A leading expert on Chinese contemporary art, Barbara Pollack is an award winning journalist, art critic and curator. Since 1994, Barbara Pollack has written on Chinese contemporary art for such publications as The New York Times, the Village Voice, Art in America, Vanity Fair and Artnews, among many others. Her latest book, Brand New Art from China: A Generation on the Rise, was published by I.B. Tauris in September 2018.
In addition to writing, Pollack is an independent curator who organized the groundbreaking exhibition, My Generation: Young Chinese Artists at Tampa Museum of Art, Oklahoma City Museum of Art and the Orange County Museum of Art in 2014 and WeChat: A Dialogue in Chinese Contemporary Art at Asia Society Texas in 2016. More recently, she curated Tu Hongtao: A Timely Journey at the Long Museum, Sun Xun: Prediction Laboratory at the Yuz Museum and Lu Yang: Delusional Mandala at the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland. A three-time recipient of the MacDowell Colony Fellowship, she is a professor at the School of Visual Arts in New York and has been awarded two grants from the Asian Cultural Council as well as receiving the prestigious Creative Capital/Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writer Grant.
But most importantly, Pollack began her career as an artist, showing successfully in the New York art world. Her journey from artworld outsider to insider, from provincial New Yorker to global art expert, is compelling and brings new insights into how to navigate the world of contemporary art and how to use art to discover more about global politics.
