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Alexandra Munroe is a curator and historian of modern and contemporary art from Asia as well as a scholar of world art studies and transnational art history. Munroe organized the first retrospectives in America of several Asian-born artists, including Yayoi Kusama, Yoko Ono, Cai Guo-Qiang, and Lee Ufan. Munroe's survey exhibition ''Japanese Art After 1945: Scream Against the Sky'' (1994–95) initiated the academic and curatorial field of postwar Japanese art history in the United States.〔Cotter, Holland. ''The New York Times''. September 16, 1994. ("Japan’s Avant-garde Makes Its Own Points.” )〕〔Joselit, David. “Artforum.” May, 2013. “Categorical Measures: Exhibiting the Global.”〕 In 2006, Munroe was appointed the Senior Curator of Asian Art at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. It was the first curatorial post of its kind in an international art museum devoted to modern and contemporary art.〔Scarlet Cheng. ''Art Ltd. Magazine''. August 2008. "Pacific Overtures: Influential Curators of Asian Art”. ()〕〔Vogel, Carol. ''The New York Times''. January 20, 2006. "A Titian Travels to Washington / Guggenheim Curator”. ()〕 ==Education and travels== Munroe was born in New York City and raised in Mexico and Japan. She attended Brown University for two years and later received a bachelor of arts in Japanese Language and Culture from Sophia University (上智大学) in Tokyo in 1982. She was awarded a master's degree in art history from the New York University Institute of Fine Arts, and in 2004, a Ph.D. in history from New York University. She studied under Harry Harootunian and wrote her thesis on postwar Japanese art and politics.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Alexandra Munroe Named First Samsung Senior Curator of Asian Art at the Guggenheim )〕 Prior to her academic training, Munroe served as a resident lay disciple at Yotokuin, a subtemple of Daitokuji (大徳寺) monastic compound in Kyoto, a historic center of Rinzai Zen from 1977 to 1980. She practiced chanoyu with masters of the Urasenke (裏千家) school of tea and shimai with a master in the Hōshō (宝生) school of Noh theater. Munroe is fluent in Japanese.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Alexandra Munroe Named First Samsung Senior Curator of Asian Art at the Guggenheim )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alexandra Munroe」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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