INK studio is a contemporary art gallery based in Beijing's Caochangdi art district. Over the past decades, a group of important artists have dedicated themselves to developing the immense creative possibilities in China's millennia-old artistic traditions and to exploring the significance of classical Chinese culture and philosophy for the contemporary world. Their work increasingly is attracting international critical attention. INK studio's mission is to present the best of this work to the public in a closely-curated exhibition program supported by in-depth critical analysis, scholarly exchange, and bilingual publishing and multimedia production. The gallery regularly appears at art fairs such as New York's Armory Show and Hong Kong Basel, and frequently places works by its represented artists into major public collections such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum and Hong Kong's M+. Dr. Britta Erickson is Artistic Director of INK Studio and drives all aspects of its programming and scholarly activities. An independent scholar and curator living in Palo Alto, California, she has curated major exhibitions at the Sackler Gallery, Washington, D.C. (Word Play: Contemporary Art by Xu Bing), the Cantor Center, Stanford (On the Edge: Contemporary Chinese Artists Encounter the West). She also co-curated the 2007 Chengdu Biennial and the 2010 Asian Art Museum (San Francisco) exhibition, Shanghai: Art of the City. Dr. Erickson has written numerous books, articles, and essays on contemporary Chinese art and is on the advisory boards of The Ink Society (Hong Kong) and Three Shadows Photography Art Centre (Beijing), as well as the editorial boards of Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art and ART Asia Pacific. In 2006 she was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to conduct research in Beijing on the Chinese contemporary art market. Dr. Erickson received her Ph. D. in Chinese Art History from Stanford University.