Dr. Daisy Yiyou WANG
Deputy Director and Chief Curator, Hong Kong Palace Museum
Biography
Dr Daisy Yiyou Wang is responsible for the Hong Kong Palace Museum’s exhibition, research, collection, publication, and learning and engagement programmes. She has served as the Robert N. Shapiro Curator of Chinese and East Asian Art at the Peabody Essex Museum and the Chinese Art Specialist at the Smithsonian’s Freer|Sackler Gallery. With Jan Stuart, Wang co-curated the groundbreaking exhibition “Empresses of China’s Forbidden City” and co-edited the publication, which was supported by a generous grant from the Bei Shan Tang Foundation. The publication received the Smithsonian Secretary’s Research Prize. This exhibition was named the “Best Historical/Thematic Exhibition” by the Boston Globe in 2018 and the “Most Influential Overseas Exhibitions from Chinese Museums” in 2019. A specialist of the history of collecting, lacquer, and Qing imperial portraiture, Dr Wang has published internationally. She is a recipient of a Getty Museum Leadership Fellowship, a Smithsonian Post-Doctoral Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Humanities grant.
