Dr. Melissa Chiu is a renowned international curator, who is currently director of Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. Among Chiu’s many professional accolades, including serving as museum director and senior vice president, Global Art Programs (2001–2014) at Asia Society in New York, she is recognized for realizing landmark exhibitions by Shirin Neshat, Robert Irwin, Yayoi Kusama, Charline von Heyl, Zhang Huan, Yoshitomo Nara and for co-curating One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now (2006–8) and Art and China’s Revolution (2008). Chiu has authored and edited books and catalogues on contemporary art, including Contemporary Art in Asia: A Critical Reader (MIT Press, 2010), and has lectured at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, the Museum of Modern Art, and others.

Dr. Miwako Tezuka is associate director of Reversible Destiny Foundation, a progressive artist foundation in New York established by Arakawa and Madeline Gins. Previously, she held the positions of gallery director of Japan Society (2012–15) and curator of Contemporary Art at Asia Society Museum (2005–12). She has curated numerous exhibitions; on Maya Lin, Robert Indiana, Ikeda Manabu, Tenmyouya Hisashi, teamLab, Mariko Mori, U-Ram Choe, Yang Fudong, Chen Chieh-jen, among many others. She also co-curated, with Melissa Chiu, the ground-breaking exhibition Yoshitomo Nara: Nobody’s Fool (Asia Society Museum, 2010). Tezuka holds a doctorate in postwar Japanese art history from Columbia University, and is co-director of PoNJA-GenKon, a global network of postwar Japanese art scholars and curators.

Drew Kahu‘āina Broderick is an artist, independent curator, and educator from Mōkapu, Kailua, Koʻolaupoko, Oʻahu. Currently, he serves as director of Koa Gallery at Kapiʻolani Community College. Recently, he completed an MA from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College (2019). Previously, he worked in the Hawai‘i-based art collective PARADISE COVE (2015–2018), operated an artist-run venue SPF Projects (2012–2016), and co-founded an annual open-call, thematic exhibition, CONTACT (2014–2019), with community arts organizer Maile Meyer. Collaborative curatorial projects in development include ʻAi Pōhaku and I OLA KANALOA, with Josh Tengan (Assistant Curator HB19), and Revisiting Kealakekua Bay, Reworking the Captain Cook Monument as part of a hui of Hawaiʻi-based artist practitioners.