Zhejun Gao is a Shanghai-based curator, researcher and part-time artist whose work focuses on systems of categorisation, archival research and collective trauma in contemporary art. His curatorial practice explores the migration of artefacts and models of knowledge production within institutions, examining how museums narrate objects and classify collections. Alongside his curatorial work, Zhejun maintains a deep interest in sound art and experimental music in China, contributing writings and performances to the field. In 2022, he embarked on Exploring Traumas, Exploding Archives, a long-term project fostering collaborative practices to explore alternative historiography methods and document unspeakable histories in post-colonial Asia. He has contributed to exhibitions and programmes at major institutions across China and internationally, with recent projects including collaborations with museums and art centres in Shanghai, Beijing and Hong Kong.
Zhejun Gao is currently the 2025 Asymmetry Curatorial Research Fellow at Chisenhale Gallery.
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.
Sharon X. Liu is a curator based in New York. Her practice investigates inter-Asian connections shaped by border-crossing dialogues. Recent projects include Translation in the Expanded Field, Tokyo (2025); Open Admissions: Michael Rakowitz and Early Amherst College Collections, Mead Art Museum (2025); and Laborious Hands, Amherst College Library (2024–25). Sharon holds a BA in Art History and Mathematics from Wellesley College, an MA in East Asian Studies from Yale University, conducted research at Tokyo University of the Arts, and publishes essays in Artforum China and Ocula.
Sharon X. Liu is currently the 2025 Asymmetry Curatorial Fellow at SculptureCenter.
Weitian Liu is a writer and researcher based in London. Weitian’s work spans photography history and contemporary Chinese art criticism. He holds an MLitt in Art History and an MPhil in History of Photography from the University of St Andrews. Weitian co-founded QILU Criticism, contributed to Life Support: Forms of Care in Art and Activism, Glasgow Women’s Library (2021), and is developing a monograph on documentary photography in 1980s rural China. His criticism appears in LEAP and ArtReview China.
Weitian Liu is currently the 2021 Asymmetry PhD Scholar in ‘Advanced Practices’ at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Jason Wee is an artist-curator, writer and researcher based in Harlem, New York and Singapore. Jason’s practice considers polyphony and ‘powerless’ minor poetics within architecture, infrastructure and history. Founder of Grey Projects, Singapore, he organises residencies and the island-wide open-studio tour Walk Walk Don’t Run. Recent projects include undesirable literatures in Malaya, Kochi-Muziris Biennale (2022) and queer secrecy choreographies, Asia Society Triennale (2020). A 2005–06 Studio Fellow at the Whitney Independent Study Program, Jason’s sculptures and photographs exhibit internationally, and he teaches poetry, design history and alternative publishing.
Jason Wee is currently the 2023 Asymmetry PhD Scholar in ‘Advanced Practices’ at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Yin Aiwen is an artist, designer, researcher, and occasional institutional strategist based in London and Rotterdam. Aiwen’s practice reconceptualises techno-institutional systems through care ethics. Her work often begins with ambitious speculative questions and uses critical theory as a design brief to create new systems of value through different forms of demonstrations, such as a performance, a game, a digital platform, or an exhibition. Her recent major projects include ReUnion Network, Liquid Dependencies (with Yiren Zhao and Zoe Zhao), and Alchemy of Commons (with Yiren Zhao). Aiwen’s writings have appeared on LEAP, e-flux and so-far, among others.
Yin Aiwen is currently the 2024 Asymmetry PhD Scholar in ‘Advanced Practices’ at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Yuhang Zhang is a London-based writer and critic. Yuhang’s work explores theory-fiction, archives and East Asian logistics landscapes. Currently an Asymmetry PhD Scholar in ‘Advanced Practices’ at Goldsmiths, University of London, he co-initiated the online project Djinn Puddle and co-curated The Pineal Eye, Goethe-Institut, Beijing (2021). Yuhang’s reviews and fiction have appeared in QILU Criticism, Daoju and Kua, he frequently presents at conferences on Chinese fiction and visual culture, and regularly publishes essays in art journals.
Yuhang Zhang is currently the 2022 Asymmetry PhD Scholar in ‘Advanced Practices’ at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Yayu Zheng is a London-based media scholar and film producer. Zheng’s research focuses on Sinophone queer cinema, geopolitics and regional power dynamics. She earned a PhD in Cinema and Media Studies from the University of Southern California with a dissertation on gender and national identity in Taiwanese film since the 1990s. Yayu programmes Sinophone cinema strands for international festivals, reports for outlets such as DeepFocus and The Bund, and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Chinese Cinemas. She previously studied at Sciences Po, Paris, and the University of California, Berkeley.
Yayu Zheng is currently the 2024 Asymmetry Postdoctoral Fellow in Chinese and Sinophone Contemporary Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art.