General and Artistic Director, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam
Aric Chen is general and artistic director of the Het Nieuwe Instituut, the Netherlands’ national museum and institute for architecture, design and digital culture.
Born in the U.S., he previously served as professor and founding director of the Curatorial Lab at the College of Design and Innovation at Tongji University in Shanghai, curatorial director of the Design Miami fairs in Miami Beach and Basel, creative director of Beijing Design Week and lead curator for Design and Architecture at Hong Kong’s M+, where he oversaw the formation of the new museum’s design and architecture collection and program.
