Gao Minglu has been an active critic, curator, and scholar of contemporary Chinese art since the mid 1980s. His exhibitions on the subject are among the most important ever assembled in the U.S. and China: he was one of the curators of ‘China/Avant–Garde’ in Beijing 1989 and the curator of the groundbreaking exhibition ‘Insideout: New Chinese Art’ organised by Asia Society and SF MOMA. His many publications explore the changing relationship between
global art movements and Chinese tradition.