Biography
Kwok Kian Chow is Founding Director of the Singapore Art Museum, as well as the National Art Gallery, Singapore, where he currently serves as Senior Advisor. Kwok is also the Deputy Chairman of the Yellow River Arts Centre, China - a space 80 hectare in size containing the Yinchuan Art Museum, Art History Park, Artist Village (international artist residency programme) and Sculpture Grounds. A museum and community development veteran, Kwok is also a scholar of museology, and Southeast Asian and Chinese contemporary art history. He has published extensively on these subjects. Kwok’s current research, writing and consultancy work is focused on museology and art history within a transnational context, looking at museum development models, curatorship, and museum activism as platforms for cultural development which can link local cultures and heritages with transnational and ‘global’ art forms and practices.