Olivier Krischer

Olivier Krischer is the deputy director of the China Studies Centre, at the University of Sydney. Krischer completed his PhD at the University of Tsukuba, Japan, and has been a visiting fellow at the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taipei, and a postdoctoral fellow at the Australian Centre on China in the World, at ANU, where he was also the curator of the CIW Gallery. He is the co-editor of Asia through Art and Anthropology (Bloomsbury, 2013) and a special issue of the Australian & New Zealand Journal of Art, ‘Asian Art Research in Australia and New Zealand’ (Taylor & Francis, 2016). He has also lectured in art and design history at the University of Tsukuba and the University of Sydney, and was previously the managing editor of ArtAsiaPacific magazine in Hong Kong (2011–12). University of Singapore Press, forthcoming late 2019) includes a chapter on China at biennials. Clark also co-curated Modern Boy, Modern Girl: Modernity in Japanese Art, 1910–1935 (Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1998), and in 2014 organised and co-curated Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook: Storytellers of the Town, co-edited catalogue (4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney; ANU Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra, 2014).