Well-known Melbourne curator and arts writer Sophia Cai has is the next director of Canberra Contemporary, formerly Canberra Contemporary Art Space.

She takes up her new role on February 25.

Cai has more than 10 years’ experience curating and working in leadership roles in the arts, with research interests including Asian art histories, the intersections between contemporary art and craft, and art practices rooted in feminist and anti-racist work.

From 2023 to 2024, she was the artistic director of Bus Projects, as well as teaching at the Victorian College of Arts, University of Melbourne and Monash Art Design & Architecture, Monash University.

Her first book Clayful was published by Smith Street Books in 2024.

An ANU first-class honours graduate in in art history and curatorship, receiving the Janet Wilkie Art History Prize for her thesis, she also has a Masters in History of Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London.