Cross-disciplinary practitioner with a focus on art, cultural heritage, migration, refugees, and humanitarian development. Experienced in exhibition curation, community-based art projects, human rights advocacy, and international NGO work, with field experience across Mongolia, Palestine, Cambodia, Eswatini, and the Netherlands. Founder of Refugee Path and Taiwan Refugee Week, promoting inclusive engagement with forced displacement and global issues in Taiwan. Currently, she is an Affiliated Fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), Universiteit Leiden in the Netherlands, and a researcher at the Taiwan Art Space Alliance (TASA). She is also the author of The Forgotten Heritage in Palestine (2023). Passionate about connecting cultural practice with social justice, displacement narratives, and sustainable development.
2025.06~ Visiting Fellow, International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands
2018.09~ PhD, Program in Cultural Heritage and Arts Renovation Studies, Taipei National University of the Arts, Taiwan
PhD research: Refugee Heritage (textile), Identity and Trauma in Levant area (Lebanon, Syria, Palestine and Jordan) in conflicts across the generations
2019.09~2021.07 MA, Migration and Diaspora Studies, SOAS, University of London
Master thesis, Palestinian Archival Memory at the Table- Cookbooks in diasporic contexts (Merit)
2012.09~2015.04 MA, Graduate Institute of Arts and Humanities Education, Taipei National University of the Arts
Master thesis, The Practice and Reflection of a Participatory Art Project (Marks 91/100)
NGO EXPERIENCE (SELECTED)
2023.06 – Present
Research Lead, Research on the Cultural Sustainability Indicators of Art Residency in Taiwan Taiwan Art Space Alliance (TASA), Taiwan
To develop the indicator of monitoring and evaluating how art in residency impacts the cultural economy and socio-economic development. (MEAL Framework)
Main responsibility is designing the research process and conducting multi-stakeholder focus group discussions, literature review and report.
Lead the strategic development framework workshop.
Research on the mobility during conflict or multiple crises highlights the acceleration of ecological, geopolitical, and socio-economic changes, particularly forced migrant artists.
2024.11 – 2025.01
Portfolio Manager World Vision Taiwan (WVT)
Under the overall supervision of the IPG Head and the direct oversight of the Asia Team Lead:
Manage the portfolio for Bangladesh and Indonesia to ensure optimal utilisation of resources.
Coordinate grant matching and budget allocation in collaboration with various aid sectors, including World Vision Field Offices (WV FO) and other agencies such as WFP, UNICEF, and OCHA.
Ensure the effectiveness of each project and verify its outcomes (DMEL & LEAP Cycle).
Provide marketing support by connecting the needs of vulnerable communities with donors through information sharing.
2024.04 – 2024.09
Country Director, Eswatini Country Office Taiwan Fund for Children and Families (TFCF)
Strategic leadership of FCFs humanitarian, development and nexus work in Eswatini to deliver multi-thematic programming via partners and field implementation, and achieve impact in children's lives.
Lead the development and implementation of the strategic direction and framework of the TFCF Eswatini Country Program.
Responsible for managing the program design, casework team and research group, with an average portfolio of support in-kind, nutrition improvement, resilience building, inclusive education, clean water and community development programs.
Oversee the MEAL team to ensure that a robust monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning (MEAL) system is in place and Knowledge Management.
Lead role in mainstreaming gender and accountability in our programming, including providing technical support to country offices and partners.
Oversee the Advocacy, Campaigns, Communications and Partnerships functions for the country office, ensuring the quality of our media and advocacy work, and expanding our strategic partnerships with the private sector, CSOs or donors.
Lead team of policy making
2020.12 – 2024.09
Specialist, International Development Division Taiwan Fund for Children and Families (TFCF)
Supervise and support overseas development programs for Children, Youth and Families of TFCF Oversea Branches
Develop the strategic framework, indicators and action plans for TFCF international humanitarian action to support the development phase for upscaling
Coordinate the Annual on-the-Job Training Programs of TFCF International Development Division to strengthen staff's technical capacity
Develop Community Resilience Module (CRM), Participatory Development (PD) and Education in Emergency (EiE) Framework (through art or using an Interdisciplinary Model) to implement in the different field contexts
Facilitate Annual Social Engagement and Outreach Program Curating and coordinating the social engagement and outreach programs to share various perspectives and raise the awareness of real life, social issues, and international development works to the public. Also, Networking multiple organisations in different fields focused on social issues and international development.
Grant of ‘NGO Workers job shadowing at INGO overseas (2021.11 - 2022.04), Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Taiwan
o Job Shadowing INGO: Programme Intern of CAM - Programme Implementation, Save the Children International, Cambodia
o Job Shadowing NGO: Samatapheap Khnom Organization (SKO), Cambodia
Coordinate the TFCF International Development Division Annual on-the-Job Training Programs – [2022 Topic / From Community Resilience to Placemaking]
o Technical Capacity Assessment for field staff
o Design training/workshop, i.e. Community Resilience Module (CRM), Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD), Program Design (through Design Thinking), Social enterprise, Evidence-learning x Policy Brief and more.
TFCF International Film Festival – Let’s Live Together 2021.06 – 2021.09
Project Curator / Coordinator, Curating the whole project of film festival - Let's Live together. (https://www.tfcf-taiwan.org/)
2022.03 – 2022.04
Programme Intern of CAM - Programme Implementation
Save the Children Cambodia (SCI)
This is the program for NGO Workers do job shadowing at INGO. The grant is supported by Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Taiwan
Report of Geographic areas for country strategy
- Conduct desk reviews of the country strategy, operational plans, indicators, existing research documents, policies and guidelines that related to Save the Children country strategic focuses
- Develop key questions for discussion and meeting relevant staff and key stakeholders to collect relevant data per indicators and criteria set
- Consolidate data and information and analysis with guidance from the program director, director of SPDI and or head of the evidence and learning unit.
Report of Technical Capacity Assessment for field staff
- Develop key questions following the SCI Technical Competency Framework
2021.07 – 2022.05
Research Lead (Volunteer), Refugee Education for Equal Employment Opportunities (REFEO), UK
In charge of leading the research team on several survey plans of refugees on education and employment to provide analysis reports and relevant suggestions to support the REFEO team to develop and innovate programs for refugees in education and employment in the UK.
REFUGEE ISSUES RELATED EXPERIENCE (SELECTED)
2020 – Present
Co-Founder, Refugee Path & Refugee Week Taiwan
This is an advocacy organisation. Facilitate the series talks and cowriting workshop about the forced migration cases worldwide and aim to build a knowledge-based platform titled 'Forced Migration Database' in Taiwan with workshop participants and contributors from different fields. The project is funded by supported by the National Human Rights Museum, Taiwan (https://www.nhrm.gov.tw/information_373_123134.html).
Co-writing Online Database : https://bit.ly/refugeepath
- Develop the London Refugee Week network in Taiwan, hold exhibitions and workshops
- Refugee Week Taiwan 2023 — Compassion: The Moments in Our Lives (https://reurl.cc/p6q49a)
- Refugee Week Taiwan 2022 — Healing: The Power of Community (https://reurl.cc/qNDNjn)
- Refugee Week Taiwan 2020 — Together: Voices across borders
(https://refugeeweek.org.uk/events/together-voices-across-borders/)
2020.01 – 2020.07
Internship, COUNTERPOINTS ARTS, London, UK
Assisted in the experimental integration project for refugees (https://counterpointsarts.org.uk)
Assist in coordinating art integration programs of refugees and migrants, such as Who Are We Project cooperated with Tate Modern, 2020 London Refugee Week program
Assist in Media Relation program
Develop the London Refugee Week network in Taiwan, hold exhibitions and workshops
2020 Co-Lecturer, London Refugee Week: Together: Voices across borders, Taipei(https://refugeeweek.org.uk/events/together-voices-across-borders/)
2018.05 – 2018.06 Artist & Internship, RIWAQ, Palestine
Developing community planning project, Life Jack (https://www.riwaq.org)
Assist in curating 2018 Qalandiya International Biennale (https://www.facebook.com/QalandiyaInternational/)
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE (SELECTED)
2023.06 – Present
Research Lead Research on the Cultural Sustainability Indicators of Art Residency in Taiwan Taiwan Art Space Alliance (TASA), Taiwan
To develop the indicator of monitoring and evaluating how art in residency impacts the cultural economy and socio-economic development.
Main responsibility is designing the research process and conducting multi-stakeholder focus group discussions, literature review and report.
Lead the strategic development framework workshop.
Research on the mobility of artists during conflict or multiple crises highlights the acceleration of ecological, geopolitical, and socio-economic changes, particularly among forced migrant artists.
2020.08 – 2021.08
Researcher Assistant Humanities across Borders (HaB), International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands (TNUA is a Partner University of IIAS)
Assist in conducting research and writings about Indigo project in Asia and how to transform indigo in different contexts to pedagogy.
2012.09 – 2013.08
Research Assistant Sculpting the Intrinsic Modular Organization of Spontaneous Brain Activity by Art (Research Case Number: NSC 102-2420-H-010-005-MY3), National Science Council (NSC), Taiwan
This is a primary research. Assist in conducting Qualitative and Quantitative research about brain activities affected by art learning process.
2012.10 – 2013.06
Research Assistant, Cultural & Creative Industries Policies Research (Performing Arts), Ministry of Culture, Taiwan
This is a primary research. Assist in conducting Qualitative and Quantitative research about the policy making of performing art in Taiwan
COMMUNITY-BASED / SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT PROJECT (SELECTED)
2014 – 2018
Artist / Participatory Program Coordinator
Anti-Communist Martyr Art Project - Home or House? Taipei National University of the Arts, Taiwan
The community-based engagement art project aims to create new life experiences for Korean War Veterans and seek real-life stories instead of official history
2014
Artist / Researcher
Taoyuan Land Art Festival, Taiwan
Explore Water Alley by Submarine is a community-based engagement art project with K-12 students in the rural area XinWu, Taoyuan, Taiwan and aims to lead participants to re-discover and discuss their homeland. (https://www.cna.com.tw/postwrite/Detail/158176.aspx)
September 2013 – January 2014
Project Coordinator, Project Playtogether 2013, Urban Regeneration Station
Taipei City Urban Regeneration Office, Taiwan
The project is a community planning and urban regeneration project based at one heritage - Lin Family House in Wan Hua, Taipei, Taiwan.
Assist with exhibitions, public engagements, community planning programs preparation and production, also assisting in the construction of each artist, includes developing the pedagogy of local cultures and traditions, the documentary and exhibitions.
ART MANAGEMENT RELATED EXPERIENCE (SELECTED)
2020-2021
Project Producer, BIO:ART SEA:T Project, The New Southbound Art & Culture Exchange Project 新南向海外交流專題計畫, Granted by Ministry of Culture, Taiwan
2015.05~2018.02
Project Manager, Museum of National Taipei University of Education
Coordinate the museum’s exhibition, education programs, publications and Media Relation.
2017 MoNTUE Open Call— Dreamin’ MoNTUE
2017.04.08 – 2017.05.07 Ming-Hwa YEH's The Serene Gallery
2017.05.19 - 2017.06.18 Fangas Nayaw’s masingkiay
MED #161 Touch and Time Open Studio
Episode I ：MED#161 開放工作室 _ 2016/07/30-2017/02/28 (Plaster Cast & Wood)
Episode II ：穿針引線修本書 _ 2017.03.22-2017.08.27 (Plaster Cast & Book)
Episode III：修光補影 2017.09.15-2018.05.27 (Plaster Cast & Film)
Education Program — One Piece Museum education program
2016.03.02-2016.06.30 More Human Than Human / JinHwa junior high school in Taipei City (Plaster Cast : friezes of Parthenon )
2016.04.21-2016.05.31 Distance / ZhongJiao elementary school in New Taipei City (Plaster Cast : Visitation of Cathedral of Chartres)
2014.06~2015.06 Assistant, Condition Report of Guess What? xHardcore Contemporary Art’s Truly a World Treasure, Selected Works from Yageo Foundation Collection 2013 Conservator, Metro Plus- Parthenon Frieze (S36BW-413051511062), Museum of National Taipei University of Education
Executive editor,Exhibition Catalogue L’OUVRE 9, 2017.02
Executive editor, Exhibition Catalogue Yōga: Modern Western Paintings of Japan, 2017,10
2010.07~2011.08
Programmer, Dept. of Education Program, Dept. of AIR, Taipei Culture Foundation
Coordinate public engagement projects and community development from hubs in Artist in Residency Program. In charge of selecting, managing, training, and motivating a team of interns and volunteers.
2021-2023 Grant of Education Programs of Human Rights, Refugee Path Project, National Human Rights Museum, Taiwan
2021, Grant of NGOs worker shadowing in INGOs overseas program, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Taiwan
2020, Grant of The New Southbound Art & Culture Exchange Project 新南向海外交流專題計畫 (BIO:ART SEA:T Project), Ministry of Culture, Taiwan
2019 Visual Art Project - Publication, National Culture and Arts Foundation, Taiwan
Publication - The Forgotten Refugee Heritage in Palestine, Refugee Path, 2023
2018 6th Arts Travel Project (Those forgotten memories in conflicts of Palestine), National Culture and Arts Foundation, Taiwan
2013~2015 Artist, 435 Art Zone, New Taipei City, Taiwan
ART PROJECT/ SOLO EXHIBITION
2020 Co-curator, London Refugee Week: Together: Voices across borders, Taipei, Taiwan
2018 Artist, Is/In-Land: Mongolian - Taiwanese Contemporary Art, Taiwan Exchange Project, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taiepi/ 976 Art Gallery, Mongolia, Taiwan
2015 Artist, Artificial Odor, Taipei Free Art Fair, Taipei,Taiwan
2015 Artist, Artificial Odor, On Site, Taipei, Taiwan
2015 Artist, Stranger, 435 art Zone, Taipei, Taiwan
2014 Artist,Explore water alley by submarine 乘著潛水艇探險水巷去, Participatory Art Project in XinWu（新屋藝家人）, Taoyuan, Taiwan
2014 Artist, Artificial Odor, 435 art Zone, Taipei, Taiwan
2014 Artist, Bodily Folds: A Cross-generational Artistic Practice, 435 art Zone, Taipei, Taiwan
2014 Artist, 理水路, 435 art Zone, Taipei, Taiwan
LECTURE & WORKSHOP (SELECTED)
2025 Roundtable Participant, Humanities Across Borders: Indigo Dialogues, Africa-Asia, A New Axis of Knowledge 3, a Conference-Festival, Dakar, Senegal
2020 Co-Lecturer, London Refugee Week: Together: Voices across borders, Taipei, Taiwan
2020 Host, Scorched Refugees: Where is my home, Taiwan Association for Human Rights, Taipei, Taiwan
2020 Host, Elderly Cultural Rights, Taiwan Art Space Alliance, TASA, Changhua, Taiwan
2018~2019 Lecturer, Palestinian Food in Conflicts, Taipei, Taitung & Changhua, Taiwan
2012 Teaching Assistant, Group of Taipei's Qing Guang Market (Sunny Market), Taipei Community Develop Planner Program, Taiwan
2014 Lecturer,_ Voice Maker Workshop_, 2014 Yilan International Children’s Folklore & Folkgame Festival, YiLan, Taiwan
CHU, Hsiao-Chi (2025.06). The Cracks in Memory: Past Disquiet, Curatorial Actions, and Incomplete Stories. Artco Monthly & Investment, Retrieved from https://artouch.com/art-views/content-181345.html
H (2023, 10). On the Ground in Jerusalem: An Overwhelming Maze of Borders and Walls That Divide Everything. Initium Media. Retrieved from https://theinitium.com/article/20231009-international-jerusalem-live-report
CHU, Hsiao-Chi (2022), Participatory Intervention Reverse the Living Space of Forcibly Displaced People, 2022.07, Artco Monthly & Investment, Vol.358, pp.72-75
CHU, Hsiao-Chi (2021), Palestinian Homeland and Struggle in Arts, 2021.08, Artco Monthly & Investment, Vol.347, pp.100-103
CHU, Hsiao-Chi (2021), Observation Report: New Close Relationship in the (Post) Pandemic Era, From “La Nuit des Idées” to Global Future, https://artouch.com/art-views/review/content-33723.html
CHU, Hsiao-Chi (2021), Embrace the Unknown: Rethinking the Museum, 2021.01, Artco Monthly & Investment, Vol.340, pp.55-59
CHU, Hsiao-Chi (2020), Thoughts on Museum Expansion: Creating Organic Relationship for the Future, 2020.10, Artco Monthly & Investment, Vol.337, pp.114-117
CHU, Hsiao-Chi (2020), 〈穿梭巴勒斯坦餐桌間 The Palestinian Table〉，2020.09 刊載於桃園季刊。
CHU, Hsiao-Chi (2015) ,〈身體的銘刻：「隱／引繪體」創作與實踐〉, published on authors (張中諼等), 起身共舞‧藝醫同行：改變界域的藝術人（p.94-103）。Taipei: Taipei University of the Arts
CHU, Hsiao-Chi (2016),_**〈新瓦屋「水琴窟」國際藝術家邀請展——靜心傾聽土地的聲音〉, **_2016.12 published on art plus Vol. 62，p. 50.
CHU, Hsiao-Chi , 〈眾人的新美術：日本近代洋画畫會的力量〉，2017.10.12 published on The News Lens, https://www.thenewslens.com/article/80391
Co-author, Travel of the World Heritage—Mongolia, Taipei National University of the Arts, 2015
Executive Editor, Exhibition Catalog of L’OUVRE 9, ARTouch, 2017
Executive Editor, Exhibition Catalog of Yōga: Modern Western Paintings of Japan, ARTouch, 2017
Author, Travel of the World Heritage—Walking in Israel and Palestine, Taipei National University of the Arts, 2018
Author, The Forgotten Refugee Heritage in Palestine, Refugee Path, 2023
Mandarin & Taiwanese (Native)
English (Full professional proficiency)
Arabic (Limited working proficiency)
MEAL Framework (Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability & Learning)
Data analysis (POWER BI, SPSS, R, SAS)
2022 Master Class, In Situ Graduate School on Textiles and Dyes, International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden University, Netherlands
2022 Community Resilience Module (CRM) Training, TFCF International Development Division Annual Training, Taiwan (Trainer: GOAL Global)
2021 MEAL DPro: Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning for Development Professionals, Online Training Course, Kaya (Humanitarian Leadership Academy)
2021 Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (CPMS), Online Training Course, The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action
2021 Education in Emergencies (EiE), Online Training Course, Kaya (Humanitarian Leadership Academy)
2020 Sustainable Entrepreneurship Program (SDGs), Impact Hub, Taipei, Taiwan
2011 Youth Development Planner Training, Department of Urban Development, Taipei City Government, Taipei, Taiwan
Migration, Diaspora and Refugee
Humanitarian Aid and Development Action
Anthropology and Sociology
Participatory-Based Approach
Research in anthropology, migration, development, education, arts and culture studies.
Expertise in designing/coordinating people-oriented participatory actions, community development and education programs.
Always maintain a creative and progressive outlook on development works
