HAI Jie

an independent curator and critic, once acted as the member of the Recommendation Committee of 2011 and 2013 Top 20--Chinese Cutting-edge Contemporary Photography Exhibition; the member of the Art Committee and the judge of the Award for Financially Aided Works by Young Artists of the Pingyao International Photography Festival; the academic moderator of 2012, 2014 and 2016 International Film Exhibition; the  Jury of the first round election of the photography group on the 7^th Award of Art China; the academic moderator of the 3^rd Chengdu Zongmu Photography Biennale in 2013; the curator of the Debut Exhibition of the 1^st Beijing Photo Biennale in 2013; the curator of the Experiment Exhibition of the 2014 Jinan International Photography Biennale; the curator of the 2015 Jimei x Arles International Photo Festival; the nominator of the Discovery Prize of the 2016 Jimei x Arles International Photo Festival; the curator of the LianZhou Foto in 2017; the Jury of the 6^th Hou Dengke Documentary Photograph Award.  the Jury of the 6^th  golden tying horse prize college students video art festival ; the keynote speaker of chengdu A4 art museum international photography Academic conference "echo" in 2017;the General curator of first AMNUA photography exhibition "refresh/laboring" in Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts in 2018; the curator of “Stratification and Synthesis: Two Actions and Practices in Chinese Contemporary Photography" in Xie Zilong Photography Museum ; the Jury of the first golden panda photography awards in 2019;Co-founder and academic director of the 1839 photography award; the Jury of the 11^th three shadows photography award in 2019; and the Asia region referrer of Zurich Vontobel contemporary photography award；the Jury of 15^thLianzhou Foto Punctum Award of Photography in 2019 ；the Jury of 9^th Dali  International Photography Festival; the Jury of Lishui photography Festival.

 

Hai Jie has lectured at nearly 30 venues in China Academy of Art, Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, Sun Yat-sen University，Xiamen University, Beijing University of Technology, Xiamen Academy of Arts and Design of Fuzhou University, Goethe-Institut, Qingdao Campus of Beijing Film Academy, as well as other universities, colleges and institutions. Academically, he focuses on case study on contemporary Chinese photography, oral history of contemporary Chinese photography, changes in the language of contemporary Chinese photography and social ethos. Recently, he is writing the“Talking About Pictures” series, which targets at typical hot images, starts from specific event, and discusses the complex states and relationships between image and power, ideology, culture, politics, media and theory.

 

Hai Jie has published the One Looking into the Mirror: Interviews with 16 Contemporary Chinese Photographers (By China Youth Publishing House in August 2012), Attitude Declaration: Interviews with 14 Contemporary Chinese Photographers (By Chinese National Fine Arts Publishing House in June 2013), Living on Screen: Profile of Contemporary Chinese Photography Since 2000 (By Chinese National Fine Arts Publishing House in June 2016). “Stratification and Synthesis: Two Actions and Practices in Chinese Contemporary Photography（By China Tushu Publishing Limited).