Karen Tsujimoto
author
Karen Tsujimoto is an American art historian and curator. She has held significant curatorial positions at major institutions, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), where she served as assistant curator starting in the early 1980s, and the Oakland Museum of California, where she became a senior curator of art in 1992. Her expertise encompasses American modernism, precisionist painting, and contemporary photography. She has authored several books on notable artists such as Joan Brown and David Ireland, and her work often explores the intersection of historical materialism, Zen thought, and postmodern aesthetics in visual arts.[1]
- Precisionist Painting
- Modern Photography
- American Modernism
- Contemporary Art
Books
Works by Karen Tsujimoto
- 1982 Images of America: Precisionist Painting and Modern Photography Published for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
- 1998 The Art of Joan Brown
- 2003 The Art of David Ireland: The Way Things Are Co-authored with Jennifer R. Gross.
Exhibitions
- Precisionist Painting and American Photography
References
- Karen Tsujimoto. Oral History Transcript. Berkeley Art Museum & Archives link