Barbara Pollack

Barbara Pollack has been writing about contemporary art since 1994 for such publications at The New York Times, Artnews, Art in America, Vanity Fair, the Village Voice, Time Out New York, Art and Auction, Departures and many others. She is one of the leading experts on Chinese contemporary art in the United States, having written numerous articles including the first interview with Ai Weiwei back in 2005 and many catalog essays for such artists as Li Songsong, Lin Tianmiao, Jin Shan, Wang Gongxin, Liu Ye, Zhang Huan, Sun Xun and Zhao Zhao.

In addition to writing, Pollack has curated shows including the groundbreaking My Generation: Young Chinese Artists at the Tampa Museum of Art and Museum of Fine Arts, St Petersburg in 2014 traveling to the Oklahoma City Museum of Art and the Orange County Museum of Art in 2015. More recently, she curated Sun Xun: Prediction Laboratory at the Yuz Museum in Shanghai and Lu Yang: Delusional Mandala at MoCA Cleveland. An adjunct professor at the School of Visual Arts since 2002, Pollack lectures widely throughout the U.S. and internationally, including being a featured speaker at the World Economic Forum's Summer Davos in China in 2011 and 2012.

Barbara Pollack is based in New York City where she lives with her husband Joel Berger.

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