Zoe Butt

Zoe Butt is a curator and writer based in Vietnam. Her curatorial practice centers on building critically thinking and historically conscious artistic communities, fostering dialogue among countries of the global south. She is currently Artistic Director of the Factory Contemporary Arts Centre, Vietnam’s first purpose-built space for contemporary art, in Ho Chi Minh City. She formerly served as: Executive Director and Curator of Sàn Art, an independent contemporary art space in Ho Chi Minh City (2009-2016); Director, International Programs, Long March Project, Beijing, China (2007-2009) and Assistant Curator, Contemporary Asian Art, Queensland Art Gallery Brisbane, Australia (2001-2007). Zoe has been published by Hatje Cantz, Germany; Art Review, London/Hong Kong; Art Asia Pacific, Hong Kong; Independent Curators International, New York; Lalit Kala Akademi, India; Artlink, Australia; Printed Projects, Ireland, JRP-Ringier, Zurich; Routledge, London; Sternberg Press, Berlin, amongst others. Zoe is a member of the Asian Art Council for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York and a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum since 2015. In 2019, Zoe presents Leaving the Echo Chamber - Journey Beyond The Arrow, one of three exhibitions as part of the 14th Sharjah Biennial. Her curatorial projects include interdisciplinary dialogue platforms such as Conscious Realities (2013-2016); the online exhibition Embedded South(s) (2016); and group exhibitions of Vietnamese and international artists at various international venues. Recent exhibitions include: Empty Forest: Tuan Andrew Nguyen, The Factory, Ho Chi Minh City, 2017; Spirit of Friendship, The Factory, 2017; Poetic Amnesia: Phan Thao Nguyen, The Factory, 2017; Dislocate: Bui Cong Khanh, The Factory, 2016; Conjuring Capital, San Art, 2014; Disrupting Choreographies, Carre d’Art, Nimes, France, 2013; Poetic Politic, Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco, USA, 2012.