Heng Wu

Research interests:

Museum studies, curatorial research, audience studies, Asian art, cross-culture representation

Brief Bio:

Heng Wu is the Curator of Asian Art at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, where she oversees a collection of Asian works which is regarded as the second best in Canada. Before joining the AGGV, she worked at Nanjing Museum, one of the leading museums in China, where her primary duties included developing and managing international travelling exhibitions.

She received her doctoral degree from the University of Bergen, Norway in 2011. Her research interests include museum and society, museum communication, exhibitions and storytelling, the localization of exhibitions, and particularly the interpretation, presentation and representation of Asian collections in a global context. She has published both in English and Chinese, and has been invited to speak at various conferences and forums. 

Over the years of work in museums, she has worked on a number of exhibitions various in theme, scope, and type. She places great importance on applying the experiences gained from her museum work to her research and teaching, and in the meantime putting the research findings and thoughts back to her practical work. 

Recent exhibitions she curated include Glocal: Blue and White at AGGV, which reviews blue-and-white porcelains in a global context using the AGGV’s own collections, on view through February 2022.