In 2015, after a six-year hiatus from mainstream exhibition, Chan mounted a spare but provocative show at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City.
Squats and studios High rent and lack of available studio space has meant that many artists operate in collectives often squatting in old industrial buildings, until their work is accepted into the mainstream exhibition circuit.
I can only assume I was denied mainstream exhibition because as a 40+ woman director playing a Morgan Spurlock-style frontman in my film, I'd broken too many locks on the gender straitjacket.
It was at Pangolin Editions, a sculpture foundry in Stroud, that the gallery's director, Polly Bielecka, noticed the disjuncture between the quantity and quality of work being made there by women, and what was being shown in mainstream exhibitions.
As one of the first mainstream exhibitions to incorporate of-the-moment hip hop music, the show serves as a crossroad for how black art and black culture are connected.
My personal experiences reflect what Deakin Professor Deb Verhoven and close film-maker colleagues have also observed: there is a powerful club of predominantly male tastemakers in this country who continue to back films for mainstream production, exhibition and distribution on the assumption that their tastes reflect the majority of Australians.
Mr. Tsang's entry into the mainstream was a 1997 exhibition at the Hong Kong Arts Centre, followed by a show at the 2003 Venice Biennale.
Comics Unmasked: Art and Anarchy in the UK is, according to the British Library, the largest ever exhibition of mainstream and underground comics to be staged in the UK.
In 2010, Jens Hoffmann, the top curator at the Jewish Museum, who considers Obrist his mentor, wrote in the magazine Mousse: "Almost all of the innovative work done by exhibition makers in mainstream art institutions over the last decade owes much to ideas that Obrist first introduced".
"'Crosscurrents' recognizes that a large proportion of artists from diverse cultural origins are actively creating art that fits within one or another of the recognizable stylistic paths of international modernism, and thus regardless of where they come from their art is very much part of the mainstream," said Mr. Wechsler, the exhibition's co-curator.
"Independent film has always had to struggle for a place in the universe," he said, calling for extra funding to aid the exhibition and distribution of non-mainstream titles.
