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Karin Higa was a curator and specialist in Asian American art and was the Senior Curator of Art at the Japanese American National Museum, organizing a number of exhibitions including George Nakashima: Nature, Form & Spirit, Sights Unseen: The Photographic Constructions of Masumi Hayashi, Living in Color: The Art of Hideo Date, Bruce and Norman Yonemoto: Memory, Matter and Modern Romance, and The View from Within: Japanese American Art from the Internment Camps, 1942-1945. She held degrees from Columbia University and UCLA, taught at Mills College, UC Irvine, and Otis College of Art and Design, and lectured extensively on Asian American and contemporary art.
Updated July 2018