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= Xu Hong (artist, born 1957) = Xu Hong (Chinese: ; pinyin: ; born 1957 in Shanghai, China) is a Chinese artist, art critic, curator and writer.

She currently is a researcher at the National Art Museum of China, and the Director of the Academic Department at Tsinghua University Art Museum.

She has written a number of essays on the history and development of contemporary Chinese art.

During this period, she published essays in the magazine ArtAsiaPacific (then Art and Asia Pacific) - The Spotted Leopard: Seeking Truth from History and Reality: Trends in the Development of Chinese Art and Dialogue: The awakening of Chinese women’s consciousness.

Xu graduated from the Faculty of Art Education, Shanghai Normal University in 1985. She also completed a postgraduate course in art history from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1992. She worked in the Research Department at the Shanghai Art Museum between 1985 and 2000. She has participated in art exhibitions including China Avant-Garde (1989) and Century Woman (1998) at the China Art Gallery in Beijing, China New Art in Australia (1992), Chinese Women Painters in Washington (1995),

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.