Anthony Yung has been working since 2007 as a senior researcher at the Asia Art Archive in Hong Kong where he has participated in and managed important archive projects such as Materials of the Future: Documenting Contemporary Chinese Art from 1980–1990 and the documentary film From Jean-Paul Sartre to Teresa Teng: Cantonese Contemporary Art in the 1980s, of which he was a co-director.

In addition to his work as a researcher, Anthony Yung has curated exhibitions with a younger generation of Chinese and Hong Kong artists. He also co-founded the independent exhibition space Observation Society, located in Guangzhou. His writings about Chinese and Hong Kong art have been published in Yishu, Leap, Contemporary Art and Investment, and artforum.com.cn.