Art instructor, arts and culture writer, and guest curator. Academic consultant of Asia Art Archive. Kao has written over 10 books, including Art Concept and Its Discontents, Transpassing: Special Studies on Contemporary Asia Art in 2010s, Biennale Fever—The Alternative Voice of Politics, Aesthetics and Institutes, Rebellion in Silhouette: The New Myth on Contemporary Artists, and After Origin: Topic on Contemporary Chinese Art in New Age. Major exhibitions that she has curated include Once Upon A Time—Unfinished Progressive Past, Keelung Ciao: Ask the Way in 2018, Com(ic)media on Line: The 7th International Ink Painting Biennale of Shenzhen, Scent of a Woman: the Collection of Female Subject in Taiwan, Trading Place—Contemporary Art Museum, and Activity Factor: The 50th Venice Biennial Taiwan Pavilion.