
See Huat Wong
Arts / Entertainment / Publishing
About See Huat Wong:
Founder of People Ideas Culture, focusing on art curatorial, cultural mapping and interpretation, place making and social innovation.
Experience
Selected as a speaker for an international conference "Exhibitionism: Sexuality at the Museum" with the paper titled "A Critical Analysis of Queer Art Representation in Spectrosynthesis I and II", organized by Wilzig Erotic Art Museum, Kinsey Institute Indianan University, and Center for the Cultural History of Sexuality Humbolt University Berlin, Dec 2021
Presented "Descobrimentos, Aavishkaar, Penemuan: Spice Route as a Shared Heritage" in EPWG Icomos Hokdulu Talks (online, Malaysia) series and International Symposium of Cosmopolitanism of Islam Nusantara (online, Indonesia), August 2021.
The curatorial proposal titled "NUSA/NTARA" has been selected by Waley Art Taipei as one of the five winners out of 57 submissions in July 2020. The very same proposal has also been awarded the Department of Cultural Affairs grant, Taipei City Government, in Jan 2021. Published a paper titled "Negotiating the Realization of Asian Queer Art Biennale" in the 2020 Annual Conference and Seminar Proceedings of the Taiwan Art History Association.
Selected by IFACCA to serve as rapporteur for the 8th World Summit on Arts and Culture (March 2019, Kuala Lumpur). Chosen as a beneficiary for CENDANA Mobility Grant in participating in the 6th Lisbon Contemporary Art Exhibition (Oct 2018).
Organized a workshop on revitalizing the rural heritage in Kopisan Village, Gopeng (Perak, Malaysia), together with Contemplate Culture (Hong Kong) in April 2019. Organized 1-day International Industrial Heritage Marketing and Business Development Workshop in Ipoh, as a satellite event of Pangkor International Development Dialogue (Sept 2017).
Curated three walks in Bangsar: Bangsarian His-story Walk, Bangsar Trademark Walk, Bangsar Place-Making Walk; KL Binocle Walk (Chinatown); Loke Yew Heritage Trail as oral history exercises to safeguard the urban heritage. Presented as panellist speaker in Bandung Creative Movement Conference (Oct 2017, Indonesia), "Approaches to Creative Place-Making" in International Landscape Architects Dialog (Oct 2017, Kuala Lumpur), and "River Cities" panellist session in the 7th Macau Literary Festival (March 2018).
Among the art exhibitions curated are:-
- HIMAPAN lotus leaf art exhibition, Anggun Boutique Hotel
- LOCK UP locker art exhibition, Harry Rogers Home Furniture Shop
- OWLS KNOW photography exhibition, March Azalea Café
- REVIVING THE PAST, CONNECTING THE FUTURE, BON estate showroom
- SEA OF TEARS regional art exhibition, Atelier de Rouge Gallery
- ILLUSION ENCOUNTER photography exhibition, Port Commune warehouse
- KISS art exhibition, Geographer KL Café
- WHAT AI DIDN'T TELL YOU art exhibition, Café 55
- RIVER CITIES art exhibition, Anak Baba Café
- WANDER online art exhibition
Education
Sept 19- July 21 MA Critical and Curatorial Studies of Contemporary Art, The National Taipei University of Education (Taiwan)
July 10 – Sept12 MA Cultural Landscape, integrated program with Université Jean Monnet (France), Università Federico II (Italy), and Universität Stuttgart (Germany), with Erasmus Mundus Scholarship.
Sept 06- June 08 MSc Urban Planning, The University of Hong Kong - with Asian Development Bank Japan Scholarship.
Sept 99 - Aug 03 B (Eng) Civil, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia - Honour (2nd Upper).
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