Xinran Yuan is Director of Exhibitions and Community Engagement at the Art and Art History Department, where she oversees the department’s main exhibition spaces, including the Hatton Gallery, as well as partnerships for exhibitions and programming on and off campus.

As a curator, producer, and cultural programs strategist, her research focuses on the intersection of art, emerging technologies, and planet-scale biodiversity. Previously, she produced and co-curated the 2024 edition of the iconic 7x7 program at Rhizome of the New Museum of Contemporary Art on the theme of Artificial Intelligence. At Meta Open Arts, she led ambitious commissions at Meta’s New York Farley building and Hudson Yards, including a 50-feet, 2-ton suspended sculpture by artist Timur Si-Qin. As the founding Head of Global Partnerships at HTC VIVE Arts, she helped to realize the first large-scale in-museum VR exhibitions at institutions including the Louvre, V&A, American Museum of Natural History, and the Venice Biennale’s main Arsenale exhibition. She has collaborated with artists including Cai Guo-Qiang, Dominique Gonzalez Foerster, Albert Oehlen, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Tomás Saraceno, Sofia Crespo, Rindon Johnson, Baseera Khan, among others.

She holds a BA in Visual and Environmental Studies from Harvard University and an MFA in Sculpture from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.​ Her artworks have been exhibited internationally and are in the permanent collection at the Metropolitan Museum Library.