Xiaoyu Weng is a Shanghai-born, New York-based curator, writer, editor and educator in the area of contemporary art.
12 Facts About Xiaoyu Weng
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Xiaoyu Weng was the inaugural curatorial fellow at Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts at the California College of the Arts and program director of the Asian Contemporary Art Consortium in San Francisco.
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Early in her career, Weng found she preferred directly talking with living artists more than art history.
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In 2010, Xiaoyu Weng was appointed founding director of Asia Programs at the Kadist Art Foundation's Asia Programmes for Paris and San Francisco, where she oversaw artist residencies, built the contemporary Asian art collection, and launched the Kadist Curatorial Collaboration, which organizes exhibitions designed to encourage cultural exchange.
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Xiaoyu Weng organized shows like Ho Tzu Nyen: The Cloud of Unknowing, Ming Wong: Making Chinatown, Young Hae Chang Heavy Industries: Pacific Limm, Robert Zhao Renhui: Flies Prefer Yellow.
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Xiaoyu Weng has said that working at the Kadist developed her interest in artistic practice and culture in Southeast Asia.
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Xiaoyu Weng was an integral part of the curatorial team at the Guggenheim for more than five years.
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From 2018 to 2019, Xiaoyu Weng served as the Curator of the 5th Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art held in Yekaterinburg, Russia, transforming a former military factory and an abandoned theater into contemporary art spaces.
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Xiaoyu Weng has had a diverse teaching practice and has taught at New York University, CCS Bard College, and the School of Visual Arts, New York.
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Xiaoyu Weng has contributed essays on contemporary art for books such as Six Lines of Flight: Shifting Geographies in Contemporary Art published in association with University of California Press on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name, held at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
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Xiaoyu Weng has written for numerous periodicals, among them Artforum, and is the author or co-author of catalogue essays such as Tales of Our Time and One Hand Clapping.
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Xiaoyu Weng is Guest Editor of Heichi Magazine, a bi-lingual digital forum for visual culture exchange in the Chinese-speaking world and internationally.