Biographical Info

Jo-ey Tang is an artist, writer, and curator who experiments with the formats of versions, repetitions, and iterations as an ongoing engagement with time and its potential. As an artist, he has exhibited at Kunsthalle Zürich; Musée d’art contemporain de la Haute-Vienne; IAC – Institut d’art contemporain, Villeurbanne / Rhône-Alpes. His writing on art has appeared in Brooklyn Rail, Flash Art, Paper Monument, and artforum.com, and for exhibitions and publications at Centre Pompidou, Wexner Center for the Arts, and Baxter Street / Camera Club of New York. As a cultural worker, his roles included curator at Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Digital Community Manager at Denniston Hill; arts editor at n+1; Director of Exhibitions at Beeler Gallery at Columbus College of Art & Design; and currently Director at KADIST San Francisco. His curatorial project since 2015, arms ache avid aeon: Nancy Brooks Brody / Joy Episalla / Zoe Leonard / Carrie Yamaoka: fierce pussy amplified, currently spans eight chapters as exhibitions and a book in collaboration with the founding members of the art collective fierce pussy, putting in relation individual art practices and collective work in an achronological approach. He has curated exhibitions internationally, including at Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia; Centre Pompidou, Paris; K11, Hong Kong, and Kim?, Riga, and forthcoming at Participant Inc., New York.