MOCA TALKS: Curators in Conversation with Ou Ning

The Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) cordially invites you to an engaging conversation between artist and curator Ou Ning and Herb Tam, MOCA’s Curator and Director of Exhibitions. Together, they will explore Ning’s fascinating personal and professional journey, discuss his curatorial and publishing ventures, and provide insights into his new projects, including the ISOGLOSS Collective and the upcoming multilingual magazine for cultural and artistic criticism, ISOGLOSS Review.

About Ou Ning

Ou Ning is an artist, curator, and writer. His practices in different periods encompass literature, music, film, art, design, architecture, urban research, utopian study, rural reconstruction, and geographical soundscape. He is the director of two documentaries, San Yuan Li (2003) and Meishi Street (2006); the Chief Curator of the Shenzhen and Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture (2009); the founding Editor-in-Chief of the literary bimonthly Chutzpah! (2010-2014); and the initiator and practitioner of the Bishan Project (2011-2016). He taught at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation of Columbia University in 2016-2017 and has been a researcher at the Center for Arts, Design, and Social Research (CAD+SR, Boston and Helsinki) since 2019. He moved to New York in 2022, and initiated the ISOGLOSS Collective in 2024, which will launch a multilingual online magazine for cultural and artistic criticism, ISOGLOSS Review, in 2025.

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