Alfreda Murck

Historian of Chinese visual culture Alfreda Murck has lived in Asia for more than two decades. While in Beijing from 1997 to 2013, she was a consultant to the Palace Museum in the Forbidden City and a fellow at their Painting and Calligraphy Research Center. She taught graduate students at the Central Academy of Fine Arts and Peking University. From 2000 to 2013, she worked with the Henry Luce Foundation on a series of workshops supporting the development of art history as a discipline in China. Major exhibitions to which she contributed include "The Three Emperors, 1662–1795" at the Royal Academy, London; "Eccentric Visions: The Worlds of Luo Ping (1733–1799)" at the Museum Rietberg, Zurich, and the Metropolitan Museum, New York; "Mao's Golden Mangoes and the Cultural Revolution" at the China Institute, New York, and the Museum Rietberg. She authored Poetry and Painting in Song China: The Subtle Art of Dissent (Harvard University Press, 2000) and has published numerous articles in English and Chinese on China's visual arts and poetry. Prior to living in Asia, Murck was the associate curator of Asian Art at the Metropolitan Museum.

Wang Jianwei

Wang Jianwei (b. 1958, Sichuan) is a pioneering figure in Chinese contemporary art currently based in Beijing. Major solo exhibitions include "Time Temple" (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2014-2015); "...the event matured, accomplished in sight of all non-existent human outcomes" (Long March Space, Beijing, 2013); and "Yellow Signal" (Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, 2011).

Qiu Zhijie

Qiu Zhijie (b. 1969, Fujian) graduated from the printmaking department of China Academy of Art in 1992 and is now based in Beijing and Hangzhou. He is a professor at the School of Trans-media Art of China Academy of Art and a mentor for the M.A. and Ph.D. programs.

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Adam Bai

Scholar

Philip Tinari

Director, UCCA