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Curator Biographies

Allen Hockley

Allen Hockley is an associate professor of art history at Dartmouth College. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. Hockley’s research and teaching interests include Japanese art, print culture/ukiyo-e and photography. He is author of “The Prints of Isoda Koryusai: Floating World Culture and Its Consumers in Eighteenth-century Japan,” (University of Washington Press, 2002), and many articles on print culture and the history of photography in Japan.

Hockley is curator of “Inside the Floating World: Japanese Prints from the Lenoir C. Wright Collection,” on view at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art from Oct. 8, 2005 to Jan. 8, 2006.

Charles Lachman

Charles Lachman received his Ph.D. in East Asian Studies from the University of Toronto. He taught at York University and Dartmouth College before coming to the University of Oregon, where he is a member of the Department of Art History and curator of Asian art at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. His research and publications focus primarily on Buddhist art and Chinese art theory, and he has curated numerous museum exhibitions, including "The Realm of Revelation: Vision and Imagination in Later Korean Painting" and "Auspicious Wishes in East Asian Art."

Lachman’s current curatorial accomplishments include “Ukiyo-e Outside In: Western Impressions of the Floating World” and the inaugural installations of the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art’s Chinese and Japanese art galleries. “Status and Authority in Imperial China” and “Art and Everyday Life in Japan” open to the public on Oct. 8, 2005.

Contact: Katie Sproles, (541) 346-0942, ksproles@uoregon.edu

Source: Charles Lachman, (541) 346-0974, clachman@uoregon.edu

Link: Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, http://jsma.uoregon.edu

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