Taylor Stewart

Biography

Taylor Chisato Stewart is a Ph.D. student studying art history at the University of Chicago. Her primary area of research is early modern Japanese painting (Edo to early Meiji period), and she is interested in issues of stylistic hybridity, Japanese exported self-identities and art extremities. She received her BA in English and art history at Vassar College, where she wrote her undergraduate thesis on the nihonga painter Kano Hōgai and eccentricity as a framework for artistic identity. Outside of her studies, her writing has appeared in Orientations. She also served as an assistant to contemporary artist Rirkrit Tiravanija in his capacity as art director of Okayama Art Summit 2022.