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Mankit Lai
Mankit Lai is an art and curatorial researcher. His research interests lie primarily in contemporary art with foci on ecology, socially engaged practices, and gender issues. Curatorial practices, installations, performances, and photography are his major fields of inquiry. He worked in different art and cultural institutions, supporting in his curatorial capacities with exhibitions and research in M+, the Palace Museum, and Asia Society Hong Kong. He received the 2021 Emerging Writer Award from the Journal of Curatorial Studies and published his exhibition review. In 2018, he was awarded as the Laidlaw scholar to embark on a research project examining gender representations in Chinese propaganda art at the University of Leeds and the University of Hong Kong.