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]
Images of America: Precisionist Painting and Modern Photography1982 · University of Washington Press · book · EnglishISBN 0295959312Published for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
The Art of Joan Brown1998 · California · book · English
The Art of David Ireland: The Way Things Are2003 · University of California Press · book · EnglishCo-authored with Jennifer R. Gross.
Exhibitions
Precisionist Painting and American PhotographySan Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Franciscogroup
References
Karen Tsujimoto. Oral History Transcript. Berkeley Art Museum & Archives link
