[7] As an independent curator, Yap has further organised shows at the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, Stuttgart, at the Osage Gallery, Hong Kong, and the NUS Museum, Singapore.
[2] In 2011, Yap was curator for the Singapore Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale, featuring The Cloud of Unknowing by Singaporean artist Ho Tzu Nyen, a video installation that drew upon both the titular 14th-century mystical treatise and Hubert Damisch’s semiotic thesis, A Theory of /Cloud/: Toward a History of Painting.
[5] In 2020, Yap co-curated the exhibition They Do Not Understand Each Other, with Yuka Uematsu, National Museum of Art, Osaka, at Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong.
[11] In 2021, Yap curated the exhibition The Gift that was part of Collecting Entanglements and Embodied Histories - a dialogue between the collections of the Singapore Art Museum, Galeri Nasional Indonesia, MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum and Nationalgalerie – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, initiated by the Goethe-Institut - with co-curators Anna-Catharina Gebbers, Grace Samboh and Gridthiya Gaweewong.
[13] Also in 2021, Yap was appointed co-Artistic Director of the seventh edition of the Singapore Biennale opening in 2022, together with Binna Choi from South Korea/the Netherlands, Nida Ghouse from India, living in Germany, and Ala Younis from Jordan.