Lesley Wei-chung Ma

Lesley Ma Wei-chung (; born 1980) is a Taiwanese-American art historian and curator. She is the Ming Chu Hsu and Daniel Xu Associate Curator of Asian Art in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Early life and education Ma was born in the United States in 1980 to a prominent Taiwanese political family. She is the eldest daughter of former Taiwanese president Ma Ying-jeou and his wife, Christine Chow Ma. She was raised in Taipei, Taiwan, before returning to the U.S. for college. She then obtained a Master of Arts (M.A.) in museology from New York University in 2005 and earned her Ph.D. in art history, theory, and criticism from the University of California, San Diego, in 2016.

Career From 2005 to 2009, Ma was project director at the studio of artist Cai Guo-Qiang in New York. From 2009 to 2012, she was a teaching assistant in the visual arts department at the University of California, San Diego. From 2011 to 2012, she served as curatorial coordinator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

After serving as a researcher at the Asia Art Archive in Hong Kong from 2012 to 2013, she joined M+, Hong Kong's museum of visual culture, as founding Curator of Ink Art in 2013. a former classmate at Harvard College, in 2012. Tsai is a Taiwanese-American former fashion model. He graduated from Harvard with a degree in finance and worked as a banker in Germany. Their marriage took place in New York City.

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