Jiang Jun is an independent curator and art critic, a guest curator at the Shenzhen Museum of Contemporary Art & Urban Planning, and the chairman of the Art and Economy Professional Committee of the Zhejiang Creative Design Association.

He graduated from the Kunstakademie Münster, Germany, and later obtained a doctorate in Art Studies from the China Academy of Art. From 2021 to 2024, he served as a postdoctoral researcher in architecture at Tongji University in Shanghai. Jiang Jun co-curated the Chinese National Pavilion at the 60th Venice International Art Biennale (2024), and has also co-curated the 7th Guangzhou Triennial (2022–2023) and the 2023 Chengdu Biennial.

Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at the China Academy of Art, Head of the Department of Fiber Art.

Received a doctoral degree in 2017, invited by the Josef & Anni Alberts Foundation for a residency research and conducted academic visits in the United States. Authored monographs such as "The Evolution of Fabrics" and "The Artistic Language of Digital Weaving". In 2013, joined the project team of the Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art. Served as the co-curator of the third project, the project leader of the fourth project, and currently serves as the project leader and curator of the fifth project in 2025.

Started engaging in the creation and theoretical research of contemporary fiber art in 2004, studying under Shi Hui. Since then, has undertaken/led a series of national and provincial research projects, published multiple papers in core journals, and simultaneously planned and promoted projects such as the "Seminar on Chinese Contemporary Fiber Art Teaching", "Emerging Fiber Art Exhibition", and "International Lecture Series of Fiber Art (IPFA)".

In personal creation, emphasizes the exploration of fibers, visual space, and visual symbols, and is proficient in constructing an abstract art context that includes perspective dimensions, spatiotemporal cognition, and logical concepts through schematic language rich in logical thinking. Mainly in the forms of easel installations and spatial installations, involving media such as images and lighting. Recently, has focused on the research of visual imaging in the fields of digital weaving technology and digital fiber.

Assadour Markarov, PhD is an artist, educator and curator, has been lecturing around the world, in Japan, UK, Ireland, Finland, and currently is a professor at China Academy of Art, Fiber Art Department.

Markarov was trained as an artist in China, make his degree in traditional Chinese calligraphy and later in the field of contemporary textiles, researching in UK and Japan. As an artist, he works in different fields of visual art as painting, printmaking, and works with hand made paper, calligraphy, sculptures and installations in space. His works have been exhibited in 15th Lausanne Biennial for contemporary textile art in Switzerland, 7th International Cairo Biennial of Contemporary Art, 10th International Lodz Triennial of Tapestry in Poland, "Fascinatie Texstyle 2" in the Museum Van Bommel-van Dam, Venlo in Holland, 2nd Beijing Biennial for Contemporary Art, and other major group exhibitions in Bulgaria.

His major curatorial projects include Bulgarian artists’ participation on Estampa 2000 and 2001 in Spain, co-curator of the 1st and 2nd edition of Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art in 2013 and 2016, China. A chief curator of the “Silk and tradition”, project in China National Silk Museum, and China Academy of Art an exhibition and symposium titled “Unrealized projects of Maryn Varbanov” related on the education of fiber art (2017). From East to East · Contemporary Printmaking Art Exchange Exhibition (2021), and Ceramic Transitions · China – Bulgaria contemporary ceramic art exhibition (2024).

Xu Jia is an artist, curator and writer. She received a B Arch Degree from Tongji University in 2008, Master’s Degree in Art History from China Academy of Art in 2013, and PhD in Art Theory from CAA in 2016. She is now an associate professor in Fiber Art Department of CAA. She is the curator of“The Subversive Threads：5^th Frontier Fiber Art Exhibition” in 2023 and co-curator of Fiber Code exhibition in China International Design Museum in 2021, the curator of Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art in 2016. She is now working as co-curator of 5^thHangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art in 2025. She is now Vice-Editor and China-Regional Editor of TEXTILE: CLOTH AND CULTUREjournal.

She is also the editor-in-chief of The Fiber Reader 2 (Proceedings of the Symposium of the 3^rd Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art 2019), Fiber Thinking (Proceedings of the Symposium of the 4^th Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art 2022), Maryn Varbanov’sDeparture(2022), and Subversive Threads(The catalogue of 5^th Frontier Fiber Art Exhibition)(2023).