Patrick Flores is Professor of Art Studies at the University of the Philippines and curator of Vargas Museum in Manila. He was Artistic Director of Singapore Biennale 2019 and has been appointed curator of the Taiwan Pavilion for Venice Biennale in 2022. He curated South by Southeast and the Philippine Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2015, co-curated Under Construction: New Dimensions in Asian Art in 2000 and the Gwangju Biennale (Position Papers) in 2008. In 1999, Flores was Visiting Fellow at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and an Asian Public Intellectuals Fellow in 2004. He was a grantee of the Asian Cultural Council, an Advisory Board member of the exhibition The Global Contemporary: Art Worlds after 1989 (2011), member of the Guggenheim Museum’s Asian Art Council (2011 and 2014), and a Guest Scholar of the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles in 2014. Flores has also written, convened and published extensively.