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Women Reshaping Contemporary Art Through Creation, Curation and Writing
Role: Organizer
Time: 2025/12/06
Address: The BLANC, 15 E 40TH ST, 12F, New York
Women Reshaping Contemporary Art Through Creation, Curation, and Writing examines how women practitioners are redefining knowledge production, narrative formation, and cultural structures within today’s rapidly shifting artistic landscape. Transformations in digital technology, institutional frameworks, and cross-platform circulation are reshaping artistic production and discourse, while emerging networks of women creators, curators, and writers are expanding the aesthetic, methodological, and cultural paradigms of the field. Across studios, exhibitions, publications, and transnational collaborations, new forms of practice are converging to generate a dynamic and evolving terrain.
The event is structured around two conversations. The first considers how women reshape artistic structures, focusing on the ways creation, curation, and writing operate as forms of agency that construct narratives and mediate cultural understanding. The second examines women’s methodologies, discussing how embodied experience, technological mediation, and research-driven inquiry contribute to new aesthetic languages and modes of cultural articulation. Together, these dialogues offer a timely reflection on the expanding role of women in contemporary art and the future trajectories their practices continue to shape.
Panelists
Tutu Zhu:
Tutu Zhu is a writer, curator, and cultural scholar with a degree in Art Curation and Criticism from Central Saint Martins. She is currently a PhD candidate in art philosophy at Fudan University and a Visiting Scholar in Art History at Yale University through the Yale–Fudan Joint Training Program. She was nominated for the Les Rencontres d'Arles Artist Prize Exhibition in 2021.
Zhu is the author of several works of Chinese fiction, including The Stories of 45 Craftsmen, The Sound of Silence, You Look Better in the Museum, and The Letters from Zhu Yujie. She previously hosted the podcast Art Fold and produced ZHU's Life in Britain, a cultural short-video program. In 2018, she was named a "China Social Media Influencer Friendly Ambassador" by VisitBritain. Since 2023, she has served as a cultural and artistic advisor to ELLE China.
Jinjin Xu:
JinJin Xu is an interdisciplinary artist and poet working between New York, Shanghai, and Macau. Her docu-poetic practice examines mis/remembrance, erasure, and geopolitical tensions in intimate life, supported by long-term research on nüshu. Her work has received major recognition from the Poetry Society of America, the Paris Review/92Y Discovery Prize, Best New Poets, and multiple Pushcart nominations.
Her installations and films have been presented internationally, including at the Shanghai Biennial, How Art Museum, and Paris Design Week, with coverage in The New York Times and Harper’s Bazaar Art. Xu holds an MFA from NYU and previously traveled as a Watson Fellow documenting women’s experiences of displacement.
