Wang Huan (B.1991) is a Beijing-based writer, critic and curator. He is the co-founder and

chief editor of GENERAL (manual). He has published a series of art criticisms and essays in various media such as Twenty-First Century (21C), ARTFORUM, ArtReview, LEAP Magazine, Ocula, Art-Ba-Ba, Jiazazhi Magazine, Heichi Magazine, CLABO (Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab), Art Monthly, STUDIO VOIVE, UNLIRICE, IDEAT, Wallpaper, Art World Magazine, as well as Ray Art Center’s Reviews, New Century Art Foundation, etc.

In 2018, he won the first prize of the 5th International Awards for Art Criticism (IAAC). In 2019, he won the PSA Emerging Curators Project with the curatorial project Sunset on a Dead End. In 2024, he was selected for the second De Ying curatorial fellowship programme. He was a nominated curator of the Jimei × Arles Discovery Award in 2016 and 2019. In 2020, he was elected to Artist-in-Residence Taipei 2020, and he published the book NOTHING LEFT BUT WORDS as the chief editor. He was also the chief editor for Wushu Xiuci (myth rhetorical), the first volume of Jiazazhi magazine. In 2024, he published the book GUO Fengyi：COSMIC MERIDIANS as the chief editor. In 2021, he served as a special judge of the PSA Emerging Curators Project. Recently he’s working on a cross-cultural research project which focuses on secret society and art. Using contemporary secret folk associations and folk images as field research samples, his project explores the origin and motivation of primitive creativity before the technologized time, as well as the contemporary secrets that flow within the undercurrents of folklore.