Victoria Lu (artistic name: Viki Lulu) is the Chinese contemporary art world’s first female art critic and curator. She was born in 1951 into a literati family in Taiwan and attended Academie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels before immigrating to the United States in the early 1970s where she received her BA and MA degrees from California State University. She embarked on her career of writing art criticism in the mid-1970s and launched her curatorial career at the end of 1978. In 2003, Lu moved to Shanghai where she served as Creative Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, the first privately owned contemporary arts museum in China.

In 2011, Lu curated “Future Pass”, a Collateral Event of the 54th International Art Exhibition - la Biennale di Venezia. She invited more than 150 artists who participated in the well-received international exhibition. She then participated in the 2017 Venice Biennale Collateral Event ‘MODUS’ with her new artwork: Viva La Belle Vie - a performance piece and video of CCPA. Victoria Lu is the author of the Post-Modern Phenomena in Art, Perspective of Contemporary Art, Encountering the Others, the Post Post-Modern Art, and many others. She now teaches the Creative Industry doctoral program at Shih Chien University in Taipei, Taiwan.