Partnering with leading institutions across the UK, Asymmetry creates unique opportunities for Greater Chinese-identifying curators and scholars in the form of Fellowships and Scholarships. One of our partner institutions is Whitechapel Gallery in London, home to our Curatorial Fellowship.

Whitechapel Gallery’s Chief Curator Lydia Yee offers an insight into the gallery’s founding history in London’s East End, and their innovative commissions programme which works to partner contemporary artists with community organisations and educational groups. Whitechapel Gallery was founded by renowned social reformers Samuel and Henrietta Barnett in 1901. It is one of the oldest public contemporary art institutions in the UK and has hosted many poignant exhibitions of leading contemporary artists over the past 50 years, from Mark Rothko and Robert Rauschenberg to important women artists like Eva Hesse, Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti. Whitechapel also carries out major commissions with artists, most recently commissioning young artist Ayo Akingbade to make important work in dialogue with local school groups.

Zoe Diao, a Chinese scholar and curator currently based in New York, has been awarded the six-month Fellowship, which begins this autumn 2021. 

FilmIntroducing Whitechapel Gallery, London

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Introducing Whitechapel Gallery, London