Advisor

Dr. Daisy Yiyou Wang is responsible for the museum’s exhibition, research, collection, publication, learning and public engagement programmes. She has served as the Robert N. Shapiro Curator of Chinese and East Asian Art at the Peabody Essex Museum and the Chinese Art Specialist at the Smithsonian’s Freer|Sackler. With Jan Stuart, Wang co-curated the ground-breaking exhibition “Empresses of China’s Forbidden City” and co-edited the publication, which was merited with the Smithsonian Secretary’s Research Prize. This exhibition was amongst the “Top 20 United States Art Exhibitions” and named the “Most Influential International Exhibition from Chinese Museums” in 2019. A specialist of the history of collecting, lacquer and Qing imperial portraiture, Dr. Wang has published internationally. Dr. Wang is a recipient of a Getty Museum Leadership Fellowship, a Smithsonian Post-Doctoral Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Humanities grant. She has acted as Chair for the American Alliance of Museums’ China Programme, the largest annual U.S.-China museum professional exchange programme.