WorkshopVarious Locations13.02 – 19.03.2025

Field NotesFostering Learning and Networks for Aspiring Curators

Alvin Li

Alvin Jiahuan Li is a curator and writer based in London, where he is currently Curator, International Art, supported by Asymmetry, at Tate Modern. He previously worked as an Adjunct Curator at Tate, a contributing editor to frieze magazine and an artistic advisor to the 59th Venice Biennale. He has curated projects in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing and London, and is a frequent contributor to art periodicals and monographs.

Alvin Li is currently Curator, International Art, supported by Asymmetry, at Tate Modern. He was the 2023 Asymmetry Librarian-in-Residence, with Chang Yuchen.

Erin Li

Erin Li is a London-based curator currently working at Delfina Foundation, where she is leading the delivery of residencies, exhibitions, and public programmes. Erin’s practice centres around liveness, from street dance and live art to fermentation cultures, transforming everyday relations and vulnerabilities into interdisciplinary projects. Her research manifested in Polyphonic Bodies, performances at Whitechapel Gallery, and Polyphonic Bodies II, a communal tasting co-curated with L. Sasha Gora. She contributed to Action, Gesture, Performance: Feminism, the Body and Abstraction (2023) and Out of the Margins: Performance in London's Institutions 1990s–2010s (2022). Previously Associate Curator at Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong, Erin curated Sipping Dreams (2023), emo gym (2022) and co-curated trust & confusion: Tino Sehgal (2021).

Erin Li was the 2022 Asymmetry Curatorial Fellow at Whitechapel Gallery.

Lydia Yee

Lydia Yee is a London-based curator and art historian. She is currently Senior Curatorial Advisor to YDP (Yan Du Projects) and a member of the external faculty for New Curators. Yee has previously held curatorial positions in London and New York, including Chief Curator, Whitechapel Gallery; Curator, Barbican Art Gallery and Senior Curator at The Bronx Museum of the Arts. A recipient of the Asian Cultural Council Individual Fellowship (2024–25) and a member of the Turner Prize jury (2024), Yee was also co-curator of Frieze Talks (2018–19) and British Art Show 8 (2015–17).

Hammad Nasar

Hammad Nasar is a curator, writer and strategist based in London. Nasar co-founded Green Cardamom (London); was Head of Research & Programmes at Asia Art Archive (Hong Kong), and co-led the ‘London, Asia’ project at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. His recent curatorial projects include: Making New Worlds: Li Yuan-chia & Friends (2023–24); Beyond the Page: South Asian Miniature Painting and Britain, 1600 to Now (2023–24); British Art Show 9 (2021–22); Turner Prize (2021); Rock, Paper, Scissors: Positions in Play – the UAE’s national pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale (2017), and Lines of Control: Partition as a Productive Space (2005–14).

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