Art History Radio Hour

Yasufumi Nakamori has been Tate Modern’s Senior Curator of International Art (Photography) since 2018. He previously headed the department of photography and new media at the Minneapolis Institute of Art. Before that, he served as curator of photography at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston from 2008 to 2016. In these capacities, he has created ground-breaking exhibitions and related books such as Katsura: Picturing Modernism in Japanese Architecture, Photographs by Ishimoto Yasuhiro (a recipient of the 2011 Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award for Smaller Museums), and For a New World to Come: Experiments in Japanese Art and Photography, 1968-1979. As a noted scholar of Japanese art and architecture, Nakamori has contributed to numerous exhibition catalogues and has taught graduate seminars at Hunter College and Rice University. He is a 2016 fellow of the Getty Leadership Institute, holds a Juris Doctor from the University of Wisconsin, an MA in Contemporary Art from Hunter College, the City University of New York, and a PhD in the History of Art and Visual Studies from Cornell University.