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Victor Wang is the Executive Director at Artspace, located on Gadigal Country/Sydney. He is also an Adjunct Curator at the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo. Previously, he served as the Executive and Artistic Director of M WOODS Museum, where he oversaw both the Beijing and Chengdu locations. Wang is also a member of the Director's Circle at Bangkok Kunsthalle, a newly established cultural institution in Bangkok. Additionally, he serves on the Curatorial Advisory Group for the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, where he contributes to the two-year "Changing Curatorial Legacies" project, which aims to rethink and transform the museum's permanent galleries while advancing decolonising curatorial practices.

With cultural exchange emerging as a common thread in his work, Wang has curated and co-curated collaborative exhibitions with leading institutions, including Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Tate Modern (London), The National Gallery (Berlin), and the first-ever collaboration between the British Museum (UK) and a non-state-run art museum in China.

Wang has recently curated and co-curated several landmark museum surveys in China, many of which were the first-ever museum exhibitions for these artists in China or East Asia. These include shows for artists such as Nabuqi (2024), Florian Krewer (2023), Ann Veronica Janssens (2023), Ryuichi Sakamoto (2023 and 2021), Salman Toor (2023), Martin Margiela (2022), Bruce Nauman (2022), Austin Lee (2022), Man Ray (2021), Giorgio Morandi (2020), and Richard Tuttle (2019) at M WOODS Museum.

Wang has a particular interest in performance art and served as curator of Frieze LIVE at the Frieze Art Fair in London (2020), where he developed the Institute of Melodic Healing with participating artists and collaborators such as Alvaro Barrington, Mandy El-Sayegh, Anthea Hamilton, and Zadie Xa & Benito Mayor Vallejo. He was also the editor of Performance Histories from East Asia 1960s–90s, published by David Roberts Art Foundation (DRAF) in 2018. Additionally, Wang is the founder of the Institute of Asian Performance Art (IAPA), working alongside contributors and collaborators including Reiko Tomii, Kim Ku Lim (김구림), and Tehching Hsieh (謝德慶).

Katie Dyer has been Senior Curator at Artspace, Sydney since 2024. Prior to this she was Senior Curator Contemporary at the Powerhouse Museum where she helped lead the transformation of the museum through the development of artistic programming anchored in research, collections and contemporary critical practice. Her work there won awards including a national AMaGA award and she was Lead Curator on an Australian Research Council Linkage grant with the University of New South Wales. Katie was the founding Curator and Gallery Manager/Director at the National Art School, Sydney. She has worked at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney and at the Museum of Modern Art and The Drawing Center in New York. Her research focuses on interdisciplinary and collaborative cultures and creative practice. She has sat on national and international cultural advisory boards and has published widely on contemporary art and curatorial practice including with MIT Press and Routledge. Katie lectures on art practice and theory in Sydney and most recently she was Researcher at the Warburg Institute, University of London, UK.

Masha Jayasiri is Communications Manager at Artspace, Sydney. Previously she worked as Sales and Marketing Executive at Saskia Fernando Gallery, Sri Lanka. She has a background in printmaking and has worked for various fashion design studios and working with community groups. She holds a Bachelor of Design (Honours) in Fashion and Textiles and International Studies at the University of Technology, Sydney.

Contact masha@artspace.org.au

Sophie Rose is curator and arts writer working on Gadigal Country, and is currently Associate Curator – Programs at Artspace. She has contributed to various exhibitions, programs, and publications at the SITE Santa Fe International biennale; MoMA PS1; the Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College; Brief Histories, New York; and the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), where she was Assistant Curator from 2017 to 2022. Alongside her curatorial practice, Sophie has contributed critical and scholarly writing for publications such as e-flux Journal, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, Art Asia Pacific, and Un Magazine, and was the editor of the book of artist interviews, Glot: Four Conversations on Voice. 

Contact sophie.rose@artspace.org.au

Ashton Biddulph is the Exhibitions and Programs Coordinator at Artspace. He is passionate about fostering artist-led projects and building accessible pathways between institutions and independent art communities. Prior to Artspace, Ashton worked at the National Art School (NAS) across a range of curatorial and gallery coordination roles. He is also currently Co-Chair of Schmick Contemporary, an artist-run initiative on Gadigal Land in Chinatown that supports emerging and experimental practice.

Contact ashton.biddulph@artspace.org.au

Eleni Vergotis is Assistant Curator and Executive Assistant at Artspace, Sydney. Previously she worked in Philanthropy at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. She has a background working in contemporary art and Australian history institutions, delivering tours at Museums of History NSW sites like Susannah Place and working across visitor services and ticketing at Carriageworks. Eleni holds a Bachelors of Art Theory/Arts from the University of NSW and undertook an exchange at the Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh. 

eleni.vergotis@artspace.org.au

freya.black@artspace.org.au