Maya Kóvskaya is a Beijing-based writer, art critic and curator with over a decade of experience living in China. She has curated numerous exhibitions, including, most recently, Multiple Realities (PRC, 8.2008), China Under Construction II at the 2008 Fotofest 12th International Photography Biennial (USA, 2008), China on the Road (Brussels, 2.2009), worked with the Asia Triennial Manchester ATM08 (curatorial liaison for the project at The International 3, UK, 2008), China Under Construction I, at Art Houston (USA, 2007), Age of Big Construction (PRC, 2007), The Fatalistic Language of Things (USA, 2007), On the Stage of Modernization (USA, 2007), The Fragmented Gaze: Video Art from the People's Republic (USA, 2007), Love in the Age of Big Construction (PRC and USA, 2006), Quotidian Iconic (curatorial coordinator, PRC, 2006), The Other Shore of Desire (USA, 2006) Estrangements and Engagements: Chinese Contemporary Video Art (Canada, 2006), Misalignments:Chinese Performance and Video Art Documenta (USA, 2006), Other Modernities (USA, 2006), and others. Her writing has appeared in English, Chinese, Japanese, French and Spanish in numerous art catalogues, academic volumes, and magazines, such as Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, Art iT, Eyemazing: International Contemporary Photography Magazine, Art Review, Flash Art, Contemporary, Art Post, Art Map, and positions: east asia cultures critique. Her book on Chinese contemporary art, China Under Construction: Contemporary Art from the People's Republic (2007), is available in bookstores worldwide.