Melissa Chiu

Quick Facts

Full Name	Melissa Chiu
Occupation	Museum Director
Date Of Birth	Feb 2, 1972(1972-02-02)
Age	52
Birthplace	Darwin
Country	Australia
Birth City	Northern Territory
Horoscope	Aquarius

Melissa Chiu Biography

Melissa Chiu is one of the most popular and richest Museum Director who was born on February 2, 1972 in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. Born in Darwin, Northern Territory in Australia in 1972, Chiu went to school in Sydney. She completed a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Western Sydney and an MA in Arts Administration at the College of Fine Arts. Later, she completed a PhD at University of Western Sydney that focused on contemporary Chinese art in the diaspora.

Chiu has curated more than thirty international exhibitions that mainly focus on Asian artists and art. Zhang Huan (2006) and Art and China’s Revolution (2008), both with Zheng Shengtian were her major curatorial achievements. They also did one of the first historical appraisals on Chinese art from the 1950s to 1970s and Nobody’s Fool (2010) with Miwako Tzuka. In 2004, she was awarded a Getty Curatorial Fellowship.

Chiu is married to Benjamin Genocchio, an art critic and editor-in-chief of Artnet News. Chiu and her husband co-authored Asian Art Now, originally published in 2010.

In 2010, Chiu joined the Sunday Arts television show on PBS WNET to conduct a series of interviews with cultural leaders. Interview subjects have included William Kentridge, Shirin Neshat, Yoko Ono, Tan Dun, Chuck Close and Antony Gormley.

After serving as curator of contemporary Asian art and Asian American art, Chiu was elected Asia Society’s Museum director in 2004. This was the first American museum to have this type of curatorial position. The Asia Society Museum was her first initiative. She launched a contemporary art collection that complemented the Rockefeller Collection.

Melissa Chiu Net Worth

Melissa Chiu is one of the richest Museum Director from Australia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Melissa Chiu 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Melissa Chiu was born 1972. She is a curator, author, and director of museums.

Chiu was an independent curator for many years during her early career. Chiu joined the University of Western Sydney Collection as a curator between 1993 and 1996. Chiu founded Gallery 4A in 1996 with a group that included performers, filmmakers, writers, and artists from Asia. This non-profit contemporary art center promotes dialogue in the Asia Pacific region. Chiu was the founding director of Gallery 4A. Later, it was renamed to the 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art. She was the Center’s curator in 2001, when it moved to a heritage building of two stories that is owned by the city in Sydney’s Chinatown.

Chiu has published in art magazines and journals, and has authored several books, including Breakout: Chinese Art Outside China (2007), published by Charta and Chinese Contemporary Art: 7 Things You Should Know (2008), published by AW Asia. Her latest books include Contemporary Asian Art with Benjamin Genocchio, published by Thames & Hudson and Monacelli Press, and an edited anthology, Contemporary Art in Asia: A Critical Reader, published by MIT Press.

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Melissa Ranked on the list of most popular Museum Director. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Australia. Melissa Chiu celebrates birthday on February 2 of every year.