Beverly Yong, co-founder and director, read English Literature and Art History at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge University (BA, 1995; MA Cantab, 1996) and Asian Art and Archaeology at SOAS, London University (MA, 1996). She was curator (1996-1998) and then partner and managing director (end 1999-2008) of Valentine Willie Fine Art Kuala Lumpur, leaving to co-found RogueArt in 2008.

She has almost thirty years’ experience in the fields of Malaysian, and broader Southeast Asian art, as a writer, curator, gallerist, editor, organiser and consultant, working closely with very many artists, arts co-workers and organisations.

Institutional curatorial projects include: Chang Fee Ming – Mekong (Galeri Petronas, Kuala Lumpur, Chiang Mai University Art Museum and Galeri Nasional, Jakarta, 2004); Wong Hoy Cheong (National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, 2004); Selamat Datang ke Malaysia (Gallery 4A, Sydney, 2007); Between Generations: 50 Years Across Modern Art in Malaysia (Asian Art Museum, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, and Muzium & Galeri Tuanku Fauziah, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, 2007), Chang Yoong Chia: Second Life (National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, 2018), Kok Yew Puah: Portrait of a Malaysian Artist (ILHAM Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, 2021), and Nirmala Dutt: Statements (ILHAM Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, 2023). Curatorial projects with RogueArt include Territories of the Real and Unreal: Photographic practices in contemporary Southeast Asian art (Langgeng Art Foundation, Jogyakarta, 2011), Southeast Asia/Contemporary (Art Space@Helutrans, Singapore, 2013), Thinking of Landscape: Paintings from the Yeap Lam Yang Collection (Institute of Contemporary Art Singapore, 2014), Yee I-Lann & Collaborators: Borneo Heart (Kota Kinabalu, 2021), Borneo Heart in Kuala Lumpur (2023), Not Just in Black and White: Works from the Steve Wong Art Collection (GDP Campus, Kuala Lumpur, 2024), fffluid apparatus: At the intersection of the human, the natural, and the machine (Rumah Tangsi, Kuala Lumpur, for KOFICE, 2024).

Selected editorial projects include: Wong Hoy Cheong: Slight Shifts (with June Yap, NUS Museum, Singapore 2008), WORKING (RogueArt, 2010), Yee I-Lann: Fluid World (with Adeline Ooi, VWFA, 2010), Eko (Space) Nugroho (with Adeline Ooi, Daging Tumbuh, 2011), Today and Tomorrow: Emerging Practices in Malaysian Art (with Adeline Ooi & Rachel Ng, Adaptus, 2013), Condition Report: Shifting Perspectives in Asia (with Furuichi Yasuko, Japan Foundation Asia Center 2018), Imagining New Ecologies (with Furuichi Yasuko, Japan Foundation Asia Center 2019), Yee I-Lann: the sun will rise in the east (RogueArt, 2023). She is also co-editor-in-chief (with Nur Hanim Khairuddin) of the bilingual, four volume Narratives in Malaysian Art publication series (RogueArt, 2012-2019).

She was formerly an art columnist for the Malaysian Business Times and The New Sunday Times (2000-2003), serves as Kuala Lumpur desk editor for ArtAsiaPacific (since 2016), and has contributed to numerous exhibition publications and art and cultural periodicals, locally and internationally. She has served as a judge for the Young Contemporaries Competition, National Art Gallery (2001), the UOB Painting of the Year (2016) and on the jury panel for Anugerah Seni Negara (National Artist Award, 2024). She has been involved in many discussions on local and regional art scenes and practices as a speaker and moderator.

Rachel Ng, co-founder and director, 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. Upon completion of this project, she joined Valentine Willie Fine Art as Manager, leaving to co-found RogueArt in 2008.

Leading on exhibition, project and collection management at RogueArt and previously at VWFA, she has helped put together well over two hundred exhibitions in different kinds of sites in Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and Thailand, and over the years, worked with many art institutions in the Southeast Asian and Asia-Pacific region overseeing transportation and shipping logistics of artworks on major traveling exhibitions. She has also managed and co-ordinated a very wide range of special commissions, research projects, roundtables, talks series and events. She has worked with numerous corporate and private clients, advising on the acquisition, cataloguing, documentation and presentation of their art collections, including, among others, ABN-AMRO Bank, Khazanah Nasional, CIMB Bank, Sime Darby Berhad, Malaysia Airlines and Tenaga Nasional Berhad, as well as major private collections in Malaysia and Singapore.

In 2012, she designed a syllabus on professional practices for visual artists, for the Fine Art Diploma Programme at Dasein Academy of Art, where she has been teaching part-time since, and has been invited to speak at various local colleges 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. She served as a judge on Penang Art District’s annual “Spotlight” competition-exhibition in 2020.

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.

Adeline Ooi, co-founder, stepped down as a director of RogueArt to join Art Basel as Director, Asia, in 2015.