In 2023, I embarked on a new journey as a design curator for the National Museum of Singapore. It was a combination of many firsts for me — first time working as an institutional curator, first time creating the domain of design collecting, and being one of the firsts to parcel out what a future design museum may look like. I was a scout on a mission to discover new terrains. Though there was a destination in mind, there wasn’t much of a roadmap at hand or a fixed plan to follow. This freedom to be at the drawing boards was both exhilarating and sobering. This site is a record of what I have discovered in my fledging journey as a curator working at the crossroads of social history and design history, and my personal reflections of practices around contemporary practices of curation, collecting and display.

History

• ^{2018 to 2023 – Managing public art commissions with the Public Art Trust, National Arts Council, Singapore}
• _{2016 to 2018 – Public programming (Photography, film, and Chinese literary arts), The Arts House}
• ^{2014 to 2015 – Completed my Masters in Asian Art Histories from Lasalle College of the Arts}
• _{2014 to 2015 – Designing and executing photography literacy programmes for DECK and the Singapore International Photography Festival}
• _{2010 to 2014 – Sub-editing for the Global Picture Desk at Thomson Reuters, upon graduating with a bachelor’s degree in Communication Studies (Journalism) and a second major in Sociology}

Speaking

IMHIST FUTURE [of] ARCHIVES CONFERENCE, 2023
June 20-22
Conference Presenter
Montreal, Canada

Singapore International Photography Festival Symposium—Photo Festivals Past, Present & Future
Oct 15 2022
Panel Moderator
Singapore

Public Art Roundtable, 2021
Moderator
Singapore