Lesley MA
Lesley Ma joined the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in 2022. In 2024, she curated ‘The Genesis Facade Commission: Lee Bul, Long Tail Halo’ and ‘The Great Hall Commission: Tong Yang-Tze, Dialogue’. From 2013 to 2022, she was the founding Curator, Ink Art at M+, Hong Kong, and curated several collection displays and commissions. Prior to joining M+, she co-curated Great Crescent: Art and Agitation in the 1960s—Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan at Para Site, Hong Kong, which toured to Tokyo and Mexico City (2013–2016). She was formerly Project Director at Cai Guo-Qiang’s studio in New York and Curatorial Coordinator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Ma received the Yishu Award for Critical Writing on Contemporary Chinese Art in 2015. Her PhD in Art History, Theory, and Criticism from the University of California, San Diego, focused on abstract painting in post-war Taiwan.