Feltens is a specialist in Japanese painting with a focus on the late medieval and early modern periods.
Frank Feltens is Curator of Japanese Art at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art. He holds a Ph.D. in Japanese art history from Columbia University. Feltens is a specialist in Japanese painting with a focus on the late medieval and early modern periods. At NMAA, Feltens has organized a number of exhibitions, including Mind Over Matter: Zen in Medieval Japan (2022), Hokusai: Mad about Painting (2019/2022) and Japan Modern: Prints in the Age of Photography(2018–19). His books include Ogata Kōrin: Art in Early Modern Japan (Yale, 2021) and, with Yukio Lippit, Sesson Shūkei: A Zen Monk-Painter in Medieval Japan (Hirmer, 2021).