about

Xin Wang is an art historian and curator based in New York. Past curatorial projects include Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China, Metropolitan Museum of Art (2013, New York), Field Meeting of Asian Contemporary Art Week (2014, New York), artist Lu Yang’s solo debut in New York: Arcade (2014, New York), THE BANK SHOW: Vive le Capital and THE BANK SHOW: Hito Steyerl (2015, Shanghai), chin(A)frica: an interface (2017, New York), and Life and Dreams: Photography and Media Art in China since the 1990s (2018, Ulm, Germany). Her writing has appeared in E-flux journal, Artforum, Kaleidoscope, Hyperallergic, and Leap. She has lectured widely at art institutions worldwide, most recently at the Para/Site International Conference (Hong Kong, 2017), Conversations at Art Basel Hong Kong (2018), Columbia University (New York. 2018), Tranen Center for Contemporary Art (Copenhagen, 2019), School of Visual Arts (New York, 2019), Queens Museum (New York, 2019), Taikang Art Space (Beijing, 2019) and as the keynote speaker for the “Asia/Technics” conference at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2019). She also served on the jury for the XITEK New Talent Award (Beijing, 2018) and the inaugural open call at The Shed (New York, 2018). Currently pursuing a PhD in modern and contemporary art at Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, Wang also works as the Joan Tisch Teaching Fellow at the Whitney Museum of American Art and manages the discursive archive on Asian Futurisms at afuturism.tumblr.com.