Dr olivier krischer

Olivier Krischer is a historian and curator of modern and contemporary art from East Asia, particularly Japan, China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, and their diasporas.

Olivier completed his PhD in Art History at the University of Tsukuba, Japan, where he also began teaching in the field. Since then he has worked between Asia and Australia, as a researcher, educator, writer, curator and translator.

Following roles as managing editor of ArtAsiaPacific in Hong Kong, and as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Australian National University, he is currently a Lecturer at the UNSW School of Art and Design. Olivier also lectures on modern and contemporary Japanese and Chinese art at the National Art School, Sydney. His edited publications include John Young: The History Projects (Power Publications, 2024), Zhang Peili: from Painting to Video (ANU Press, 2019) and Asia through Art and Anthropology: Cultural Translation Across Borders (2013, with F. Nakamura, M. Perkins).

Having lived and worked for extended periods in Japan especially, as well as in Taiwan, Hong Kong and mainland China, Olivier speaks Japanese and Mandarin, as well as French.