Dr. Marek Bartelik is a Polish-born, New York-based art critic, art historian and poet. He is the current President of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA, 2011-2017) and a former President of AICA USA (2007-2011). After initially training as a civil engineer at Columbia University, he switched subjects, ending up with a PhD in art history from the City University of New York.

Bartelik has taught modern and contemporary art at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Sciences and Art in New York since 1996, is a Visiting Professor at Yale University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and was Graduate Critic-in-Residence at the Maryland International College of Art in Baltimore (2004-2012).

As a freelance critic, Bartelik has reviewed exhibitions from all over the world for Artforum, as well as contributing to numerous journals, such as Art in America and the Brooklyn Rail and publications in Poland, Sweden, Taiwan, and elsewhere. His major publications include The Sculpture of Ursula von Rydingsvard (New York, 1996, with Dore Ashton and Matti Megged), Early Polish Modern Art (Manchester, UK, 2005), and Mark Rothko (Warsaw), in addition to volumes of poetry in Polish and English.

Bartelik has lectured widely, both nationally and internationally, at MoMA, New York, the Polish Academy of Science in Warsaw, the Henry Moore Foundation in Leeds, and museums and institutions as far afield as in Argentina, Brazil, Peru, The Netherlands, Ukraine, Taiwan, and Korea.

Dieter von Graffenried is the Publisher of Parkett Magazine, edited out of Zurich and New York. Parkett's main mission is to engage readers in a direct and meaningful dialogue with artists. Founded in 1984, Parkett has published some one hundred volumes featuring in-depth collaborations with two hundred and forty artists from around the world and some 1400 texts by over eight hundred authors. Thoughtfully written and edited texts are a core element of the publication, and are selectively accessible online in the magazine's signature design.

In the past thirty years, von Graffenried has among others initiated and developed museum exhibitions on Parkett and its artists' projects and editions at MoMA, New York, the Whitechapel Gallery, London, Singapore (STPI), Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Seoul (SAC), Beijing (UCCA) and other venues. He was the Co-Chairman of the Swiss Institute in New York from 2000 to 2008. He graduated with a PhD from Bern University with studies in history, economics and law, and advises institutions in art and publishing related matters.

Yongwoo Lee, who was born in Seoul, Korea, is an art historian, critic and curator, whose main area of interest is contemporary art criticism, with a focus on media art. He was the founding director of the Gwangju Biennale, established in 1995 and served as president of the Gwangju Biennale Foundation from 2008 to 2014. He was a professor of visual culture and aesthetics at the Korea University in Seoul until 1998, since which time he has devoted most of his attention to writing and curatorial activities. In 1995, Lee was Korean commissioner for the Venice Biennale's special exhibition, 'Tiger's Tail' (1995), and in 2001 he curated 'Electronic Maple', the inaugural exhibition at the New York Center for Media Arts. His publications include The Origins of Video Art (Oxford University, 1998), and he is the author of a number of essays on the video art of Nam June Paik. He was the founding President of the International Biennial Association (since 2014) and takes up a new post as Director of the Himalayas Museum, Shanghai, in June 2015. In 2015 he was a member of the International Jury at the 56th Venice International Art Biennale and curator of a collateral exhibition of Korean monochrome art, Dansaekhwa.

* Henry Meyric Hughes： Non-voting Chair of the Jury and Chair of the IAAC