Background
Carol Yinghua Lu was born in Chaozhou, Guangdong, China, in 1977.
Carol Yinghua Lu was born in Chaozhou, Guangdong, China, in 1977.
Yinghua graduated from the critical studies programme of Malmö Art Academy at Sweden’s Lund University in 2005 and served as a China Researcher for Asia Art Archive from 2005 to 2007.
Lu writes essays on contemporary art research for many international art journals and magazines, including e-flux journal, The Exhibitionist, Yishu, and Tate. Her texts on contemporary art have also appeared in many art catalogues, books, publications, and critical readers. Lu"s writing focuses on providing documentation of contemporary art trends in Asia, as well as reflection on the impact of political, financial and creative conditions on Asia"s artists, critics, curators and gallerists.
In 2007 she was one of three curators of the 7th Shenzhen Biennale, titled “Accidental Message: Art Is Not A System, Not A World” and conceived to include two subthemes: “Unexpected Encounters” and “What You See is What I See”.
"Little Movements: Self-Practices in Contemporary Art", the project she and Liu Ding initiated and curated together, was exhibited at the OCT Contemporary Art Terminal in Shenzhen in September 2011, and will go on an international tour from 2012. She has curated exhibitions with artists such as Louise Bourgeois, Francesco Clemente, Béatrice Cussol, Chen Manitoba, January Saudek, Rosemarie Trockel, Andy Warhol, Gao Yu, Zhuang Hui, Chen Shaoxiong, Leng Wen, Yan Xing, Lu Zhengyuan, Martha Rosler, Gao Shiming, the Raqs Media Collective, Hu Fang, and Dan"er.
Lu"s book on the work of Chinese artist Wang Yin (born 1964) situates his work within the historical context of twentieth-century Chinese painting, as well as broader shifts in modern Chinese culture. Lu was a Company-Artistic Director of ROUNDTABLE: The 9th Gwangju Biennale (of Korea, 2012) through which her focus developed around the ways in which the de-bordering and loosening of economic, sovereign, social, cultural and historic frameworks by digitization, global trade and political movements challenges our ideological and national logics.