I teach subjects in Asian modernities, gender and sexuality in Asian art, curating in the Undergraduate and Postgraduate program. I am the Undergraduate Curriculum Coordinator in the Art History discipline and I enjoy connecting with students and supporting their learning journey. My own research looks at Southeast Asian art and Chinese diaspora cultures, specialising into women's practice and artistic networks. My writings and projects have variously addressed canonical art histories using decolonial, feminist and digital methodologies.

Research interests

Women artists in Southeast Asia (19^th-Present), biographies and feminist art history
Asian modernities and the professional practice in the arts
Early modern art clubs and associations in British Malaya and the Dutch East Indies
Biennales and cultural politics in contemporary Singapore
Developing and applying digital methods: Mapping and visualising art histories

Teaching and supervision

Current

ARHT3646 - The Asian Modern
ARHT2640 - Contemporary Turns: Asian Art and Exhibitions
ARHT3663 - Gender and Sexuality in Asian Art
ARHT6937 - Exhibiting and Collecting Asian Art
ARHT5902 - Writing for the Art and Museum Sector
ARHT3682 - Art, Cities and Early Modern Worlds
ARHT6936 - Biennales, Triennales and Contemporary Art

Past

ARHT3646 - Modern Art in East Asia
ARHT2640 - Contemporary Asian Art
ARHT2645 - Arts in Imperial China

Research Supervision

Yvonne has supervised a number of award/prize winning Honours theses. Topics of supervised theses in Masters of Curating, honours and PhD include:

Queer performance and collectives in Asia
Women artists and women-centred collectives in Asia
Chinese export art and early modern visuality
Asia-Australian exhibitions and history
Chinese Avant-garde
Contemporary Indonesian art

She is currently accepting students wishing to research on modern and contemporary Asian art.

HDR Supervision

[1] Co-supervisor, Yang Xiaoya, "Avant-Garde/Gone: A critical account of Chinese Contemporary Art, 2012-2022", USYD, completed

[2] Associate supervisor, Gillian Daniel, Nineteenth Century representations of the natural world in the Straits Settlements, ANU, 2023-ongoing

Current projects

[Monograph manuscript in progress] Women artists: Becoming Professional in Singapore, Malaya and Indonesia, 2024
[Essay; under review] “Historicizing Women’s Friendship: Inside Womanifesto Archives”
[Essay; in press] "In search of the Uncontroversial Nude: Liu Kang's Modernist Pursuit in Nanyang", 2023
[Co-editor, Special Issue World Art Journal, forthcoming] Rethinking Primitivisms in the Modern Art of Asia, World Art Journal, 2023
[Co-editor and contributor]The Womanifesto Way (digital publication) in collaboration with the Womanifesto collective
[APP development/Database design] Artists Trajectories Map
[Invited Advisory Committee and Contributor] "The flow of history: Southeast Asian Women Artists", AWARE and AAA, 2023-ongoing
[Research; National Gallery Singapore commission] Research on Lim Boon Ngan
[Translation projects/Editor] Memoirs of Mia Bustam in collaboration with Astrid Reza

Associations

Editorial Committee, Journal of Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia
Co-convenor, Sydney Asian Art Series 2023-2025 [https://www.powerpublications.com.au/saas2023/]
Member, Asian Studies Association of Australia
Member, Sydney Southeast Asia Centre
Member, China Studies Centre, University of Sydney
Member, Art Association of Australia and New Zealand

Awards and honours

Scholarship from Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation and Getty Foundation for Digitalising Art History program "Visualizing Venice: The Biennale and the City" (Duke University and Venice International University), 2015
Australian Postgraduate Award, University of Sydney, 2011-15
Melbourne Undergraduate Scholarship, University of Melbourne, 2001-03
Hokkein Huay Kuan Scholarship, Singapore, 2001
Gold Medal, National Competition, “Singapore 2022” (Graphics Category), National Youth Council, Singapore, 1997
First Prize, National Short Story Competition, National Youth Council, Singapore, 1996

Current research students

Project title	Research student
“Embroidered Exotica:” Chinese Silk Shawls, Fashion, and the Feminine, 1800-1930	Maria KARAGEORGE
A Porous Tibet: Mapping Contemporary Tibetan Art, Identities, and Cross-Cultural Communication inside and outside Tibet	Ruihan MA
The Art and Intellectual History of LEKRA	Asep Topan MULYONO
Itinerant Bodies: Women and Photographic Visualities in Southeast Asia	Jennifer YANG

Selected publications

Awesome Art Indonesia

(National Gallery Singapore, 2020)

Ambitious Alignments: New Histories of Southeast Asian Art, 1945-1990

(Power Publications, 2018)

Retold-Untold Stories: Phaptawan Suwannakudt

(Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, 2016)

Publications

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Edited Books

Whiteman, S., Abdullah, S., Low, Y., Scott, P. (2018). Ambitious Alignments: New Histories of Southeast Asian Art, 1945-1990. Sydney: Power Publications. [More Information]

Book Chapters

Low, Y. (2021). Phaptawan Suwannakudt's 'Akojorn' (1995): Connecting Women. In Brenda Schmahmann (Eds.), Iconic Works of Art by Feminists and Gender Activists: Mistress-Pieces, (pp. 223-235). New York: Routledge. [More Information]
Low, Y. (2019). Painting Malaya professionally: Re-evaluating the Role of Lai Foong Moi and the 'Colony Artists'. In Nur Hanim Khairuddin, Beverly Yong, Yap Sau Bin and Simon Soon (Eds.), Perspectives: Narratives in Malaysian Art Vol 4, (pp. 253-265). Kuala Lumpur: RogueArt.
Scott, P., Low, Y., Abdullah, S., Whiteman, S. (2018). Aligning new histories of Southeast Asian Art. In Stephen H. Whiteman, Sarena Abdullah, Yvonne Low, Phoebe Scott (Eds.), Ambitious Alignments: New Histories of Southeast Asian Art, 1945-1990, (pp. 1-14). Sydney: Power Publications.
Low, Y. (2018). Recovering Women's Subjectivities. In Jenna C Ashton (Eds.), Feminism and Museums: Intervention, Disruption and Change, (pp. 210-245). Edinburgh: MuseumsEtc.
Low, Y. (2017). A "Forgotten" Art World" The Singapore Art Club and its Colonial Women Artists. In Low Sze Wee, Patrick D Flores (Eds.), Charting Thoughts: Essays on Art in Southeast Asia, (pp. 104-119). Singapore: National Gallery Singapore.
Low, Y. (2012). Making Space in Art History: 4 Objects of Art. In Robert Brian Epp and Doris Sabapathy (Eds.), Intersecting Histories: Contemporary Turns in Southeast Asian Art, (pp. 86-105). Singapore: Nanyang Technological University.
Low, Y. (2012). Remembering Nanyang Feng ge'. In Majella Munro (Eds.), Modern Art Asia: Selected Papers Issues 1-8, (pp. 229-260). UK: Enzo Arts and Publishing Ltd. [More Information]

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Journals

Low, Y. (2024). In search of the uncontroversial nude: Liu Kang’s modernist pursuit in Nanyang. World Art, 14(2), 181-208. [More Information]
Low, Y., Scott, P. (2024). Introduction: rethinking primitivisms in the modern art of Southeast Asia. World Art, 14(2), 85-100. [More Information]
Low, Y. (2021). [Editor of translated chapter] Chapter 6: I found myself. Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia, 5(1-2), 339-349. [More Information]
Low, Y., Reza, A. (2021). Interview with Astrid Reza. Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia, 5(1), 351-356. [More Information]
Low, Y. (2021). Introduction: Mia Bustam and Her Memoirs: Speaking for Herself. Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia, 5(1-2), 335-338. [More Information]
Low, Y. (2020). Performing queerness: Singapore's 'Global City for the Arts' and the politics of invisibility. World Art, 10(2-3), 279-299. [More Information]
Low, Y., Nelson, R., Veal, C. (2019). Archives Introduction. Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia, 3(1), 145-146. [More Information]
Low, Y., Nelson, R., Veal, C. (2019). Editorial Introduction: Gender in Southeast Asian Art Histories. Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia, 3(1), 1-11. [More Information]
Low, Y. (2019). Troubling the gaze: The writers and zhiyin of 'Women's art'. Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, 6(1), 97-112. [More Information]
Low, Y. (2018). 'Feminisms and Contemporary Art in Indonesia: Defining Experiences' by Wulan Dirgantoro (review). Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia, 2(2), 227-231. [More Information]
Low, Y. (2015). Becoming professional artists in postwar Singapore and Malaya: Developments in art during a time of political transition. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 46(3), 463-484. [More Information]
Low, Y. (2015). Becoming Professional Artists: Feminisms and the rise of Women-centred Exhibitions in Indonesia. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, 15(2), 210-224. [More Information]
Low, Y. (2015). Re-evaluating (art-) historical ties: The politics of showing Southeast Asian art and culture in Singapore (1963-2013). Seismopolite: Journal of Art and Politics, 13.
Low, Y. (2015). Women Re-modelling Art Worlds: Exhibitions and Projects on Southeast Asian Women Artists (1990-2015). TAASA Review, 24(4), 4-6.
Low, Y. (2011). Book Review: T.K. Sabapathy 'Nyoman Masriadi-Reconfiguring the Body'. Modern Art Asia, (6).
Low, Y. (2011). Positioning Singapore's Contemporary Art. Journal of Maritime Geopolitics and Culture, 2(1&2), 115-137.

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Edited Journals

Low, Y., Scott, P. (2024). Rethinking Primitivisms in the Modern Art of Southeast Asia. World Art, 14(2). [More Information]
Low, Y., Nelson, R., Veal, C. (2019). Special Issue: 'Gender in Southeast Asian Art Histories'. Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia, 3(1). [More Information]

Textual Creative Works

Low, Y. (2024). Becoming Professional: I GAK Murniasih at Galeri Seniwati Bali. The life and art of I Gusti Ayu Kadek Murniasih, (pp. 104 - 111). Singapore, Singapore: Gajah Gallery.
Low, Y. (2024). From Feminism to Digitalism: Empowering women, engendering new stories. AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions, Paris, France: AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions. [More Information]
Low, Y. (2024). Womanifesto: A porous, collective body. Connecting Bodies: Asian Women Artists, 2, (pp. 438 - 442). Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South): National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Seoul, South Korea).
Low, Y., Nelson, R. (2023). Reflections: On Friendships and Beginnings (For Us, For Womanifesto). Womanifesto: Flowing Connections, (pp. 62 - 80). Bangkok, Thailand: Bangkok Art and Cultural Centre Foundation. [More Information]
Low, Y. (2022). Enabling Women's History: Dr Melani's Photo-Archive of Patronage and Friendship. The Indonesian Archive of Dr Melani Setiawan: Essays from artists, curators, collectors and commenta, Melbourne, Australia: Grimwade Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation.
Low, Y. (2020). Awesome Art Indonesia, Singapore, Singapore: National Gallery Singapore. [More Information]
Low, Y., Veal, C. (2016). Retold-Untold Stories: Phaptawan Suwannakudt, (pp. 1 - 57). Rozelle, Australia: Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney. [More Information]
Low, Y. (2016). Foreword. Retold-Untold Stories: Phaptawan Suwannakudt, Rozelle, NSW, Australia: Sydney College of the Arts.
Low, Y. (2016). Interview with Phaptawan Suwannakudt. Retold-Untold Stories: Phaptawan Suwannakudt, (pp. 20 - 31). Rozelle, NSW, Australia: Sydney College of the Arts.
Low, Y. (2012). Ng Joon Kiat. ArtHK 12, Hong Kong, Hong Kong (SAR of China): Osage Gallery.
Low, Y. (2009). Cheo Chai-Hiang: Cash Convertor. The 6th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, (pp. 76 - 77). Brisbane, Australia: Queensland Art Gallery.
Low, Y. (2009). Re-Introducing Ng Yat-Chuan: Right at Home. Right at Home: Drawings and Prints by Ng Yat-Chuan, Singapore, Singapore: National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University.
Low, Y. (2009). Two Letters to Tang Mun Kit. Life, Art, Liberation, Singapore, Singapore: Tang Mun Kit.

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Exhibitions / Events

Suwannakudt, P., Low, Y., Williams, M., Gerakaris, C. (2023). The Womanifesto Way: Sydney Gathers. 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney, Australia: Power Institute and 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art. [More Information]
Low, Y., Veal, C. (2016). Retold-Untold Stories: Phaptawan Suwannakudt. SCA Gallery, Rozelle, Sydney, Australia: SCA Galleries.

Web based exhibition

Low, Y. (2023). Womanifesto Collective. France: AWARE. [More Information]

Magazine / Newspaper Articles

Low, Y. (2012). Don't Sit on Me: Cheo Chai-Hiang. ArtAsiaPacific, Web Review. [More Information]

Reference Works

Low, Y. (2018). Lim, Hak Tai (1893-1963). In Stephen Ross (Eds.), Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism. Routledge. [More Information]
Low, Y. (2016). Chen Li Ying Georgette (1906-1993). In Stephen Ross (Eds.), Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism. Routledge. [More Information]
Low, Y. (2016). Nanyang Style. In Stephen Ross (Eds.), Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism. Routledge. [More Information]

Other

Gaweewong, G., Legaspi-Ramirez, E., Low, Y., Samboh, G. (2023), Talk: 'The Flow of History: Southeast Asian Women Artists'. [More Information]
Low, Y. (2021), "Expanding 'Women's Archive': Womanifesto, Dr Melani and a discourse of Hospitality in Southeast Asian Art History". [More Information]

By Year

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2024

Low, Y. (2024). Becoming Professional: I GAK Murniasih at Galeri Seniwati Bali. The life and art of I Gusti Ayu Kadek Murniasih, (pp. 104 - 111). Singapore, Singapore: Gajah Gallery.
Low, Y. (2024). From Feminism to Digitalism: Empowering women, engendering new stories. AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions, Paris, France: AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions. [More Information]
Low, Y. (2024). In search of the uncontroversial nude: Liu Kang’s modernist pursuit in Nanyang. World Art, 14(2), 181-208. [More Information]
Low, Y., Scott, P. (2024). Introduction: rethinking primitivisms in the modern art of Southeast Asia. World Art, 14(2), 85-100. [More Information]
Low, Y., Scott, P. (2024). Rethinking Primitivisms in the Modern Art of Southeast Asia. World Art, 14(2). [More Information]
Low, Y. (2024). Womanifesto: A porous, collective body. Connecting Bodies: Asian Women Artists, 2, (pp. 438 - 442). Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South): National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Seoul, South Korea).

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2023

Low, Y., Nelson, R. (2023). Reflections: On Friendships and Beginnings (For Us, For Womanifesto). Womanifesto: Flowing Connections, (pp. 62 - 80). Bangkok, Thailand: Bangkok Art and Cultural Centre Foundation. [More Information]
Gaweewong, G., Legaspi-Ramirez, E., Low, Y., Samboh, G. (2023), Talk: 'The Flow of History: Southeast Asian Women Artists'. [More Information]
Suwannakudt, P., Low, Y., Williams, M., Gerakaris, C. (2023). The Womanifesto Way: Sydney Gathers. 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney, Australia: Power Institute and 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art. [More Information]
Low, Y. (2023). Womanifesto Collective. France: AWARE. [More Information]

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2022

Low, Y. (2022). Enabling Women's History: Dr Melani's Photo-Archive of Patronage and Friendship. The Indonesian Archive of Dr Melani Setiawan: Essays from artists, curators, collectors and commenta, Melbourne, Australia: Grimwade Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation.

2021

Low, Y. (2021), "Expanding 'Women's Archive': Womanifesto, Dr Melani and a discourse of Hospitality in Southeast Asian Art History". [More Information]
Low, Y. (2021). [Editor of translated chapter] Chapter 6: I found myself. Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia, 5(1-2), 339-349. [More Information]
Low, Y., Reza, A. (2021). Interview with Astrid Reza. Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia, 5(1), 351-356. [More Information]
Low, Y. (2021). Introduction: Mia Bustam and Her Memoirs: Speaking for Herself. Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia, 5(1-2), 335-338. [More Information]
Low, Y. (2021). Phaptawan Suwannakudt's 'Akojorn' (1995): Connecting Women. In Brenda Schmahmann (Eds.), Iconic Works of Art by Feminists and Gender Activists: Mistress-Pieces, (pp. 223-235). New York: Routledge. [More Information]

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2020

Low, Y. (2020). Awesome Art Indonesia, Singapore, Singapore: National Gallery Singapore. [More Information]
Low, Y. (2020). Performing queerness: Singapore's 'Global City for the Arts' and the politics of invisibility. World Art, 10(2-3), 279-299. [More Information]

2019

Low, Y., Nelson, R., Veal, C. (2019). Archives Introduction. Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia, 3(1), 145-146. [More Information]
Low, Y., Nelson, R., Veal, C. (2019). Editorial Introduction: Gender in Southeast Asian Art Histories. Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia, 3(1), 1-11. [More Information]
Low, Y. (2019). Painting Malaya professionally: Re-evaluating the Role of Lai Foong Moi and the 'Colony Artists'. In Nur Hanim Khairuddin, Beverly Yong, Yap Sau Bin and Simon Soon (Eds.), Perspectives: Narratives in Malaysian Art Vol 4, (pp. 253-265). Kuala Lumpur: RogueArt.
Low, Y., Nelson, R., Veal, C. (2019). Special Issue: 'Gender in Southeast Asian Art Histories'. Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia, 3(1). [More Information]
Low, Y. (2019). Troubling the gaze: The writers and zhiyin of 'Women's art'. Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, 6(1), 97-112. [More Information]

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2018

Low, Y. (2018). 'Feminisms and Contemporary Art in Indonesia: Defining Experiences' by Wulan Dirgantoro (review). Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia, 2(2), 227-231. [More Information]
Scott, P., Low, Y., Abdullah, S., Whiteman, S. (2018). Aligning new histories of Southeast Asian Art. In Stephen H. Whiteman, Sarena Abdullah, Yvonne Low, Phoebe Scott (Eds.), Ambitious Alignments: New Histories of Southeast Asian Art, 1945-1990, (pp. 1-14). Sydney: Power Publications.
Whiteman, S., Abdullah, S., Low, Y., Scott, P. (2018). Ambitious Alignments: New Histories of Southeast Asian Art, 1945-1990. Sydney: Power Publications. [More Information]
Low, Y. (2018). Lim, Hak Tai (1893-1963). In Stephen Ross (Eds.), Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism. Routledge. [More Information]
Low, Y. (2018). Recovering Women's Subjectivities. In Jenna C Ashton (Eds.), Feminism and Museums: Intervention, Disruption and Change, (pp. 210-245). Edinburgh: MuseumsEtc.

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2017

Low, Y. (2017). A "Forgotten" Art World" The Singapore Art Club and its Colonial Women Artists. In Low Sze Wee, Patrick D Flores (Eds.), Charting Thoughts: Essays on Art in Southeast Asia, (pp. 104-119). Singapore: National Gallery Singapore.

2016

Low, Y., Veal, C. (2016). Retold-Untold Stories: Phaptawan Suwannakudt, (pp. 1 - 57). Rozelle, Australia: Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney. [More Information]
Low, Y. (2016). Chen Li Ying Georgette (1906-1993). In Stephen Ross (Eds.), Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism. Routledge. [More Information]
Low, Y. (2016). Foreword. Retold-Untold Stories: Phaptawan Suwannakudt, Rozelle, NSW, Australia: Sydney College of the Arts.
Low, Y. (2016). Interview with Phaptawan Suwannakudt. Retold-Untold Stories: Phaptawan Suwannakudt, (pp. 20 - 31). Rozelle, NSW, Australia: Sydney College of the Arts.
Low, Y. (2016). Nanyang Style. In Stephen Ross (Eds.), Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism. Routledge. [More Information]
Low, Y., Veal, C. (2016). Retold-Untold Stories: Phaptawan Suwannakudt. SCA Gallery, Rozelle, Sydney, Australia: SCA Galleries.

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2015

Low, Y. (2015). Becoming professional artists in postwar Singapore and Malaya: Developments in art during a time of political transition. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 46(3), 463-484. [More Information]
Low, Y. (2015). Becoming Professional Artists: Feminisms and the rise of Women-centred Exhibitions in Indonesia. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, 15(2), 210-224. [More Information]
Low, Y. (2015). Re-evaluating (art-) historical ties: The politics of showing Southeast Asian art and culture in Singapore (1963-2013). Seismopolite: Journal of Art and Politics, 13.
Low, Y. (2015). Women Re-modelling Art Worlds: Exhibitions and Projects on Southeast Asian Women Artists (1990-2015). TAASA Review, 24(4), 4-6.

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2012

Low, Y. (2012). Don't Sit on Me: Cheo Chai-Hiang. ArtAsiaPacific, Web Review. [More Information]
Low, Y. (2012). Making Space in Art History: 4 Objects of Art. In Robert Brian Epp and Doris Sabapathy (Eds.), Intersecting Histories: Contemporary Turns in Southeast Asian Art, (pp. 86-105). Singapore: Nanyang Technological University.
Low, Y. (2012). Ng Joon Kiat. ArtHK 12, Hong Kong, Hong Kong (SAR of China): Osage Gallery.
Low, Y. (2012). Remembering Nanyang Feng ge'. In Majella Munro (Eds.), Modern Art Asia: Selected Papers Issues 1-8, (pp. 229-260). UK: Enzo Arts and Publishing Ltd. [More Information]

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2011

Low, Y. (2011). Book Review: T.K. Sabapathy 'Nyoman Masriadi-Reconfiguring the Body'. Modern Art Asia, (6).
Low, Y. (2011). Positioning Singapore's Contemporary Art. Journal of Maritime Geopolitics and Culture, 2(1&2), 115-137.

2009

Low, Y. (2009). Cheo Chai-Hiang: Cash Convertor. The 6th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, (pp. 76 - 77). Brisbane, Australia: Queensland Art Gallery.
Low, Y. (2009). Re-Introducing Ng Yat-Chuan: Right at Home. Right at Home: Drawings and Prints by Ng Yat-Chuan, Singapore, Singapore: National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University.
Low, Y. (2009). Two Letters to Tang Mun Kit. Life, Art, Liberation, Singapore, Singapore: Tang Mun Kit.

Selected Grants

2025

Southeast Asian Women in Exile: Re-imagining histories of anti-colonialism, nationalism and feminism, Low Y, Sydney Southeast Asia Centre/SSEAC Incubator Program

2024

Feminist Writings in Southeast Asian Art (circa 1920-2020), Low Y, Sydney Southeast Asia Centre/SSEAC Workshop Grant

2022

The Womanifesto Way, Low Y, Williams M, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences/FASS External Engagement Fund 2022
COVID Kick Start, Low Y, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences/FASS COVID Kick Start Fund 2022

2020

Womanifesto Online Archive, Williams M, Suwwanakudt P, Low Y, Nelson R, Ueareeworakul N, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Federal)/Australia-ASEAN Council (AAC)

2018

Gender in Southeast Asian Art Histories and Visual Cultures: Art, Design and Canon-making, Low Y, Power Institute Foundation for Art and Visual Culture/Department Initiative Fund

2017

SLAM Conference Seed Funding "Gender in Southeast Asian Art Histories 2019", Moore C, Low Y, School of Letters, Art and Media/Conference Seed Funding
Dean's Faculty Conference and Symposia Funding "Gender in Southeast Asian Art Histories 2019", Moore C, Low Y, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences/Conference and Symposia Funding

2016

Gender in Southeast Asian Art Histories, Whiteman S, Veal C, Nelson R, Low Y, Asian Studies Association of Australia/Event Grant

Other funded research

SLAM Research Support Scheme 2022, support and development for project “Women from Elsewhere: Developing Diasporic Frameworks in British Malaya”(A$2852) Yvonne Low and Chiara O'Reilly
SLAM Research Support Scheme, manuscript support and development (A$2759) Yvonne Low
SLAM Mobility and Engagement Fund, “Gender in Southeast Asian Art Histories 2019”, Yvonne Low, Catriona Moore, Roger Nelson, and Clare Veal. (A$2020)
Chulalongkorn University International Research Grant, “Gender in Southeast Asian Art Histories 2019” Yvonne Low, Juthamas Tangsantikul, Roger Nelson, and Clare Veal. (A$6000)
Power Institute Foundation, The University of Sydney. “Gender in Southeast Asian Art Histories 2019” Yvonne Low, Catriona Moore, Roger Nelson, and Clare Veal. (A$4000)

Invited contributor

Speaker and Researcher, Rare Bites: "Export Chinoiserie, Silk, Shawls and Beautiful Things", Fisher Library, 24 August 2023
Invited Panelist, "Academic Pathways Workshop", SSEAC, 15 August 2023
Invited Panelist, “Where is my future? I desire to be seen”, Public program for Dorcas Tang: Love me long time, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, 25 March 2023
Invited Speaker,in conversation with the artist Phaptawan Suwannakudt, at the exhibition, “Knowledge in your hands, eyes and mind: Work in the decade 20042014”, Art Atrim, 24 Sept 2022
Invited Panelist,“Our Grandfather Road: The (gendered) body and place in contemporary Southeast Asian art”, at 16albermarle Gallery, 25 Sept 2022
Invited Speaker/Workshop, Does Art = Activism? Co-hosted by the Sydney Southeast Asia Centre (SSEAC) and The Australian Sociological Association (TASA), 16Albermarle Gallery, Sydney, 29 Nov 2021
National Gallery of Victoria, Invited contributor to online course, “Women in Art & Design”, launched in March 2021
Invited Panellist, “Please Explain: The Rise of New Asia is not the End of the World”, as part of the public program for the exhibitionBy all Estimates, 4A centre for Contemporary Asian Art, 13 April 2019
Invited Speaker, “Women artists in Indonesian Art History” as part ofTermasuk, public program, curated by Lauren Parker and John Cruthers, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, 2 Feb 2019
Invited Panellist, “Fearless women” as part ofFearless: contemporary South Asian art, Art after Hours public program, Art Gallery of New South Wales, October 3, 2018

Conference Convening/Event Organising

Speaker, “Framing ‘Women Artists’ in grand narratives of Chinese art: Exceptional and Unexceptional”, Observations Symposium: Approaches to Researching and Curating Women Artists, National Gallery of Victoria, 23 June 2022.
Speaker, “Home, memory and archive in women’s exhibitions: Reconstructing ‘Asian-Australian’ Feminisms”, in Panel: Ethnicity, Memory and Movement in Asia, 24th Biennial Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA), 5-8 July 2022.
Convenor and Speaker, “Enabling Women’s (Art) History: Womanifesto Online Anthology” in Panel: Rethinking the impact of Women’s Histories in Asian Art and Exhibitions, Art Association of Australia and New Zealand Annual Conference, University of Sydney, Melbourne, Dec 2021
Co-convenor Panel, Rethinking the Primitivism in Southeast Asian art, Art Association of Australia and New Zealand Annual Conference, University of Sydney, Melbourne, Dec 2021
Gender in Southeast Asian Art Histories 2019 (Part I: Art, Design and Canon-making and Part II: Art, Digitality and Canon-making?), jointly supported by University Sydney, and Chulalongkorn University. Held at Chulalongkorn University on 19 April 2019 and part 2 held at University of Sydney on 18 October 2019, Co-convenor with Dr Catriona Moore, Dr Roger Nelson, and Dr Clare Veal; more information
Roundtable, “Womanifesto and the Woman’s archive”, as part of opening event of Archiving Womanifesto exhibition, Cross Art Projects, 19 Oct 2019, Co-organiser
Workshop, “Art, Gender and Digitality in Southeast Asia”, facilitated by Prof Adrian Vickers, as part of the Gender in Southeast Asian Art Histories II: Art, Digitality and Canon-making? pro-gram, 19 Oct 2019, Co-organiser
Exhibition, “Archiving Womanifesto: An international art exchange, 1998-present”, Cross Art Pro-jects, NSW, Co-organiser
Session convenor Panel: Historicizing Networks: The Aesthetics and Social Context of Photography in Asian Art, Art Association of Australia and New Zealand Annual Conference, RMIT, Mel-bourne, Dec 2018
Gender in Southeast Asian Art Histories 2017. University of Sydney, Oct 2017. Co-convenor with Ste-phen Whiteman, Roger Nelson, and Clare Veal
Session convenor Panel: Recovering female subjectivities: Writing history and the Politics of Gender in Southeast Asia, AAS-in-Asia Conference 2016, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan, 24-27 Jun 2016

In the media

ART: An Interview with Cheo Chai Hiang, S/pores, no. 11, 2012

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