International Awards for Art Criticism（IAAC）

Introduction To The Jury Members
For The IAAC 7 (2020)

Ding Ning

Ding Ning is Professor of Art History and Theory at the School of Arts, Peking University. He was the Chairman of the Department of Art History and Theory, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, before moving to Beijing in 2000. From 1993 to 1994, under the auspices of the British Council, he did his post-doctoral research in the Department of Art History and Theory at the University of Essex, UK. In 1998, he did short-term research at the Department of Art and Architecture, Harvard University. He has won quite a few major academic grants including the Onassis Foundation A1 Fellowship, Greece; ZKM Fellowship, Germany; Getty Research Institute Fellowship; Distinguished Guest Scholar and Lecturer, Terra Foundation for American Art Europe; and Villa I Tatti Fellowship, Harvard University, USA. His numerous books include Dimensions of Reception, Psychology of Visual Art, Dimensions of Duration: Toward a Philosophy of Art History, Depth of Art, Western Art History, Spectrum of Images: Toward a Cultural Dimension of Visual Arts, and Looking Far and Clear: Approaching the most Beautiful Art. He also translated extensively.

Ken Neil

Ken Neil is Dean of the School of Arts and Humanities at the Royal College of Art, London. Before that, he occupied senior teaching positions at Glasgow School of Art from 1906 to 2019. He studied painting and the history and philosophy of art at Edinburgh College of Art, completing a PhD in art history in 2003. Ken has written extensively on contemporary art and theory and is currently on the editorial board of the Journal of Visual Arts Practice. His research and writing relate to three fields: contemporary art and art theory; issues for creative education; and the visual culture of the everyday.

Lisbeth Rebollo Gonçalves

Lisbeth Rebollo Gonçalves is the International President of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA), Paris and Full Professor at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. Before that she has been President of the Brazilian Association of Art Critics from 2000 to 2006 and from 2010 to 2016 to 2016, as well as Vice-President of International AICA from 2006 to 2007 and 2010 to 2011. She was director of the Museum of Contemporary Art at the University of São Paulo from 1994 to 1998 and from 2006 to 2010. She is Editorial Advisor and Corresponding Editor of the magazine ARtNexus ISSN 0122-1744, and a regular contributor to the magazine. Her full c.v. may be consulted at the national Research Council – CNOq (Brazil): http://lattes.cnpg.br/2753819507135011

Richard Dyer

Richard Dyer is Editor in Chief of Third Text, and a Contributing Editor to Ambit literary magazine. He is a widely published art critic, reviewer, poet, fiction writer and practising artist. His critical writing has appeared in Third Text, Contemporary, Frieze, Flash Art, Art Review, Art Press (London Correspondent), The Independent, The Guardian, The Evening Standard, Time Out, Citizen K (London Correspondent), and many other publications and catalogues. His latest publication is a monograph on the UK based artist Wolfe von Lenkiewicz (Anomie Publishing, 2016); a chapter in Magne Furuholmen: Alpha Beta (Forlaget Press, Oslo, 2013); a chapter in Identities/Identiteetit, ‘On the Construction of an Artistic Identity through Diverse Practice’, (Royal Academy Publications, 2012); Ben Turnbull: Truth Justice and the American Way (The Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster University, 2012); The Descent of Man: Wolfe von Lenkiewicz (All Visual Arts, 2009); Clement Page: Screen Memories: Picturing Lost Time in the Watercolours of Clement Page (Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin, 2009); Art on Demand: Custom Colours and Materials: Sébastien de Ganay, Abstract Works Catalogue, 2008–2009 (onestar press, 2009); Controfacciata: Solid Water, Liquid Stone, on the work of German photographer Matthias Schaller, (Ben Brown Gallery, London, 2008); Keith Coventry: Deconstructing the Modernist Utopia (Haunch of Venison, Zurich, 2008); the major monograph Making the (In)visible in the Work of Mark Francis, (Lund Humphries, 2008); Painting: The Essential Verb, (Jerwood Foundation, Contemporary Painters Prize, 2008). Previous publications include Transitive Transduction: Breaking the Integument in the Work of Tony Bevan (Ben Brown Gallery, 2006); Dan Hays: Impressions of Colorado (Southampton City Art Gallery, 2006); Zineb Sedira: Saphir (Photographer’s Gallery, 2006); and the first monograph on the British feminist performance and video artist Tina Keane, Electronic Shadows: The Art of Tina Keane, (Black Dog, 2004). He has conducted interviews with Gilbert and George, Nicholas Serota, Euan Uglow, Gregory Crewdson, Sara Lucas, Andres Serrano, Isaac Julian, Yinka Shonibare, Fred Wilson, Raqib Shaw and Georgina Starr, among other leading contemporary artists. He gave the opening keynote speech ‘Breeching the Integument between Making, Looking and Writing’ at the 45th AICA Congress at the University of Zurich in July 2012.

Pauline J. Yao

Pauline J. Yao is Lead Curator, Visual Art, at M+. She has held curatorial positions at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco and worked as an independent curator and writer in Beijing for six years, during which time she helped to co-found the storefront art space Arrow Factory. Since joining M+ in 2012, Yao has played a leading role in building the visual art collection by overseeing and acquiring works from around Asia and beyond. She is a co-curator of the 2009 Shenzhen and Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture. Yao is a regular contributor to Artforum International and is the co-editor of PODIUM, M+’s online publication. Her writings on contemporary Asian art have appeared in numerous catalogues, online publications, and edited volumes. Recently, she curated Five Artists: Sites Encountered, an exhibition held last year at the M+ Pavilion.