Andreas Marks oversees Mia’s renowned collection of Japanese and Korean art. He came to Mia from the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture, in California, where he was the director and chief curator for five years starting in 2008. The collection doubled during his tenure and garnered a global reputation for its singular connoisseurship before coming to Mia, along with Marks, in 2013. He has a PhD from Leiden University in the Netherlands and a master’s degree in East Asian Art History from the University of Bonn, Germany.
With more than 20 years of experience in the field of Japanese art, Marks has curated more than 60 exhibitions at 38 institutions in the world, including the Birmingham Museum of Art; Detroit Institute of Arts; the Honolulu Museum of Art; San Antonio Museum of Art; and the Suntory Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan, some of which have been reviewed in the Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. Marks has lectured at 43 institutions in the U.S., Europe, and Asia, and is an award-winning author of 24 books and countless essays about various aspects of Japanese art. In 2024, he was awarded the commendation of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs for his contributions to the promotion of Japanese culture.