Toby is a first-year PhD Student in Art, Film and Visual Studies. He researches the emergence of time-based media practices in the Global Contemporary, through configurations of the Transpacific and elemental media theory. He is invested in the material conditions of producing and exhibiting time based media, particularly in the processes of attunement to perceptual environments.

Toby holds degrees from the University of Chicago and Nanyang Technological University. He has worked in curatorial and research positions at the David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, KADIST Art Foundation (San Francisco), and the National Gallery Singapore. He has also developed film programs with Southside Projections (Chicago) and the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (Manila). Toby was a Flaherty Seminar Curatorial Fellow (2022) and an inaugural Asia Art Archive in America & PoNJA GenKon Fellow (2021).