UMass Boston

History of Japanese, Chinese, and Asian art history, with research focusing on later 19th and early 20th-century Japanese neo-traditional painting in its domestic and international contexts.

PhD, University of Michigan, 1991

• Victoria Weston, ed. Eaglemania: Collecting Japanese Art in Gilded Age America. Boston: McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 2019.
• Victoria Weston, “The Boston College Eagle: Kano Antecedents and Modern Meanings,” Journal of Hawks, Hawking Grounds and Environmental Studies (2019), Kyushu University.
• Victoria Weston, “Sara Bull and Okakura Kakuzō,” in Okakura Tenshin: 150th Anniversary Okakura Tenshin Retrospective (Japan: Fukui Kenritsu Bijutsukan [Fukui Prefectural Museum of Art], 2013): 200-213.
• Victoria Weston, “What’s in a Name? Rethinking Critical Terms Used to Discuss Mōrōtai,” Review of Japanese Culture and Society, Vol. 24 (December 2012): 116-137.

Victoria Weston is a specialist in how traditional schools of Japanese painting engaged the positions of indigenous versus foreign. Weston focuses on Tokyo painters aligned with the art critic and educator Okakura Kakuzo, including Yokoyama Taikan, Hishida Shunso, and Shimomura Kanzan. These figures traveled and exhibited in Europe and America in the early 1900s; Weston conducts archival research on their activities in the American Northeast. Additionally, Weston is an active curator of exhibitions addressing Japanese art and the West.