X.Zhu-Nowell is an award-winning curator, writer, and occasionally an artist. Currently, they serve as the Assistant Curator at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. At the moment, they are working with artist Wu Tsang on a large-scale solo project specially commissioned for the Guggenheim’s rotunda space. Conceived in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, this project will be part of a series that rethinks the Guggenheim’s iconic rotunda as a site of assembly, reflection, and amplification. They are also working on the first North American retrospective of artist Gillian Wearing’s work. Titled Gillian Wearing: Wearing Masks, this landmark exhibition will trace the artist’s development from her earliest Polaroids and videos to her latest photographic self-portraits and public projects. X Zhu-Nowell was part of the curatorial team for the major survey exhibition, Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World, and managed its subsequent tours to SFMoMA and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. They are one of the founding curators for the museum’s Asian Art Circle (est. 2019), an acquisition group dedicated to facilitating the museum’s ongoing efforts to diversify and strengthen its programming and collection, through a concerted focus on the contributions of emerging and established artists from Asia and Asian Diaspora.