From 2003 to 2004, Yap organised
new media art exhibitions as a curator at the Singapore Art Museum, later joining the institution's acquisitions committee. From 2012 to 2014, Yap was selected for a residency at the
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum as part of the
Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative. 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. She also presented the exhibition
Nam June Paik: The Future is Now as Senior Curator of
National Gallery Singapore, a collaborating partner of the touring exhibition with
Tate Modern and
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. 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. In 2024, Yap curated the exhibition
Yee I-Lann: Mansau-Ansau and edited
On the Mat with Yee I-Lann (Singapore: Singapore Art Museum, 2024) which received Honorable Mention at the DNA Paris Design Awards and Creative Communication Award (C2A) 2025. In 2025, Yap and Kathleen Ditzig co-curated the exhibition
Heman Chong: This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.. The publication
Haegue Yang: The Cone of Concern (De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde Inc. and Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MCAD) Manila) where she contributed an essay
The Motion of Emotion was awarded the Alfonso T. Ongpin Prize for Best Book on Art at the 43rd National Book Awards (Philippines). ==References==