Xiaoyu Weng is a curator and writer. She has organized exhibitions and events for venues including the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts (San Francisco), Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco), the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, Queens Nails Projects (San Francisco) and the Minsheng Art Museum (Shanghai). Her essay “Working with Archive” was the winning entry of the Artforum Critical Writing Award in 2011. Weng runs a column for the bimonthly journal Art Time (Beijing). Her writing has appeared in publications such as Artforum Online, Journal of Curatorial Studies, and Leap, and exhibition catalogues such as the 5th Auckland Triennial, Gwangju Biennale 2012, and 7th Shenzhen Sculpture Biennale, among others. In addition to her independent endeavors, Weng is Curator of Asia Programs at the Kadist Art Foundation in San Francisco.