Michelle Wun Ting Wong received her PhD in Art History at The University of Hong Kong in 2025. Her PhD project is a monographic study of the late Hong Kong artist Ha Bik Chuen 夏碧泉 (1925-2009), which explores the relationship between cultural modernity and artistic modernism emerging from Post WWII Hong Kong. Her current research focuses on the travels of artists of Chinese descent in mid-twentieth century East and Southeast Asia and how these experiences mediated their projections of a cultural China. Her writing has been published in the journal Southeast of Now (2019) and Ambitious Alignments: New Histories of Southeast Asian Art, 1945–1990. Previously Researcher at Asia Art Archive (AAA), Wong’s research focused on Hong Kong art history and histories of exchange and circulation through exhibitions and periodicals in mid twentieth century. Her curatorial projects include Reframing Strangeness: Ha Bik Chuen’s Motherboards and Collagraphs at Para Site (2025), Portals, Stories, and Other Journeys at Tai Kwun Contemporary (2021), and Afterglow, Yokohama Triennale 2020.

Selected Publications

‘Passaging from Private to Public: The Case of Ha Bik Chuen’s Archive in Hong Kong.’ Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia 3, no. 2 (2019): 65-90. doi:10.1353/sen.2019.0025

Response to “Why Exhibition Histories? Conversation Piece coordinated by Saloni Mathur.”British Art Studies, Issue 13 (September 2019), https://doi.org/10.17658/issn.2058-5462/issue-13/conversation.

‘Circulating Abstraction: Exhibiting Hong Kong in Manila, 1961-1982.’ Book chapter in Ambitious Alignments: New Histories of Southeast Asian Art, 1945-1990 (University of Sydney and National Gallery of Singapore, 2018).