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August 22, 2024

Seattle Art Museum

Rio

Following an international search, Aaron Rio has joined Seattle Art Museum as its new Tateuchi Foundation curator of Japanese and Korean Art. He will oversee the museum's artistic program of Japanese and Korean art, including its collections and exhibitions at all three of SAM's sites (Seattle Art Museum, Seattle Asian Art Museum and Olympic Sculpture Park). However, his role will primarily focus on the Seattle Asian Art Museum, SAM's original home and its current hub for Asian art and culture. Rio succeeds Xiaojin Wu, who served in the position from 2012 to 2022. SAM debuted the renovated and expanded Seattle Asian Art Museum in 2020, which included more and improved exhibition space, more programming space, and the new Atsuhiko and Ina Goodwin Tateuchi Conservation Center, the only studio in the western United States dedicated to the structural conservation of East Asian paintings. Since 2019, Rio has served as associate curator in the Department of Asian Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Rio earned his PhD in Art History from Columbia University.




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