Dr. Huixian Dong is a curator and art historian.

Shaped by her cross-cultural experience across China, Sweden, and the United States, her curatorial projects have been hosted at multiple national and international venues. She was the curator of the Agnes Smedley project, developing the collection held at the Arizona State University Library into a series of international collaborations: Agnes Smedley: A Revolutionary Life (2020–2022), presented at the Shanghai Museum of Sun Yat-sen's Former Residence, Northwest University in Xi'an, and Peking University together with the Beijing People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries; and Revolutionary Friendship: Agnes Smedley and Lu Xun (2023) at the Beijing Lu Xun Museum. Beyond this long-term project, her curatorial work explores how community, space, time, and perspective shift in an era of global migration. Echoes of Home: A Retrospective Exhibition of Li Tang Community (2023, co-curated with Webson Ji), presented at RIVAA Gallery (Roosevelt Island Visual Art Association) in New York, traced the dialogues within this Asian diaspora art community.

Collaborating with the artist collective MAGESPACE, she curated A Reimagined Episode of Pingjiang (2025) at the Three Shadows Photography Art Centre in Beijing, researching the urbanization and community spaces of the historic district of Pingjiang and theorizing “heterotopia” within heritage sites. Time Lag (2026) at the Sasse Museum of Art in Pomona, California, explores the metaphoric “time lag” within diasporic communities. Her upcoming exhibition, Staging Asia, scheduled to open at the Mulvane Art Museum (2026), will explore the exchange of gazes between Asia, Europe, and the United States.

Dr. Dong's research focuses on global Asian art, emphasizing the equal importance of the global and the local, with particular attention to artists underrepresented in the past and to how they can be better understood in the contemporary contexts. Her writings and criticism have been published regularly in both English- and Chinese-language media, and she contributes to museum exhibition catalogs. She is currently working on her first book project: Silent Her-Story: Chinese Women Artists from 1989 to the Present. Dr. Dong received her MFA and PhD degrees from Arizona State University.