Zoe S. Kwok

Position
Ph.D., 2013
Role
Asian Art
Bio/Description

Profile

Zoe S. Kwok is Associate Curator of Asian Art at the Princeton University Art Museum. She is a specialist in Chinese painting from the Tang-Yuan dynasties. However, at the museum her work and research span East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and West Asia.

Her most recent project was the exhibition and publication, The Eternal Feast: Banqueting in Chinese Art from the 10th to the 14th Century (2019). She also served as co-curator for Sacred Caves of the Silk Road: Ways of Knowing and Re-creating Dunhuang (2015) and brought two South Asian exhibitions to Princeton in 2016; Epic Tales from India and Contemporary Stories: Revisiting South Asian Narratives. She also curated numerous exhibitions in the museum’s Asian galleries and Prints and Drawings study rooms that included modern and contemporary work as well as photography.

Selected Publications

“The Banquet in Chinese Painting” in Linda Komaroff, Dining with the Sultan (Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum, 2023). Forthcoming

“Untangling the Dragons in Clouds and Mist”, Record of the Princeton University Art Museum, Vol. 79, 2022. Forthcoming

The Eternal Feast: Banqueting in Chinese Art from the 10th to the 14th Century (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019).