Jay XU
Asian Art Museum of San Francisco (US)
Served as Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco since 2008, and is the first Chinese American Director at a major American art museum. His vision for the Asian Art Museum is to embrace and explore interconnectivity between artistic ideas in Asia and the rest of the world, and between traditional and contemporary art.
Xu obtained his MA and PhD in early Chinese art and archaeology at Princeton University, and has had more than 30 years of extensive international museum experiences as research scholar, curator, and museum director. He has held administrative and curatorial positions at the Shanghai Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Seattle Art Museum and the Art Institute of Chicago. A dedicated, award-winning scholar of Chinese art, Xu is well-published, particularly on ancient Chinese bronzes and archaeology. In 2015, Xu became the first Asian American Museum Director elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
