Curriculum Vitae

Carol Yinghua Lu (b. 1977 Guangdong, )

Phd Candidate of Art History, Melbourne University Email: [email protected]

Education Bachelor of Arts, English Literature, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 1995-99

Postgraduate course, Critical Studies, Malmo Art Academy, Lund University, Sweden, 2004-2005

Employment and experience Researcher of Exhibition History in Asia, Asia Cultural Complex, Gwangju, Korea

Advisory board member, The Exhibitionist: A Journal on Exhibition Making

Contributing editor, Frieze

Columnist, Artscape, writing on the issue of art and its interaction with the social realm

Co-director with Jens Hoffman, 5th Gwangju Biennale International Curator Course, 2014.

Jury member, inaugural International Awards for Art Criticism organized by the 21st Century Minsheng Art Museum (M21), in partnership with the Royal College of Art, London, 2014

Guest curator, Museion, Bolzano, Italy, 2013

Artistic director and chief curator, OCAT, , 2012-2015

Visiting professor, 4th Gwangju Biennale International Curator Course, 2012.

Columnist, Independent Criticism, 2010-2012

Jury member, Pinchuk Foundation Future Generation Art Prize, 2012

Jury member, Golden Lion Award, Venice Biennale, 2011

1 Jury member, Geisai, Artist Run Art Fair, Taipei, 2010.

International advisor, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto–CAMK , 2009-2010.

Co-founder and co-editor, Contemporary Art and Investment (later Independent Criticism), 2007-2010.

Jury member, Geisai # 11, Artist Run Art Fair, Tokyo 2008

Jury member, Prohelvetia, Swiss Arts Council for selecting cultural projects for its programme “China 2008-2010”.

Co-instructor, Summer course of BA and MA art and architecture students from the California College of Art, 2007

China researcher for Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong, 2005-2007.

Art consultant, Olympic Museum Lausanne on a major exhibition about China

Fellowships, grants and awards Inaugural Visiting Fellow, Asia-Pacific department, Tate Research Centre, The Tate, London

International Fellow, ZKM Summer Seminar 2009, ‘Contemporary Art and the Global Age’ led by Hans Belting, Bad Homburg and Karlsruhe.

Publications Books Carol Yinghua Lu, Liu Ding, Reef: A Prelude, Maastricht: Bonnefantenmuseum, 2016

Carol Yinghua Lu, In Dialogue with Art History after Modernism (Jingcheng Publishing House, 2014)

Diana Freundl, Carol Yinghua Lu (eds), Unscrolled: Reframing Tradition in Contemporary Chinese Art (Black Dog Publishing, London, 20014)

Nikita Yingqian Cai, Carol Yinghua Lu, No Ground Underneath: Curating on the Nexus of Changes (China Youth Publishing House, 2014)

Carol Yinghua Lu, Liu Ding (eds) Little Movements II: Self-Practice in Contemporary Art (Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig, 2013)

2 Carol Yinghua Lu, Liu Dong, Su Wei (eds), Individual Experience: Conversations and Narratives of Contemporary Art Practice in China from 1989 to 2000 (Lingnan Art Publishing House, 2013)

Carol Yinghua Lu, Liu Ding, Su Wei (eds), Accidental Message: Art is Not a System, Not a World. The 7th Shenzhen Sculpture Biennale, (Lingnan Art Publishing House, 2012)

Carol Yinghua Lu, Liu Ding (eds), Little Movements: Self-practice in Contemporary Art (Guangxi Normal University Press, 2011)

Book chapters and essays Karen Bandlow-Bata, Carol Yinghua Lu, Roy Lichtenstein - Landscapes in the Chinese Style (Gagosian Gallery, New York, 2011)

Carol Yinghua Lu, “After Tradition: The Notion of Tradition and a Projection of Subjectivity in Contemporary Art Practice in China” in Unscrolled: Reframing Tradition in Chinese Contemporary Art (Black Dog Publishing, London, 2015), pp. 16-21.

Carol Yinghua Lu, “Ai Weiwei’s Relevance” in Ai Weiwei: Sunflower Seeds published to coincide with the Tate Modern exhibition in 2010, pp. 6-19.

Lu writes in both Chinese and English. Her texts on contemporary art have appeared in books, art catalogues and magazines. She is a frequent contributor to international art journals such as e-flux journal, Tate Etc., Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, and Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art (JCCA).

Other writings Lu has worked with or written in-depth profiles of Chinese and international artists and practitioners, including Josef Dabernig, Ai Weiwei, Dahn Vo, Roy Lichtenstein, Rasheed Araeen, Simon Fujiwara, Ding Yi, Hans Belting, Boris Groys, Copenhagen Free University, Anton Vidokle, Vadar Caivano, Qian Weikang, the New Measurement Group, Leung Chi Wo, Li Dafang, Zhang Enli, Zhang Peili, Wang Guangyi, Fang Lijun, Andy Hope 1930.

Research-led curatorial practice Lu initiated, together with artist and curator Liu Ding, the research and exhibition project Little Movements: Self-practice in Contemporary Art, first presented in OCAT Shenzhen in 2010 and then Museion, Bolzano, Italy, 2013. Both exhibitions were attempts to portray the globalized art world by featuring the work of creative practitioners, from art historians, to curators, to institutional practitioners, from China and other parts of the world.

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Since 2013, Lu and Liu have been working on a long-term research project “From the Issue of Art to the Issue of Position: Echoes of Socialist Realism”, a critical examination of the methodologies and perspectives in the narratives of contemporary art histories in China.

Selected curated exhibitions Press the Button: A mid-career survey of Leung Chi Wo (OCAT Shenzhen, 2015)

New Works II: Qian Weikang and New Measurement Group (OCAT Shenzhen, 2015)

Discordant Harmony: Critical Reflections on the Imagination of Asia (Artsonje, ; Hiroshima City Museum, Hiroshima)

New Works I: From the Issue of Art to the Issue of Position: Echoes of Socialist Realism (OCAT Shenzhen, 2014)

Unscrolled: Reframing Tradition in Chinese Contemporary Art (Vancouver Art Gallery, 2014)

Accidental Message: Art is Not a System, Not a World: the 7th Shenzhen Sculpture Biennale (OCAT Shenzhen, 2012)

Co-artistic director (Gwangju Biennale, 2012)

Co-curator, 7th Shenzhen Sculpture Biennale (2012)

Little Movements: Self-practice in Contemporary Art (OCAT Shenzhen, 2010) Museion, Bolzano, 2013), You Are Not a Gadget (Pekin Fine Arts, 2011)

Liberation and Its Relative Meaning (Chinese Arts Center, Manchester, 2010)

There Is No Story to Tell (Tang Contemporary, , 2008)

Community of Taste (Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, 2008)

Temperament of Details (Red Mansion Foundation, London, 2007)

Foreign Objects (Kunsthalle Wien, 2007)

The Weight of Reality (Marella Gallery, Beijing, 2006).

4 International collaboration As Artistic director and chief curator of OCAT, Shenzhen, Lu developed an international exhibition, performing and screening programme as well as a strong discursive programme with library talks and publications for an institution previously focused on regional practices. Under her leadership, the institution collaborated with renowned artists and scholars from all over the world including Boris Groys, Hans Belting, Anselm Franke, Suzanne Lacy, Catherine Wood, Wang Hui, Lou Ye, If I Can’t Dance, Peter Pal Palbart, Zhao Chuan and Grass Stage, and Marko Daniel.

Selected lectures and presentations “Current Research into East-Asian Visual Culture”, Tate Modern

“The Practice of Art History in Exhibition Making”, Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University

“Contemporary Art, Curating and Social Engagement in Twenty-First Century China”, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai

“Art or Social Practice”, Rockbund Museum, Shanghai

“I Am for an Art Criticism that…”, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam

“Little Movements: Self-practice in Contemporary Art”, Alfred University, Alfred

“Locus Redux: Speaking Across Contexts, Learnings and Negotiations in Writing and Teaching on Art” , Yuchengco Museum in Manila

“Discovering Contemporary Art” the SH Contemporary Lecture Series, Shanghai curated by Anton Vidokle

“Qui Enter Atlas 2009”, a forum for young curators curated by Joerg Heiser in GAMeC in Bergamo, Italy “Mapping Asia”, ARCO 06, 07

“Asian Art Scene”, Art Forum, Berlin, and “Cultural Memory”, House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany

Conference organisation Co-curator with Nikita Chan, “No Grounds Underneath: Curating On the Nexus of Changes”, an international conference on curating, Times Museum in Guangzhou, 2012

Round-table: the 9th Gwangju Biennale (Gwangju Biennale Foundation, 2012)

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