KENNETH WONG SEE HUAT

Kenneth Wong See Huat is the founder of People Ideas Culture, focusing on art curatorial, heritage tourism and social innovation consultancy. He is currently sitting as a board member of ICOMOS Malaysia 2024-2026, as well as an active working group committee on nominating new villages for UNESCO tentative listing. As an independent curator and member of ICOM Malaysia, his curatorial proposal was selected by Waley Art Taipei Gallery (2020) and awarded a grant from the Department of Cultural Affairs (2021), as well as a mobility grant to Lisbon (Portugal) under CENDANA (2018). He is also one of the beneficiaries of the SEEDLAB social enterprise incubator under the sponsorship of Petronas and Tata Consultancy (cohort 2023-2024).

• 06/ 2022 Selected and offered to waive the participant's fees for the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Summer School co-organized by the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society and University Malaya; same for 07/ 2023, remotely with Ahmedabad University, presenting "Transgressing Borders and Queering Futurities" . Selected for the Asian Graduate Student Fellowship 2023 by the Asia Research Institute , National University of Singapore。
• 01 & 04/2023, English Editor, Journal "Museum and Culture" 《博物馆与化》 , Sat on the board for Issues 21 and 22 of the journal; acted as a 2023 year's Jury for APEXART , Helped APEXART select five exhibitions by reviewing over 50 proposals
• 12/2021, Speaker, Wilzig Erotic Art Museum, Kinsey Institute Indianan University, and Center for the Cultural History of Sexuality Humboldt University Berlin, selected as a speaker for the international conference "Exhibitionism: Sexuality at the Museum", Presented a paper titled "A Critical Analysis of Queer Art Representation in Spectrosynthesis I and II"
• 08/2021, Presenter, EPWG ICOMOS Hokdulu Talks (online, Malaysia) series and International Symposium of Cosmopolitanism of Islam Nusantara (online, Indonesia), Presented "Descobrimentos, Aavishkaar, Penemuan: Spice Route as a Shared Heritage"
• 07/2022, Contributor, Asian Network of Industrial Heritage , Contributed to the Asian Network of Industrial Heritage's inventory on the industrial heritage of tin mining dredging machines at Tanjung Tualang, Perak, Malaysia
• 07/2020, Curatorial Proposal Winner, Waley Art Taipei, The curatorial proposal titled "NUSA/NTARA" was selected as one of the five winners out of 57 submissions, The same proposal was awarded the Department of Cultural Affairs grant, Taipei City Government
• 03/2019, Rapporteur, IFACCA, Served as rapporteur for the 8th World Summit on Arts and Culture
• 10/2018, Beneficiary, CENDANA Mobility Grant, Participated in the 6th Lisbon Contemporary Art Exhibition
• 04/2019, Workshop Organizer, with Contemplate Culture (Hong Kong): Organized a workshop on revitalizing rural heritage in Kopisan Village, Gopeng (Perak, Malaysia)
• 09/2017, Workshop Organizer, Pangkor International Development Dialogue: Organized 1-day International Industrial Heritage Marketing and Business Development Workshop in Ipoh, together with the President of the International Cultural Tourism Committee.
• Presented as a panellist speaker at Bandung Creative Movement Conference (Oct 2017, Indonesia), " Approaches to Creative Place-Making " in International Landscape Architects Dialogue (Oct 2017, Kuala Lumpur), and " River Cities " panellist session in the 7th Macau Literary Festival (March 2018).

Curated Various Community Guided Walks and Social Artistry Exhibitions

• Curated three walks in Bangsar: Bangsarian His-story Walk, Bangsar Trademark Walk, Bangsar Place-Making Walk; KL Binocle Walk (Chinatown); Loke Yew Heritage Trail as oral history exercises to safeguard the urban heritage.

• Among the art exhibitions curated are (2016-2019): -

- HIMAPAN lotus leaf art exhibition, Anggun Boutique Hotel

- LOCK UP locker art exhibition, Harry Rogers Home Furniture Shop

- OWLS KNOW photography exhibition, March Azalea Café

- REVIVING THE PAST, CONNECTING THE FUTURE, BON estate showroom

- SEA OF TEARS regional art exhibition, Atelier de Rouge Gallery

- ILLUSION ENCOUNTER photography exhibition, Port Commune warehouse

- KISS art exhibition, Geographer KL Café

- WHAT AI DIDN'T TELL YOU art exhibition, Café 55

- RIVER CITIES art exhibition, Anak Baba Café

- WANDER online art exhibition, https://psychogeography.wixsite.com/wander

• Defining Queer Art Parameters in Asia: Hong Kong, Singapore, and South Korea , KREATE, VUW 2022 Special Issue, 37-42
• MA Thesis titled " A Critical Analysis on Queer Art Representation in Spectrosynthesis I and Spectrosynthesis II ", https://hdl.handle.net/11296/h6uhga
• Blog writing on contemporary art and museum studies, https://peopleideasculture.medium.com/
• Social Enterprise Approach in Revitalizing City Heritage , 19th Triennial ICOMOS General Assembly, December 2017
• People, Ideas, Culture in Shaping Shared Value Society , 4th Bandung Creative Movement International Conference, Atlantis Press, 41, October 2017
• Cultural Landscapes in Asian Modernity, Sociology and Anthropology, 3(8), 379-388, October 2015

• Defining Queer Art Parameters in Asia: Hong Kong, Singapore, and South Korea, KREATE, VUW 2022 Special Issue, 37-42
• MA Thesis titled "A Critical Analysis on Queer Art Representation in Spectrosynthesis I and Spectrosynthesis II", https://hdl.handle.net/11296/h6uhga
• Blog writing on contemporary art and museum studies, https://peopleideasculture.medium.com/
• Social Enterprise Approach in Revitalizing City Heritage, 19th Triennial ICOMOS General Assembly, December 2017
• People, Ideas, Culture in Shaping Shared Value Society, 4th Bandung Creative Movement International Conference, Atlantis Press, 41, October 2017
• Cultural Landscapes in Asian Modernity, Sociology and Anthropology, 3(8), 379-388, October 2015

• Fergus Maclaren, President of ICTC (International Cultural Tourism Committee), Quebec, Canada, +819-9625968, rmaclaren@gmail.com. As a peer in ICTC, he was my speaker conducting the International Industrial Heritage Workshop in 2017. We have maintained a mentor-mentee relationship since then.
• Nobuo Takamori, Assistant Professor, National Taipei University of Education (cum chief curator for Asian Art Biennale 2021), takamori_nobuo@outlook.com. Supervisor for MA Thesis in NTUE, assisting in roundtable discussions under initiatives of Taiwan Culture Foundation.

• Age: 43
• Nationality: Malaysian