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Victor Wang is the Executive Director at Artspace, located on Gadigal Country/Sydney. He is also an Adjunct Curator at the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo. Previously, he served as the Executive and Artistic Director of M WOODS Museum (2019–2025), where he oversaw both the Beijing and Chengdu locations. Wang serves on the Curatorial Advisory Group at the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford—contributing to the Changing Curatorial Legacies project to rethink the museum’s permanent galleries and advance decolonising curatorial practices.

Across his career, Wang has curated major collaborative exhibitions with leading institutions including Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Tate Modern (London), The National Gallery (Berlin), and the first-ever collaboration between the British Museum (UK) and a non-state-run art museum in China.

Across China and Asia, Wang has organised numerous landmark exhibitions, including museum surveys of artists such as Nabuqi (2024), Ann Veronica Janssens (2023), Ryuichi Sakamoto (2023 and 2021), Salman Toor (2023), Huang Rui (2023), Martin Margiela (2022), Bruce Nauman (2022), Man Ray (2021), Giorgio Morandi (2020), Haroon Mirza (2019), and Richard Tuttle (2019), among others.

Wang has a particular focus on performance art. He was curator of Frieze LIVE at Frieze London in 2020 and is the founder of the Institute of Asian Performance Art (IAPA). He is also editor of Performance Histories from East Asia 1960s–90s (DRAF, 2018).

His writing has been published in Artforum International, ArtReview, and Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art. His editorial projects include Richard Tuttle's Pod, Capsule, Cluster (M WOODS, 2024), Bruce Nauman, the first Chinese-language monograph on the artist, co-published by Tate Publishing and M WOODS (2024), and MAM Project 034: Sonia Boyce (Mori Art Museum, 2026). His publishing collaborations include The Build-up of Content and Information with Oscar Murillo, published by David Zwirner Books (2018). He has also contributed essays to exhibition catalogues published by the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (MMCA), the Art Gallery of Western Australia, and Tate, and has contributed as a writer, nominator, and advisor to Phaidon publications including Prime: Art's Next Generation (2022), Vitamin Txt: Words in Contemporary Art (2024), and Vitamin P4: New Perspectives in Painting (2025). He holds an MA in Curating Contemporary Art from the Royal College of Art, London.

Eleni Vergotis is Assistant Curator and Executive Assistant at Artspace, Sydney. Previously she worked in Philanthropy at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. She has a background working in contemporary art and Australian history institutions, delivering tours at Museums of History NSW sites like Susannah Place and working across visitor services and ticketing at Carriageworks. Eleni holds a Bachelors of Art Theory/Arts from the University of NSW and undertook an exchange at the Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh. 

Zoe Theodore is a curator and arts writer working on Gadigal Country. She is currently Curator: Programs at Artspace, Sydney.

Zoe regularly works directly with artists to realise new commissions, exhibitions and public programs for museums, galleries and organisations including the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, the Immigration Museum, Melbourne, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, BUS Projects, and the Biennale of Sydney. From 2021–24 was Project Coordinator and Associate Researcher on the ARC-supported Precarious Movements: Choreography and the Museum project.

She is a current PhD candidate at the University of New South Wales and previously held roles at Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, MoMA PS1, New York, and was Co-Director of Firstdraft, Sydney (2022–24).

Alongside her curatorial practice, Zoe has contributed writing to Performance Paradigm, Performance Review, un Magazine, Runway Journal, Artist Profile, and Art & Australia, as well as to publications by the National Gallery of Victoria and Monash University Museum of Art.

Dr Josephine Skinner is an arts leader, curator and academic with over 15 years of experience in contemporary arts programming and commissioning. She has a particular interest in supporting early to mid-career artists through the curation of interdisciplinary presentations that bridge local and global discourses and practices.

In 2017, she co-founded contemporary art space Cement Fondu, and in 2024, co-founded Vital Commons, a curatorial agency for art in the public realm. She works to nurture welcoming and innovative art platforms that support a diversity of practices and invite critical reflection on our times.

Josephine holds a PhD (UNSW Art & Design) and BAHons Critical Fine Art Practice (UK).

Flo brings over six years’ experience across cultural and purpose-driven organisations, grounded in creativity, storytelling and social impact. Working across environmental sustainability, ethical fashion systems, and the visual arts, she has led audience engagement campaigns at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia and held roles with TerraCycle, Citizen Wolf, Sling & Stone, and The Social Outfit. Through this work, she is committed to centring contemporary art as a tool for communication, public conversation and connection.

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Lea Barnett is an accomplished cultural executive with more than 25 years’ experience spanning major cultural institutions, government agencies and creative studios.

Highly skilled at aligning creative ambition with business operations and fostering inclusive, high-performance cultures, Lea brings strategic design thinking to her work as a manager and multidisciplinary creative director. Her leadership across national and international cultural and exhibition projects – including interpretive wayfinding, the built environment, publications, digital audio-visual experiences, destination branding and strategic design communications – has cultivated a capacity to see beyond the obvious and deliver innovative, considered solutions.

Grounded in a calm confidence within the high-pressure realities of creative delivery, Lea has worked extensively with artists, writers and cultural organisations. She has held executive, senior management and design leadership roles, including Head of Exhibitions at the Australian War Memorial and positions with Artists in Motion, Transport for NSW, Imagination Australia, CampbellBarnett, Museums of History NSW, the Australian Museum, the Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games, and the Art Gallery of NSW. 

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Ashton Biddulph is the Exhibitions and Programs Coordinator at Artspace. He is passionate about fostering artist-led projects and building accessible pathways between institutions and independent art communities. Prior to Artspace, Ashton worked at the National Art School (NAS) across a range of curatorial and gallery coordination roles. He is also currently Co-Chair of Schmick Contemporary, an artist-run initiative on Gadigal Land in Chinatown that supports emerging and experimental practice.

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Freÿa Black is the Operations and Front of House Coordinator at Artspace, located on Gadigal Country/Sydney. Prior to this role, she managed Wentworth Galleries in Meanjin/Brisbane and has a background in commercial gallery management, exhibition coordination and independent curatorial practice. Freÿa is committed to building community art-based relationships grounded in cultural respect, collaboration and care, shaped through long-term partnerships with First Nations Art Centres and artists across Australia. She is also a visual artist working across sculpture, film, and performance, holding a Master of Art Curating from the University of Sydney and a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) from RMIT University.

operations@artspace.org.au