Toby Wu

Toby Wu is a writer and PhD Student in the department of Art, Film and Visual Studies at Harvard University. He researches post-Cold War and global contemporary art in the transpacific region through elemental media theory. Toby holds degrees from the University of Chicago and Nanyang Technological University. He has worked in curatorial and research positions at the Harvard-Radcliffe Institute, the David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, KADIST Art Foundation (San Francisco), and the National Gallery Singapore. His writing has been featured in Senses of Cinema, Boston Art Review, and Art & Market. He is the guest editor of “Atmospheres of Violence,” a special issue of Venti Journal (forthcoming 2024). Toby was an inaugural Shigeko Kubota Video Art Foundation Curatorial Fellow (2022–23), an Oberhausen Seminar Fellow (2023), a Flaherty Seminar Curatorial Fellow (2022), and an inaugural Asia Art Archive in America & PoNJA GenKon Fellow (2021).