. 9th Art+Feminism Wikistorming Event, PA, USA.

• Tseng, P.-H. (2023, January). Changeable Salt: How are you doing as a student-teacher Workshop, Professional Development of Art Education 495, Penn State University, PA, USA.

• Tseng, P.-H. (2022, December). Resilience: My Art Education Journey. Invited presentation (online), Taipei National University of the Arts, Taipei, Taiwan.

• Tseng, P.-H. (2022, November). Holding You Close to My Heart: Affect-based Art Education Workshop. Invited presentation (online), Matsu Middle School Association, Taipei, Taiwan.

• Tseng, P.-H. (2021, November). Arts Teacher Online Professional Learning Community. Symposium of Art Education, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan.

TEACHING

• 2024-2025: Teaching assistant (Art History 100, 101, 280), The Pennsylvania State University.

• 2023-2024: Instructor, Introduction Visual Studies (Art 10), The Pennsylvania State University. 

• 2022 -2024: Penn State Art Education Graduate Teaching Assistant (AED 489: Advanced Practicum and AED 495: Student Teaching Practicum)

• 2012-2022: Certified Visual Arts Teacher and Administrator, Gong-Liao Middle School (Educational Priority Area), New Taipei City, Taiwan.  Visual Art, Design Thinking, Environmental Eco-Art, English to students with disabilities

• 2018-2022: Coordinator & Lecturer, Dream N (Visual Art) Professional Learning Community, K-12 Education Administration of Ministry of Education, Taiwan.

• 2018-2021: Co-lecturer for Pre-service teacher training, Center for Teacher Education, Taipei National University of the Arts, Taiwan.

• 2021-2022: Lecturer, Teacher Art Workshop & Guidance Group, Education Bureau, Taiwan.

• 2016 (August): Art Teacher, Cambodia Youth Community, Kampot, Cambodia.

• 2009 (July): Art Teacher and English Teacher, Chongqing Railway High School, Chongqing, China, conducted by National Taiwan Normal University.

• 2008 (August): Art Teacher, Qingshan Primary School, Qinghai, China, Eden Social Welfare Foundation.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

• Mar. 2025 Yellow Tent/Tension: Transnational Feminist Art Storytelling. Penn State 2025 Graduate Exhibition, State College, PA, USA. https://gradschool.psu.edu/student-support/professional-development/graduate-exhibition/graduate-exhibition-listings/yellow-tent-tension-transnational-feminist-art-storytelling

• Oct. 2023 Diary or Dairy? Where are your commons? Patterson Art Gallery, State College, PA, USA.

• May 2023 A tent is in/out Studio? Transgression, Transitions, and Transformation. C-PAD, State College, PA, USA.

• Mar. 2023 My/Your Journey in New Zealand. The Human Impact, HumpDay Gallery, State College, PA, USA.

  https://thehumaimpact.wixsite.com/the-human-impact/product-page/pin-hsuan-tseng-my-your-journey-in-new-zealand-2

• Dec. 2022 Curious INQUIRIES exhibition (Saturday Art School Practicum). Zoller gallery, State College, PA, USA.

• Dec. 2022 Yarn Bombing, Pasquerella center. Place/Land Art Inquiry: Poetics of Sustainability exhibition. Borland Project Space, State College, PA, USA.

  https://sites.psu.edu/aed590fall2022colloquium/carly-fouz-aljameel-pin-hsuan/

• Mar.2019 Draw+er Pedagogy toward Art Education. The Process of Knowledge exhibition, Haiton Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan.

  https://archive.taishinart.org.tw/event/info/2019042004

• July 2013 Endemic Species in Taiwan. Banqiao 435 Art Zone Residency, New Taipei City, Taiwan. 

• Mar. 2010 Landscape painting storage. King Car Cultural Center, Taipei, Taiwan.

• Mar. 2010 Landscape painting storage. National Taiwan Normal University Art Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan.