Dr. Kendall Brown named Curator of Exhibitions

Cultural News, January 2008

    Pacific Asia Museum named California State University, Long Beach Associate Professor Kendall Brown as its Curator of Exhibitions, Programs and Collections as of Dec. 3, 2007.

    He received his Ph.D. from  Yale University in 1994 and is a specialist in Japanese art. He has published three books: “Kawase Hasui: The Complete Woodblock Prints” (2004); “Japanese Style Gardens of the Pacific West Coast” (1999) and “The Politics of Reclusion: Painting & Power in Momoyama Japan” (1997).

     He has also written numerous articles and exhibition catalogues and was consulting curator of Japanese art for Pacific Asia Museum from 1995 through his recent appointment.

    His most recent exhibitions have been “Reflections of Beauty Women from Japan’s Floating World” (Pacific Asia Museum, 2006), “The Occupations of Showa Japan: The Woodblock Prints of Wada Sanzo” (Pacific Asia Museum, 2004); and “Prints by the Yoshida Family” (Clark Center for Japanese Art, Hanford, California, 2003).