Iris Long is a writer and independent curator. She currently works as a researcher on art, science and technology at Central Academy of Fine Arts, with a research focus on how art responses to the current global reality of ubiquitous computing and big data.
She was shortlisted by the first M21-IAAC Award (International Awards for Art Criticism). Her translation work, Rethinking Curating: Art after New Media, received nomination from AAC Art China awards in 2016. In 2018, she was the recipient of Hyundai Blue Prize for curators and curated “Lying Sophia and Mocking Alexa”. She co-curated the opening show of UN Art Center, “The Kind Stranger” (2019) and is the curator of The Third Session of “Future of Today”: Deja Vu (Today Art Museum, Beijing). She is also the art jury of ISEA 2019.
Iris has a master degree of Critical Writing in Art and Design from the Royal College of Art, UK and a bachelor degree of Journalism and Communication from Tsinghua University, China.