Mori Art Museum Appoints New Associate Curator and Adjunct Curator
2025.8.5 [Tue]
The Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, welcomed to its team Cho Sunhye as Associate Curator and Victor Wang as Adjunct Curator.
Cho is the curator of the currently-running MAM Collection 020: The World Lies in Our Narratives - Shitamichi Motoyuki, Vandy Rattana, Zhang O and Cao Fei, which has been on view.
Wang will be the curator of the next MAM Project, which will run concurrently with the Roppongi Crossing 2025: What Passes Is Time. We Are Eternal. exhibition to open on Wednesday, December 3.
Cho Sunhye (Associate Curator, Mori Art Museum)
Cho worked as a curator at the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum from 2016 to 2025. She specializes in modern and contemporary Asian art and has a particular interest in artistic expressions by minority individuals or groups in Asia. In recent years, she has been conducting research on artistic expressions of the “diaspora” - referring to immigrants and migrants. She has been serving as the Curatorial Advisor (contemporary art) for the Aichi Triennale 2025 since 2023.
The exhibitions Cho has curated to date at the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum include: LGBTQ and Social Diversity in Asian Art (2019); Fukuoka Asian Art Museum 20th Anniversary Exhibition: Journey through Asian Art (2019); Message—50 Years of Women Artists in Asia (2020); Waters in Asian Art (2023), and Asian Photo History (2024).
Victor Wang (Adjunct Curator, Mori Art Museum)
Based in Sydney, Wang has been Director of Artspace since 2025.
Previously, he was Executive and Artistic Director of M WOODS (Beijing) from 2019 to 2025. He also serves as a member of the Director’s Circle at Bangkok Kunsthalle and the Curatorial Advisory Group for the Pitt Rivers Museum – University of Oxford.
Major solo and retrospective exhibitions he curated at M WOODS include Richard Tuttle (2019), Giorgio Morandi (2020), Ryuichi Sakamoto (2021 and 2023), Man Ray (2021), Bruce Nauman (2022), Salman Toor (2023), and Ann Veronica Janssens (2023). Collaborative exhibitions with other institutions include Martin Margiela (2022), Florian Krewer (2023), and Huang Rui (2023), many of which were the artists’ first museum solo exhibitions in China or Asia.
He has also collaborated with leading institutions in the global art scene including Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Tate Modern (London), Wifredo Lam Center of Contemporary Art (Havana), and the National Gallery (Berlin) and organized numerous exhibitions. He was also involved in curating an exhibition as the British Museum’s first partnership with a non-state-run art museum in China.
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