Olivia Chow is the Director of Curatorial Programs at the Chinese Canadian Museum, where she leads the museum’s curatorial vision, including exhibitions, interpretive content, and public programs. Her work centres on fostering dialogue with Chinese Canadian and broader diasporic communities — locally and globally — to explore the layered, intergenerational narratives that shape Chinese Canadian lived and living experiences. She is dedicated to the advancement of Asian diasporic histories, transnational exchange, and artist-led collaboration.  

Prior to joining the museum in 2025, she spent over a decade in Hong Kong, most recently serving as Assistant Curator at M+ (2018–2025), Asia’s global museum of contemporary visual culture. At M+, she curated Trevor Yeung: Courtyard of Attachments, Hong Kong in Venice, Hong Kong’s Collateral Event at the 60th Venice Biennale, as well as its return presentation Trevor Yeung: Courtyard of Detachments at M+. She also collaborated with artists to create exhibitions, publications, and public programmes, including Nalini Malani: Vision in Motion and Shirley Tse: Stakeholders, Hong Kong in Venice, Hong Kong’s presentation at the 58th Venice Biennale. As part of the museum’s visual art team, she contributed to international acquisitions and supported the formation of the inaugural M+ International Council for Visual Art.  

Chow held curatorial roles at Para Site, Hong Kong’s leading contemporary art centre and one of the oldest and most active independent art institutions in Asia (2015–2017), and at The Works Art and Design Festival, one of the largest outdoor festivals in Edmonton featuring emerging and Indigenous Canadian visual artists and designers (2010–2014), reflecting a longstanding commitment to both local and international art communities.  

Born in Canada, Chow returns with a deep commitment to expanding how Chinese Canadian stories are shared, remembered, and reimagined.