Liyin Wang

Liyin Wang is a researcher and curator. She is interested in the curatorial as a circuitous and cyclic path of rationalizing intuitive thoughts, and an extensive way of expanding discourses through cross-disciplinary rendezvous.

Her academic research centers around the presentation and representation of personal, regional, and/or national specificities in global context. This is reflected and analyzed through the prompts how complex specificities contribute to shaping the identity of an artistic style, a perennial project, a city under regeneration, or an evolving culture entity; how cultural translation and reappropriation are made to encounter the global; and how dominant theories or canons are challenged via 'local' interventions. In terms of curatorial practice, she has passion in developing public engaging programs for building up creative and reciprocal relationships between art museums/culture institutions and schools/universities/communities. These curated programs span from academic lectures, pop-up forums, workshops for inter-disciplinary and multi-sensory experience, public participatory exhibitions and performance, docent training, student-led events, etc.

Liyin serves as executive director for Shanghai Curators Lab (SCL), a collective residency program for early-career curators. She worked as programmer for Shanghai International Art City Research Institute at Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts (SAFA), and manager for international communication at SAFA. Before that she worked in Shanghai Himalayas Museum as coordinator for Shanghai Project (2015-2017), a multidisciplinary idea platform, and educational curator for various exhibitions in the Museum. Her recent curatorial projects include Chun Kwang Young: Times Reimagined – Collateral Event of the 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia (2022), The Art Life of Huang Rui (2021), The Challenging Souls: Yves Klein, Lee Ufan, Ding Yi (2019).