Alice, Nien-pu, Ko
Alice Nien-pu Ko is a curator and writer based in New York whose practice explores how time-based media, contemporary myth, and disrupted archives shape historical memory, perception, and perspective of human consciousness through the possibility of contemporary art. Working across moving images, sound, and ritual, her curatorial practices foreground narrative entanglements that move between local cosmologies and global structures, rethinking the afterlives of history through experimental and alternative aesthetics.
Since 2013, Ko has curated exhibitions and public programs at museums, biennials, and independent platforms across Asia, Europe, and North America. Since 2013, she has curated exhibitions and public programs at museums, biennials, and independent institutions across Asia, Europe, and North America. Recent projects include Remote Viewing (MoNTUE, Taipei, 2026), Tony Oursler: Tech/Gnosis-Magic, Media, Art (Tokyo Node, 2026, co-curator), Between Waves (The Brooklyn Rail, 2023–24), and A Dweller on Two Planets (Microscope Gallery, 2023). In 2025, she served as guest curator at Anthology Film Archives, New York, presenting Chen Chieh-jen: Afterimage—Selected Works, 1983–2023.
At the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, she led and co-curated major exhibitions such as Tony Oursler: Black Box (2021), Pan-Austro-Nesian Arts Festival (2021), and SUNSHOWER: Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia 1980s to Now (2019), co-presented with Mori Art Museum. Her solo exhibition, Tomb of the Soul, Temple, Machine and the Self (2018), was nominated for the 17th Taishin Arts Award and presented alongside Nude: Masterpieces from Tate.
Ko has participated in international residencies, including the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) in New York and Tokyo Arts and Space, and collaborated with institutions such as the Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture and the National Culture and Arts Foundation. Her research and editorial work have contributed to cross-cultural dialogues on memory, spectral media, and decolonial aesthetics, with writing that engages artists including Joan Jonas, Dumb Type, Shigeko Kubota, Tony Oursler, Rashid Johnson, Angel Otero, Chen Chieh-jen, Ho Tzu Nyen, and Jane Jin Kaisen.