Samantha Culp is a writer, artist, and curator currently based in Beijing. After graduating from Yale University in 2004, she taught literature and film studies as a Yale-China Fellow at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. There she began researching and writing extensively on Chinese and Asian contemporary art, for publications such as the South China Morning Post, TimeOut Hong Kong (as film columnist), Artforum Online (NYC), ARTiT (Tokyo), and various exhibition catalogues.
She also began working closely with local art spaces (Videotage, 1a Space, Para/site), and cultural institutions (Asian Cultural Council, Hong Kong International Film Festival). From 2004-2008, she co-founded and ran Embassy Projects, a collaborative studio and exhibition platform in Hong Kong’s Fo Tan industrial/art district, and produced numerous interdisciplinary projects at the intersection of contemporary art and cultural research. Her works and programming have appeared in festivals such as Image Forum Festival (Tokyo), Get it Louder (Guangzhou/Beijing/Shanghai), Urban Nomad (Taipei), the Asian Biennale (Taichung), and Shanghai MOCA. She serves on the board of directors of Videotage, Hong Kong, and was also the founding project manager for Cao Fei’s RMB City, a large-scale new media art project.
Samantha recently established New Territories, an experimental studio for research and production. She provides valuable insight to the art and culture community in Asia as co-editor of RedBox Review.
Upon returning to New York after her first visit to China, Soraya Broukhim provides a review of Wang Qingsong’s "When World's Collide" exhibition of photographs and videos at ICP. (Read more)
Upon returning to New York after her first visit to China, Soraya Broukhim provides a review of Wang Qingsong’s "When World's Collide" exhibition of photographs and videos at ICP. (Read more)
Samantha Culp
Samantha Culp is a writer, artist, and curator currently based in Beijing. After graduating from Yale University in 2004, she taught literature and film studies as a Yale-China Fellow at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. There she began researching and writing extensively on Chinese and Asian contemporary art, for publications such as the South China Morning Post, TimeOut Hong Kong (as film columnist), Artforum Online (NYC), ARTiT (Tokyo), and various exhibition catalogues.
She also began working closely with local art spaces (Videotage, 1a Space, Para/site), and cultural institutions (Asian Cultural Council, Hong Kong International Film Festival). From 2004-2008, she co-founded and ran Embassy Projects, a collaborative studio and exhibition platform in Hong Kong’s Fo Tan industrial/art district, and produced numerous interdisciplinary projects at the intersection of contemporary art and cultural research. Her works and programming have appeared in festivals such as Image Forum Festival (Tokyo), Get it Louder (Guangzhou/Beijing/Shanghai), Urban Nomad (Taipei), the Asian Biennale (Taichung), and Shanghai MOCA. She serves on the board of directors of Videotage, Hong Kong, and was also the founding project manager for Cao Fei’s RMB City, a large-scale new media art project.
Samantha recently established New Territories, an experimental studio for research and production. She provides valuable insight to the art and culture community in Asia as co-editor of RedBox Review.