Lead Curator, Design and Architecture
M+
Hong Kong
Ikko Yokoyama is Lead Curator of Design and Architecture at M+, Hong Kong’s museum for visual culture at West Kowloon Cultural District. Before joining M+ in 2016, she was based in Stockholm for over twenty years and was head of exhibitions at Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design. As an independent curator and writer, Yokoyama worked on international exhibitions and projects, and in 2008, she cofounded Editions in Craft, a production platform that encourages collaborations among artists, designers, and craftspeople and worked on the projects mainly in South Africa. Currently, she serves as an executive committee member of the ICAM International Confederation of Architectural Museums, advisory panel of CHAT (Centre for Heritage Arts & Textiles) in Hong Kong, committee member of the Design-DESIGN MUSUEM and expert committee member of the National Center for Art Research, Japan.