about me

Ong Kar Jin is a curator and researcher based in Kuala Lumpur. He is a co-founder of cloud projects, a curatorial and publishing collective focused on the arts and history. Alongside his curatorial work, he has held various roles in the tech and public affairs industries.

He has contributed writings to galleries and publications such as Art & Market, A+ Works of Art, The Back Room KL, CULT Gallery, The Edge, Malaysiakini, and others. His curatorial projects include All the Lands Within the Seas (The Back Room, Kuala Lumpur, 2021), Strategies of Dissent: Works from the Collection of Ng Sek San (+n by Ur-Mu, Kuala Lumpur, 2024, co-curated with Lim Sheau Yun), and Zamboanga Encounters: Where Land and Sea Meet (National Museum of the Philippines, Zamboanga, 2025, co-curated with Felice Noelle Rodriguez).

He is the co-author of Banned in KL, Astro Boy Rides the Wave to Sky Kingdom on a Grasshopper: Malaysia in Fifteen Postcards (2021) with art historian Simon Soon and curator Lim Sheau Yun.

Kar Jin holds a BA in History with distinction from Yale University, specializing in human rights atrocities and ethnic conflict in 20th-century Southeast Asia. His work has been supported by institutions such as the Yale Law School (2015–2017), the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program (2020), the Foundation for Arts Initiatives (2020), Malaysia’s Cultural Economy Development Agency (CENDANA) (2022), and the National Research Council of Korea (2024).