Janice Katz

Janice Katz is the Roger L. Weston Curator of Japanese Art at the Art Institute of Chicago. She received her Ph.D. from Princeton University. She has been with the museum for over 20 years where she curates quarterly exhibitions of Japanese prints. Her other research focuses on paintings from the Edo period (1615-1868) and the history of art collecting in Japan. Her special exhibitions and publications include Japanese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (2003), Beyond Golden Clouds: Japanese Screens from the Art Institute of Chicago and the Saint Louis Art Museum (2009), Painting the Floating World: Ukiyo-e Masterpieces from the Weston Collection (2018), and Radical Clay: Contemporary Women Artists from Japan (2023).