Patrick D. Flores is a Professor of Art History and Criticism at the Department of Art Studies, University of the Philippines, Quezon City, where he is also the curator of the Jorge B. Vargas Museum. In 2015, he curated the Philippine Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale. Recent publications include “Contemporaneity and Art in Southeast Asia,” a special issue of Third Text (2011), co-edited with Joan Kee, and Past Peripheral: Curation in Southeast Asia (NUS Museum, 2008). He is the Curator of the Taiwan Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2022.