Erika Mei Chua Holum

Erika Mei Chua Holum is a curator, art historian, and writer based in Carrick-on-Shannon in County Leitrim, Ireland as Curator of the Dock Arts Centre. Recent projects include 踩下去! DOWN TO EARTH!, awarded the 2025 TANK Curator Prize from the Shanghai Curator Lab 4 (2025/2026); How to Grow the Cow Pea: Artistic and Ecological Pedagogies in Practice at Visual Art Center at the University of Texas at Austin (2026); the two-city exhibition Makeshift Memorials, Small Revolutions with KADIST San Francisco and the Blaffer Art Museum (2024); and major solo exhibitions with Cuban artist Reynier Leyva Novo, Filipino artist Cian Dayrit, and Arab and Native American artist Saif Azzuz. In 2024, Erika served as co-curator for the eighth edition of the Texas Biennial: The Last Sky, with thirteen sites along the Texas Gulf Coast. Previously, she organized Ecofictions and Understories (2023-24), a city-responsive curatorial program to speculate potential worlds for gathering, resisting, and regeneration in artistic practices in conjunction with the exhibition Climate Migration with the Houston Climate Museum. Erika also convenes the Sahara Dust Season, a residency program activated by forms of knowledge-sharing across the temporary and migratory region created by Saharan dust clouds. Erika holds an M.A. in Museum and Exhibition Studies from the University of Illinois Chicago, a Master's in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and is completing a Ph.D. in Art History at Rice University.