Yuki Kawakami

Yuki Kawakami. Credit: Zan Wimberley

Yuki Kawakami is a creative producer, educator and programs curator with a background in dance and performance. She works at the Art Gallery of NSW as a programs producer for Creative Learning. In 2019, she was assistant curator of the Art Gallery’s major exhibition Japan supernatural and creative producer of its associated Sydney Festival program, Night parade of 100 goblins. She has previously been chair and co-director of the artist-led space Firstdraft. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Curatorial Practice at Monash University for Past Wrongs Future Choices, an international project aiming to connect local and global stories of racialised uprooting, internment and dispossession of civilians of Japanese descent during the Second World War.