Jo-Lene Ong is a curator with experience across Asia and Europe. Her practice centers on collaboration, research, and long-term projects that reconsider how institutions work with artists and audiences. She develops programs that foreground shared authorship, sustained dialogue and public engagement. Ong was previously Curator at esea contemporary in Manchester and Program Advisor for the 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale. She has co-initiated initiatives such as the CounterArchive Collective, the Unpacking Infrastructure curatorial exchange for the 16th Sharjah Biennial, and the Thinking Ecologically seminar series at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie. Her curatorial work includes projects with Hartwig Art Foundation, Framer Framed, National Visual Art Gallery Malaysia, the National Art Center Tokyo and the Mori Art Museum. From 2020 to 2024, Ong was a theory tutor at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and is an alumna of the De Appel Curatorial Programme (2017–2018).