Doryun Chong and Bruce Hainley on Richard Hawkins

On the last day of our current exhibition The Garden of Loved Ones, we are pleased to convene a conversation between Doryun Chong and Bruce Hainley at 4PM on Saturday, May 24. No RSVP required. Walk-ins welcome.

Doryun Chong is Artistic Director and Chief Curator, M+, Hong Kong. For over a decade, Chong has overseen all curatorial activities and programmes at M+, including collections, exhibitions, learning and public programmes, publications, and digital initiatives across the museum’s three main disciplinary areas of design and architecture, moving image, and visual art. Chong has curated and overseen critically acclaimed exhibitions for M+, including Noguchi for Danh Vo: Counterpoint (2018), (with Mika Yoshistake) Yayoi Kusama: 1945 to Now (2022), and (with François Dareau) Picasso for Asia: A Conversation (2025). He has also helped organize and supervise the five editions of Hong Kong’s participation in the Venice Biennale from 2015 to 2024.

Bruce Hainley is David and Caroline Minter Professor of the Humanities at Rice University. He is also the author, among other books, of Under the Sign of [sic]: Sturtevant’s Volte-Face, Foul Mouth, and Really, No Biggie, and co-wrote with John Waters Art—A Sex Book. He assembled and edited Gary Indiana’s Vile Days: The Village Voice Art Columns 1985-1988 as well as Commie Pinko Guy, a publication that accompanied the first European survey of the work of Larry Johnson. He has curated numerous exhibits at both national and international art institutions, most recently, with Shahryar Nashat, a project for The Renaissance Society, Chicago.