Yuan Fuca is a writer, curator, and researcher based in Beijing and New York City. She is the Associate Program Director for China at Kadist, a co-founder and artistic director of initial research in New York, the 2023 fellow at the Asian Cultural Council, and the inaugural curatorial fellow of the De Ying Foundation.
Yuan was previously the founding artistic director and curator at the Macalline Art Center in Beijing. The center was launched in January 2022, and Yuan joined the team from its inception in 2019. She was crucial in its initial program and focus during her tenure. Yuan curated several solo exhibitions, including Patty Chang, Tong Wenmin, and Shao Chun. She also commissioned works for the center's digital video series "Bare Screen," which included videos and visual poetry presented in unconventional spaces such as bus tours, clubhouses, and parking lots, and a podcast series for the artist collective Future Host titled "Scripture."
“The Elephant Escaped,” curated as Macalline Art Center’s opening show, responds to contemporary society and life in the post-pandemic era through new commissions by five young Chinese artists, Fang Di, Li Ming, Peng Zuqiang, Shen Xin, and Tao Hui. It further continues the interrogation of a curious inquiry, “How can I be plural?” as a means of grappling with the ever-changing relationship between the individual and the collective and encouraging polyphonic artistic creation.
From 2016 to 2019, She co-founded and managed Salt Projects, a nonprofit art space in Beijing focused on time-based practices and interdisciplinary collaboration.She is also a founding editor of Heichi Magazine, an online bilingual publishing platform.
Her writing has been published in Artforum, Artnews, BOMB, Flash Art, Frieze, New York Times T Magazine, and Yishu.