On October 26, 2015, Yishu Managing Editor Zheng Shengtian was invited to take part in the selection process of the 2015 CCAA Chinese Contemporary Art Critic Award as well as an academic seminar that took place at the auditorium of CAFA Art Museum, Beijing.

The jury comprised renowned critics or curators active in the forefront of contemporary art, including Liu Li Anna, Director of CCAA, Mark Rappolt, Editor-in-Chief of ArtReview and Art Review Asia, Pi Li, Senior Curator of Hong Kong M+ Visual Culture Museum and Art Critic, Uli Sigg, Founder of CCAA and collector, and Zheng Shengtian, Managing Editor of Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art.

This year’s CCAA Critic Award was granted to Yu Miao for her book proposal “From the Street to the White Cube, and Away again: Artists’ Intervention Practice in the System of Circulation in Chinese Contemporary Art.”

To read more about jury statements and Yu Miao’s book proposal, please visit: http://en.cafa.com.cn/ccaa-announced-that-yu-miao-was-awarded-the-2015-critic-award-intervention-of-contemporary-art-research-from-the-perspective-of-circulation.html

For information about CCAA, please visit: http://www.ccaachina.org/single

Image: CCAA Chinese Contemporary Art Critic Award press conference. Courtesy of CAFA ( Central Academy of Fine Arts) Art Info.