Beverly Yong is a writer, curator and editor based in Kuala Lumpur. Formerly a gallerist, in 2008 she co-founded RogueArt, a partnership specialising in Malaysian and Southeast Asian contemporary art projects and consultancy. She graduated in 1995 from Cambridge University majoring in History of Art and English Literature, and has a Masters in Asian Art and Archaeology from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London University. She has written extensively and edited a number of publications on Malaysian and regional art over the past 25 years including the four-volume publication, Narratives in Malaysian Art (co-editor-in-chief, 2012-2020) and Yee I-Lann: Fluid World (co-editor, 2010). She has worked with Yee I-Lann on a number of exhibitions since the late 1990s, most recently Yee I-Lann & Collaborators: Borneo Heart held in May 2021 at the Sabah International Convention Centre in Kota Kinabalu. RogueArt is currently working on a new monograph for the artist.
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