Education
Graduate student, History of Art, Fall 1999 - Present
Yale University, New Haven, CT
M.A. History of Art, Winter 2001
University Fellowship, 1999 - Present
Richard J. Franke Fellowship, 1999 - 2001
B.A. summa cum laude, Art History, Fall 1996 - Spring 1998
Boston University, Boston, MA
Graduated Summa Cum Laude, 1998
College Prize for Excellence, Art History Department, 1998
Phi Beta Kappa, 1998
President, Art History Association, 1997-98
A. A. honors, liberal arts Fall 1994 - Spring 1996
Howard Community College, Columbia, MD
Graduated with Honors, 1996
Humanities Division Award, 1996
Student Activity Service Award, HCC Times, 1996
Phi Theta Kappa, 1996
Employment
Teaching Assistant, Yale University
Survey of Western Art: Renaissance to the Present, Spring 2003
Survey of Japanese Art, Fall 2002
Modern in the Making: European Art, 1837-1938, Fall 2001
Abstract Expressionism, Spring 2000
Assistant language instructor, August 1998 - July 1999
Chusei Regional Board of Education, Tsu, Japan
Office manager Summer 1997
Boston University, Kobe, Japan
International Management Program, Japan
Gallery intern January - April 1997
Judith Dowling Asian Art, Boston, MA
Publications
"Routes of Influence," exhibition review, Third Text 64 (September 2003).
"Multitude," exhibition review, Zing Magazine 18 (Summer 2003).
"History Lessons," exhibition review, Zing Magazine 17 (Winter 2002).
"1950 nendai, sho to chusho kaiga no sogo eikyo no umu wo megutte: Furanzu Kurain wo chushin toshite (The issue of mutual influences between 1950s calligraphy and abstract painting: the case of Franz Kline)," in Sho no bi (Summer, 1999).
Presentations
"Sasaki Maki Manga," 1960s Tokyo and the Avant-garde panel, New England Regional Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, Harvard University, October 2003.
"Fukuhara Shinzo and the Nature of Photography," Japanese Modern Art panel, Columbia University Graduate Symposium in East Asian Studies, February 2003.
"Fukuhara Shinzo and the Nature of Photography," Taisho Visual and Literary Culture panel, New England Regional Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, Colby College, Maine, November 2002.
"Contemporary Art in Tokyo," guest lecture for seminar Edo to Tokyo, Amherst College, December 2001.
"Mu Xin: Landscapes and Prison Notes," exhibition gallery talks, Yale University Art Gallery, October 2001.
"Line, Action, and Avant-garde Calligraphy," Action and Art panel, University Art Association of Canada, Winnipeg, November 2000.
"Yes: Yoko Ono," exhibition docent tours, Japan Society, New York City, Fall 2000.
"1950 nendai, sho to chusho kaiga no sogo eikyo no umu wo megutte: Furanzu Kurain wo chushin toshite (Mutual influences between 1950s calligraphy and abstract painting: the case of Franz Kline)," presented in Japanese at Sho no bi 10th Anniversary Symposium, Nishinomiya, Japan, November 1998.
Languages
Japanese
Fluency in speaking and reading (7 years residence)
Near-fluency in writing
Mandarin Chinese
One-year study at Yale University
Intermediate Mandarin, Princeton in Beijing, Richard Light Fellow, Summer 2000
Advanced Mandarin, CET Nanjing, Richard Light Fellow, Summer 2002
French
Proficiency in reading