Oscar Chan Yik Long works in Helsinki and Hong Kong. His international practice centres on site-specific painting installations and drawing. Working primarily with ink, he creates immersive painted environments referencing East Asian mythology, other esoteric traditions, and various aspects of popular visual culture and art history. Rather than following the conventions of traditional Chinese painting, Chan forges his own visual language and symbolic world. His choice of medium and subject is rooted in intellectual inquiry and spiritual reflection.

Chan has exhibited widely in East Asia and Europe. His most recent solo exhibition was at the Lithuanian National Museum of Art, Vilnius (2025). His book My Body Is a Reincarnated Population was published by Bored Wolves, Krakow (2024).

Melanie Eastburn is Senior Curator of Asian Art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney. She has held curatorial roles at the National Gallery of Australia, National Museum of Cambodia and Sydney’s Powerhouse Museum. Her work spans historical and contemporary Asian art, with a focus on research, international collaboration, and initiatives in provenance research and restitution.

Ueda Chikaho is Director of the Yumoto Koichi Memorial JAPAN YOKAI MUSEUM (Miyoshi Mononoke Museum) in Hiroshima, Japan.

In 2004, Ueda organised the special exhibition, Inou Mononoke-roku and the World of Yokai: Scrolls of Yokai in Miyoshi, at the Hiroshima Prefectural Museum of History and Folklore. Ueda has extensive experience in researching cultural histories in the Chugoku region of Japan including the legendary yokai in Hiroshima as well as the famous mid-Edo period tale Inou Mononoke-roku.

He also collaborated on the exhibition, Yokai: Iconography of the Fantastical. The Night Parade of One Hundred Daemons as the Source of Supernatural Imagery in Japan, held at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid in 2018, which served as a trigger for the subsequent touring exhibition, Yokai Parade: Supernatural Monsters from Japan at Pao Galleries, Hong Kong Arts Centre in 2024.

Sookyung Yoo is a lecturer at the Faculty of Humanities at Kyoto Seika University (KSU) and a member of the International Manga Research Center of KSU, Japan.

Since 2014, she has been involved in various international and domestic projects related to manga research and curation in affiliation with the International Manga Museum, founded by KSU in 2006. Her main research interests are the globalisation and international reception of manga. She is also a freelance manga artist and manga translator. 

Isabella Tam is Curator, Visual Art, at M+. Since joining M+ in 2012, she has focused on Asian art, in particular contemporary Chinese art and Asian photography. Tam was part of the inaugural team that contributed to the building of the museum’s collection of Asian contemporary art and the opening displays.

Ulanda Blair is Curator, Moving Image, at M+. Since joining the museum in 2016, she has helped build its pre-eminent collection of Asian artists’ moving image works while developing exhibitions, commissions, screenings, publications, festivals, and other public programmes. In addition to co-curating the museum’s weekly cinema programme, the annual Asian Avant-Garde Film Festival, moving-image touring programmes, the Art at the Stair screening programme, and the M+ Mediatheque, her projects include new commissions for the M+ Facade by Shahzia Sikander, Yang Fudong, Sarah Morris, Nalini Malani, Ellen Pau, and Moniker. She also curated CRUCIFIED TVs—NOT A PRAYER IN HEAVEN by YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES for the museum’s opening display. Before joining M+, she was Curator at ACMI (the Australian Centre for the Moving Image).