Team
Kevin Chen, lead curator
For over a decade, Kevin B. Chen has been a Program Director at Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco’s oldest alternative non-profit multidisciplinary arts organization (est. 1965). Prior to this position, he was the Programs Manager at Kala Art Institute, the largest independent printmaking workshop and gallery in North America.
Kevin received his bachelors degree from Columbia University in 1994 and also studied abroad at Beijing Teachers University. He has served on selection panels for Creative Capital Foundation, San Francisco Arts Commission Cultural Equity Grants and Public Art Programs, City of San Jose Cultural Affairs Office, Alameda County Arts Commission, Arts Council Silicon Valley, WORKS/San Jose, San Francisco Recycling & Disposal, Inc. and the Headlands Center for the Arts.
He served on the Community Advisory Board of the San Francisco Art Institute and currently serves on the Program Committee for the Headlands Center for the Arts. He has been an Award Judge for San Francisco Art Institute, California College of the Arts, and an exhibition juror for ArtSpan and Artsource Consulting, Root Division, San Francisco Camerawork, and the Rose Resnick LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired. He has also served as a panelist for UC Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, Southern Exposure, Asian Art Museum, California College of the Arts, KPFA 94.1 FM, GenArtSF, and the Foundation Center. Kevin has written essays and articles published by Paper Museum Press, Light Work, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and Kearny Street Workshop.
Abby Chen, co-curator
As Program Director for the Chinese Culture Foundation, Abby Chen orchestrates four exhibitions annually. She works with artists, collectors, and curators to conceive exhibition ideas, as well as design and implement exhibition installations. A natural at marketing, Abby has successfully increased the visibility of CCF’s programming by outreaching to both Chinese and English media.
Prior to joining CCF in December 2006, Abby was the co-founder and director of the Chinese Artist Network (CAN), an organization dedicated to promoting Chinese contemporary media and visual artists. With CAN, Abby was able to discover, present, and promote artists such as Wang Ningde and Ma Liang, and curated shows for the San Francisco Arts Commission and the Museum of Chinese in America in New York.
Born in Shandong, China, and raised in both Beijing and Shenzhen, Abby is tri-lingual in Mandarin, Cantonese, and English.
Ellen Oh, co-curator
KSW’s Executive Director, Ellen Oh, has a Masters Degree in Arts Administration from Columbia University and over ten years experience working in various capacities in nonprofit arts organizations both nationally and internationally.
Most recently, Ellen served as Associate Director of Marketing at Sundance Institute, where she was responsible for all publications, advertising, media sponsorships, merchandise, envirographics, and motion graphics for the Film Festival and year-round programs. Prior to graduate school, Ellen worked in marketing and community outreach at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, during its move from Golden Gate Park to Civic Center. In this position, she initiated and implemented marketing programs for target audiences including specific Asian communities and young professionals.
Ellen’s additional experience includes working on the 2006 Whitney Biennial, the 2002 Sydney Biennale, and the 2001 Venice Biennale/Korean Pavilion.
Michelle Hyun, storefront installation coordinator
Michelle Hyun is an arts professional, writer, and curator in San Francisco. She is currently the gallery director at Linearis Institute, a private collection and commercial gallery for prints and drawings. She earned her BA in International Political Economy at the George Washington University, Washington, DC. Where she once dreamt of being surrounded by politicians, economists, political scientists, diplomats and sociologists, today she is more interested in working with artists, curators, collectors, and critics from within the liminal space of curatorial practice.
