Frank Feltens is Curator of Japanese Art at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art.
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).