Hera Chan. Photo by Tze Long Hera Chan
Hera Chan is a cultural worker living in Amsterdam and Yogyakarta by way of Hong Kong. Her work engages with performative infrastructures such as elections – as co-producer of KomBIJ1 TV, a political talk show aired in the Netherlands and the Dutch Antilles leading up to the Dutch parliamentary elections of 2021, pageantry – as co-founder and curator of platform Miss Ruthless International in Hong Kong, and diasporic networks – as founding director of para-institution Atelier Céladon in Montreal. With artistic directors Arin Rungjang and David Teh, she was co-curator with Marisa Phandharakrajadej of the Thailand Biennale: Eternal [Kalpa] in Phuket (2025-2026). She was a grantee of The Andy Warhol Arts Writers Grant in 2022 with a focus on the militant image after the uprisings of the Milk Tea Alliance between 2019 and 2021. Currently, she is Adjunct Curator, Asia-Pacific, supported by Asymmetry at Tate.
Exhibitions
Exhibition: Life After Love – In Search of the Militant Image
Curated by Hera Chan and Edwin Nasr, this exhibition traces the shifting visual language of global uprisings over the past decade
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