B.A. (Chicago); M.St, D.Phil (Oxon)
姚進莊教授現任文物館館長。他在芝加哥大學取得藝術史學士學位後,於牛津大學完成了博士學位。由2006至2013年,他在西雅圖博物館任中國藝術部主任。作為一位明清至近現代的中國藝術學者,他的著作包括:Writing Modern Chinese Art: Historiographic Explorations(西雅圖:華盛頓大學出版社,2009)及蓋蒂基金會贊助在線圖錄Remembering Days Gone By: Chinese Painting and Calligraphy from the Seattle Art Museum Collection。他曾任教及演講於多間大學,包括華盛頓大學及西雅圖大學。
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1. Gold Muse Award for Online Presence, the American Alliance of Museums, 2014
2. Leadership in Arts Management—J. Paul Getty Foundation, 2011
3. PhD. Fellowship—Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation of International Scholarly Exchange, 2004-2005
4. Somerville Senior Scholar in the Arts and Humanities, University of Oxford, 2003-2005
5. Visiting Scholar, East Asian Library, Princeton University, 2003
6. Best B.A. Thesis in Art History, The University of Chicago, 2000