Kit Brooks

Graduating in 2017 with a PhD from Harvard University, Kit is a specialist in Japanese art history. Their recent projects include the exhibitions Staging the Supernatural: Ghosts and the Theater in Japanese Prints (2024) and Ay-Ō’s Happy Rainbow Hell (2023), the first US museum exhibition dedicated to the psychedelic Japanese Fluxus artist Ay-Ō (b. 1931). Brooks also curated Living Proof: Drawing in Nineteenth Century Japan (2017) at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, MO, and Uncanny Japan: The Art of Yoshitoshi (2015), at Worcester Museum of Art, MA, among others. Prior to their appointment at the Princeton University Art Museum in 2024, Kit was the Japan Foundation Curator of Japanese Art at the National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. Previously, they have held positions at the British Museum, Harvard Art Museums, and the Boston Children’s Museum.

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2016-06-15

CCL Announces Students for 2016 CCL/Mellon Foundation Seminar

Center for Curatorial Leadership Engages Next Generation of Museum Leaders Fifteen Art History Doctoral Students Selected for 2016 CCL/Mellon Foundation Seminar in Curatorial Practice   This year, the Center for Curatorial Leadership (CCL) welcomes its third class of art history doctoral students to the CCL/Mellon Foundation Seminar in Curatorial Practice. The two-week ... Read More >

2016-08-08

Program Highlights | 2016 CCL/Mellon Foundation Seminar

Highlights from the Third Annual CCL/Mellon Foundation Seminar in Curatorial Practice Over the course of two weeks in July, the Center for Curatorial Leadership (CCL) welcomed fifteen art history doctoral students to New York for the CCL/Mellon Foundation Seminar in Curatorial Practice. Now in its third year, the program exposes ... Read More >

2020-01-27

Kit Brooks (CCL/Mellon Seminar 2016) Named Japan Foundation Assistant Curator of Japanese Art at the National Museum of Asian Art

Kit Brooks (CCL/Mellon Seminar 2016) has been named Japan Foundation Assistant Curator of Japanese Art at the National Museum of Asian Art, formerly known as the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery.   Brooks participated in the annual CCL/Mellon Foundation Seminar in Curatorial Practice in 2016 and completed ... Read More >

2021-11-18

Anita Bateman (CCL/Mellon Seminar 2016) named Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Anita Bateman (CCL/Mellon Seminar 2016) has been named Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston! Bateman has held curatorial positions at RISD Museum, the Williams College Museum of Art, and the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke. Some of her exhibitions include, Black Flyyy ... Read More >