Tong Tong
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Department of Objects Conservation Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Objects Conservation Fellow
New York, NY
Tong Tong specializes in the conservation of Asian art materials and has a special interest in ceramics and wall paintings. She received a Bachelor's Science in Chemistry from University of Missouri-Columbia and a Master of Cultural Material Conservation from The University of Melbourne in Australia. After post-graduate training in a commercial conservation lab in Melbourne, and collaboration work with Chinese conservation institutions, she was awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 2016. Her work at the Met involves advance conservation training and technical studies on the collections of its Asian Art Curatorial Department.