Yohko Watanabe
Vice Director & Curator, Keio Museum Commons
Professor & Curator, Keio University Art Center
Specializing in modern and contemporary art history. She previously worked as a curator at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum and Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo. Since 2006, she has been at the Keio University Art Center curating exhibitions (including the contemporary art series titled “Contemporary Eyes” and “Standing Point”) and organizing events as well as being actively involved in archive projects. She combines archival activities with exhibitions and workshops, such as the “Tokyo Biennale ’70” research project and the Keio architecture project. In recent years, she has become interested in object-based learning (OBL), which she is trying to develop and implement at KeMCo.