Wing Wa Chan

Biography

Wing Chan is a researcher, editor, translator and writer. She is a research fellow and editor at Afterall Research Centre based in Central Saint Martins, London. Her publications include Making Space: Independent Artist Initiatives in Taiwan since 1988 (foreword co-written with Nicole Wang; Afterall, 2026), How to Pin Down Smoke: ruangrupa since 2000 (co-edited with Arianna Mercado and David Morris; Afterall, 2025) and Precarious Solidarities: Artists for Democracy 1974–77 (co-edited with David Morris; Afterall, 2023).

As an independent researcher, she talks to artists and writers and produces critical writing. As a mediator working collectively with other researchers in the Afterall team, she leads Exhibition Histories research projects, commissions and publishes new writing, facilitates writing workshops, and contributes to collaborative research strategy.