Akiko Takesue

Akiko Takesue is Bishop White Committee Associate Curator of Japanese Art & Culture at the Royal Ontario Museum, where she is responsible for researching and developing the museum’s Japanese collection of 10,000 objects. Her major research interest lies in the reception and representation of Japanese art outside Japan from the nineteenth century to today, and how the historical discrepancies in the ideas of “Japanese art” among different places have been carried on until today. She is also interested in the processes where the object’s meaning and value shift as they move through space and time, and the agencies that are involved in such processes. In addition to the ROM, she had wide curatorial experience at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.