Jan STUART
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution (US)
Currently the Melvin R. Seiden Curator of Chinese Art at the Smithsonian Institution’s Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, a position she held since 2014 when she rejoined the Museum after having served as Keeper of Asia at the British Museum between 2006 and 2014.
Stuart works broadly on Chinese arts, with special focus on the Song through Qing dynasties, especially in the areas of ceramics, decorative arts, textiles, and court and portrait painting. Her most recent publication for Freer|Sackler exhibition was the Red: Ming Dynasty/Mark Rothko published in the Orientations. Current efforts are devoted to the reopening displays for the Freer Gallery in October 2017 and the planning of the exhibition, China’s Last Empresses: 1644-1912, co-organised with Peabody Essex Museum (Salem, Massachusetts) and the Palace Museum in Beijing for 2018-19.
