Xu Hong is a graduate of the Department of Art, Shanghai Normal University (1985) and the graduate art history program of the Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing (1992). She was Associate Researcher at the Shanghai Art Museum (1985-2000) where she was involved in editorial work, theoretical research, curatorial projects and artistic practice, and then Deputy Head of Research and Head of the No. 1 Academic Department at the National Art Museum of China (2001-2013). In 2005 she became a Senior Research Fellow and was named an ‘Outstanding Expert’. She was a visiting Professor at Tainan National University of the Arts, and is currently an expert advisor for the Tsinghua University Art Museum. She is a leading curator, art historian and critic. Her research focuses on modern and contemporary Chinese art and Chinese women’s art.