Staff

Sophia Hao (MA)

Curator of Exhibitions

Tel: +44 (0)1382 388017
Email: s.y.hao@dundee.ac.uk
Exhibitions Office, Ground Floor,
Crawford Building

Biography

Sophia Yadong Hao is a curator and artist with a focus on process led interdisciplinary practice. After obtaining her MA in Visual Culture (Manchester Institute for Research and Innovation in Art & Design) with distinction in 2005, Hao worked as a freelance curator and project manager in Manchester and London.

Between 2007 and 2010, Hao undertook a Curatorial Research Fellowship at the Laing Art Gallery in Newcastle. Her curatorial methodology adopts New Institutionalism as a starting point to develop a cross-disciplinary model of curation. A highlight of her curatorial approach was NOTES on a return, an exhibition programme that critiqued the role and legibility of documentation and dislodged it from being a finished history, to being a set of live questions that query the reasons and conditions for remembering. Her current curatorial research is focused on the function of artists’ collaboration as a de-materialized studio.

Sophia Yadong Hao is widely active as an artist in the UK and internationally. Hao’s work invites the viewer to interrogate notions of history as it is expressed in the everyday as text, memory and behavior. In 2008, Hao lived in a remote Chinese village and made an ongoing process based project I am not a Fairytale, an addendum to Chinese artist Ai Wei-wei’s work for documenta 12. Most recently, she presented a work for the 30^th anniversary of the National Review of Live Art in Glasgow.

Hao has published books, articles, interviews and poetry in the UK, Canada, Australia and China. She also gave talks and lectures in a number of art venues across the UK including the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, Tramway Glasgow, the Cornerhouse Manchester, Tate Liverpool, Dartington College of Arts, the University of Sunderland and the University of Newcastle. 

Recent Research Projects

2010-2011: Studio Displaced- Artists’ Collaboration as a De-materialized Studio (Supported by Arts Council England & CAC Manchester)

2008-2009: NOTES on a return- Ephemeral Practices in Art History & the role and legibility of Archives and Documentation of Ephemeral Practices (Supported by Arts Council England &Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle)

Websites

www.exhibitions.dundee.ac.uk