Wilson Yeung Chun Wai

Wilson Yeung Chun Wai is an independent curator and artist. He is a research fellow at the Laboratorio de Creaciones Intermedia (LCI) at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain (2018). He is currently a PhD candidate at the School of Architecture and Design and a member of the Contemporary Art, Society and Transformation (CAST) Research Group at the RMIT University. He held the position as research assistant at the University Art Gallery in Sydney University Museum. He holds a Master of Art Curating in the Department of Art History at the University of Sydney and a Bachelor Degree of Arts (Fine Art) with distinction awarded by the RMIT University. His PhD research Curating the In- Between: Rethinking and Reinventing Contemporary Curatorial Practices focuses on rethinking the traditional role of the curator and curatorial process. This practice-led research articulates curatorial practice that interrogates the role of a curator in facilitating cross-cultural collaborations as a ‘cultural collaborator’. It adopts the contemporary performance method of the ‘collective creation' to devise and demonstrate how to present models of curating contemporary visual art to the public in an alternative way. Wilson is the founder and president of the RMIT Curatorial Collective in Melbourne, Australia. His curatorial projects have been presented nationally and internationally, including the Shenzhen Bi-city Biennale of UrbanismArchitecture, Sydney Art Crawl - Public Art Project, IMPACT - International Multidisciplinary Printmaking Conference, International Academic Forum (IAFOR), China Pingyao International Photography Festival, Ballarat International Foto Biennale, Hong Kong Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre.