Curatorial Roundtable | 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 is Senior Director (Curatorial Affairs) at Solomon R. Guggeinheim Museum, New York. She joined the Guggenheim in 1995 and has organised exhibitions by Hugo Boss Prize winners Tacita Dean, Emily Jacir, and Rirkrit Tiravanija, and curated Phoebe Washburn: Regulated Fool’s Milk Meadow, Julie Mehretu: Gray Area, Once Upon a Time: Fantastic Narratives in Contemporary Video, and Gabriel Orozco: Asterisms (co-organized with Nancy Spector) for Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin. She also provided curatorial support for the exhibitions Robert Rauschenberg: A Retrospective; The Hugo Boss Prize 1998; Andreas Slominski; Postmedia: Conceptual Photography in the Guggenheim Museum Collection; Lawrence Weiner: NACH ALLES/AFTER ALL; Matthew Barney: The Cremaster Cycle; Moving Pictures: Contemporary Photography and Video from the Guggenheim Museum Collections; Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated): Art from 1951 to the Present; Douglas Gordon’s The VANITY of Allegory; Marina Abramović: Seven Easy Pieces; All in the present must be transformed: Matthew Barney and Joseph Beuys; theanyspacewhatever; and Intervals: Kitty Kraus. Young earned her BA from the University of Pennsylvania and her MA in art history from the University of Texas at Austin.

Joleen Loh is Curator at National Gallery Singapore. Her research engages with postwar and contemporary art from Singapore and Southeast Asia, focusing on the transnational circulation of art and ideas, gender, and women’s artistic practices. Her recent projects include Fear No Power: Women Imagining Otherwise (2026), Singapore Stories: Pathways and Detours in Art (2024) and Kim Lim: The Space Between. A Retrospective (2024).

Alexis Chen is Assistant Curator at National Gallery Singapore. She is one of the curators for Into the Modern: Impressionism from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2025–2026), and supported the exhibitions Figuring a Scene (2024–2025), Fernando Zóbel: Order is Essential (2025), as well as the travelling exhibition Georgette Chen: At Home in the World held at Shenzhen’s He Xiangning Art Museum (2025). Formerly, she was a cataloguer at Christie’s Singapore. In 2025, her exhibition review of the 11th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art was published on Contemporary Art Issue. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) from Yale-NUS College.