Participant Info

First Name
Rebeca
Last Name
Gómez Morilla
Affiliation
University of Zurich
Website URL
https://uzh.academia.edu/RebecaGomezMorilla
Keywords
East Asian art history, Japanese art history, Korean art history, photography, colonial photography, ethnography, museum, museum studies, Swiss-Japanese relations, Japanese Studies, literature, ukiyo-e, Japanese popular culture, collections, colonialism, imperialism, Korea, Japan, East Asia
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About Me

I am an art historian, with a special focus on East Asian art history. My dissertation analyses Swiss photograph collections on Colonial Korea. Research interests include: Japanese woodblock prints; Japanese and Korean photography; colonial photography; gender and race in photography; East Asian art collections in Switzerland; decolonisation of photography and museums.

Co-curator for the following exhibitions:

“La Geste suspendu”, Musée d’art et d’histoire Genève, 2014-2015

“Entdeckerlust: Burgdorfer in Ostasien”, Museum für Völkerkunde Burgdorf, 2015-2016

“Hiroshige & Kunisada: Faszinierende Farbholzschnitte”, Museum Franz Gertsch, 2014

“Nihon wo yobiyoseru: Japan sammeln”, JICC, 2014

Recent Publications
Media Coverage
Country Focus
East Asia, Japan, Korea, Switzerland
Expertise by Geography
Asia, East Asia, Japan, Korea
Expertise by Chronology
5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Expertise by Topic
Art & Architectural History, Colonialism, Gender, Material Culture, Museums, Race, Sexuality, Technology, Women, World War I, World War II