Alice Y. Tseng
Exhibit Curator
Dr. Alice Y. Tseng specializes in the art and architecture of Japan, with particular focus on the 19th and 20th centuries. Her research interests are the history of institutional buildings, collections, exhibitions; transnational and transcultural connections between Japan and Euro-America; and the role of the visual arts in cultural transformation, invention, and revival.
She is the author of the following books: The Imperial Museums of Japan: Architecture and the Art of the Nation (University of Washington Press, 2008), Kyoto Visual Culture in the Early Edo and Meiji Periods: The Arts of Reinvention (co-edited with Morgan Pitelka, Routledge, 2016), and Modern Kyoto: Building for Ceremony and Commemoration, 1868-1940 (University of Hawai`i Press, 2018).
Titles
- Exhibit Curator
- Professor of Japanese Art and Architecture, Boston University
Education
PhD, Harvard University
MA, Harvard University
BA, Columbia University