Art Journalist · Art Video & Documentary Producer · Contributing Lead Author & Senior Producer, Yitiao · Lecturer, Shanghai Theatre Academy
Xirui Huang is an art journalist, writer, and producer of art videos and documentaries. A Contributing Lead Author and Senior Producer at Yitiao and a lecturer at Shanghai Theatre Academy, she has interviewed more than 150 artists, collectors and curators from China and around the world. Her website, Art with Xirui, brings together in-depth bilingual articles and films on Chinese contemporary art, international exhibitions and collecting, connecting artworks with lived experience and cultural context.
Dr. Xirui Huang is a lecturer at Shanghai Theatre Academy and a Senior Producer and Contributing Lead Author at Yitiao, one of China's leading digital art and lifestyle media platforms. She earned her Ph.D. in Music in the United States and has published widely in both domestic and international academic journals.
Bridging academia and the cultural industries, she has produced over 100 cross-platform viral projects in art and culture, building multiple high-impact corporate IPs. Her collaborations include Disney, L'Oréal, and the West Kowloon Cultural District. Her work focuses on humanities, lifestyle aesthetics, contemporary art, fashion, emerging cultural narratives, and music.
Her art reporting explores Chinese contemporary artists, women artists, collecting, museum exhibitions, Art Basel and Frieze art weeks. Art with Xirui brings together her Chinese- and English-language articles and films, connecting artworks with the people, histories and places behind them.
These interviews and reports document Xirui Huang’s sustained work on artistic practice, collecting and international exhibitions. Each link leads to the full feature, including conversations, field reporting and artwork context.
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Xirui Huang is an art journalist, writer, and producer of art videos and documentaries, and the founder and author of Art with Xirui. She is a Contributing Lead Author and Senior Producer at Yitiao and a lecturer at Shanghai Theatre Academy, with more than 150 interviews with artists, collectors and curators from China and around the world.
Her reporting covers Chinese and international contemporary art, interviews with artists and curators, collectors, museum exhibitions and art fairs. She focuses on personal experiences, cultural context and the connections between art and everyday life.
Published interviews include artists Pierre Huyghe and Werner Büttner; curator and arts leader Hoor Al Qasimi; curator Amal Khalaf; and collectors Yu Yan and Yoyo. Read the selected features linked on this page. Each article identifies whether it is exhibition reporting, a curator conversation or an interview with the artist.
This website’s articles and films bring together her work in Chinese and English. Starting points include her reporting on Zhou Chunya, Pierre Huyghe, RM’s SFMOMA collection exhibition, Art Basel Hong Kong and Frieze Art Week in Seoul.
Art video and documentary production is a central part of Xirui Huang’s work alongside interviewing and writing. The Film section brings together moving-image work on artists, exhibitions, collecting and culture, with Chinese and English introductions and playable videos. Related reporting provides further context for the people and works featured.
Xirui Huang holds a doctorate in music from the United States and teaches at Shanghai Theatre Academy. The academy’s public records document her teaching in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Western music and in opera and musical theatre appreciation. Music research, teaching and arts communication inform her interdisciplinary work.
Read Xirui Huang’s art reporting in Chinese and English
Shanghai Theatre Academy report documents Xirui Huang teaching a course on opera and musicals (2025)
Humanities and everyday aesthetics · Contemporary art · Fashion · Emerging technology · Music · Reporting on Chinese contemporary art · Artist and curator interviews · Art collecting and collector interviews · Museum exhibition reporting · International art fair reporting · Art video and documentary production · Cross-cultural arts communication
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