Hou Hanru / F

Hou Hanru (F / China), born 1963. Graduated (MA) from the Central Institute of Fine Arts, Beijing (BA. 1985, MA. 1988), has lived and worked in Paris since 1990 as an independent critic and curator. Curator of Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, China, 2000, Project Rooms, ARCO, Madrid, Spain, 2000, Advisor (professor) at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Curator of the French Pavilion, Venice Biennale (1999), Member of The Global Advisory Committee of Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA. A juror of the Hugo Boss Prize 1998, The Solomon Guggenheim Museum, New York, selector of the Prize of Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Per l'Arte, Turin, Italy (1998), and a member of the curatorial committee of the Biennale de l'Image, Paris, France (Centre National de la Photographie and L'Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts), 1998. A Member of the Curatorial Team for the Third Asian Pacific Triennale, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia, 1999.



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