Yuki Kawakami

Yuki Kawakami is a creative producer, museum educator and programs curator with a background in dance and performance. She has over ten years of experience in the arts, primarily working at the Art Gallery of New South Wales across public and education programs. In 2022, she completed her tenure as Chairperson and Co-Director of the artist-led space Firstdraft, Woolloomooloo. In 2019, she was the Assistant Curator of the Art Gallery’s major exhibition Japan supernatural and the Creative Producer of its associated Sydney Festival program Night parade of one hundred goblins. In 2017, she was awarded the Edmund Capon Fellowship to research youth engagement programs in Japan, Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong. She is currently undertaking a PhD in Curatorial Practice at Monash University as part of the international partnership project Past Wrongs, Future Choices, which documents the racialised uprooting, internment and deportation of civilians of Japanese descent in allied countries through the Americas and the Pacific.