作为一名策展人、教育工作者和作家，芭芭拉·波洛克自20世纪80年代末以来一直参与全球当代艺术工作。她是非盈利组织Art at a Time Like This的联合创始人，为致力于解决21世纪紧迫问题的艺术家提供自由表达的平台。
作为中国当代艺术领域的资深从业者，芭芭拉·波洛克于2022年在亚洲协会（Asia Society）策划了《镜像：中国身份的转变》，2015年在橙县艺术博物馆（Orange County Museum of Art）组织了美国首次中国青年艺术家群展《我这一代》。她的学术论文《陆扬：艺术家vs.虚拟形象》发表于学术期刊《屏幕身体》（Screen Bodies）。
芭芭拉·波洛克著有Brand New Art from China: A Generation on the Rise, Bloomsbury, 2018和The Wild, Wild East: An American Art Critic’s Adventures in China, Timezone 8, 2010。她为众多艺术家撰写文章，包括刘野、李松松、林天苗、王功新、赵赵、孙逊和屠宏涛等。芭芭拉曾获得亚洲文化协会奖学金和安迪·沃霍尔艺术评论奖。
As a curator, educator and writer, Pollack has been involved in global contemporary art since the late 1980s. She is the co-founder of Art at a Time Like This, a nonprofit organization providing a platform for free expression to artists addressing pressing issues of the 21st century.
A leading expert on Chinese contemporary art, Pollack curated Mirror Image: A Transformation of Chinese Identity at Asia Society in 2022 and My Generation: Young Chinese Artists, the first show of Chinese younger artists in the United States, which appeared at the Orange County Museum of Art in 2015. Her scholarly essay, Lu Yang: Artist vs. Avatar, was published in Screen Bodies, an academic journal.
Pollack has published two books on her research in China: Brand New Art from China: A Generation on the Rise (Bloomsbury, 2018) and The Wild, Wild East: An American Art Critic’s Adventures in China (Timezone 8, 2010). Pollack has contributed major essays on many artists including as Liu Ye, Li Songsong, Lin Tianmiao, Wang Gongxin, Zhao Zhao, Sun Xun, and Tu Hongtao. Several of her essays were included in the China Art Book, published by Dumont Literatur in 2007. Based on her extensive interest in this field, she has been awarded to Asia Cultural Council fellowships and a Andy Warhol Arts Writer grant.
