David Elliott is a cultural and art historian, writer, curator and museum director primarily concerned with modern and contemporary art. Elliott was Director of the Museum of Modern Art in Oxford, England from 1976-96, Director of Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Sweden from 1996-2001, the founding Director of the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, Japan from 2001-06 and in 2007, the first Director of Istanbul Modern, Turkey. From 1998-2004, he was President of CIMAM (the International Committee of ICOM for Museums and Collections of Modern Art) and in 2008, he was the Rudolf Arnheim Guest Professor of Art History at Humboldt University, Berlin and from 2012 to 2017 a guest professor in curatorship at the Chinese University, Hong Kong.

Since 2010 he has been the Artistic Director of biennales of contemporary art in Sydney, Kiev, Moscow and Belgrade and is currently Vice-Director and Senior Curator of the Redtory Museum of Contemporary Art in Guangzhou.

Jan Dalley is the arts editor of the Financial Times, appointed in 2005 after joining the newspaper in 1999 as the literary editor. She writes extensively on arts and culture, and has a regular column in FT Weekend. Previously, she was literary editor of the Independent on Sunday for eight years; before becoming a journalist, she worked in publishing.

She is a Council member of the Arts & Humanities Research Council, where she chairs the judging panel of an annual documentary film competition, and a Trustee of the Arts Foundation. She is a director of Sid Motion Gallery.

Jan has judged literary prizes including the Booker Prize, the Whitbread, the Hawthornden prize and the Encore Prize. She appears as a commentator on arts programmes on television and radio. Her publications include “Black Hole: Money, Myth and Empire” (2006) and “Diana Mosley: A Life” (1999).

Mami Kataoka is Deputy Director and Chief Curator of Mori Art Museum in Tokyo. Prior to this position, Kataoka was Chief Curator at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery (1997-2002) and Researcher at the NLI Research Institute on cultural policies and urban development projects (1992-1997). She was also international curator at the Hayward Gallery in London (2007-2009), Co-Artistic Director for the 9th Gwangju Biennale in South Korea (2012) and Artistic Director of the 21st Biennale of Sydney (2016-18). She serves as Board Member of CIMAM (2014-) and a professor at Kyoto University of Art and Design Graduate School of Art and Design Studies, Global Seminar (2016-).

Her exhibitions at Mori includes a number of monographic survey shows for Asian mid-career artists including Ozawa Tsuyoshi (2004), Ai Weiwei (2009/ US Tour 2012-13), Lee Bul (2012), Aida Makoto (2012), Lee Mingwei (2014-15) and N.S.Harsha (2017). She also co-curated Roppongi Crossing in 2004 and 2013 which introduced contemporary art from Japan, and SUNSHOWER: Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia from 1980s to Now (2017). Kataoka frequently writes and lectures on contemporary art from Japan, Asia and beyond.

A renowned architect, artist, collector and educator, William graduated from Cornell University and has spent the past two decades devoted to architecture, culture and art. With an excellent grasp of humanities and art, William’s designs are distinctive and contemporary.

CL3’s projects include H Queen’s, Marina Bay Sands, East Hotel, Millennium Mitsui Garden Hotel Tokyo. He participated in Venice Architecture Biennale in 2006 and 2010. A trustee for Cornell University, he was conferred a Honorary Doctorate by SCAD in 2018, and serves in the Acquisition Committee for Tate Museum and Gallery Committee for Asia Society

Zhang Huan, born in Anyang, Henan Province in 1965, currently works and lives in Shanghai.

He focused on performance art in Beijing in the 1990's and was considered one of the leading contemporary artists in the nation. In 1998, he relocated to New York, where he gained international recognition. In 2005, he returned to Shanghai and established Zhang Huan Studio.

Zhang Huan expresses his thoughts on the daily life, Buddhism doctrines, traditional culture and the current spiritual and physical environment. Besides oil painting, he adopts new media such as ash painting, ox-hide sculptures, door carvings and feather woodcuts, etc.

In spring 2014, Zhang Huan was awarded "Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur" by the French government in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the inheritance and communication of Chinese culture and the promotion of French-Chinese cultural and artistic exchanges.

Zhang Huan has held many solo exhibitions in New York, London, Toronto, Florence, Berlin, Milan, Sydney, and Shanghai etc.. He has participated in numerous group exhibitions, biennials and events in venues such as the Art Gallery of New South Wales (2015), Centre Georges Pompidou(2014), Gwangju Biennale (2013), 55th Venice Art Biennale (2013), the Metropolitan Museum of Art (2013), Shanghai Art Museum (2012), Expo Shanghai(2010), the Guggenheim Museum Museum of Modern Art (2010), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2008).

The Lyric opera Semele, for which Zhang Huan works as director and set designer, has made its world tour in Brussels, Beijing, Toronto and New York.

Collections of Zhang Huan’s art can be found in the contemporary art museums of major cities all over the world, as well as in the collections of art foundations, including the New York Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in Chicago, Illinois, the Pompidou Center in Paris, the Shanghai Art Museum, and Palazzo Vecchio and Forte di Belvedere in Florence, Italy, with nearly a hundred institutions hosting public collections.