Lu Mingjun, junior researcher and doctoral supervisor at the School of Philosophy, Fudan University, also a curator. He has published  widely in publications such as ‘Literary & Art Studies’, ‘Artistic Research’, ‘Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art’ and ‘Twenty-First Century’. Recently, he published ‘Revolution of Art and Modern China: Radical Origins of Chinese Contemporary Art’, ‘Symphony of Fission: Three Contemporary Moments in 20th Century Chinese Art’, ‘Promise of the Avant-garde: Interviews for ‘October’ . In recent years he has curated ‘Frontier: A Re-assessment of Post-Global Politics’ (2017-2018), ‘River Flowing without a Beacon, 1979’ (2019), ‘Tangle of Revolution and Political Soul’ (2021), and ‘Up in the Air’ (2023). In 2015, he received the Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Chinese Research Grant; in 2016, he won the Yishu Chinese Contemporary Art Writing Award; in 2017, he received the Asian Cultural Council Grant (ACC). In the same year he won the 10th Chinese Contemporary Art Award (CCAA) for Art Criticism; In 2019, he won the Annual Curator Award at the Awards of Art China (AAC).

2023 October and Its ‘Legacy’: Art Criticism after the New Avant-Garde