KAREN SMITH
Resident in China since 1992, Karen Smith is a curator/writer focused on contemporary art practices relevant to China. Starting her career as an independent practitioner, Smith was appointed founding director of OCAT Xi’an contemporary art centre in 2012. In 2021, Smith joined De Ying Foundation, to lead its academic initiatives, where she currently runs the foundation’s Curatorial Fellowship, launched spring 2022.
She has curated numerous exhibitions in China and abroad including:
“Who is He? A Retrospective of Geng Jianyi’s Works” (co-curated with artist Yang Zhenzhong) Power Station of Art (PSA), Shanghai 2022; UCCA, Beijing 2023;
“About Material Expression”, OCAT Xi’an, 2022; “The Space Between Us: Alec Soth”, Shanghai Center of Photography (SCoP), Shanghai, 2020; “Out of Ink”, Pera Museum, Istanbul, 2019; “Social Geography: Journeys with a Camera Across China”, SCoP, Shanghai, 2018; “OVERPOP” (with Jeffrey Deitch), YUZ Museum, Shanghai, 2016; “A Potent Force: Duan Jianyu and Hu Xiaoyuan”, Rockbund Art Museum (RAM), Shanghai, 2013; “The Real Thing” (with Simon Groom, Xu Zhen), Tate Liverpool, 2007.
Smith is the author of several books on China’s contemporary art scene, most notably Nine Lives: The Birth of Avant-Garde Art in New China, Scalo 2006/Timezone8 2008; the three-volume series As Seen; Notable Artworks by Chinese Artists, Post-Wave Publishing/UCCA (2011/2013/2015). She has also produced artist texts for an extensive list of exhibition catalogues and artist monographs.
Feng Boyi
Male, born in Beijing in the 1960s. Han nationality; The face of the masses; History undergraduate; Married; B blood; Rat ; Libra, ascending to Virgo. Since the late 1980s, he has been good at curation, criticism and editing.
Andrea Del Guercio
He has held various positions at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, including head of the Department of Contemporary Art History, Dean of the School of Painting, and Director of the Institute of Theory and Art History. Currently the Artistic Director of the Fifth Gallery in Lugano, he has also taught in Urbino, Florence, the Frosinone Academy, the Studio School in New York and at universities and museums in the United States, Germany, France and Switzerland. He was a scholar of the school of Scuola Longhiana and a student of Mina Gregori. He graduated in Medieval and modern Art History from the University of Florence in 1978. He was an assistant to Raffaele De Grada and a partner to Giovanni Carandente. He served as commissioner of the International Venice Biennale in 1988 and as Commissioner of Collateral events in 2005. Since 2007, he has been dealing with complex issues related to "new ways of entering the art system", acting as a scientific consultant in the creation of a contemporary art collection.
Chief Curator Zhang Zikang
Exhibiton Executive Han Haiyan
Curatorial Associate Zhang Zhongshu
Curatorial Assistant Sun Tianyi
Exhibition Design LIANG Chen
Key Vision Sun Tong
Team Support
Liang Simeng, Zhang Yiying, Tuo Zeying, Li Baotai
Liu Siyi, Liu Jia, Jin Sumei, Chang Hongtao, Zhang Xi
Pan Zhengzheng, Hou Hailong, Qi Dejun, Jin Zhiqiang,
Ma Zhong, Su Xiao Gang, Fan Ying, Fan Zheng,
Deng Jianqiao, Liu Yaguang, Yang Yamei, Liang Shuang,
Jia Hui, Wang Mengting, Hu Nan, Liu Bai, Wang Xiaoqin
Karen Smith
Andrea Del Guercio
Feng Boyi
Bian Yunxiang
Liao Wen
Ou Ming
Su Yongjian
mma Scarafiotti
TONG Wenmin
Yin Changzhi
