Biography
Chelsea Foxwell is Professor of Art History, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College at the University of Chicago and co-curator, with Dr. Bradley Bailey, of the exhibition Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan, whose accompanying catalog is available from Yale University Press. Dr. Foxwell’s scholarship ranges from the medieval through modern periods of Japanese art with special emphasis on the 19th and 20th centuries. She is the author of Making Modern Japanese-Style Painting: Kano Hōgai and the Search for Images (2015). In 2012 she co-curated the exhibition Awash in Color: French and Japanese Prints with Anne Leonard at the Smart Museum of Art. Her current book project examines Edo-period paintings and prints.
A member of the Committee on Japanese Studies and the Center for the Art of East Asia, she is a contributor to the Digital Scrolling Paintings and the Reading Kuzushiji projects.
She currently serves as the Director of the Center for East Asian Studies.
