Kristen Collins

Kristen Collins

Program

CCL Class of 2020

Institution

J. Paul Getty Museum

Title

Curator, Manuscripts Department

Institution at time of Fellowship

J. Paul Getty Museum

Residency

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Mentor

Timothy Rub, Philadelphia Museum of Art

Kristen Collins is Curator of Manuscripts at the J. Paul Getty Museum. Over the past 17 years, she has curated and supervised more than 20 exhibitions from the permanent collection and co-curated two international loan shows: Holy Image, Hallowed Ground: Icons from Sinai (2006) and Canterbury and St. Albans: Treasures from Church and Cloister (2013). Dedicated to mobilizing historical collections to teach an inclusive and diverse past, she co-curated Outcasts: Prejudice and Persecution in the Middle Ages (2018) and Balthazar: A Black African King in Medieval and Renaissance Art (2019).

Recurring themes in her scholarship are transcultural exchange and resonance and reuse in the material culture of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. In addition to Icons from Sinai, she co-edited and contributed to both The St. Albans Psalter: Painting and Prayer in Medieval England(2013) and St. Albans and the Markyate Psalter: Seeing and Reading in Twelfth-Century England (2017). Other essays appear in British Art Studies (2017) and Toward a Global Middle Ages (2019).

She earned her B.A. from Mount Holyoke College; M.A. from Williams College; and Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin, all in art history.

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