Vera Mey

Born in Wellington, New Zealand. Served as Assistant Director of AUT University's ST PAUL St Gallery in Auckland, New Zealand, from 2011 to early 2014 and as Curator, Residencies at the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore from 2014 onwards. Convened the ST PAUL St Gallery 2013 Curatorial Symposium, From a history of exhibitions towards a future of exhibition making, with Biljana Ciric, looking at creating discourse on exhibition histories from an Asian Pacific-centric position. Co-curated The Disappearance (2014) and FIELDS: an itinerant inquiry across the Kingdom of Cambodia (2013). Other curatorial projects at the ST PAUL St Gallery and the Dowse Art Museum include, Local Time: Horotiu (2012), Assembly (2012), and In Spite of Ourselves: Approaching Documentary (2012). For 2015 to 2016, participant of Ambitious Alignments: New Histories of Southeast Asian Art, a Getty Foundation research initiative, and is on the founding editorial committee of the new scholarly journal Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art. Lives in Singapore.