Yuki Kawakami is a creative producer, educator and curator with a background in dance and performance. She is currently the Programs Producer, Creative Learning, at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, where she develops experiences that foster critical engagement with art among tertiary audiences.
She was the Assistant Curator for the Gallery’s major exhibition Japan Supernatural (2019) and was the creative producer of its associated Sydney Festival event, Night parade of 100 Goblins. In 2017, she was awarded the Edmund Capon Fellowship, a staff exchange program with leading museums and art centres in Asia.
Beyond institutional spaces, she has advocated for artist-led initiatives, previously serving as Chair and Co-Director of Firstdraft. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Curatorial Practice at Monash University, contributing to Past Wrongs, Future Choices, a global project on the internment, displacement and dispossession of Japanese-descendant communities during the Second World War.