Lu Jie

Lu Jie was born in Fujian, China. He holds a BFA from the China Academy of Arts in Hangzhou and an MA from the Creative Curating Program in Goldsmiths College, University of London. Lu Jie has curated numerous contemporary art exhibitions internationally including the Chinese presentation at the 2005 Prague Biennale and the 2005 Yokohama Triennale. He is the founder of the Long March Foundation in New York, and the 25000 Cultural Transmission Center in Beijing.

Lu Jie has been concentrating his efforts to produce The Long March - a Walking Visual Display which was exhibited in National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon, 2004 Shanghai Biennale, 2004 Taipei Biennale, 2005 Yokohama Triennale, Vancouver Art Gallery and the Asia Pacific Triennale.

He organized the first international curatorial symposium Curating in Chinese Context, in Zunyi, China, 2002, and has contributed to art conferences and seminars in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, Australia, and throughout Europe and North America. Lu Jie is a Guest Researcher at the Research Center of Display Culture, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China, and is on the Editorial Board of the Yishu - Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art.

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In 2003 DAI (tutors &  students) visited the Long March Foundation in Beijing. In 2004 Lu Jie, with the generous support of the Prince Claus Fund, joined DAI in Enschede, the Netherlands, as external examiner, together with Marian Pastor Roces. In that year he also contributed a text to a DAI publication by Lin, Shih-Ying (DAI, 2004).