Biography:

Liao Wen (b. 1961, Beijing) is an independent curator and art critic whose art interest includes the intersection of art and feminism.

Liao graduated from the Department of Chinese Language at the Capital Normal University in 1984, and in 1987, was appointed as a journalist and editor of Fine Arts in China (Zhongguo meishubao). Liao helped to arrange the exhibition ‘China’s New Art, Post-1989’ (Hong Kong, 1993) and organized the exhibitions ‘Women’s Approach to Chinese Contemporary Art’ (1995), ‘Woman and Flowers’ (1997), ‘Personal Touch’ (1998), ‘Ouh La La Kitsch’ (1999), ‘Eros Untimely Death’ (2005) and ‘Floweriness’ (2006).

Some of her publications include a book on feminism and women’s art (Nuxing zhuyi zuowei fangshi: nuxing yishu) (1999), No More Nice Girls: Interviews with the American Feminist Critics and Artists (2001) and a recent book about the female in the art of antiquity (Lufei hongshou: gudai xingxiang he guige yishu) (2005).