Pamela Auchincloss has dedicated her entire professional career to work in both the commercial and the institutional fields of the art business. From 1980 through 1993 she owned and operated a commercial art gallery, first in California and then in New York City. In 1993 she reorganized the business, directing her interests and efforts towards education and curatorial services. During the next twelve years, Pamela Auchincloss/Arts Management organized and circulated more than 75 monographic and thematic group exhibitions to university art galleries, regional art museums and contemporary art centers. In addition to exhibition management, the company also advised on strategic planning, publication planning and distribution and board development.

Ms. Auchincloss has served on numerous community and arts-related boards including the University of California, Santa Barbara Board of Governors and the Board of Trustees for the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, the University Art Museum, UCSB, Danspace Project at St. Mark's Church, Housing Works, Inc. and Pratt Institute. She is also a member of the Council on the Environment of New York City, a mayoral appointment.

Mami Kataoka is Senior Curator of the Mori Art Museum since 2003. In addition to overseeing the activities of the curatorial department at the Mori, she has curated diverse exhibitions such as Roppongi Crossing: New Visions in Contemporary Japanese Art 2004 which overviewed the latest art scene in Japan, Ozawa Tsuyoshi: Answer with Yes and No! (2004) as the first in a series to introduce mid-career Asian artists with solo exhibitions, co-curated Follow Me!: Chinese Art at the Threshold of the New Millennium (2005) which showed the museum’s strong focus on Asian contemporary art, and MAM Projects to encourage young and upcoming artists internationally. She curated the first three MAM Projects; 001: Santiago Cucullu (2004), 002: Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba (2004) and 003: R.O.R (Revolutions on Request), a group from Finland. She has also worked on Hiroshi Sugimoto: End of Time (2005) in collaboration with the Hirshhorn Museum and the Sculpture Garden in Washington D.C. and Tokyo-Berlin / Berlin-Tokyo (2006) in collaboration with the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin.

She received a BA from Aichi University of Education in 1988. Prior to the Mori, she was chief curator of the Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, where she worked from the start of the project to structure the organization in 1992 and stayed until 2002, 3 years after its opening in 1999. There she curated Releasing Senses (inaugural exhibition in 1999), Tatsuo Miyajima: Mega Death (2000), Encounter (2001), Rirkrit Tiravanija (2002) and collaborated on projects including Territory: contemporary art from the Netherlands (2000), My home is yours, your home is mine (2001), JAM: Tokyo-London (2001), Under Construction: New Dimensions in Asian Contemporary Art (2002), among others.

Sunjung Kim was chief curator of Artsonje Center (Seoul), and Artsonje Museum (Kyongju) from 1993 to 2004. An independent curator, she is also a professor at the Korean National University of the Arts (KNUA, Seoul). She is widely recognized for her devotion to emerging artists in Korea and around the world. Ms. Kim, who received her MFA from the University of Michigan, has been particularly active in developing exchanges among international artists, and has played a particularly important role in the evolution of pan-Asian and Pacific-rim curatorial networks.

Ms. Kim was the commissioner for the Korean Pavilion at the 2005 Venice Bienale. In addition, she has curated numerous exhibitions both domestically and internationally. In Korea, she has curated exhibitions such as Ssack: Korean Contemporary Artists, 1995, Seo-young Chung: Look Out, 2000, KOREAMERICAKOREA, 2000, Tatsuo Miyajima, 2002, Do-Ho Suh, 2003 and Tobais Rehberger, 2004 at Artsonje Center in Seoul. Internationally, she has curated exhibitions such as Promendade in Asia: Speed, 1997 at Shseido Galley in Tokyo, Japan, Yiso Bahc, Yangah Ham and Dario Robleto, 2000, ArtPace, San Antonio, Under construction, 2002 at the Japan Foundation Asia Center, and Yangguang Canlan, 2003 at BizArt Center, Eastlink Gallery and ShanghArt Suzhou Creek Warehouse, Shanghai, China.

Hou Hanru is a Paris and San Francisco based independent critic and curator. Born in 1963 in China, Hanru moved to Paris in 1990s. Hanru is currently an Advisor (professor) at the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam, visiting Professor at HISK, Antwerp, member of Advisory Committee of De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam, French correspondent of Flash Art International and curator of the 10th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey. He is currently Director of Exhibitions and Public Programs at the San Francisco Art Institute.

Hanru has curated numerous exhibitions, including The 2nd Guangzhou Triennale, Guangzhou, China, 2004-2006; The 3rd Tirana Biennale, Tirana, Albania; Out Of Sight De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam (2005); The Fifth System, the fifth Shenzhen international public art exhibition (2003); Zone Of Urgency (the 50th Venice Biennale, 2003); Gwangju Biennale 2002, Korea; Paris pour Escale (Musée d'art Moderne de la Ville de Paris 2000-2001); Shanghai Biennale 2000; Pusan International Contemporary Art Festival, Pusan Art Museum, Korea (2000); The French Pavilion, Venice Biennale, 1999; Biennale of Photography (Centro de La Imagen, Mexico City, 1999); Cities on the Move, (1997, Vienna, 1998, Bordeaux, New York, 1999 Denmark, London, Bangkok, Helsinki; Hong Kong, etc. in Johannesburg Biennale (1997); Parisien(ne)s (1997, Camden Arts Centre, London); and China/Avant-Garde (China National Art Gallery, Beijing, 1989).

Hanru has been a jury member for numerous prestigious art awards including, Berlage Institute of Architecture, Rotterdam, 2005; ASEAN Art Awards, 2004; France DAAD, Berlin, 2003; Hasselblad Award, Sweden, 2002; Artissima, Torino, 2002; Art Prize of Evens Foundation, Paris, 2002; Philip Morris Art Award, Japan, 2002; Echigo-Tsumari Triennale (Japan, 2001-2003); Media Art Award 2000; ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany, Baloise Art Prize, Basel, 2000; Chinese Contemporary Art Awards, Beijing; the Hugo Boss Prize, New York 1998; and a member of the Global Advisory Committee of Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis.