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Mary Ceruti is the executive director of the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Before joining the Walker in 2019 she served for 19 years as the executive director and chief curator of SculptureCenter in New York and worked as an independent writer and curator with various national arts institutions. Ceruti has organized dozens of solo and group exhibitions of contemporary art and curated special projects and commissions by established and emerging artists including Nairy Baghramian, Sanford Biggers, Mike Kelley and Michael Smith, Xaviera Simmons, and Mika Tajima. Ceruti helped establish the Long Island City Cultural Alliance and has served on numerous cultural advisory boards. In 2021 she was awarded the honor of Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters) from the French Ministry of Culture. She currently serves on the Board of the Association of Art Museum Directors.

Doryun Chong is the artistic director and chief curator of M+, Hong Kong. Chong oversees all curatorial activities and programs at M+, including collections, exhibitions, learning and public programs, publications, and digital initiatives across the museum’s three main disciplinary areas of design and architecture, moving image, and visual art. He has curated and overseen critically acclaimed exhibitions for M+, including “Lee Bul: 1998 to Now” (2026), “Picasso for Asia—A Conversation” (2025), and “Yayoi Kusama: 1945 to Now” (2022–23). He also helped organize and supervise the five editions of Hong Kong’s participation in the Venice Biennale from 2015 to 2024. Prior to joining M+ in 2013, Chong worked at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, and the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. He curated several landmark exhibitions during that time, including “Tokyo 1955–1970: A New Avant-Garde” (2012–13) at MoMA and “Tetsumi Kudo: Garden of Metamorphosis” (2008–09) and “House of Oracles: A Huang Yong Ping Retrospective” (2005–06) at the Walker.

Andrea Lissoni, PhD, is the artistic director of Haus der Kunst, Munich. From 2013 to 2020 he was a senior curator of international art (film) at Tate Modern, London, and from 2009 to 2014 he was a curator at Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan. His program at Haus der Kunst focuses on transdisciplinary, transgenerational approaches to artistic experimentation. The program began in 2022 with the sound and music residency series Tune and intertwined exhibitions by Fujiko Nakaya, Dumb Type, Carsten Nicolai, Christine Sun Kim, Tony Cokes, and Karrabing Film Collective. It has since extended to the group exhibitions “Inside Other Spaces: Environments by Women Artists 1956–1976” (2023–24) and “For Children: Art Stories since 1968” (2025–26) as well as solo projects and exhibitions by artists including WangShui, Pussy Riot, and Philippe Parreno. Lissoni is a board member of Fondazione MAST, Bologna, and sits on the advisory boards of the Serralves Foundation, Porto; MASI Lugano; Loop Barcelona; and Centro Pecci, Prato.

Shihoko Iida is the chief curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo. She was previously the head of curatorial for the Aichi Triennale 2025, the chief curator of the Triennale’s 2019 and 2022 editions, and a cocurator of the 2013 edition. From 2009 to 2011 she was a visiting curator at the Australian Centre of Asia Pacific Art, a research institute within the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane. Between 1998 and 2009 she held various curatorial positions at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery. Iida has cocurated exhibitions in Jakarta, Milan, New Delhi, Seoul, and cities across Australia. She has also contributed as a curator to international exhibitions including the 15th Asian Art Biennale Bangladesh in 2012 and the Sapporo International Art Festival in 2014. Iida is a board member of the International Biennial Association (IBA) and a member of the International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art (CIMAM).