J. Keith Wilson

{{short description|American Asian art curator}}

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J. Keith Wilson is an American Asian art curator. He is the Associate Director and curator of Ancient Chinese art at the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. Wilson is the former chief curator of Asian art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).{{cite news|last=Muchnic|first=Suzanne|title=Vital staffers have been leaving the Los Angeles County Museum of Art|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-jul-23-et-lacma-curators23-story.html|access-date=12 May 2012|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=23 July 2009}}

Wilson obtained his degree in visual arts from Williams College in 1978. He worked as a curator at the Cleveland Museum of Art.{{cite web|title=Graduates|url=http://web.williams.edu/home/focus/faison/arts_grads.html|work=Williams Alumni in the Visual Arts|publisher=Williams College|accessdate=12 May 2012|archive-url=https://archive.today/20121211105213/http://web.williams.edu/home/focus/faison/arts_grads.html|archive-date=11 December 2012|url-status=dead}} He became the curator of Far Eastern art at LACMA in 1996.{{cite news|last=Muchnic|first=Suzanne|title=The Long View Toward the Far East|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-07-07-ca-21766-story.html|access-date=12 May 2012|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=7 July 1996}} Wilson became the assistant director and curator of Chinese art at the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in 2006.{{cite web|last1=Rosenbaum|first1=Lee|title=One Man's Search for Ancient China: The Paul Singer Collection|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887323978104578332530058146050|publisher=Wall Street Journal|accessdate=26 February 2015|date=March 5, 2013}}