3. Staff Member

Xiaowen Zhu
Curator/Editor

Xiaowen Zhu is a London-based award-winning artist, filmmaker and writer. Described as a visual poet, social critic, and aesthetic researcher, she uses film, photography, performance, installation and mixed media as platforms to communicate the complex experience of being a diasporic person and to wrestle with the notion of a disembodied identity. She has received numerous awards, including TASML Artist Residency Award, Marylyn Ginsburg Klaus Fellowship, Jury Award of DOK Munich, Jury Award of Mexico International Documentary Film Festival, among others. She was an artist-in-residence at ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany and V2_Institute for the Unstable Media, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. She is a mentor of the British Film Institute’s Film Academy, a member of the Los Angeles Art Association, and formerly a Visiting Professor of Media Art at Syracuse University and Marymount College in USA. Her articles have appeared in Kaleidoscope Magazine, Yishu Journal, Art 289, among others. Zhu received her MFA in Art Video from Syracuse University, USA and BA in Film, TV Production & Media Art from Tongji University, China.

Zhu’s work has been widely shown internationally, including Whitechapel Gallery (London, UK), Whitstable Biennale (Whitstable, UK), Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum (Beijing China), Chronus Art Center (Shanghai, China), Art Basel Hongkong, ZKM | Center for Art and Media (Karlsruhe, Germany), V2_Institute for the Unstable Media (Rotterdam, the Netherlands), ISEA2011 (Istanbul, Turkey), Dumbo Arts Center (New York, USA), Videonale (Berlin, Germany), Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago, USA), Los Angeles Art Association (Los Angeles, USA), Venice Arts Gallery (Los Angeles, USA), Strozzina Art Space (Florence,Italy), Sainsbury Center for Visual Arts (Norwich, UK), Toronto Urban Film Festival (Toronto, Canada), DOK Munich (Munich, Germany), Film Winter (Stuttgart, Germany), Athens Video Art Festival (Athens, Greece), K3 Film Festival (Austria), Everson Museum of Art (Syracuse, USA), Shanghai eArts Festival(Shanghai, China) and more.

Alan Grillo
Curator / Designer

Alan Grillo is a Shanghai based curator and designer, diagonally working on projects spacing from fashion retail to exhibition setups and independent publishing.

With a background in architecture and photography he moved to China in 2010, where he started collaborating with luxury fashion brands and later on with Istituto Marangoni Shanghai where he teaches digital and visual communication.

As one of the editors of Genda, a magazine intersecting Western and Eastern culture, Alan researches and selects photography projects in mainland China.

Paul Han
Communications Coordinator

As Communications Coordinator Paul develops and implements external communication strategies with Arthub’s key partners and followers. Paul reviews promotional materials; oversees and manages the company’s social media presence on platforms; researches ways to expand Arthub’s consumer base.

Paul serves as a liaison to media outlets, distributing press material both before and after events. In addition to his focus on the organization’s marketing strategies and communicative methods, Paul supports the institutional team by managing operational and logistical issues, including the transportation of exhibition artworks.