Jamie A. Kwan received her B.A. from Stanford University and her Ph.D. in Art History from Princeton University. She was a recipient of the Fulbright Research Grant, the Georges Lurcy Fellowship, the Chateaubriand Fellowship, and the Morgan Library’s Postdoctoral Fellowship.
Jamie has years of experience working with art at museums, galleries, and private collections. She has held positions at the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Getty Research Institute, the Huntington Library, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, and the Musée Rodin, Paris. She is currently an assistant curator at the Wende Museum and a visiting assistant professor at UC Riverside.
Exhibitions & Publications
“(De)Constructing Ideology: the Cultural Revolution and Beyond.” Curator, The Wende Museum, Culver City, California. November, 2022- March 2023.
“Printing the body of the prince: Henri IV and portraiture.” Sixteenth Century Journal. Vol. 53, No.1, Spring 2022.
With Kenric Tam, M.D. “Lam Qua and Peter Parker: Portraiture of Head and Neck Surgery in 19th Century China.” Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, May 2022.
“Chinese Cultural Revolution Ceramics,” Curator, online exhibition. www.culturalrevolutionceramics.com
“Spectacular Mysteries: Renaissance Drawings Revealed,” Co-curator, Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California. December 11, 2018- April 23, 2019.
“Style and identity in the drawings of Léonard Thiry.” In Arts et artistes du Nord à la cour de François I, eds. Laure Fagnart and I.J. Lecocq. Paris: Picard, 2017.
“Wrestling with Demons: Fantasy and Horror in European Prints and Drawings,” Curator, Huntington Library, San Marino, California. August 30- December 15, 2014.
Conferences & Presentations
“‘Revolutionary friendship is as deep as the ocean’: Maoism and Diplomacy'.” The Wende Museum. March 2023.
“Art & Ideology: A Conversation with Artist Zhang Hongtu.” The Wende Museum. January 2023.
“Living the Revolution: Panel with Yongyi Song and Hong Cheng.” The Wende Museum. December 2022.
“At Home with the King: Print and Design from the French Court.” Curated Conversations. The Blanton Museum of Art, Austin. June 2022.
“Rethinking the Renaissance.” Organizer. Renaissance Society of America, Dublin. April 2022.
“Ceramics from the Cultural Revolution.” China3. San Diego State University Chinese Cultural Center, San Diego. December 2021.
“Problems Early French Drawings: Historiography and Methodology.” Study Day for Early French Drawings. The Morgan Library, New York. February 2021.
“Painting the French monarch: Toussaint Dubreuil and Ronsard’s Franciade.” Imaginative Intersections between Writers and Artists in the Seventeenth Century. Renaissance Society of America, Toronto. March 2019.
“Printing across borders: engravers in France under Henri IV.” Art in France: Across Borders and Generations. Renaissance Society of America, New Orleans. March 2018.
“Drawing the Line: Toussaint Dubreuil and the Netherlandish Print.” Dialoguing with the Early Modern Netherlands. College Art Association, Los Angeles. February, 2018.
“A taste for genre: Etienne Delaune and the ‘Months of the Year’.” Whose French Renaissance? Renaissance Society of America, Boston. March, 2016.
“From Flanders to Fontainebleau: style and identity in the drawings of Leonard Thiry.” Francis I and Artists of the North, 1515-1547. Royal Institute of Cultural Heritage, Brussels. February 2016.
“The Hongs of Canton.” Transcultural Approaches. Ashmolean Museum and Oxford University. Oxford, UK. May 2015.
“Reconstructing Memory: Cantonese City Views in Export Painting.” History, Memory and the Urban Future Conference. Shanghai Normal University and Princeton University, Shanghai. August 2014.