Curator, Chinese and East Asian Art
The Peabody Essex Museum has the highest visitor satisfaction ratings among 75 major museums in the United States, and PEM's curatorial program is a key reason for this success. PEM's curatorial approach emphasizes innovation, crisp execution, and close partnership across departments and with external, leading-edge thinkers in a range of fields. This provides significant opportunities for curators to leverage team resources with reference to current trends and new developments in various fields.
PEM is seeking a new curator who will play a pivotal role in shaping and implementing the museum's go-forward, team-based program in Asian art and its specific manifestation of Chinese and East Asian art and culture. This will be accomplished primarily through innovative exhibitions, interpretation and programming, as well as through strategic enhancement of collections and original research.
The curator must have substantial experience working with institutions with extensive collections of Chinese art and organizing nationally and internationally traveling exhibitions; experience with both historical and contemporary art is preferred; an established network in China and Hong Kong is highly desirable. The successful candidate must have an advanced degree in art history or cultural studies, with a specialty in Chinese art and culture (a Master's degree is required); fluency in English and Chinese (ideally Mandarin) is highly desirable.
For more detailed information and to apply for this position, please contact:
Mark Oppenheim
(415)762-2640 or marko@mOppenheim.com
m/Oppenheim Associates
221 Main Street, Suite 540
San Francisco, CA 94105
