Doryun Chong is Artistic Director and Chief Curator, M+, Hong Kong. He was appointed as the inaugural Chief Curator of M+ in 2013. From 2016 to September 2024, he also served as Deputy Director, Curatorial. For over a decade, Chong has overseen all curatorial activities and programmes at M+, including collections, exhibitions, learning and public programmes, publications, and digital initiatives across the museum’s three main disciplinary areas of design and architecture, moving image, and visual art. Leading up to and following the museum’s grand opening in November 2021, he has led the transformative growth of the M+ Collections and steered the museum’s curatorial direction and pedagogical practices, foregrounding the transcultural and transnational narratives of twentieth- and twenty-first-century global visual culture from a uniquely Asian perspective rooted in Hong Kong.
He has curated and overseen more than twenty exhibitions prior to the museum’s opening, including Noguchi for Danh Vo: Counterpoint (2018) at the M+ Pavilion in the Art Park of the West Kowloon Cultural District. He has also helped organize and supervise the five editions of Hong Kong’s participation in the Venice Biennale from 2015 to 2024, bringing a new generation of Hong Kong artists and curators to the international stage. He co-curated (with Mika Yoshitake) Yayoi Kusama: 1945 to Now, the most comprehensive retrospective of the celebrated Japanese artist to date, which opened to great critical acclaim and positive public reception at M+ in November 2022. It later toured to the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in 2023, becoming one of the most visited exhibitions in that museum’s history, and then to Serralves Museum in Porto, Portugal, in 2024. He is a co-curator of Picasso for Asia: A Conversation, co-organised by M+ and Musée national Picasso-Paris, which will open at M+ in March 2025.
Prior to joining M+, Chong worked the Museum of Modern Art in New York (2009–2013), the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis (2003–2009), and the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco (1999–2000). He has curated several landmark exhibitions, including major retrospectives of Tetsumi Kudo (2008) and Huang Yong Ping (2005) and a survey of postwar Japanese art, Tokyo 1955–1970: A New Avant-Garde (2012). Chong has published and lectured widely and served on numerous award juries and public panels across Asia, North America, and Europe. He is a member of the Sounding Board at Haus der Kunst München.
He earned his Bachelor of Arts and completed doctoral studies in the history of art at the University of California, Berkeley.