# Adam Chen American Art ![chen_adam](/sites/g/files/omnuum4426/files/styles/hwp_4_5__480x600/public/history-artsarchitecture/files/chen_adam.jpg?itok=36iKG4gd) email Adam Chen is a historian and curator of American art from approximately 1750 to 1850. Taking a global, intercultural approach, his research interests include the artist Benjamin West (1738 - 1820) and his Anglo-American contemporaries, Chinese export paintings, and Indigenous art of the Pacific Northwest Coast. He has curated or co-curated several exhibitions, including “Life and Liberty: The Revolution in American Art” (Tate Britain, 2026-27), “Then as Now: Three Generations of Tlingit Art” (Sitka National Historical Park, 2023), and “Thinking Small: Dutch Art to Scale” (Museum of Fine Arts Boston, 2023-24, Yale University Art Gallery, 2022-23). Other professional experiences include work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Yale Center for British Art, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Adam graduated *summa cum laude* from Yale University, where he received a BA and an MA in the History of Art and was awarded the Warren Memorial High Scholarship Prize. His research on Benjamin West’s role in the transatlantic abolitionist movement also received the Andrus Memorial Prize for the best senior thesis in the History of American Art and the Wrexham Prize for the best senior thesis in the Humanities overall. - ## People [Graduate Students](/people/graduate) - ## G-Year [G3](/year-graduate-study-g-year/g3)