Zoe Diao
London: 20/09/2021 — 01/05/2022
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Installation view, Li Ming MEIWE, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, 2015-16. Curated by Zoe Diao
Installation view, Li Ming: MEIWE, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, 2015-16. Curated by Zoe Diao. Photo Courtesy: UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing and the Artist.
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Exhibition opening, William Kentridge Notes Towards a Model Opera, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, 2015
Exhibition opening, William Kentridge: Notes Towards a Model Opera, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, 2015. Curated by UCCA Director Philip Tinari and Zoe Diao. Photo Courtesy: UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing and the Artist.
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Front cover - Inside a Book a House of Gold Artists’ Editions for PARKETT. Translated by Zoe Diao, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, 2012
Front cover - Inside a Book a House of Gold: Artists’ Editions for PARKETT. Translated by Zoe Diao, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, 2012
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Front cover – Six Drawing Lessons of William Kentridge, translated by Ma Nan, edited by Zoe Diao and Lotus Zhang. Beijing United Publishing Co. 2015
Front cover – Six Drawing Lessons of William Kentridge, translated by Ma Nan, edited by Zoe Diao and Lotus Zhang. Beijing United Publishing Co. 2015
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Front cover, MEAT Christian Lemmerz & Norbert Tadeusz, edited by Eley, Kristian & Cecilia Pedersen, translated by Zoe Diao
Front cover, MEAT Christian Lemmerz & Norbert Tadeusz, edited by Eley, Kristian & Cecilia Pedersen, translated by Zoe Diao. Beijing: Faurschou Foundation, 2016.
Zoe Diao (China/USA) is a researcher, curator, as well as a translator and writer, specialised in classical Chinese art and contemporary East Asian art. She is currently interested in environmental humanities, material culture and collecting history.
As Asymmetry Curatorial Fellow at Whitechapel Gallery, Zoe will work with Whitechapel Gallery’s Exhibitions department on various research and curatorial projects. She will also conduct independent research on early 20th century East Asian artists who lived in the UK.
Among the many exhibitions she worked on, Zoe co-curated William Kentridge: Notes Towards a Model Opera, 2015 with Philip Tinari, and curated New Directions: Li Ming (2015-16), both at at UCCA, Beijing. Diao translated and edited a dozen of publications including: Inside a Book a House of Gold: Artist’s Edition for Parkett (2012); Six Drawing Lessons (2015); Peter Doig: Cabins and Canoes, The Unreasonable Silence of the World (2017) and M+ Sigg Collection (2021).
