Dr. Melissa Chiu has been Director of the Asia Society Museum in New York since 2004 and is Senior Vice President for Global Arts and Cultural Programs for the Society’s 11 centers and affiliates globally. She is responsible for the exhibition programs in New York, Hong Kong, and Houston. During her tenure, Chiu initiated the museum’s launch of a contemporary art collection and has also organized major international first-time loan shows with the governments of China, Vietnam, Pakistan, and India. She joined Asia Society in 2001 as the first-ever curator of contemporary Asian and Asian American art in the United States.

Chiu was Founding Director of the Asia-Australia Arts Centre in Sydney, Australia from 1996 to 2001. She has been a cultural commentator on PBS/Thirteen’s Sunday Arts television program, was a Getty Research Fellow (2003-2004), and has served on grant and policy advisory committees for the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and Pew.  She currently serves on the board of the American Association of Museums and the Museums Association of New York and has served on the board of the Association of Art Museum Directors.

Chiu is the author or editor of several books including Breakout: Chinese Art Outside China (2007) and Contemporary Art in Asia: A Critical Reader (MIT Press, 2011, co-edited with Benjamin Genocchio), among others. She earned a Ph.D in Art History and M.A. in Arts Administration in Australia.

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