DENVER ART MUSEUM
Hyonjeong Kim Han appointed Joseph de Heer Curator of Asian Art
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Einor Keinan Cervone appointed Associate Curator of Asian Art
Han comes to the DAM from the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, where she served as Department Head and Associate Curator of Korean Art from 2010 through 2021. Previously, she served as Associate Curator and Acting Department Head of Chinese and Korean Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. During her time at the Asian Art Museum, she curated 7 exhibitions, including Likeness and Legacy in Korean Portraiture (2021) and the acclaimed Couture Korea (2017-2018), the first exhibition of Korean clothing and fashion in a US museum. A specialist in East Asian art history, Han has broad experience as an art advisor, researcher, lecturer and art writer/columnist. She holds a BA and MA from Seoul National University, South Korea, and an MA (Honors with Distinction) from University of California, Santa Barbara, where she also completed her Ph.D. coursework.
The DAM has also hired Einor Keinan Cervone as Associate Curator of Asian Art. Cervone took up her position on September 1, 2021, joining the DAM from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, where she served as the Mozhai Foundation Curatorial Fellow in the Department of Chinese and Korean Art. Prior to that she was an Associate in the Department of Anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History working with The Berthold Laufer Collection, as well as a Visiting Scholar at Academica Sinica in Taipei, before receiving her doctorate from Harvard University.
Cervone fosters a broad range of research interests with particular focus on Ming and Qing painting, Asian lacquer, Chinese ceramics, and contemporary ink art. She has taken part in various exhibitions including Where Truth Lies: The Art of Qiu Ying and Ink Dreams: Selections from the Fondation INK Collection. Her exhibition on Asian lacquer is slated to open next year at LACMA.
Cervone received her BA from Israel’s Tel-Aviv University and her PhD in Pre-modern Chinese Art and Literature from Harvard University.
Museum Search & Reference guided the curatorial search that resulted in the placement of both professionals.
