Interview: Josh Yiu Assistant Curator of Chinese Art

In 2006, the Seattle Art Museum (SAM) hired Josh Yiu as their assistant curator of Chinese Art. Hyun-Jung Jang, a Korean journalis In 2006, the Seattle Art Museum (SAM) hired Josh Yiu as their assistant curator of Chinese Art. Hyun-Jung Jang, a Korean journalism student visiting Seattle to learn English, talks to the Oxford Ph.D graduate about his job, family and artwork. (Part 1)

"What visitors see hanging on museum walls and installed in various rooms is brought on by the hard work of a museum curator. Josh explains his duties, "The museum curator has two responsibilities. They are expected to advertise the museum's collections through scholarly writings, publications and exhibitions. The other aspect is to expand the collections." This entails both acquiring new art and encouraging collectors to donate works to the museum. Josh sums it up as, "get the works known for the things we already have, get them known to the outside world and try to get more to enrich the collection." - Excerpt of International Examiner Article BY BETTINA PALILEO, Contributor. Read More


In Part 2 of our personal profile interview series with Josh Yiu, Seattle Art Museum Chinese Art Curator, he talks about his education, his vision and offers advice to students interested in pursuring careers as art curators.


In Part 3 of our interview with Josh Yiu Assistant Curator of Chinese Art, we learn what keeps him up at night, switching his major in college from physics to art history and the difference between American and Asian artists.

Interview with Simon Tang, KylinTV

An interview with Simon Tang, Director Sales and Marketing KylinTV, at the Seattle Chinatown-International District Summer Festival 2007.

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Hyun-Jung Jang's Bio

Hyun-Jung Jang left her family and friends in An-Yang, Korea, a suburb of Soul, knowing less than a dozen English words. The twenty-year old embarked on a two-year personal mission, to learn how to speak the “international language of business” and volunteer her time to people in need. The first couple of months in Calgary, Canada, she required a translator.

“When I was staying with my Canadian host family,” explains Hyun-Jung, “I was asked ‘do you understand?’ All I ‘understood’ was “stand”, so I stood up from my chair.”

In May, Hyun-Jung arrived in Seattle capable of withstanding an English conversation with strangers. While in the Pacific Northwest for the summer, the college journalism student has volunteered at the Food Bank, enrolled in a summer English class and is learning how to produce a multimedia travel blog.

As Hyun-Jung continues her 2007 travels, she will be posting reports from the road.

2007 Travel Schedule:

August - New York, NY
September - Tijuana, Mexico/San Diego, CA
October - Korea