MEDIA
Chiu has made appearances in numerous media outlets. In 2010, Chiu joined the Sunday Arts television show on PBS WNET to conduct a series of interviews with cultural leaders. Interview subjects have included William Kentridge, Shirin Neshat, Tan Dun, and Antony Gormley. Additionally, Chiu has been seen and heard on Charlie Rose, PBS Newshour, WQXR’s Arts File, NPR’s All Things Considered, the Kojo Knamdi Show, the Take Away, TEDx and MSN travel.
Chiu is also a regular speaker at international conferences, symposia, museums and institutions of higher learning such as the Aspen Ideas Festival, MOMA, the Guggenheim Museum, the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Frost Art Museum, the Getty Center, the Aspen Institute, Harvard University, Columbia University, Yale University, the University of Michigan, Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi and the China Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing.
Melissa Chiu was identified as one of the “Most Powerful Women in Washington” by the Washingtonian on it's annual list in 2015, 2017, 2019, 2020, and 2021. In 2021, Chiu was named by ARTnews as one of twenty five curators shaping the art world today.
The Hirshhorn Museum Welcomes new masters, Vanity Fair, March 7, 2018
Meet the Museum director Behind the Hirshhorn’s Kusama Show
Washington Post, 2017
Melissa Chiu on her Plans to make the Hirshorn Great, Forbes, 2016
Melissa Chiu Takes Over at the Hirshhorn Museum, New York Times, October 29, 2014
Our Woman in Washington: Australia’s Melissa Chiu Settles into Role leading the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum, Sydney Morning Herald, December 12, 2014
A Giant Leap for a Curator: Melissa Chiu’s Rise in the Art Scene, The Australian, June 26, 2014
Opening a Door to the Burmese Past, and the Present, too, New York Times, September 1, 2013
Long-Delayed Show of Buddhist Art From Pakistan is Open, New York Times, July 26, 2011
Diplomatic Deliverance, Wall Street Journal, August 11, 2011
Rising from Obscurity: Asian Art Reflects New York Success, New York Times, March 12, 2008
RADIO
Melissa Chiu on Shirin Neshat, WNYC, NPR
TV
Let Yayoi Kusama Take You to Infinity, New York Times, the daily 360
Need to Escape Reality? Step into Infinity With Yayoi Kusama, PBS News hour
Melissa Chiu on Kusama, CBS
This Morning