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Karen Smith
is a British art historian specializing in contemporary Chinese art in the post-Mao era and has written widely on the subject for numerous journals and exhibition catalogues. She is the author of Ai Weiwei (Phaidon, 2009), Nine Lives: The Birth of Avant-Garde Art in New China (Scalo, 2006, Timezone 8, 2008), and was a contributing author for China: Portrait of a Country (Taschen, 2008). She is currently completing her newest book, Bang to Boom: Chinese Art in the 1990s.
Her curatorial work includes the exhibitions The Real Thing at Tate Liverpool (2007), The Chinese: Photography and Video Art from China at the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg (2004), Music to My Eyes at Today Art Museum, Beijing (2009), and Subtlety at Platform China (2008), as well as numerous solo exhibitions including Ai Weiwei, Liu Xiaodong, Xu Ruotao and Jia Ali. She has lived in Beijing since 1992.
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