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Melissa Chiu

January 20, 2023

Melissa Chiu (born 1972) is a museum director, curator and author, and the director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC.

She is a board member of the Association of Art Museum Directors,[1] the American Alliance of Museums, and the Museum Association of New York.[2] She is also on the founding advisory committee for the USC American Academy in China and has participated in the advisory committees for the Gwangju and Shanghai Biennales.[2]

Education

Born in Darwin, Northern Territory,[3] Australia, in 1972,[4] Chiu was educated in Sydney, where she completed a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Western Sydney and then an MA (Arts Administration) at the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales. She later completed a PhD at the University of Western Sydney focusing on Chinese contemporary art in the diaspora.[5]

Career

Chiu worked as an independent curator for several years at the beginning of her career.[6] From 1993 until 1996, she worked at the University of Western Sydney Collection as a curator.[7] In 1996, Chiu collaborated with a group of Asian Australian artists, performers, filmmakers and writers to establish Gallery 4A, a nonprofit contemporary art center devoted to promoting dialogue in the Asia-Pacific region. Chiu was founding Director of Gallery 4A,[8] later renamed the 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art.[9][10] In 2001 she was the curator during the Center's transition to a two-story city owned heritage building in Sydney’s Chinatown.[11]

In 2001, Chiu moved to New York to serve as the Asia Society's curator of contemporary Asian and Asian American art[12]—the first curatorial post of its kind in an American museum.[citation needed] In 2004, she was appointed Asia Society's museum director.[12] She initiated a number of initiatives at the Asia Society Museum, including the launch of a contemporary art collection to complement the museum's Rockefeller Collection of traditional Asian art.[1] As museum director of the Asia Society, and its vice president of Global Art Programs,[1] she was responsible for programming its Park Avenue museum and future museum facilities under construction in Hong Kong[13] and Houston.

Chiu has curated over thirty international exhibitions mainly focused on the art and artists of Asia.[5] Her major curatorial credits include Zhang Huan: Altered States (2006)[14] and Art and China's Revolution (2008)[14] with Zheng Shengtian, one of the first historical appraisals of Chinese art from the 1950s through 1970s and Nobody's Fool: Yoshitomo Nara (2010) with Miwako Tezuka.[15] She was awarded a Getty Curatorial Research Fellowship in 2004.[16]

Hirshhorn Museum

Following her 2014 appointment as the first non-American to head the Hirshhorn, Chiu announced the hiring of New York-based Gianni Jetzer as curator-at-large.[17][18] Jetzer was allowed to maintain his position as a curator for Art Basel, despite the appearance of a conflict of interest.[19]

In August 2015, Chiu announced that the museum's 40th anniversary celebration would be held at 4 World Trade Center in New York.[18] Philip Kennicott, art and architecture critic of The Washington Post, commented that the decision was "deeply troubling and raises concern about where Chiu is taking the organization".[20] The controversy of her decision to move the location of the 40th anniversary to New York from D.C. led to a concern of "missing out on the chance to cultivate critical donors"[21] in Washington.

Publications

Chiu has published in art magazines and journals, and has authored several books, including Breakout: Chinese Art Outside China (2007), published by Charta and Chinese Contemporary Art: 7 Things You Should Know (2008), published by AW Asia.[4][14] Her latest books include Contemporary Asian Art with Benjamin Genocchio, published by Thames & Hudson and Monacelli Press,[22] and an edited anthology, Contemporary Art in Asia: A Critical Reader, published by MIT Press.[23]

Other work

In 2010, Chiu joined the Sunday Arts television show on PBS WNET to conduct a series of interviews with cultural leaders. Interview subjects have included William Kentridge, Shirin Neshat, Yoko Ono, Tan Dun, Chuck Close and Antony Gormley.[24][25]

In addition to her museum work, Chiu is a regular speaker at international conferences and symposia and has delivered lectures at such institutions as Harvard University, Columbia University, Yale University and the Chinese Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, among others.[1][failed verification] She was the speaker at the National Gallery of Australia's inaugural Betty Churcher Memorial Lecture in 2022.[26]

Personal life

Chiu is married to Benjamin Genocchio, an Australian art critic and former editor-in-chief of Artnet News.[27] Chiu and Genocchio co-authored Asian Art Now, originally published in 2010.[28] In September 2015, The Washington Post reported that Genocchio had edited the content of Chiu's Wikipedia entry in order to remove negative commentary about her work at the Hirshhorn and to add laudatory statements.[29]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Officers". Asia Society. 2009-03-24. Retrieved 2012-09-19.
  2. ^ a b "Stories of Unlimited – University of Western Sydney (UWS)". westernsydney.edu.au.
  3. ^ "Who are you? | Melissa Chiu | Big Think". 184.106.231.42. Archived from the original on 2012-07-11. Retrieved 2012-09-19.
  4. ^ a b "Profile: Melissa Chiu". Artinfo. 2008-12-01. Retrieved 2012-09-19.
  5. ^ a b "Melissa Chiu | Museum Director, Asia Society". Big Think. Retrieved 2012-09-19.
  6. ^ "Alumni High Achievers – Melissa Chiu". Western Sydney University. Retrieved 2015-11-07.
  7. ^ "Art Insight #6: Profile of Melissa Chiu". brand.hyundai.com. Retrieved 2015-11-07.
  8. ^ "Chronicler of the Asian-Australian experience". www.smh.com.au. 2009-09-30. Retrieved 2012-09-19.
  9. ^ "ARTAND, Melissa Chiu to lead Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden". www.artandaustralia.com. Retrieved 2015-11-07.
  10. ^ "Location One, Melissa Chiu talks with Richard Bell". www.location1.org. Retrieved 2015-11-07.
  11. ^ "Gallery reincarnated with more space and just the right chi". The Sydney Morning Herald. 2000-10-27. Retrieved 2012-09-19.
  12. ^ a b Cohen, Patricia; Vogel, Carol (5 June 2014). "Asia Society Museum Director to Lead Hirshhorn". The New York Times. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
  13. ^ "About Asia Society | Hong Kong". Asia Society. Retrieved 2012-09-19.
  14. ^ a b c . ArtZineChina.com. 1989-06-04. Archived from the original on 2011-07-12. Retrieved 2012-09-19.
  15. ^ Upcoming Events Past Events. "Yoshitomo Nara: Nobody's Fool | New York". Asia Society. Retrieved 2012-09-19.
  16. ^ . Artlog. Archived from the original on 2012-03-14. Retrieved 2012-09-19.
  17. ^ "Gianni Jetzer to Be Hirshhorn Museum's Curator at Large". Artnet. 2014-10-30. Retrieved 2015-08-11.
  18. ^ a b "The Washington Hostess Who Nurtured Warhol". The New York Times. 2014-08-07. Retrieved 2015-08-11.
  19. ^ "Strike Two for Melissa Chiu?". Washington City Paper. 2014-08-10. Retrieved 2015-08-11.
  20. ^ "New director of Hirshhorn snubs D.C. to hold 40th-anniversary gala in New York". The Washington Post. 2014-08-07. Retrieved 2015-08-11.
  21. ^ Capps, Kriston (18 September 2015). ""If we hadn't been part of the Smithsonian, we would've gone the way of the Corcoran.": Melissa Chiu takes over the Hirshhorn?". Washington City Paper. Retrieved 9 March 2017.
  22. ^ Chiu, Melissa; Genocchio, Benjamin (2010). (PDF). UK: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 978 0 500 238745. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-09-28.
  23. ^ . MIT Press. 2011-04-29. Archived from the original on 2012-03-14. Retrieved 2012-09-19.
  24. ^ "Asia Society's Melissa Chiu Joins SundayArts Team to Conduct In-Depth Interviews with Artists". Asia Society. Retrieved 2012-09-19.
  25. ^ "Melissa Chiu | Sunday Arts". Thirteen. Retrieved 2012-09-19.
  26. ^ Amy Martin (21 April 2022). "National Gallery of Australia to remember former director Betty Churcher with inaugural memorial oration". The Canberra Times. Retrieved 11 June 2022.
  27. ^ "Melissa Chiu Named Head of Hirshhorn Museum". Artnet. 2014-06-15. Retrieved 2015-08-11.
  28. ^ "Hiroshi Sugimoto in Conversation with Melissa Chiu". asiasociety.org/. Retrieved 2015-08-11.
  29. ^ Heil, E. "Reliable Source: Hirshhorn museum director’s husband scrubs her Wikipedia entry of controversy", The Washington Post, September 18, 2015.

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melissa, chiu, born, 1972, museum, director, curator, author, director, hirshhorn, museum, sculpture, garden, washington, board, member, association, museum, directors, american, alliance, museums, museum, association, york, also, founding, advisory, committee. Melissa Chiu born 1972 is a museum director curator and author and the director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington DC She is a board member of the Association of Art Museum Directors 1 the American Alliance of Museums and the Museum Association of New York 2 She is also on the founding advisory committee for the USC American Academy in China and has participated in the advisory committees for the Gwangju and Shanghai Biennales 2 Contents 1 Education 2 Career 2 1 Hirshhorn Museum 3 Publications 4 Other work 5 Personal life 6 References 7 External linksEducation EditBorn in Darwin Northern Territory 3 Australia in 1972 4 Chiu was educated in Sydney where she completed a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Western Sydney and then an MA Arts Administration at the College of Fine Arts University of New South Wales She later completed a PhD at the University of Western Sydney focusing on Chinese contemporary art in the diaspora 5 Career EditChiu worked as an independent curator for several years at the beginning of her career 6 From 1993 until 1996 she worked at the University of Western Sydney Collection as a curator 7 In 1996 Chiu collaborated with a group of Asian Australian artists performers filmmakers and writers to establish Gallery 4A a nonprofit contemporary art center devoted to promoting dialogue in the Asia Pacific region Chiu was founding Director of Gallery 4A 8 later renamed the 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art 9 10 In 2001 she was the curator during the Center s transition to a two story city owned heritage building in Sydney s Chinatown 11 In 2001 Chiu moved to New York to serve as the Asia Society s curator of contemporary Asian and Asian American art 12 the first curatorial post of its kind in an American museum citation needed In 2004 she was appointed Asia Society s museum director 12 She initiated a number of initiatives at the Asia Society Museum including the launch of a contemporary art collection to complement the museum s Rockefeller Collection of traditional Asian art 1 As museum director of the Asia Society and its vice president of Global Art Programs 1 she was responsible for programming its Park Avenue museum and future museum facilities under construction in Hong Kong 13 and Houston Chiu has curated over thirty international exhibitions mainly focused on the art and artists of Asia 5 Her major curatorial credits include Zhang Huan Altered States 2006 14 and Art and China s Revolution 2008 14 with Zheng Shengtian one of the first historical appraisals of Chinese art from the 1950s through 1970s and Nobody s Fool Yoshitomo Nara 2010 with Miwako Tezuka 15 She was awarded a Getty Curatorial Research Fellowship in 2004 16 Hirshhorn Museum Edit Following her 2014 appointment as the first non American to head the Hirshhorn Chiu announced the hiring of New York based Gianni Jetzer as curator at large 17 18 Jetzer was allowed to maintain his position as a curator for Art Basel despite the appearance of a conflict of interest 19 In August 2015 Chiu announced that the museum s 40th anniversary celebration would be held at 4 World Trade Center in New York 18 Philip Kennicott art and architecture critic of The Washington Post commented that the decision was deeply troubling and raises concern about where Chiu is taking the organization 20 The controversy of her decision to move the location of the 40th anniversary to New York from D C led to a concern of missing out on the chance to cultivate critical donors 21 in Washington Publications EditChiu has published in art magazines and journals and has authored several books including Breakout Chinese Art Outside China 2007 published by Charta and Chinese Contemporary Art 7 Things You Should Know 2008 published by AW Asia 4 14 Her latest books include Contemporary Asian Art with Benjamin Genocchio published by Thames amp Hudson and Monacelli Press 22 and an edited anthology Contemporary Art in Asia A Critical Reader published by MIT Press 23 Other work EditIn 2010 Chiu joined the Sunday Arts television show on PBS WNET to conduct a series of interviews with cultural leaders Interview subjects have included William Kentridge Shirin Neshat Yoko Ono Tan Dun Chuck Close and Antony Gormley 24 25 In addition to her museum work Chiu is a regular speaker at international conferences and symposia and has delivered lectures at such institutions as Harvard University Columbia University Yale University and the Chinese Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing among others 1 failed verification She was the speaker at the National Gallery of Australia s inaugural Betty Churcher Memorial Lecture in 2022 26 Personal life EditChiu is married to Benjamin Genocchio an Australian art critic and former editor in chief of Artnet News 27 Chiu and Genocchio co authored Asian Art Now originally published in 2010 28 In September 2015 The Washington Post reported that Genocchio had edited the content of Chiu s Wikipedia entry in order to remove negative commentary about her work at the Hirshhorn and to add laudatory statements 29 References Edit a b c d Officers Asia Society 2009 03 24 Retrieved 2012 09 19 a b Stories of Unlimited University of Western Sydney UWS westernsydney edu au Who are you Melissa Chiu Big Think 184 106 231 42 Archived from the original on 2012 07 11 Retrieved 2012 09 19 a b Profile Melissa Chiu Artinfo 2008 12 01 Retrieved 2012 09 19 a b Melissa Chiu Museum Director Asia Society Big Think Retrieved 2012 09 19 Alumni High Achievers Melissa Chiu Western Sydney University Retrieved 2015 11 07 Art Insight 6 Profile of Melissa Chiu brand hyundai com Retrieved 2015 11 07 Chronicler of the Asian Australian experience www smh com au 2009 09 30 Retrieved 2012 09 19 ARTAND Melissa Chiu to lead Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden www artandaustralia com Retrieved 2015 11 07 Location One Melissa Chiu talks with Richard Bell www location1 org Retrieved 2015 11 07 Gallery reincarnated with more space and just the right chi The Sydney Morning Herald 2000 10 27 Retrieved 2012 09 19 a b Cohen Patricia Vogel Carol 5 June 2014 Asia Society Museum Director to Lead Hirshhorn The New York Times Retrieved 7 May 2022 About Asia Society Hong Kong Asia Society Retrieved 2012 09 19 a b c A Conversation with Melissa Chiu ArtZineChina com 中国艺志 ArtZineChina com 1989 06 04 Archived from the original on 2011 07 12 Retrieved 2012 09 19 Upcoming Events Past Events Yoshitomo Nara Nobody s Fool New York Asia Society Retrieved 2012 09 19 Artlog Artlog Archived from the original on 2012 03 14 Retrieved 2012 09 19 Gianni Jetzer to Be Hirshhorn Museum s Curator at Large Artnet 2014 10 30 Retrieved 2015 08 11 a b The Washington Hostess Who Nurtured Warhol The New York Times 2014 08 07 Retrieved 2015 08 11 Strike Two for Melissa Chiu Washington City Paper 2014 08 10 Retrieved 2015 08 11 New director of Hirshhorn snubs D C to hold 40th anniversary gala in New York The Washington Post 2014 08 07 Retrieved 2015 08 11 Capps Kriston 18 September 2015 If we hadn t been part of the Smithsonian we would ve gone the way of the Corcoran Melissa Chiu takes over the Hirshhorn Washington City Paper Retrieved 9 March 2017 Chiu Melissa Genocchio Benjamin 2010 Contemporary Asian Art PDF UK Thames amp Hudson ISBN 978 0 500 238745 Archived from the original PDF on 2011 09 28 Contemporary Art in Asia MIT Press 2011 04 29 Archived from the original on 2012 03 14 Retrieved 2012 09 19 Asia Society s Melissa Chiu Joins SundayArts Team to Conduct In Depth Interviews with Artists Asia Society Retrieved 2012 09 19 Melissa Chiu Sunday Arts Thirteen Retrieved 2012 09 19 Amy Martin 21 April 2022 National Gallery of Australia to remember former director Betty Churcher with inaugural memorial oration The Canberra Times Retrieved 11 June 2022 Melissa Chiu Named Head of Hirshhorn Museum Artnet 2014 06 15 Retrieved 2015 08 11 Hiroshi Sugimoto in Conversation with Melissa Chiu asiasociety org Retrieved 2015 08 11 Heil E Reliable Source Hirshhorn museum director s husband scrubs her Wikipedia entry of controversy The Washington Post September 18 2015 External links Edit Rising from Obscurity Asian Art Reflects New York Success The New York Times Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Melissa Chiu amp oldid 1128832871, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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