Ou Ning
(b. 1969)
Director
ning.ou [at] shaofoundation.org.cn

As an editor and graphic designer, Ou Ning is perhaps best known for his seminal book New Sound of Beijing (1999), which helped define the capital's emerging rock scene. As a curator, he initiated the Get It Louder exhibition which tours in the major cities of China every two years. He’s also the commissioned curator of the sound art section in China Power Station, an exhibition presented by the Serpentine Gallery at London's legendary Battersea Power Station and then travelled to Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo and MUDAM, Luxembourg. As an artist, Ou is known for his involvement in urban research and his archive and documentation projects such as San Yuan Li (participant of the 50th Biennale di Venezia in2003, acquired by New York MoMA in 2004) and Da Zha Lan, sponsored by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes. He is a frequent contributor of various magazines, books and exhibition catalogues and has lectured around the world. In the late 1990s, he founded U- thèque, an independent film and video society. Later, he launched Alternative Archive, his personal studio as well as a platform for alternative cultural activities. In November, 2008, Ou is appointed the chief curator of the 2009 Shenzhen Biennale of Urbanism and Architecture. He’s currently based in Beijing, China and is the Director of Shao Foundation.

(To read Ou’s full CV, please visit his own site.)


Beatrice Galilee
(b. 1982)
Curator
beatrice.galilee [at] shaofoundation.org.cn

Beatrice Galilee was born in London and trained as an architect in Bath. After graduating, she studied journalism and wrote for several music and fashion magazines before taking up an MA in Architectural History at the Bartlett school, UCL. She worked for two years as architecture editor of Icon, a hugely influential architecture and design magazine where she interviewed some of the world's most important figures, promoted the work of new young practices and won the Architecture Journalist of the Year award in 2008. She has sat on a number of juries and contributes to several international architecture and design titles, national newspapers and several books on contemporary architecture. She is now based in Beijing and is one of the curators of the 2009 Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-city Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism.


Xu Yijing
(b. 1984)
Exhibition Designer
yijing.xu [at] shaofoundation.org.cn

Xu Yijing is a typical post-'80s Chinese with constantly blurring identity—born in Shanghai, grew up in Shenzhen, studied in New Zealand, and recently returned to China. She speaks English, Mandarin, and two different Chinese dialects; enjoys European and Asian food. Notwithstanding graduated with a Bachelor of Architecture (Hons) degree, she has been involved in exhibition design, industrial design, and performance. Xu participated in Design Led Futures 07: Hello Cybernetics (sponsored by Nike). She helped organized CtrlShift07, the Biennial Pacific Student of Architecture Congress. She has one year of working experience in architecture offices in New Zealand before joining Shao Foundation.


April Zhang
(b. 1982)
Assistant to Director
april.zhang [at] shaofoundation.org.cn


Sun Xiaoxi
(b. 1982)
Photographer / Visual Designer
xiaoxi.sun [at] shaofoundation.org.cn


Zhang Ning
(b. 1982)
Web Designer
ning.zhang [at] shaofoundation.org.cn


Ou Xin
(b. 1976)
Videographer / Production Designer
xin.ou [at] shaofoundation.org.cn


Pan He
(b. 1985)
Intern
he.pan [at] shaofoundation.org.cn
Nov 1, 2008 – Jul 8, 2009


Jeuce Huang
(b. 1984)
Intern
jeuce.huang [at] shaofoundation.org.cn
Feb 1, 2009 – Feb 20, 2009


Liu Si
(b. 1983)
Intern
si.liu [at] shaofoundation.org.cn
Feb 1, 2009 – Apr 20, 2009


Honora Shea
(b. 1983)
Intern
honora.shea [at] shaofoundation.org.cn
Apr 1, 2009 – May 8, 2009


Zhou Zhen
(b. 1983)
Intern
gethsemane.zou [at] shaofoundation.org.cn
Apr 20, 2009 – May 29, 2009


Lynn Zhang
(b. 1989)
Offsite Intern
lynn.zhang [at] shaofoundation.org.cn
Apr 27, 2009 – Oct 25, 2009


Bic Jiang
(b. 1988)
Offsite Intern
bic.jiang [at] shaofoundation.org.cn
Jun 24, 2009 – present


Jane Song
(b. 1989)
Intern
ge.song [at] shaofoundation.org.cn
Jun 26, 2009 – Sep 3, 2009


Yan Yan
(b. 1986)
Intern
yan.yan [at] shaofoundation.org.cn
Jul 24, 2009 – Sep 19, 2009


Leng Jiarong
(b. 1990)
Intern
jiarong.leng [at] shaofoundation.org.cn
Jul 24, 2009 – Aug 14, 2009


Kiki Xu
(b. 1986)
Intern
lili.xu [at] shaofoundation.org.cn
Sep 18, 2009 – present