Selene Yap is a curator at the Singapore Art Museum (SAM). Her curatorial practice takes a situational approach, developing research and exhibitions through close dialogue with artists whose work responds to the contingencies and particularities of place, process, and memory.

At SAM, she has curated solo and joint presentations of artists including Pratchaya Phinthong (2024), Simryn Gill and Charles Lim Yi Yong (2024), Ho Tzu Nyen (2023), and Joo Choon Lin (2023). She was most recently curator of the Singapore Pavilion at the Venice Biennale Arte 2026, presenting Amanda Heng, and co-curator of the Singapore Biennale 2025, pure intention.

Yap has also held research positions at the Future Cities Laboratory and the Singapore University of Technology and Design, and was Visual Art Programme Manager at The Substation from 2016 to 2018.