Orianna Cacchione’s curatorial practice is committed to expanding the canon of contemporary art to respond to the global circulations of art and ideas. At the Smart Museum, Cacchione has curated the exhibitions, The Allure of Matter: Material Art from China with UChicago Professor Wu Hung, which interrogated how materiality informs contemporary Chinese art; Samson Young: Silver moon or golden star, which will buy of me?; and Tang Chang: The Painting that Is Painted with Poetry Is Profoundly Beautiful. Her writing has been published in the Journal of Art Historiography, Yishu, and the Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art. Cacchione is Curator of Global Contemporary Art at the Smart Museum of Art and Lecturer in the Department of Art History at the University of Chicago.