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Victor Wang 王宗孚 is the Executive Director of Artspace on Gadigal Country/Sydney and an Adjunct Curator at the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo. Previously, he served as Executive and Artistic Director of M WOODS Museum (2019–2025), where he led its Beijing and Chengdu institutions. Wang’s curatorial practice is shaped by a sustained engagement with cultural exchange, performance, and the circulation of ideas across Asia and its diasporas. This approach was informed by early curatorial experiences across Asia and the Global South, including curatorial roles for the Vancouver Pavilion at the 9th Shanghai Biennale (2012–2013) and the Twelfth Havana Biennial (2015). He has curated major collaborative projects with institutions including Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Tate Modern, London; and the Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, and was involved in the first collaborative exhibition between the British Museum and a non-state-run art museum in China. In 2025, he curated the first solo exhibition in Japan of British artist Sonia Boyce DBE RA at the Mori Art Museum. Across China and Asia, Wang has organised numerous landmark exhibitions, including museum surveys of artists such as Ryuichi Sakamoto, Ann Veronica Janssens, Martin Margiela, Bruce Nauman, Man Ray, Giorgio Morandi, Richard Tuttle, Haroon Mirza, and Huang Rui, among others. His work has frequently foregrounded dialogue between Asia(s) and the West, as well as the visibility of artists and practices historically underrepresented in European and North American contexts. Wang has a particular focus on performance art. He was curator of Frieze LIVE at Frieze London in 2020 and is the founder of the Institute of Asian Performance Art (IAPA). He is also editor of Performance Histories from East Asia 1960s–90s (DRAF, 2018). In addition to his curatorial work, Wang writes regularly for international art publications including Artforum, Art Review, and Yishu, and is co-editor of the first Chinese monograph on Bruce Nauman (Tate Publishing / M WOODS, 2024). He has contributed to Phaidon publications including Prime: Art’s Next Generation and Vitamin Txt. Wang serves on the Curatorial Advisory Group at the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, and the Selection Committee for Sydney Contemporary. His honours include Robb Report China’s “Curator of the Year” (2023), Apollo’s “40 Under 40: Thinkers” (2018), and the AICA Incentive Prize for Young Critics (2016). He holds an MA in Curating Contemporary Art from the Royal College of Art, London.
Artspace is one of the leading institutions for the production and presentation of contemporary art in the Asia Pacific. Founded in 1983, our expansive, multi-platform approach to programming includes new commissions, exhibitions, performances, studio residencies, publishing, public programs, learning and outreach initiatives, and advocacy.
The Mori Art Museum is one of Japan’s leading museums of contemporary art and is internationally recognised for its commitment to presenting cutting-edge visual art, architecture, design, and interdisciplinary creative practices from around the world. Victor Wang serves as a member of the curatorial team as Adjunct Curator at the Mori Art Museum. His recent projects include MAM Project 034: Sonia Boyce (2025), Boyce’s first solo museum presentation in Japan, and MAM Screen 023: Josh Kline (2026), presenting the work of one of the most significant artists of his generation.
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Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford Appointed as a founding member of the Pitt Rivers Museum’s Cultural Council, an international curatorial advisory body established through the Changing Curatorial Legacies initiative. The Council brings together curators, cultural practitioners, and knowledge holders from across Aotearoa, Australia, Fiji, Greenland, Hawai‘i, Kazakhstan, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, Sarawak, Uganda, and beyond to help shape the future direction of the Museum. Contributed to the development of new frameworks for ethical, collaborative, and community-centred curatorial practice, supporting the Museum’s efforts to reimagine display methodologies, cultural care, interpretation, governance, and public engagement through principles of transparency, accountability, and co-curation.
Phaidon Press 2022 – Present Vitamin P4: New Perspectives in Contemporary Painting (2026) Nominator and Contributing Writer For this volume, Wang contributed as both a nominator and a contributing writer, and authored commissioned texts on Mit Jai Inn and Marikit Santiago. Vitamin Txt: Words in Contemporary Art (2024) Contributing Writer and Advisor Prime: Art's Next Generation (2022) Selection Committee Member