Post-West Arts & Visual Cultures: Sophia Kidd–Exhibiting Contemporary Art in China

Curator, publisher, and scholar Sophia Kidd is currently Associate Research Fellow at Sichuan International Studies University, curating exhibitions in the US and China that focus on ecology and women in art, as well as upon ontology and spatiality of emotions. Sophia is owner and publisher at Igneus Press as well as founding CEO of Yan Er Lu Arts International. Her recent book Culture Paves the New Silk Roads (Springer, 2022), edited by Paul Gladston, is included within the Contemporary East Asian Visual Cultures, Societies and Politics series. Sophia was special guest editor of the Fall 2021 issue of The Café Review (Xpress, Portland), which features translations of Chuanyu (Chongqing and Chengdu) poetry by established and emerging Chinese poets.

Award-winning critical theorist and cultural historian Paul Gladston is the Judith Neilson Chair Professor of Contemporary Art, University of New South Wales, Sydney and a distinguished affiliate fellow of the UK-China Humanities Alliance, Tsinghua University. He is co-editor of the book series Contemporary East Asian Visual Cultures, Societies and Politics and was founding principal editor of the Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art. His recent publications include the collected edition Visual Culture Wars at the Borders of Contemporary China (2021) and the monograph Contemporary Chinese Art, Aesthetic Modernity and Zhang Peili: Towards a Critical Contemporaneity (2019). He was an academic adviser to Art of Change: New Directions from China, Hayward Gallery, London (2012).