about
Micheal Do is a curator, writer, programmer and broadcaster. Serving as Senior Curator, Contemporary Art of the Sydney Opera House, he has commissioned a series of site specific performance works by artists Cherine Fahd, Lauren Brincat, Angela Goh, James Nguyen, Victoria Pham, Mel O’ Callaghan and Frances Barrett. In 2023, Micheal led the development of Quandamooka artist Megan Cope’s monumental public artwork, ‘Whispers’ to mark the occasion of the Sydney Opera House’s 50th Anniversary.
His past exhibition projects include ‘Primavera: Young Australian Artists’ at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Australia in 2022, ‘Soft Core’, which toured twelve museums and galleries throughout New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland from 2016 – 2019. Other exhibitions include ‘Not Niwe, Not Nieuw, Not Neu’ (2017), ‘Lee Kun Yong: Equal Area’ (2018, co-curated with Mikala Tai), ‘The Invisible Hand’ (2019) for 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art and ‘5X5: The Artist and The Patron’ (2018), a survey of 5 artist/collector relationships for Penrith Regional Gallery & The Lewers Bequest.
Micheal was the 2023 recipient of the Gordon Darling Traveling Curator’s Grant, the 2018 recipient of The Freedman Foundation’s Travelling Scholarship for Curators and the recipient Museums and Galleries NSW Artist and Curator Residency Grant in 2016. His writing appears in publications including Art Collector Australia; Art Monthly, Australasia; Art Review Asia, Artist Profile Magazine, and artists’ catalogues.
Micheal has recently hosted a season of ‘The Art Show’, the flagship arts program on ABC Radio National.
