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Introduction To The Jury Members
For
The IAAC 12 (2026)
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Fiona Bradley
Fiona Bradley is the Director of Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh. Motivated by a commitment to the transformative power of art, and to what bringing artists and audiences together can do, she started her curatorial career at Tate Liverpool and the Hayward Gallery, London, and has been Director of Fruitmarket since 2003. Her programme at Fruitmarket has included exhibitions of work by major Scottish and international artists including Leonor Antunes, Phyllida Barlow, Karla Black, Louise Bourgeois, Martin Boyce, Stan Douglas, Ellen Gallagher, Eva Hesse, William Kentridge, Jim Lambie, Lee Lozano, Ibrahim Mahama, Howardena Pindell, Cai Guo Qiang, Roman Signer and Barry Le Va. She has worked in the public realm, bringing art to audiences where they are with Martin Creed's Work 1059, a work of permanent public sculpture on Edinburgh's historic Scotsman Steps, and Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller’s Night Walk for Edinburgh, an interactive, site-specific video work for smartphone.
Fiona is a trustee of Yorkshire Contemporary. She was a member of the jury for important awards and prizes like Turner Prize, Paul Hamlyn Award, Woon Foundation Painting and Sculpture Art Prize, Max Mara Art Prize for Women and Kleinwort Hambros Emerging Artist Prize. In 2011 she was the curator for Scotland’s contribution to the Venice Biennale with Karla Black; and in 2019 was a member of the Selection Committee for the British Pavilion. She was a member of the Imperial War Museum Contemporary Commissioning Committee between 2015 and 2024. She was awarded an OBE for services to the arts in 2018 and is an Honorary Fellow of the University of Edinburgh and an Honorary Professor in the School of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester.
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Ben Eastham
Ben Eastham is a writer and editor based in London. He is editor-in-chief of e-flux Criticism and co-founder of The White Review. His second book of non-fiction, The Imaginary Museum, was published in September 2020; his debut novel, The Floating World, will be published by Fitzcarraldo Editions (Commonwealth) and Astra House (in the US) in October 2026.
A regular contributor to the Guardian, his writing has also appeared in ArtReview, e-flux, frieze, the London Review of Books, the New York Times, the Times Literary Supplement, Fantastic Man, Acne Paper and the Financial Times, among other publications. He is the editor of books on Luis Camnitzer, Arshile Gorky, Fabio Mauri and Stephen Spender, and has written monographic essays for artists including Ed Ruscha, Camille Henrot, Kati Heck and Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian.
He was previously an editor at ArtReview, on the curatorial team of the 14th Shanghai Biennale, publications editor of the 13th Seoul Mediacity Biennale, and an associate editor at documenta 14. He is on the International Advisory Panel of EVA International – Ireland’s Biennial of Contemporary Art, and began his career as an editor at the BBC reporting on mass media and propaganda.
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Richard J. Williams
Richard J. Williams is Professor of Contemporary Visual Cultures at the University of Edinburgh and Director of Internationalism at Edinburgh College of Art. He started off with a BA Hons in Art (Studio Practice) at Goldsmiths College, University of London, before going on to take an MA and PhD in the History of Art at Manchester University. He first taught Ary and Design History at Liverpool John Moores University, before moving to the University of Edinburgh in 2000. Since 2010 he has been Professor of Contemporary Visual Cultures in Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh. His numerous publications include: After Modern Sculpture: Art in the United States and Europe, 1965-70 (2000); Brazil: Modern Architecture and the Sexual Revolution(2013); The Culture Factory: Architecture and the Contemporary Art Museum (2021), The Expressway World (2025) and (forthcoming) Infrastructure In Image: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (co-ed) (2027).
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WANG Pu
WANG Pu, teacher, poet, critic, scholar and translator, is associate professor of Chinese at Brandeis University, visiting professor at Chongqing University, researcher at the China Academy of Art (Hangzhou), and research fellow at Tsientang Institute of Advanced Studies. He studied at Peking University from 1999 to 2006 and received his PhD in Comparative Literature at New York University in 2012. Dr. Wang was a Fellow at the Nantes Institute of Advanced Studies in 2020. His works include The Translatability of Revolution: Guo Moruo and Twentieth-Century Chinese Culture (Harvard University Asia Center, 2018) and Ditu zai dong (a collection of poetic criticism in Chinese; Shanghai, 2025). Dr Wang is a poet writing in Chinese. His first book of poetry, Baota ji qita (2015), received high acclaim. He is also the award-winning Chinese translator of Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life.
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XIANG Zairong
Zairong XIANG’s research, teaching, and curatorial practices engage with cosmology and cosmopolitanism in their culturally diverse, historically specific, and conceptually promiscuous manifestations in English, Spanish, French, Chinese, and Nahuatl. He teaches literature and art at Duke Kunshan University, and was co-curator of the 2021 Guangzhou Image Triennial, Ceremony (Burial of an Undead World) at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), and the 14th Shanghai Biennial Cosmos Cinema (2023-2024. He has curated the minor cosmopolitan weekend (HKW Berlin, 2018) and the exhibition How to be Happy Together? at Para-Site Hong Kong (Dec. 2024). He is currently co-curating (with Denise Ryner) a research and exhibition project at ICA Philadelphia (2026). Author of Queer Ancient Way: A Decolonial Exploration (punctum books), he is the editor of exhibition catalogues, journal special issues, and a film archive. He is currently completing his second book on “transdualism.” Through the concept of “shanzhai/counterfeit,” he continues multifaceted research into the artistic and intellectual exchanges in the Global South, especially between Latin America and China since the nineteenth century. Once a research fellow at the ICI-Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry and a postdoctoral fellow of the DFG Research Training Group minor cosmopolitanisms at Potsdam University, he was twice the recipients of the EU Erasmus Mundus scholarship for his cotutelle PhD and MA. All his writings and lectures can be accessed at : http://www.xiangzairong.com |
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