Michael Xufu Huang is an art collector and a co-founder of M WOODS, an independent nonprofit art museum in Beijing that brings international contemporary art to the Chinese public. Housed in a former munitions factory in Beijing’s 798 Art District, M WOODS is one of several museums that represent the next generation of contemporary art in China’s capitol, changing the institutional landscape for contemporary art in the city. As an arts patron, Huang is a champion of emerging post-internet art and work that fuses art and technology, and serves as a member of the New Museum’s International Leadership Council and its Board of Trustees, since december 2016.