After-Hours Curator Tour with Joan Young and Patrick Flores | Pop after Pop: Art around Us

Dr Patrick Flores is Chief Curator of National Gallery Singapore. He is the Director of the Philippine Contemporary Art Network. He was a Visiting Fellow at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. in 1999. Among his publications are Painting History: Revisions in Philippine Colonial Art (1999); Past Peripheral: Curation in Southeast Asia (2008); Art After War: 1948-1969 (2015); Raymundo Albano: Texts (2017) and Philippine Figurine: Image, Ornament, Art (2026). He co-edited The Modern in Southeast Asian Art: A Reader with T. K. Sabapathy (2022). He was a Guest Scholar of the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles in 2014. He was the Artistic Director of Singapore Biennale 2019 and Curator of the Philippine and Taiwan Pavilions at the Venice Biennale in 2015 and 2022. His work focuses on the art and curatorial history of Southeast Asia and Philippine colonial and modern art history.

Joan Young serves as Senior Director of Curatorial Affairs at the Guggenheim New York where she provides oversight of the curatorial department and organizes exhibitions of postwar and contemporary art. Recent projects include Robert Rauschenberg: Life Can’t Be Stopped (Guggenheim New York, 2025-26), Signs and Objects: Pop Art from the Guggenheim Collection (co-curated with Lauren Hinkson for Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, 2024), and Sensory Poetics: Collecting Abstraction (Guggenheim New York, 2022).