International Awards for Art Criticism（IAAC）

Introduction To The Jury Members
For The IAAC 5 (2018)

Gao Minglu

Gao Minglu is a leading scholar in contemporary Chinese art and was a contributing editor of Meishu (Art Monthly) in the 1980s. He received his PhD from Harvard University and is currently a Research Professorinthe Department of History of Art and Architecture, at the University of Pittsburgh.

His major publications include:History of Contemporary Chinese Art 1985-1986 (ed., Shanghai, 1990);Inside Out: New Chinese Art (ed.,Berkeley, California);A Century’s Utopia: Chinese Avant-Garde Art (Taiwan, 2000); Chinese Maximalism (Chongqing, 2003) ;The Wall: Reshaping Contemporary Chinese Art (New York and Beijing, 2005); The No Name: A History of A Self-Exiled Avant-Garde(Beijing, 2007); Yi Pai:A synthetic Theory against Representation(Beijing, 2009); and Theory of Western Art History:Representationalism and the Turn of Art History(Beijing, 2016). He has organised major exhibitions, including: China/Avant-Garde (1989); Inside Out: New Chinese Art(1998);Harvest: Contemporary Art Exhibition (2002);Chinese Maximalism(2003); The Wall: Reshaping Contemporary Chinese Art (2005);Retrospective Exhibition of the No Name Group (2006);Yi School: Thirty Years of Chinese “Abstraction”(2007 – 2008); Yi Pai: Century Mentality (2009);Total Modernity and the Avant-Garde in Twentieth-Century Chinese Art（MIT Press 2011）.

Shen Yubing

ShenYubingis Distinguished Professor of History and Philosophy of Art at the School of Philosophy, Fudan University and Director of Zhejiang University Center for World Art Studies. His first degree and academic employment were in the fields of politics and law, and he only switched to the humanities on transferring to ZhejiangUniversity (1997-2016), where he obtaineda PhD in art theory.

Shen’s books include his prize-winning Art Criticism in the 20^th Century (Hangzhou, 2003, subsequently reprinted 4 times) and Image and Meaning: The Historiography of Modern Anglo-American History (Beijing, 2017). His translations (independently or collaboratively) includeRoger Fry, Cézanne; Clement Greenberg,Art and Culture; Leo Steinberg, Other Criteria, Michael Fried,Art and Objecthood; T.J. Clark, The Painting of Modern Life; Thierry de Duve, Kant after Duchamp; Meyer Schapiro,Modern Art: 19^th and 20^th Centuries; Jonathan Crary,Suspensions of Perception.

Shen has received many awards and grants for his translations, including an Award for outstanding achievement in Humanities and Social Sciences from the China Ministry of Education. He has been visiting scholar at the Faculty of Philosophy, Cambridge University (2001-2002) and visiting professor at Villa I Tatti, Harvard Center for the Italian Renaissance Studies (2013).

Sacha Craddock

Writer, critic and curator; Chair of Bloomberg New Contemporaries.

Sacha Craddock works at the forefront of contemporary art. Her commitment to contemporary art encompasses curating, organising, promotion, setting up structures, education, creating new networks all designed to bring artists and audiences together. She frequently talks on current issues in contemporary art for galleries, museums and institutions. Recent criticism includes essays on Lubaina Himid, Hurvin Anderson, Richard Healy, Wolfgang Tillmans, Louise Gluck, Mark Boulos, Gillian Wearing, Benjamin Senior, Angus Fairhurst, Richard Billingham, Edgar Davids, Mustafa Hulusi, Heri Dono, Rosa Lee, Art and Youth for Turner Contemporary and London in the 1970s.

Sacha Craddock is co-founder of Bloomberg Space and was its curator from 2002-2011. She has been Chair of the Board of New Contemporaries and selection process since 1996.

Craddock curated the Turner Prize 2017 and has been a selector for both the Turner Prize and the John Moores Prize. She co-founded Artschool Palestine and is a Public Art Advisor for the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea. She is co-founder and member of Faculty at British School at Rome, Trustee of the Shelagh Cluett Trust and consultant and curator of the Spectrum Prize for artists on the autistic spectrum.

Jean-Marc Poinsot

Jean-MarcPoinsot is Professor Emeritus of the History of Contemporary Art at the University of Rennes 2, where he founded and ran a course devoted to all aspects of exhibition organisation, in 1984. In 1989, with the support of the international Association of Art Critics (AICA), he founded the Archives de la critique d’art (The international Archives of Art Criticism), followed by Critique d’art /The International Review of Contemporary Art Criticism , in 1993.For a number of years from 2001 he was director of the Research Department at the new Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art (INHA), and then, on his return to Rennes, of the postgraduate School of Arts, Letters and Languages at the University of Rennes 2.

In parallel to these activities, Poinsothas been a regular collaborator with the Biennale de Paris, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Bordeaux (CAPC), and the Nouveau Musée, Villeurbanne.

Poinsot has published numerous articles, books and catalogues including Mail Art (1971), Supports-Surfaces (1983), L’atelier sans mur’,Quandl’oeuvre a lieu, and L’art exposé et sesrécitsautorisées (2^nd edition, 2008), and compiled the first comprehensive edition of Daniel Buren’s writings, in 1991. His most recent works include: Mémoirescroisés, derives archivistiques(2015), an exhibition and catalogue of selected documents from the collections of the Archives de la critique d’art (2015); Entre élection et sélection, le critique face à seschoix, the proceedings of a colloquium at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Val de Marne, Paris (MAC VAL, 2017); and an AICA publication of selected writings by Lee Yil, which he edited and introduced (2017).

Matthew Collings

Matthew Collings is an artist, art critic, writer and broadcaster. He has written and presented many successful TV series on art of different periods, ranging from the Renaissance to contemporary, and broadcast on the UK’s BBC TV and Channel 4. His six-part series,This Is Modern Art, won many awards, including an award from the Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA). His documentary about abstract art from Hilma Af Klint to El Anatsui, entitled The Rules of Abstraction, was broadcast by the BBC in 2014. Many of his programmes have been broadcast worldwide. He is the author of many successful books on art and is currently completing one on contemporary painting for Thames & Hudson. Matthew was born in 1955, and attended Byam Shaw School of Art 1974-79, and Goldsmith’s College 1990-91. He edited the international art magazine, Artscribe, 1983-87. He was the art critic on BBC Television’s The Late Show, 1988-96. Between 1997 and 2005 he presented Channel 4’s annual live coverage of the Turner Prize. His collaborative abstract paintings, based on patterns and done in partnership with the mosaicist, Emma Biggs, are exhibited at Vigo, in Dering Street, London, and are in collections worldwide.