Mia Yu is a Beijing-based, globally active art historian and curator with keen interests on global exhibition histories, Asian geopolitics, decolonisation and the Anthropocene. Her recent exhibitions include Three Contested Sites—The Worldly Fables of the Long 1990s co-curated with Nikita Cai in Times Art Center Berlin (2022), Resonances of One Hundred Things in OCAT Biennale (2021), From Vladivostok to Xishuangbanna in Jimei x Arles International Photo Festival (2020), Photoethics: CHINAFRICA (2020) and Ni Jun: An Inconvenient Case (2019). Mia Yu was nominated for the 14th Annual AAC Curator of the Year Award. She was the winner of the Yishu Award for Critical Writing on Contemporary Art in 2018, the recipient of the Tate Asia Research Travel Fellowship in 2017 and the winner of the CCAA Art Critic Award in 2015. Mia Yu wrote for Uncooperative Contemporaries: Art Exhibitions in Shanghai in 2000, the latest book of the Afterall Exhibition Histories Series published in 2020. She has widely lectured at various institutions including Peking University, China Art Academy, Central Academy of Fine Arts, California College of the Arts, Carleton University, Asia Society Hong Kong and Pirelli HangarBicocca. She currently serves on the jury and advisory committees of Hyundai Blue Prize, Art 021 x Porches Young Artist Awards and Peking University China Modern Art Archive. In 2021, Mia Yu initiated the long-term para-curatorial project North x Anthropocene: Ecological Sensibilities from the Edges.