Claire Roberts
Senior Curator
Asian Arts and Design
Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
Claire Roberts is Senior Curator Asian Arts and Design, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney and a Research Fellow with Geremie Barmé's Australian Research Council Federation Fellowship project at The Australian National University.
Claire is a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University for 2009-10.
She has a Master of Arts in Chinese language and art history from the University of Melbourne and a PhD in Chinese history from The Australian National University.
Claire was educated in Melbourne, and studied Chinese at the Beijing Languages Institute and Chinese painting and art history at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, 1978-81.
She has written widely on Asian art and material culture and curated numerous exhibitions. Her publications include Other Histories: Guan Wei's fable for a contemporary world (2008), The Great Wall of China (2006), 'Tradition and modernity: the life and art of Pan Tianshou 1897-1971' in East Asian History 15/16 (1998), Evolution & Revolution: Chinese dress 1700s to 1990s (1997), 'Hedda Morrison's photographs of Peking 1933-46' in East Asian History 4 (1992) and Post Mao Product: New art from China (1992).
Claire was curatorial adviser to the Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, in 1993, 1996 and 1999, and is currently Deputy Chair of the Australia-China Council and a member of the Advisory Board of the Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation.
Current projects include the art of Huang Binhong; photography in China; and the letters of Ian Fairweather.
