Abby Chen

Abby Chen is Head of Contemporary Art and Senior Associate Curator at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. She recently curated Into View: Bernice Bing and Kongkee: Warring States Cyberpunk. She is the curator for the Taiwan Pavilion at the 2024 Venice Biennale entitled Everyday War, featuring primarily video works by artist Yuan Goang-Ming. She is the recipient of the 2024 National Art Education Association Asian Art and Culture Interest Group Distinguished Art Educator Award. Abby’s experimental approach often explores the intersectionalities of race, sexuality, gender, nation, migration, and especially technology in both the United States and Asia. The award-winning exhibitions, attendant programs, publications, and different initiatives organized by Abby — which span from curating to community building—have helped the Asian Art Museum in a few short years to reshape the narrative of contemporary Asian art outside of Asia.