BEVERLY YONG Co-founder/Director

Beverly Yong (b. Kuala Lumpur, 1974) graduated from Cambridge University in 1995, reading English Literature and Art History. She went on to gain a Masters degree in Archaeology from the School of Oriental and African Studies at London University the following year.

She joined Valentine Willie Fine Art Kuala Lumpur as Curator shortly after its foundation in 1996. From 1998 to 1999, she worked in the Chinese Department at Christies’ London, returning at the end of 1999 to become a partner and Managing Director of Valentine Willie Fine Art, leaving this post to co-found RogueArt in 2008.

She has over twenty years’ art curatorial and management experience, curating and organising over two hundred exhibitions and projects both locally and in the region. She has worked closely with leading Malaysian artists including Nirmala Dutt Shanmughalingam, Redza Piyadasa, Joseph Tan, Syed Ahmad Jamal, Wong Hoy Cheong, Chang Fee Ming, Jalaini Abu Hassan, and Yee I-Lann, as well as a broad range of artists from across Southeast Asia and beyond, including Putu Sutawijaya, Agus Suwage, the Jendela Group, Geraldine Javier, Natee Utarit, Manit Sriwanichpoom, Tang Da Wu, Lindy Lee and Shaun Gladwell, among many others.

She has served as a curator for a number of major institutional projects, including: Chang Fee Ming – Mekong at Galeri Petronas, Kuala Lumpur, Chiangmai University Art Museum and Galeri Nasional, Jakarta (2004); Wong Hoy Cheong at the National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur (2004); Selamat Datang ke Malaysia at Gallery 4A, Sydney (2007); Between Generations : 50 Years Across Modern Art in Malaysia at Asian Art Museum, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, and Muzium & Galeri Tuanku Fauziah, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang (2007), and most recently Chang Yoong Chia: Second Life at the National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur (2018). Curatorial projects with RogueArt include Territories of the Real and Unreal: Photographic practices in contemporary Southeast Asian art for Langgeng Art Foundation in Jogyakarta (2011), and Thinking of Landscape: Paintings from the Yeap Lam Yang Collection at the Institute of Contemporary Art Singapore (2014), Yee I-Lann & Collaborators “Borneo Heart” (2021).

She has served as a judge for the UOB Painting of the Year (2016) and Young Contemporaries Competition, National Art Gallery (2001). She has been invited to speak on the local and regional art scene by institutions such as Galeri Petronas Kuala Lumpur, Bank Negara Malaysia and IVAA (Indonesian Visual Arts Archive), and has regularly served as moderator for discussions and forums including Imagining New Ecologies: Curators’ Forum at The Japan Foundation, Tokyo (2018).

She was formerly an art columnist for the Malaysian Business Times and The New Sunday Times (2000-2003). As an art writer, she has also contributed to international exhibition publications such as ARS01 (Helsinki 2001), Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale (2005), and Wong Hoy Cheong (UK touring exhibition by Organisation for Visual Arts, 2002-2003); and arts and cultural magazines such as ArtAsiaPacific, Art India, PhotoArtAsia, Off the Edge, and Kakiseni.com. She has edited a number of publications on local and regional art, including Between Generations: 50 Years Across Modern Art in Malaysia (with Hasnul J Saidon, University of Malaya, Universiti Sains Malaysia & Valentine Willie Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur 2008) and Wong Hoy Cheong: Slight Shifts (with June Yap, NUS Museum, Singapore 2008), Condition Report: Shifting Perspectives in Asia (with Furuichi Yasuko, Japan Foundation Asia Center 2018) and Imagining New Ecologies (with Furuichi Yasuko, Japan Foundation Asia Center 2019). Editorial projects with RogueArt include WORKING (2010), Yee I-Lann: Fluid World (2010), Eko (Space) Nugroho (2011), Today and Tomorrow: Emerging Practices in Malaysian Art (2013), and Thinking of Landscape: Paintings from the Yeap Lam Yang Collection. She is also co-editor-in-chief (with Nur Hanim Khairuddin) of the four volume Narratives in Malaysian Art publication project by RogueArt (2009-2019).

RACHEL NG Co-founder/Director

Rachel Ng (b. Kuala Lumpur, 1975) graduated with First Class honours in Arts Management and a Minor in Information Technology from University Sarawak Malaysia in 1999. Upon graduation, she was recruited by Lim Kok Wing Institute of Creative Technology (LICT) to conceptualise and implement the Ideas Bank. By end 1999, upon completion of project, she joined Valentine Willie Fine Art as Manager, leaving to co-found RogueArt in 2008.

Over the years, she has worked with many art institutions in the Southeast Asia and Asia-Pacific region – namely Singapore Art Museum, Galeri Nasional Indonesia, Chulalongkorn University in Thailand, Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery4A in Australia, overseeing transportation and shipping logistics of artworks on major traveling exhibitions.

She has worked with numerous corporate and private clients, advising on the acquisition, cataloguing, documentation and presentation of their respective art collections. Among other major corporate collections, she has worked with CIMB’s, ABN-AMRO Bank’s, Sime Darby Berhad’s, Khazanah’s, and major private art collections in Malaysia.

Rachel has been featured in many articles published by The Star, Nanyang Siang Pao, Nu You magazine, and an education magazine published by GTI Specialist, focusing on the importance of administrators in the arts and the need for art managers to sustain an arts infrastructure.

Rachel has been invited to speak at various local colleges – Universiti Sains Malaysia, In-Tech College of Art, Center for Advanced Design (CENFAD) – on current art developments, intellectual property and copyright for artists, financial management, agreement and contracts, and know-how for artists. In 2018, she was a research fellow for a symposium organised by the Korean Culture & Information Service (KOCIS) in Seoul. Since 2012, she have designed and taught a syllabus on professional practices for visual artists for Fine Art Diploma Programme in Dasein Academy of Art (Kuala Lumpur). She was invited to serve as a judge on Penang Art District’s annual “Spotlight” competition-exhibition in 2020.

ADELINE OOI Co-founder

Adeline Ooi (b. Ipoh, 1976) a curator and arts writer from Malaysia, stepped down as a director of RogueArt to join Art Basel as Director, Asia, in 2015.