Chang Tsong-zung is an independent curator, guest professor at CAA (Hangzhou, China), Director of Hanart TZ Gallery (Hong Kong), and co-Founder of ICAST. He has curated Chinese exhibitions since the 1980s and was the co-curator of the Guangzhou Triennial: Farewell to Post-Colonialism in 2008, Shanghai Biennale in 2012, and Post Pop: East Meets West at Saatchi Gallery in 2014. His current projects include Jia Li Hall, a research series on Confucian rites and aesthetics, West Heavens, Sino Indian exchange in art and social thought, Yaji Garden, a project related to the Yellow Box Projects investigating Chinese aesthetic space and its culture of connoisseurship, and Inter-Asia School, which organised the Inter-Asia Biennale Forums at Shanghai Biennial, Gwangju Biennial, Taipei Biennial and Kochi-Muziris Biennale in 2014 and 2016.

Chang Tsong-zung is actively involved in ICAST curatorial projects, forums, and education. He has made significant contributions to the formation of the 3 Parallel Artworlds conceptual framework and has played an important role in supporting and promoting various curatorial and forum projects initiated by Inter-Asia School. He has helped broaden ICAST’s perspective between East and West and across historical and cross-cultural dimensions.