BIOGRAPHY
Nie Xiaoyi is a researcher, writer, editor, and curator specialising in curatorial studies and Chinese contemporary art. She approaches curating as an act of instigating (cedong), fermenting ideas, and facilitating discussion. She is a Curatorial Fellow at the De Ying Foundation for the 2024–2025 term. Since 2021, she co-edits the transnational Sinophone publishing platform Qilu Criticism. From 2022 to 2024, she was the senior editor of ArtReview’s Chinese edition and LEAP.
Her research frequently reinterprets the histories of transcultural exhibitions through archival materials and interviews. Her Ph.D. at the Royal College of Art focused on the emergence of curating in China and explored the mobilising effects of art in 20th-century China. In 2022, she joined the research project Three Contested Sites, which examines touring exhibitions of Chinese contemporary art in Europe during the 1990s. In 2020, she received IAAC-UK’s Emerging Art Writer Fellowship. She has contributed to curatorial programs at OCAT Research Institute (Beijing), Gasworks (London), the Royal College of Art (London), and the Jimei-Arles Photography Festival (Xiamen). Her research has been presented at the Institute of International Visual Arts (London), the Chinese Academy of Arts (Hangzhou), and the Glasgow School of Art.
CV
updated in 12/2024
Her research frequently reinterprets the histories of transcultural exhibitions through archival materials and interviews. Her Ph.D. at the Royal College of Art focused on the emergence of curating in China and explored the mobilising effects of art in 20th-century China. In 2022, she joined the research project Three Contested Sites, which examines touring exhibitions of Chinese contemporary art in Europe during the 1990s. In 2020, she received IAAC-UK’s Emerging Art Writer Fellowship. She has contributed to curatorial programs at OCAT Research Institute (Beijing), Gasworks (London), the Royal College of Art (London), and the Jimei-Arles Photography Festival (Xiamen). Her research has been presented at the Institute of International Visual Arts (London), the Chinese Academy of Arts (Hangzhou), and the Glasgow School of Art.
CV
updated in 12/2024