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Chinese-born American museum director (b. 1963) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jay Xu (Chinese: 许杰; born 1963)[1] is a Chinese-born American art museum director, art historian, and curator.[2] He is the first Chinese-American curator of a major museum in the United States.[3] Xu is the director and CEO of the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, since 2008.[4]
Jay Xu | |
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许杰 | |
Born | 1963 (age 60–61) Shanghai, China |
Alma mater | Shanghai University, Princeton University |
Occupation(s) | Art museum director, art historian, curator |
Jay Xu was born in 1963 in Shanghai, China.[5][6] He attended Shanghai University. Xu work as an assistant to the museum director Ma Chengyuan at the Shanghai Museum.[3] Later, due to work reasons, he came into contact with Robert Bagley, a professor at Princeton University who came to Shanghai for academic exchanges.
He moved to the United States in 1990, to attended a M.A. degree and PhD program at Princeton University.[7] After graduation he worked as a research fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, from 1995 until 1996.[3] Xu worked as the curator of Chinese art at the Seattle Art Museum from 1996 to 2003; and as the head of the Asian art department and chairman of the Department of Asian and Ancient Art at the Art Institute of Chicago from 2003 to 2006.[3][7]
Since June 2008, Xu has served as the director and CEO of the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, succeeding Emily Sano.[3] Under his leadership, the Asian Art Museum avoided a financial crisis,[4] it has grown its collection with more than 2,200 new art acquisitions over the past 15 years, and it has hosted 100 or more museum exhibitions.[3] In 2017, Xu led a fundraising campaign to fund the museum's building renovation and expansion.[8][3][9] In 2020 during the Black Lives Matter protests, the museum under Xu's leadership removed the bust of Avery Brundage, someone accused of being a Nazi sympathizer and a racist.[10][11] During this time the museum also decided to critically examine the provenance of the artwork in the collection.[10]
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