Independent Curator

Vera Mey is currently an independent curator who has worked in a variety of institutional contexts and has been awarded a studentship to be a doctoral candidate at SOAS, University of London. Her research will involve looking at modern and contemporary Southeast Asian art, her area of focus over the past few years. She was part of the founding team of the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore, a contemporary art research centre of Nanyang Technological University (NTU) as Curator, Residencies. She was Assistant Director of AUT University’s ST PAUL St Gallery in Auckland, New Zealand from 2011 - early 2014.

For 2013, Vera was curator in residence at Arts Initiative Tokyo, as well as convener of the AUT University Master of Arts Management Curatorial Strategy program. Recent curated exhibitions include Anywhere but here… (2016), Bétonsalon - Centre d'art et de recherche, Paris and Singapore Art Archive Project @ SA SA BASSAC: Koh Nguang How and Shui Tit Sing (2016), Urban Aspiration (2016), The Physics Rooms, Christchurch, FIELDS: an itinerant inquiry across the Kingdom of Cambodia (2013), ST PAUL ST Gallery, Auckland and SA SA BASSAC, Phnom Penh, The Disappearance (2014), NTU CCA Singapore; Invisible Energy and In Spite of Ourselves: Approaching Documentary (2012) at ST PAUL St Gallery and The Dowse Art Museum, Wellington.

Vera is co-founder of the scholarly journal SOUTHEAST OF NOW: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art and in 2015-16 joined Ambitious Alignments: New Histories of Southeast Asian Art, a research initiative of the Getty Foundation. She was on the curatorial team of SEA Project an exhibition that opened in July 2017 at the Mori Art Museum Japan and National Art Centre Tokyo.

Vera completed her Masters in Museum & Heritage Studies in 2010.