Matsutaro Shoriki Chair of the Art of Asia, Oceania and Africa, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Jane Portal holds the Matsutaro Shoriki Chair of the Art of Asia, Oceania and Africa at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Until August 2008, she was curator of the Chinese and Korean Collections at the British Museum. She curated the Korea Foundation Gallery at the British Museum, which opened in 2000, and visited North Korea in 2001 and 2002, where she began collecting contemporary North Korean art for the British Museum.
She is the author of Korea: Art and Archaeology (British Museum Press, 2000), Art Under Control in North Korea (Reaktion Books, 2005), and the co-editor of North Korean Culture and Society with Beth McKillop (British Museum Research Paper No.151, 2004). Portal has coordinated the British Museum's China Strategy and curated the First Emperor loan exhibition from China.
