June Yap

June Yap is the Director of Curatorial, Programmes and Publications at the Singapore Art Museum. She was formerly Guggenheim UBS MAP Curator (South and Southeast Asia), Deputy Director and Curator of the Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, and curating independently. During her residency at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, as part of the Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative, she curated the exhibition ‘No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia’.[1][2] In 2011, Yap curated the Singapore pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale, featuring work by Singaporean artist Ho Tzu Nyen, 'The Cloud of Unknowing'. She has also curated exhibitions for the Center for Contemporary Art in Tel Aviv, Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) in Stuttgart and Berlin, and the National University of Singapore Museum, amongst others.[2][3][4] She received her MA in Fine Art at the University of Melbourne and her Ph.D. in Cultural Studies at the National University of Singapore. She is the author of Retrospective: A Historiographical Aesthetic in Contemporary Singapore and Malaysia (Petaling Jaya: SIRD, 2016).

References

  1. ↑ "June Yap", Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
  2. 1 2 Vine, Richard. "June Yap's Asia", Art in America, March 22, 2013.
  3. ↑ Dickie, Anna. "June Yap's Asia", Ocula, August 12, 2013.
  4. ↑ "June Yap", Artist Pension Trust
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