Zoe YEH
Zoe Yeh is the Director and Curator of Hong-Gah Museum in Taipei. She previously served as a curatorial assistant at the Art Tower Mito in Japan and was a board member of the artist-run space Polymer. Her curatorial and research practice focuses on the shifting power dynamics and spatial allocations within urban environments. Through creative interventions and field-researches, she explores contemporary interpretations of place and locality. Yeh leads the museum’s long-term community-based initiatives, utilizing art as a participatory tool to engage the local community and deepen cultural education and site-specific curatorial experimentation.
In addition to its emphasis on contemporary art, Hong-Gah Museum houses a historically and aesthetically significant collection of modern Chinese embroidery. This collection centers on rare and intricate works produced between the 1970s and 1990s by the Suzhou Embroidery Research Institute and the Hunan Xiang Embroidery Research Institute. The collection includes masterworks such as double-sided and multi-surface embroidery, embroidered scrolls, and pictorial embroidery pieces. In 2021, Yeh curated the exhibition Showing Stories: Images on Chinese Modern Embroidery, which reinterpreted the museum’s textile holdings through a contemporary lens. That same year, she was appointed as museum director, and has since continued to advance long-term curatorial planning and international collaborations related to textile collections.
Yeh is also deeply engaged in the fields of contemporary performance and moving image. She has curated numerous solo exhibitions for emerging artists, with a particular interest in cross-disciplinary practices and narrative strategies in video art. Notable projects include The History of the Concave and the Convex – Liu Yu Solo Exhibition (2018), Commissioned – Chen I-Hsuen Solo Exhibition (2019), Seramat, the messenger over the sea – Lin Yi-Chi Solo Exhibition (2020), and Matter of Scale – Lo Sheng-Wen Solo Exhibition (2022). In 2023, she co-curated the 2023 Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition: Living-Togetherness with curator Shih-yu Hsu, further promoting dialogue and collaboration between Taiwan’s video art scene and international platforms.