Karina H. Corrigan, Associate Director–Collections, The H.A. Crosby Forbes Curator of Asian Export Art

Karina Corrigan's interests center on the material culture of global connections. She serves as PEM's Associate Director–Collections and The H.A. Crosby Forbes Curator of Asian Export Art. In her curatorial practice she oversees the largest, most comprehensive public collection of art made in China, Japan and South Asia for export to other cultures. In her role as Associate Director–Collections, Corrigan explores new ways to celebrate the museum’s rich and storied collection by spearheading new research; enhancing access through increased documentation, digitization and display; and providing guidance for acquisitions.

Corrigan lectures and publishes on many aspects of Asian Export art and has organized numerous exhibitions at PEM, including Power and Perspective: Early Photography in China; Japanomania! Japanese Art Goes Global; Asia in Amsterdam: The Culture of Luxury in the Golden Age; Golden: Dutch and Flemish Masterworks from the Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Collection; Taj Mahal, the Building of a Legend. She served as the coordinating curator at PEM for Saints, Sinners, Lovers and Fools: 300 Years of Flemish Masterworks.

Corrigan received a B.A. in Art History and Medieval Renaissance Studies from Wellesley College, an M.S. in Historic Preservation from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.A. from the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture. Corrigan received a 2019 Award of Excellence from the Association of Art Museum Curators for her work on PEM’s Asian Export Art gallery.

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