Melissa Chiu, Director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, March 11, 2024.  

Chiu took questions from the audience and talked with Jackson Art Center artist, Elizabeth Casquiero in this well attended event at the Jackson Art Center. Chiu also spoke about her journey from Australia to Washington via New York, and her impressions of the Washington art scene.

Chiu was born in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, in 1972 to parents who were medical professionals. Chiu was educated in Sydney, where she completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art History at the University of Western Sydney and then an MA (Arts Administration) at the College of Fine Arts, University of South New Wales. She later completed a PhD at the University of Western Sydney focusing on Chinese contemporary art in the diaspora.