Lan Morgan, Assistant Curator

Lan Morgan joined PEM in 2018 and works across the American Decorative Art, South Asian Art and Asian Export collections. She curated or co-curated After Hope: Videos of Resistance; Spirits: Tsherin Sherpa with Robert Beer; and Gu Wenda: United Nations, and served as assistant curator for On This Ground: Being and Belonging in America and the 2020 installation of the South Asian Art gallery. Her work on PEM’s Asian Export Art gallery received the 2020 Exhibition Award from the Association of American Art Curators.

Morgan holds a B.A. in Communication and Art History from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and an M.A. from the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture. She formerly worked as a curatorial fellow at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art and in the European Decorative Arts department at Sotheby’s, New York. Morgan’s research interests include cross-cultural exchange in the decorative arts, New England material culture, and early modern portraiture traditions.