Shirley Surya is Curator, Design and Architecture, at M+, Hong Kong. Since 2012, she contributed to building the M+ Collections through her research on design and architectural production across the Mainland and Southeast Asia. At M+, she co-curated Building M+: The Museum & Architecture Collection (2013), In Search of Southeast Asia through the M+ Collections (2018), and M+’s opening exhibitions Hong Kong: Here and Beyond and Things, Spaces, Interactions. She is the co-curator of I. M. Pei’s first institutional retrospective I. M. Pei: Life is Architecture, opening in late June 2024.