Yuting (Roxy) Tang
Curator and researcher · Shenzhen / Hong Kong / & nomad
Yuting (Roxy) Tang is a curator and researcher whose work examines how exhibitions, catalogues and archives produce knowledge about art — and what happens when fiction enters those systems. Her writing and curatorial projects move between museum collections, contemporary art criticism and the moving image.
She is Chief Curator and Exhibition Director at Design Society, Shenzhen, and was previously Head of Research and Collection at Pingshan Art Museum (2021–24), where she co-edited the museum’s almanacs. She has taught at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Shenzhen Polytechnic University. She holds an MA in Curating Contemporary Art from the Royal College of Art, London, and an MA in Western Painting from Nanjing Normal University.
Research interests
- Parafiction, the archive and speculative practice
- Museum catalogues, collection data and digital humanities
- Curatorial history and the economies of curating
- Film restoration, archives and canon formation
- East Asian cinema and comparative literature
Current research
Fiction, data and the museum catalogue
How parafictional practices — artworks and exhibitions that present invented documents, institutions or histories as real — enter museum catalogues, collection databases and machine-readable art history, and what this means for how art history is recorded and computed. The project combines archival research with digital-humanities methods.
Hong Kong cinema: restoration and canon formation
How restoration programmes, festivals and archives since 2011 have shaped a canon of Hong Kong cinema and its recirculation worldwide, drawing on archival and field research in Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea and Japan.
Selected publications
Tang, Yuting. “Smart Utopia or Alienated Negative Utopia? Review of Lawrence Lek’s ‘Nøtel.’” OCULA, October 2025.
Tang, Yuting. “Bauhinia in the Airflow: On ‘Hong Kong Qi.’” ArtReview China (Winter 2024): 144–145.
Tang, Yuting. “Kishio Suga, Recreating the Space of ‘Objects’ in Architectural Space.” ARTnews China, no. 6 (June 2024): 46–47.
Tang, Yuting. “Deposition: Museum Research and Collection.” In Pingshan Art Museum Almanac 2021, edited by Xiaodu Liu, Gang Zhong and Yuting Tang, 203–210. Shenzhen: Artron, 2023.
Daniel Knorr: Materialization, co-edited with Zhenhua Li. Macau: China Art Press, 2023. ISBN 978-99981-72-19-7.
Selected exhibitions
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Go Gentle into That All Blue Night
Design Society, Shenzhen · 17 Apr – 12 Jul 2026
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Lindy Lee: The Myriad Stars in the Myriad Worlds
Design Society, Shenzhen · co-curated with Dr. Qilan Shen · 8 Aug – 18 Oct 2026
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Be Water, My Friend
Il Mondo art space and screening, Hangzhou · 4 Oct – 31 Dec 2026
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Beings Out of Place
PETITREE ART × Shenzhen Art Week · 22 Mar – 18 May 2025
Recent talks
“Unsubscribe All!” Art Professionals Workshop, Para Site × The University of Hong Kong, 2026.
“The Art of Curating, Re-inventing Curating, after the End of Curating,” closed-door symposium, Inside-Out Art Museum, Beijing, 2026.
“Welcome to the Nantou Ancient/Future City: Cross-study of Artistic Curating and Digital Heritages,” paper, Guangdong Philosophy and Social Sciences Academic Youth Project, 2024.
Academic Symposia by Seasons, host, Pingshan Art Museum, Shenzhen, 2023.
Contact
- Correspondence
- roxy.tyt@gmail.comFor research, writing and exhibition enquiries
- Based in
- Shenzhen /
Hong Kong /
& nomadGMT+8, often elsewhere