Prof. Selina Chui Fun HO

Museum and curatorial studies, creative arts and industries, art production and consumption in Asia.

Books

• 2025. ed. Exhibiting Chinese Art in Asia: Histories, Politics, and Practices, Amsterdam University Press.

• 2020. Museum Processes in China: Institutional Regulation, Production, and Consumption of art museums in the Greater Pearl River Delta region, Amsterdam University Press.

Journal Articles

• 2025. with Vivian Ting. ‘Community as the Material Basis of Creative Citizenship in Taiwan and Hong Kong’ Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1080/10304312.2025.2491057

• 2022. ‘Borderscaping Hong Kong: Lo Ting and Its Creative Agency’ Third Text, 36(5), 513–531.

• 2021. ‘Thinking About Curatorial Education Through An Imagined Museum’ University Museums and Collections Journal, 13(2), 113–120.

• 2019. ‘Curatorial Agencies and the National Museum Dilemma at He Xiangning Art Museum in China’ Journal of Museum Management and Curatorship, 34(3): 290–305.

• 2018. ‘MAURIZIO PELEGGI. Monastery, Monument, Museum: Sites and Artifacts of Thai Cultural Memory, Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press’ Asian Studies Review, 43(2): 360–361.

• 2016. ‘Between the Museum and the Public: Negotiating the “Circuit of Culture” as an Analytical Tool for Researching Museums in China’ The International Journal of the Inclusive Museum, 9(4): 17–31.

• 2007. ‘Huigui shinian qianhouhua ─ cong xianggang shijiao yishu lishi tanqi’ (Talkover/Handover: A Perspective on the History of Art Creation in Hong Kong) Twenty-First Century, The Institute of Chinese Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 102: 108–112. Reprinted in 2010, Contemporary Art & Investment, China: Inner Mongolia Daily, 5: 11–13.

Book Chapters

• 2025. 'Rethinking the Study of Exhibitions of Chinese Art' in Exhibiting Chinese Art in Asia: Histories, Politics, and Practices, Amsterdam University Press.

• 2025. 'Curating Chinese Art as Creative Heritage' in Exhibiting Chinese Art in Asia: Histories, Politics, and Practices, Amsterdam University Press.

• 2023. with Tong Kai Cheung. 'Sensing Things and Being Moved: The Artistic Connection between Human and Things' Sensing Things, Lingnan University, 16–29.

• 2019. with Vivian Ting. ‘Museological Activism and Cultural Citizenship: Collecting the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement’ in Robert Janes and Richard Sandell (eds.), Museum Activism, Routledge, 197–207. (Book recipient of Canadian Museum Association Awards of Outstanding Achievement for research in the cultural heritage sector).

• 2014. with Vivian Ting. ‘Meeting Warhol in the Exhibition: Visitors’ Experience with Art in the Hong Kong Museum of Art’ in Vincent Tong (ed.), Hong Kong Visual Arts Yearbook 2013, Hong Kong: Department of Fine Arts, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 178–195.

Research Projects

• 2025-2026 ‘Worlding Exhibitions in the Global Context of Asia’

• 2021-2024 ‘Exhibiting Chinese Art in Asia: Histories, Politics, and Practices’

• 2021-2024 ‘Art, Museums and Heritage: The Creative Citizens in Hong Kong and Taiwan’

• 2014-2018 ‘Museum Circuit in Contemporary China: Institutional Regulation, Production and Consumption of Art Museums in the Pearl River Delta Region of China’

• Faculty Research Grant (2025-2026)

• Chamber of Young Snow Company Limited & LU Research Matching Fund, RGC (2021-2025)

• UGC Early Career Scheme (ECS), RGC (2020/2021)

• Research & Knowledge Fund Award, Lingnan University (2021)

• Young Researcher Output Award, Lingnan University (2021)

• Graduate Research Award, Asia Institute, University of Melbourne (2017)

• Melbourne International Research Scholarship, University of Melbourne (2014-2017)

Professional Activities

• Journal Reviewer, Journal of Museum Management and Curatorship (2025)

• Reviewer, ‘Competitive Research Funding Schemes for the Local Self-financing Degree Sector’, Research Grants Council, Hong Kong (2024)

• External Examiner, PhD Thesis, School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester, UK (2024)

• Panel Moderator and Discussant, ‘Transformation in Museums through Digital Initiatives’ Symposium, University Museum and Art Gallery, HKU (12 Jan 2024)

• Chair, Panel: Why Island? Why Now? Society for Hong Kong Studies Annual Conference 2023: Informality, HKU (16 June 2023)

• External Reader, ‘BA (Hons) Art Histories and Curatorial Practices: Asia and the World’ Programme, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore (2022)

• Discussant, UMAG Lecture Series: Re-examining Modernity and Contemporaneity through Chinese Art (2022–23), “Nationalist Internationalism: International Exhibition of Chinese Art, 1935”, UMAG, HKU (18 May 2022)

• Organizer, “Then and Now: Collecting Art and Exhibiting Cultures in Asia” Conference, Lingnan University (20–21 May 2021)

• Journal Reviewer, Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites (2019)

• Associate Editor, International Journal of the Inclusive Museum (2015)

• Invited Speaker, “The Art Market and the Art Ecology in Hong Kong”, Public Lecture: Asian Art Worlds: Collectors, Curators and Critics, organized by Asialink and Asia Institute, University of Melbourne (2014)

• Placement Supervisor, Postgraduate Diploma in Museum Studies, HKU SPACE & University of Sydney (2012)

• Invited Speaker, “Spaces of Learning and Experiment ─ Open Collection: Development of An Image Database”, Asian Museum Network Conference, organized by LCSD, Vitra Design Museum, HK Design Centre, and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (2012)

• Invited Speaker, “Oral History Collecting and Display”, Voices and Hong Kong History Seminar & Workshop, organized by HK Archives Society, The Hong Kong Heritage Project, and HKU SPACE (2012)

• Invited Speaker, “School Memory Project”, lecture organized by the Hong Kong Memory Project, Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, HKU (2012)

• Invited Speaker, “Glocality of Post-97 Hong Kong Art”, Round Table, organized by the Department of Culture and Religion, CUHK (2007)