Staff Profile

Lillian Wies is a specialist in modern Japanese art history, with a focus on art by women and issues of gender. Her research interests include questions of identity and agency in Japanese painting, prints, ephemera, and photography, and digital tools and research methods. At the Harvard Art Museums, Wies assists with curating the permanent collections galleries of Japanese art and activating and cataloging the modern print collection. Before joining the museums, she was a curatorial research assistant at the National Museum of Asian Art, Washington, D.C., where she conducted research on modern and contemporary Japanese photography by women, as well as for the forthcoming exhibition The Print Generation and a digital interactive on modern Japanese prints. She has previously worked at the Harvard-Yenching Library and held internships and fellowships at the Davis Museum, the Louvre Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.