Hera Chan

Hera Chan is a curator and writer based in Kowloon, Hong Kong. Currently, she is the associate public programmes curator at Tai Kwun Contemporary. Prior to that, she was the director and curator at Videotage, and a researcher with the SEACHINA Institute archiving socially engaged art practices in contemporary China. In Montreal, she co-founded and was director of Atelier Céladon, a non-profit dedicated to the performance of professionalism and building temporary spaces for the radicalised diaspora. She is co-founder of Miss Ruthless International, a contemporary art network that mimics the infrastructure of diasporic beauty pageants. Recently, she completed a residency at Artista x Artista in Havana with artist Xiaoshi Vivian Vivian Qin as part of the Guangzhou Times Museum’s All The Way South exchange programme, where she was investigating the purported sonic attacks on American embassies of both cities in 2017 as epistemic events. Hera has curated exhibitions and public programmes at Para Site, Spring Workshop, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art, Studio XX, and articule. Her writing has appeared in Frieze, ArtAsiaPacific, LEAP, MICE Magazine, Spike Art Quarterly, and Ocula. She was the editor in chief of Theoretically in the Gutter: A Manga Essay Collection and editor for Ruthless Lantern.