Jes Fan (b. 1990, Canada) is a Hong Kong- and Brooklyn-based artist who was raised in Hong Kong. He frequently employs organic materials and other components that invoke the body to explore the possibilities of nature and animacy. In his biomorphic forms and tactile sculptures, Fan juxtaposes the visual elements of human skin—something biological and living—with the cold and clinical instruments of a laboratory to evoke visceral responses from his viewers. Throughout his practice, Fan examines complex ideas of sexuality, gender, race, and species to challenge oppositional concepts and binary thinking.

Miao Ying (b. 1985, Shanghai) is a new media artist based in New York and Shanghai. She is known for projects and works that address Chinese internet culture—a complex and hyperregulated realm, which she calls the ‘Chinternet’. Her recent practice incorporates machine learning live simulation and often takes the forms of websites and installations to explore technology and its impacts on our daily lives, while highlighting new modes of politics, aesthetics, and consciousness created by representation of reality through technology.

Wang Tuo (b. 1984, Jilin) currently lives and works in Beijing. His films combine the forms and techniques of interviews, reality shows, and theatre to create a sense of melodrama that can move his viewers. Wang tells the stories of our contemporary experience, often employing literary and art-historical allusions to expose the humorous and sometimes absurd aspects of our societies. He examines how our lives, myths, and cultural histories tend to intertwine in complex and ever-evolving ways. His practice also seeks to develop a discourse on how current ideology is derived from its historical context even as it continues to adapt to our changing times.

Xie Nanxing (b.1970, Sichuan) currently splits his time between Beijing and Chengdu. He is a radical experimental painter who challenges the traditions and conventions of painting taught within art schools. He is interested in psychology and often turns to investigative psychology to question the true nature of things in his practice.

Trevor Yeung (b. 1988, Guangdong) lives and works in Hong Kong. His art excavates the inner logic of human relations. Fascinated by botanic ecology and horticulture, Yeung features carefully staged objects, photographs, animals, and plants in his mixed media works as aesthetic pretexts to address notions of artificial nature. These delicate and ironic arrangements allow him to exert control over living beings, including plants and animals, as well as his audiences.

Yu Ji (b. 1985, Shanghai) creates installations, videos, and performances that take medium and materiality as starting points to create her own visual language with a rich vocabulary rooted in form, objects, humanity, and the everyday. Whether featuring a cast of a limb or the outline of a body part, the sculptures at the heart of Yu’s practice are amorphous anatomical objects, sensitive yet weighty, evoking an almost eerie sense of mechanical disengagement, as if a human body has been created and then pilfered.

Isabella Tam is Curator, Visual Art, at M+. Since joining M+ in 2012, she has focused on Asian art, in particular contemporary Chinese art and Asian photography. She has helped develop the museum’s permanent collections and curated various exhibitions, including, M+ Sigg Collection: Four Decades of Chinese Contemporary Art (2016), Mapping Chinese Art, 1972–2012: Selections for the M+ Sigg Collection (2019), Sigg Prize (2019), and Yayoi Kusama: 1945 to Now (2022). She was also the assistant editor of the catalogue Chinese Art Since 1970: The M+ Sigg Collection (2021).

Ariadne Long is Assistant Curator, Visual Art, at M+. She focuses on contemporary art practices in the Greater China region, which inform her museum acquisitions from the region and beyond. Since joining M+ in 2018, she has organized the ongoing M+ Sigg Prize, its jury meetings and M+ Sigg Fellowship programmes and helped curate the exhibitions The Dream of the Museum (2021) and the M+ Sigg Collection series. Long previously worked at the Hong Kong Arts Centre, UNESCO, and private art foundation.