Zoe Kwok *13 ART
Curator, Educator, Tiger
Nancy and Peter Lee Curator of Asian Art, Princeton University Art Museum
Zoe Kwok oversees Princeton University Art Museum’s collections of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Southeast Asian, South Asian and Central Asian art. Her main field of specialization is Chinese painting from the Tang and Song Dynasties (618-1279 A.D.), particularly paintings of architecture and court women. Her most recent project was the exhibition and publication “The Eternal Feast: Banqueting in Chinese Art from the 10th to the 14th Century” (2019-2020). She also occasionally teaches in the Department of Art and Archaeology, most recently in spring 2025, when she offered an “Introduction to Asian Art” course. She has a B.A. from Wellesley College in art history and history, an A.M. in East Asian Studies from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in Chinese art history from Princeton. Prior to her appointment at the Princeton University Art Museum, Kwok worked at the National Palace Museum in Taiwan, was a Fulbright Fellow in China and taught in the Department of Art and Art History at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.