You Are Everyone Who Tells A Story
Duo artist exhibition featuring paintings by Wanying Jin and photography by Evelyn Sosa.

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March 17 – May 2, 2023
Space 776, New York & Artsy

Curation




别杀我,我还在爱!
 
在黄小鹏的问题(“误译”也可看作是问题的集合)背后,严肃和玩笑之间总是存在滑动和错位

Read on Artforum China

October 2021
Artforum China

Exhibition Review




RED REGATTA: riflessi

Melissa McGill’s site-specific project in Venice honored the local maritime culture and history while literally raising red flags about the ecological threats and heavy tourism dooming the city and its people. 

Read on the Brooklyn Rail

February 2020
The Brooklyn Rail

Exhibition Review




Nina Klein: An Open Myth

Solo exhibition of Nina Klein, who tackles the long-time myth of sex and gender through enimagatic abstract paintings.

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January 15 – February 3, 2021
Space 776, New York & Artsy

Curation





Whose Reality?—Augmented Reality as Public Art

Here I am, standing on Fifth Avenue just across from Apple’s recently reopened Batcave of a store and chasing a liquid, care-free form as it flies in and out of the midtown skyscrapers surrounding us. 

Read on Brooklyn Rail

November 2019
The Brooklyn Rail

Art Criticism




Perilous Bodies

The body, even when broken or vanished, serves as a record of how institutional power shapes and impacts one’s existence. 

Read on Brooklyn Rail

June 2019
The Brooklyn Rail

Exhibition Review




特雷弗·帕格林的人造卫星:太空艺术还是宇宙垃圾?

太空似乎变成了一片自由的、可被人类随意使用和占领的新大陆。

Read on Artsy China

January 2019
Artsy

Art Critcism




Sarah Lucas: Au Naturel

Like all of Lucas’s work, it is as poetic as it is vulgar, as sincere as it is ironic, as empowering as it is depressing, and as meaningful as it is mundane.

Read on Brooklyn Rail

December/January 2018-2019
The Brooklyn Rail

Exhibition Review




If Only the Cloud Knows: Interview with Li Shuang

Li Shuang has never stopped questioning what technology and globalization mean for individuals in her art.

Read on ArtAsiaPacific

August 2018
ArtAsiaPacific

Artist Interview




Animated Contradictions: Interview with Wong Ping

Fun, twisted and contradictory—qualities that shine through in Wong Ping’s short animated films, installations, and my conversation with the artist.

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May 2018
ArtAsiaPacific

Artist Interview




在混沌中爆炸,在空虚中重生

借波士顿当代艺术博物馆的大展“互联网时代的艺术——1989至今” ,浅谈互联网、艺术、历史与“变革”

Read on MuseumReview

April 2018
《博物馆评论》

Exhibition Review, Art Criticism




A Darkly Comic Animated Film Set on China’s Urban-Rural Fringe

Have a Nice Day is a stark, ruthless, and true-to-life movie about people living on the urban-rural fringe of China today.

Read on Hyperallergic

January 2018
Hyperallergic

Film Review




In The Shape of Water, Small Acts of Rebellion Make a Splash

Guillermo del Toro’s latest film, about a mute cleaning woman who liberates and falls in love with a humanoid amphibian monster, is intimate in scale but tells a potent story of empowerment.

Read on Hyperallergic

December 2017
Hyperallergic

Film Review




世界剧场

纽约,十月——古根海姆美术馆被一个庞然大物所占领

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January 2018
《博物馆评论》

Exhibition Review




The Transformation of Ritual

Even as a top-of-the-line party that offers a gateway into China, the exhibition is undeniably a towering monument of nostalgia rather than the flying banner of a glorious revolution.

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October 2017

Translation, Exhibition Review




The Many Arms of Takashi Murakami’s Career

A retrospective at the MCA Chicago charts the many strands of Murakami’s painting practice, from his early Nihonga style to recent Buddhist iconography.

Read on Hyperallergic

September 2017
Hyperallergic

Exhibition Review




Jordan Wolfson Evades the Politics of His Violent Images

At a screening of his work at the New Museum, the artist failed to acknowledge the privilege that lets him reduce violence to an aesthetic form.

Read on Hyperallergic

June 2017
Hyperallergic

Art Criticism




Surveying Landscapes for Clues to Political Violence

Two films made almost 50 years apart use silent shots of landscapes to examine the conditions that drove two young people to criminality.

Read on Hyperallergic

April 2017
Hyperallergic

Art Criticism




Criminal Con-artists Explore Surveillance at SPRING/BREAK

The barbershop was just a “subterfuge.” What was hidden behind the shop was a control room surveilling Times Square.

Read on Cultbytes

March 2017
Cultbytes

Art Review




A Case Study: Teshima Art Museum as a Motherly Form

This is an excerpt from my presentation at symposium “Cultural Melting Bath: New Work on Contemporary Art and the Environment in Japan and Beyond,” held at University of Chicago on Jan. 19, 2016.

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January 2019
University of Chicago

Academic Research, Symposium Presentation








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