| J. Keith Wilson | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Curator |
| Employer | Smithsonian Institution |
| Title | Curator of Ancient Chinese Art |
J. Keith Wilson is an American Asian art curator. He is the Associate Director and curator of Ancient Chinese art at the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. Wilson is the former chief curator of Asian art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).
Wilson obtained his degree in visual arts from Williams College in 1978. He worked as a curator at the Cleveland Museum of Art. He became the curator of Far Eastern art at LACMA in 1996. Wilson became the assistant director and curator of Chinese art at the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in 2006.
References
- ^ Muchnic, Suzanne (23 July 2009). "Vital staffers have been leaving the Los Angeles County Museum of Art". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 12 May 2012.
- "Graduates". Williams Alumni in the Visual Arts. Williams College. Archived from the original on 11 December 2012. Retrieved 12 May 2012.
- Muchnic, Suzanne (7 July 1996). "The Long View Toward the Far East". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 12 May 2012.
- Rosenbaum, Lee (March 5, 2013). "One Man's Search for Ancient China: The Paul Singer Collection". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 26 February 2015.
Further reading
- Work by Wilson
- "Chinese Art Now at the Freer and Sackler." Arts in Asia. 41.5 (2011): 135-47.
- with Michael Flecker. "Dating the Belitung Shipwreck." Shipwrecked: Tang Treasures and Monsoon Winds. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press (2010): 35-37.
- "Korean Art Exhibitions in the U.S." Exhibiting Korean Art. Seoul: National Museum of Korea (2007).
- with Daisy Yiyou Wang. "The Early-Twentieth-Century 'Discovery' of the Xiangtangshan Caves." Echoes of the Past: The Buddhist Cave Temples of XiangtangshanChicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010: 104–129.