June Yap
June Yap is the Director of Curatorial, Collections and Programmes at the Singapore Art Museum.Education
Yap received her MA in Fine Art at the University of Melbourne and her Ph.D. in Cultural Studies at the National University of Singapore.Career
Yap co-curated the exhibition They Do Not Understand Each Other, with Yuka Uematsu, National Museum of Art, Osaka, at Tai Kwun Contemporary in 2020.
Yap was formerly the curator of Guggenheim UBS MAP, Deputy Director and Curator of the Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, and an independent curator. During her residency at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, as part of the Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative, she curated the exhibition, No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia.
In 2011, Yap curated the Singapore pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale, featuring The Cloud of Unknowing by Singaporean artist Ho Tzu Nyen. She has also curated exhibitions for the Center for Contemporary Art in Tel Aviv, Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen in Stuttgart and Berlin, and the National University of Singapore Museum.
Yap is the author of Retrospective: A Historiographical Aesthetic in Contemporary Singapore and Malaysia.
