2024 – 2026
Curator, esea contemporary, Manchester
2022 – 2023
Program Advisor, 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
2020 – 2021
Co-curator, Hartwig Art Foundation: Production | Collection Grant, Amsterdam
2019 – 2021
Co-curator of Visual Arts and Theory, Other Futures Festival
2018 — 2019
Curatorial Research Fellow, De Appel, Amsterdam
2011 — 2014
Arts and Culture Program Manager, mapKL @ Publika. Kuala Lumpur
GRANTS & RESIDENCIES
2024 Asia Cultural Council, International Fellowship, NYC
2024 International Researcher Residency, MMCA Korea
2024 Curatorial Exchange, EXPO CHICAGO
2023 Fellowship for Research on Japanese Art, Ishibashi Foundation/Japan Foundation
2023 Delfina Foundation, London
2017 De Appel Curatorial Programme, Amsterdam
2015 Japan Foundation Southeast Asia Young Curators Grant
EXHIBITIONS
2025 Marcos Kueh: Smooth Sailing, 一路順風, esea contemporary, Manchester
2025 Slavs and Tatars: The Contest of the Fruits, esea contemporary, Manchester
2022 Slippery Tongues Sliding Horizons online exhibition, Arts Council Korea
2021 Kent Chan: Warm Fronts, Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam
2020 Maria Pask: Zhandra Rhodes’ Bedroom; Or A Room To Read Auden, Kunstinstituut Melly,
2020 Em’kal Eyongakpa: babhi-manyɛp/ babhi-bawɛt (mbaŋ), Oude Kerk, Amsterdam
2020 Ana Guedes, Vol.7 n.17 007 | 30’07” |121169_tape loop_7’13”_fragments of Lepanto Part I, Oude
Kerk, Amsterdam
2019 Elsewheres Within Here, Framer Framed, Amsterdam
2018 Brace For Impact, De Appel, Stedelijk Museum, and Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam
2017 SUNSHOWER: Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia 1980s to Now , National Art Center, Tokyo
and Mori Art Museum
2017 ILHAM CONTEMPORARY FORUM: Malaysia 2009-2017, ILHAM Gallery, Kuala Lumpur,
2016 Khabar dan Angin: Excursus on Faith in Kelantan, National Visual Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur
PROGRAMMES
2025 Unpacking Infrastructure, Curatorial Exchange, Sharjah Biennial 16
2025 Artist in Residence: Marcos Kueh, esea contemporary
2024 CounterArchive: Fictional Healing Collective Filmmaking Lab, Malaysia Design Archive, KL
2024 Shapeshifts film program with Bo Wang and Shambavi Kaul, Sonic Acts Biennale, Eye
Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam
2023 Demilitarized Goddesses, 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale, Seoul Museum of Art
2023 Domestic Resistance, 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale, Seoul Museum of Art
2022 Stateless Mind Bodies of Knowledge, Pera+Flora+Fauna, 59th Venice Biennale Collateral Events
TALKS & LECTURES
2024 MMCA Residency Seminar, feat. Charmaine Poh & Im Youngzoo, MMCA Korea, Seoul
2024 Southeast Asia as Method, Curatorial Vocabularies, KASK School of Arts, Gent, BE
2023 Public Relations and Propaganda: The Marketing of Anxiety and Empire, Malaysia Design Archive
2023 Gender, Colonialism, Ecology: with Sabine Groenewegen and Riar Rizaldi, ReCNTR, Leiden Uni
2022 Curating with Southeast Asian Cosmologies, The Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, NL
2020 Good Luck with the Future, MA Art in Context, Universität der Künste (UdK) Berlin, DE
2019 Freedom Of Expression And Art, Aichi Triennial International Forum, JP
2019 Looking Back at SUNSHOWER,Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, TW
2017 The Gift of Time: Intergenerational Dynamics in SEA, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, JP
WRITINGS
2025: Essay: Awakening Shimmering Circuits: Plural Technological Futures by Asian Artists, MMCA Residency 2024 Catalogue
2025 Essay: Aliens with Motherless Tongue in Afra Eisma artist book, Splashdown Tender.
2024 Review: Moe Satt, Rest the Thumbs on the Cheekbones, Art Review Oxford Issue 10
2024 Essay: Ajumma and Nation, Cho Youngjoo artist book
2022 Profile: Lost Gens, SEA Contemporary Art in Southeast Asia, Ed. Ute Meta Bauer
PUBLICATIONS
2024 Steph Huang: There is nothing old under the sun, ed. Jo-Lene Ong, esea contemporary.
2019 Practice Space, eds. Jo-Lene Ong, Rachael Rakes, NAME Publications, USA and De Appel, NL
TEACHING
2020 — 2024 Art Theory, BA Fine Art, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam.
2023 — 2024 How To Connect?, BA Fine Art, ArtEZ University of the Arts, Arnhem
2021 — 2022 Curatorial Studies, MA in Artistic Research, The Royal Academy of Art, The Hague.
ADVISORY
2023 — now Advisory Board, 1646 Experimental Art Space, The Hague
2022 — 2024 Urgent Ecologies: Towards A More Sustainable Curriculum, Gerrit Rietveld Academie