顾灵是2022-2023首届德英策展学者，该项目的首本出版物收录了其著作《在「一树」艺术便利店聊天 | 在中国独立做当代艺术实践的求生套装》。她也是跨世界出版组织的核心成员。

她自2015年起任深圳设计互联与海上世界文化艺术中心品牌总监，拥有十余年文化艺术传播与管理专业经验，曾任上海外滩美术馆营销发展总监、英国领事馆文化教育处中国数字艺术主管。
目前，她担任多个专业文化机构与项目的内容诠释与公关顾问。

顾灵曾为上海西岸艺术与设计博览会、香港巴塞尔艺术博览会、上海设计周、深圳设计周以及国内外多家组织和机构策划与主持过多次文化活动。这也为她带来了和多个重要合作伙伴共同开发跨文化项目的机会，其中包括英国V&A博物馆与设计互联联合主办的V&A展馆、荷兰文化馆、Hugo Boss亚洲新锐艺术大奖、贾曼奖 (Jarman Award) 中国巡展、UKNOW.org.cn与2015中英文化交流年，以及设计互联主办的包括《源于自然的时尚》和《不完美·加埃塔诺·佩谢》等重要展览的内容传播。目前她也是一名独立策展人，新近展览包括《曹象：久视不识》（SNAP艺术中心）《此地彼时｜史怡然、黄宝莹双人展》（摩天轮画廊，深圳）《徐毛毛：啵波咔》（油罐艺术中心，上海）等。

顾灵在其职业生涯中还是一位活跃的写作者、翻译和编辑，经常为国内外艺术刊物与大众媒体的艺术栏目撰稿，曾任《燃点》编辑。2013年，她译著了《策展的挑战：侯瀚如与小汉斯的通信》；2015年，她编辑了由荷兰Van Abbe博物馆资助的出版物《一人，一村，一馆》（即艺术家李牧的“仇庄计划”）；2017年，她的编辑方案《久视不识》获杂志《艺术世界》“长读”特刊奖并得以出版。她还是「一叶障目」读书播客的主播。她与吴梦合作策划的《今夜谁将登台？草台班二十年：剧场作为自我学习的路径》入围上海当代艺术博物馆“新文化制作人”项目。她近期在高校开设艺术写作工作坊，并持续探索当代艺术的写作可能性。

Ling Gu is a De Ying Curatorial Fellow. The reader of 2022-2023 inaugural De Ying Curatorial Fellowship, Future Projects, collects her recent research-based writing A Conversation at an Ordinary Art Shop | The Survival Kit of Arbre in a Glocal Contemporary Art Ecology in China. She is a core member of Transworld Publishing.

Ling has over fourteen years of working experience in culture and arts communication and management, honed through roles at the Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, where she was head of marketing and communications; as head of digital arts at the British Council, China, and, most recently, at the Design Society, Shenzhen, where she was the Head of Communications at since 2015. She offers content interpretation and communications consultancy for multiple cultural institutions and projects. 

In the course of previous institutional roles, she organized cultural events and forums on behalf of West Bund (Shanghai), Art Basel (Hong Kong, OCAT (Shenzhen), and the Design Weeks in Shanghai and Shenzhen; which has also led to several opportunities for developing cross-cultural projects with partners, including the Dutch Culture Center, Shanghai; Hugo Boss Asia Art, Jarman Award Screening Tour in China, UKNOW.org.cn, 2015 UK-China Year of Cultural Exchange, and the V&A Gallery. Ling is an independent curator, and her recent exhibitions include Here and Then: two person show of Cao Xiang: Semantic Satiation (SNAP, Shanghai), Here and Then: Shi Yiran and Huang Baoying (Ferris Gallery, Shenzhen), Maomao Xu: Peep Bubble (TANK Shanghai).

Ling is also an active writer, translator, and editor, and throughout her career has been a regular contributor to multiple domestic and international art publications. She was the editor for Randian, a bilingual contemporary art website and magazine. She translated the book Curatorial Challenges – Correspondence between Hou Hanru and Hans Ulrich Obrist (2013) among other publications. Ling was the editor for the book of artist Li Mu’s project papers titled A Man, A Village, A Museum (2015); and Semantic Satiation, a special issue of the Shanghai-based magazine Art World (2017). She is also co-hosting One Leaf Folded, a podcast on books and reading experience. In collaboration with Wu Meng, her recent curatorial project Who will take the stage tonight? Grass Stage At 20 Years: Theater as a Path to Self-Learning was shortlisted for the New Culture Produce of Power Station of Art, Shanghai. Ling has recently hosted a series of art writing workshops as an educational program for university students. She endeavours to explore the possibilities of writing contemporary art.