Oskár Čepan

The fourth and final jury member of this year’s Oskár Čepan Award is curator Erin Li! We’re excited that she has once again accepted our invitation to select the laureate from among 51 applications!

Erin Li is Curator at Delfina Foundation in London, leading on the delivery of residencies, exhibitions, and public programmes. Her recent curatorial practice centres around embodiment and liveness, from street dance and live art, fermentation and foodways, to transforming everyday relations, processes and vulnerabilities into interdisciplinary art projects. She was previously Asymmetry Curatorial Fellow at Whitechapel Gallery. Before relocating to London, she served as Associate Curator at Tai Kwun Contemporary in Hong Kong, where she realised numerous exhibitions, including curating Sipping Dreams: Doreen Chan (2023), emo gym (2022), and co-curating trust & confusion: Tino Sehgal (2021). She also worked as Art Manager at Duddell’s (Hong Kong and London) and Project Researcher and Development Coordinator at Asia Art Archive (Hong Kong). 

Li was on the jury panel for Oskár Čepan Award 2024 & 2025 (Slovakia) and the inaugural E.A.T Prize (China) in 2024. She has also been invited to speak publicly at Tate, The University of Oxford, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Architectural Association among other institutions. Her writings have been published on ArtReview, Artforum, STIR, and AICA Hong Kong.

photo credits: Rico Tsui

The Oskár Čepan Award project is co-organized by the art support platform @collect__ive.