This interview with Huang Zhuan was filmed at OCAT, Shenzhen on 18 June 2009. 


Biography:

Huang Zhuan (b. 1958, Hunan Province) is Associate Professor at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts and Director of OCAT Shenzhen.

A graduate of the Department of History at Huazhong Normal University in 1982, Huang worked on the editorial team of Art Trends magazine (Meishu sichao) between 1985 and 1987. He received his M.A. degree in the History of Chinese Art from the Hubei Institute of Fine Arts in 1988 and was also granted an M.A. thesis award by the Wu Zuoren International Art Foundation.

Between 1994 and 1996 Huang worked as an editor of Art Gallery (Hualang) magazine, and from 1997 has been working at the contemporary art space affiliated with the He Xiangning Museum, known as OCAT, where he has been Director since 2005.

Since the 1990s, Huang has been active in curating exhibitions. Some of these exhibitions include the first Guangzhou Biennial (1992), the third Contemporary Art Triennial (Brisbane, Australia, 1999) and the first Guangzhou Triennial (2002), as well as numerous shows at OCAT Shenzhen.


簡歷︰

黃專， 1958年生，祖籍湖南。現任廣州美術學院副教授及深圳OCT當代藝術中心主任。

1982年，黃專畢業於華中師範大學歷史系。1985—1987年間參與《美術思潮》的編輯工作。1988年獲湖北美術學院中國美術史專業文學碩士，並獲「吳作人國際藝術基金會碩士論文獎」。
黃專於1994—1996年間主持編輯《畫廊》。自1997年起任何香凝美術館館聘研究員、策劃人，2005年開始出任何香凝美術館轄下OCT當代藝術中心主任。其當代中國藝術的專著有《當代藝術問題》（四川：四川美术出版社，1992），《中國當代美術圖鑒/觀念藝術分冊》（湖北：湖北教育出版社，2000）等。
 
黃專於九十年代開始積極進行策展工作，包括《首屆九十年代廣州雙年展》（1992，廣州）；《首屆當代藝術學術邀請展》（1996，北京/香港）；第三屆《亞太地區當代藝術三年展：超越未來》（中國部分）（1999，澳大利亞布裡斯班）及首屆《廣州三年展：重新解讀》（2002，廣州）等。近年主要在深圳OCT當代藝術中心從事策劃工作。