It still looked like a construction site in the summer of 2016, regardless of the fact that private museums such as Long Museum and Yuz Museum had already set their foot in the area a few years before. I still remember the first time when I visited West Bund, which is a new waterfront district supported by the local government. But I could feel that a lot, maybe too much was going on. Yet, being away from China for three years and being away from Shanghai since finishing high school had set me in a skeptical and uncertain mood of working full-time in the arts in China. I vaguely felt that more things were happening in Shanghai than in Beijing, so I didn’t go back to Beijing but instead came to Shanghai. A lot of things were on the verge of evolving and shifting in China, yet no one would have predicted how it would be a few years later.Īfter three years of living in Chicago, I returned to China and quickly relocated to Shanghai for a job in a higher educational setting, hoping to help the institution set up arts related programs for the students.
Art Hong Kong, a five-year old local arts festival was bought out by Art Basel in 2013 and was eventually rebranded into Art Basel Hong Kong. The contemporary art scene in Hong Kong had just started off, as White Cube entered Hong Kong in 2012 and Pace Gallery started preparing for a Hong Kong space. I was not very familiar with the art scene in Shanghai at that time, yet the opening of Long Museum was one of the biggest news back then due to the high profile of its founders. Back in 2013, 798 Art District was perhaps one of the most often-heard names when contemporary Chinese art was mentioned, and Beijing was definitely one of the major art hubs in Asia. Before going to Chicago for graduate school in 2013, I was working at the Pace Gallery in Beijing as a gallery assistant.
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in Arts Administration and Policy at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), plus one-year working in the Contemporary Practices Department at SAIC during the OPT program as an international student. In the summer of 2016, I returned to China after completing my M.A.
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