Carrie Chan is a London-based curator, lecturer and researcher specialising in cross-media storytelling and digital arts practices. She is currently the Contemporary Programme Curator at the V&A Museum, London. She curates and commissions arts projects for Friday Lates, Festivals and other site-specific happenings, installations and displays in the museum.

Through curatorial and research practices, she has explored how technology inspires new approaches to world-building, audience experiences and narration. She is also passionate about how technologies open up new spaces for artists and designers from Asian and other minority background to expand their practice.

She was previously the Curator-in-Residence at FACT Liverpool 2022. She curated the show ‘My Garden, My Sanctuary’ which looks at the remaking of coming-of-age stories through commodified Asian symbols. 

From 2015-18, Carrie was the inaugural curator of Design Society - a major cultural institution in Shenzhen co-founded by China Merchants Shekou and London's V&A Museum.
She curated the opening exhibition Minding the Digital (2017) and co-curated Craft: The Reset (2018). As the senior curator, she also led the department in exhibition curation, public art planning and project collaboration with global brands such as Swarovski, HTC, Lasvit and Philips. The opening exhibition was widely reported by international press such as Financial Times, The Art Newspaper, SCMP and Freize Magazine.  She also edited two publications during her tenure.

She is an advisory panel member and a judge for London's flagship contemporary craft fair Collect 2022. Previously, she was selected by the Institut Francais as one of the Chinese curators to participate in cultural exchange with French museums. In 2018, she was a nominator for London Design Museum's Beazley Design of the Year Award and the awardee of the Design Trust / Royal College of Art Fellowship in Design Curation.