Victor Wang () is a curator, art historian and museum director. He is the Executive Director of Artspace, an independent, not-for-profit contemporary art centre in Sydney, Australia and an Adjunct Curator at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo. Wang is the former Executive and Artistic Director of the M WOODS Museum, a contemporary art museum with sites in Beijing and Chengdu.
Wang has organised exhibitions with institutions including the Palais de Tokyo, Tate Modern in London and the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. In 2021, he curated the first collaborative exhibition between the British Museum (U.K.) and a not-for-profit art museum in China (M WOODS).
Wang is known for his exhibitions, cross-cultural collaborations, and work in contemporary and performance art. He is the founder of the Institute of Asian Performance Art (IAPA) and has contributed to publications including Artforum, ArtReview and Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art.
Wang was raised in Canada by a Chinese father and Chilean mother. His diverse cultural upbringing profoundly shaped his curatorial vision, emphasising the importance of storytelling, cultural exchange and global perspectives.
He received early curatorial training through institutional programs and professional experience at the Vancouver Art Gallery and the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London.
Wang received his MA in Curating Contemporary Art from the Royal College of Art in London and has participated in curatorial residencies including Tokyo Arts and Space (TOKAS) in 2017 and the Gwangju Biennale International Curator Course in 2016.
In 2025, Wang succeeded Alexie Glass-Kantor as the Executive Director of Artspace. In this senior leadership role, Wang oversees ArtspaceâÂÂs curatorial and public programs, exhibitions and international partnerships. Upon his appointment, Wang stated his plans to expand ArtspaceâÂÂs reach by deepening cultural ties with the Asia-Pacific region and the Global South.
Wang was appointed as an Adjunct Curator of The Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, Japan in 2025. This curatorship is a dual role held alongside his Executive Directorship at Artspace. In December 2025, Wang will curate the MAM Project 034, the first solo presentation of acclaimed British multimedia artist Sonia Boyce in Japan.
Wang served as the Executive and Artistic Director of the M WOODS Museum from 2019 to 2025. Under his leadership, the museum opened a new location in Chengdu, China in 2023. ÃÂ
Selected exhibitions curated and co-curated by Wang include:
Several of these exhibitionsâÂÂincluding large-scale survey presentations of artists such as Ryuichi Sakamoto, Martin Margiela, and Richard TuttleâÂÂformed an important part of WangâÂÂs curatorial practice during this period. Working on large-scale survey exhibitions incorporating sound, technology, performance, and textile-based practices informed his approach to exhibition-making at scale, particularly in relation to spatial design, materiality, and the integration of sound within museum contexts. These projects contributed to his long-term curatorial thinking around interdisciplinary and sensory exhibition models.
Wang's curatorial practice seeks to foster cross-cultural dialogue between artists and regions.
Key exhibitions include:
In 2020, Wang curated The Institute of Melodic Healing for Frieze LIVE, an 111-hour project exploring sound and performance as tools for healing during the COVID-19 pandemic. The initiative featured international artists Alvaro Barrington, Mandy El-Sayegh, Cécile B. Evans, Denzil Forrester, Anthea Hamilton, Haroon Mirza and Zadie Xa & Benito Mayor Vallejo.
Wang has lectured on curating and contemporary Chinese art at universities such as the Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), Beijing, Royal College of Art, London, Goldsmiths, University of London, Royal Academy Schools, London and Yale Schwarzman Center, Yale University, Connecticut.
He has participated in panel discussions with artists including Yinka Shonibare CBE, Richard Tuttle, Denzil Forrester and Tehching Hsieh.