Carrie Cushman

Education

Ph.D., Art History, Columbia University

MA, Art History, Columbia University

BA, Vanderbilt University

Carrie is a curator and educator specializing in the histories of photography and contemporary Japanese art. Prior to joining the Hartford Art School, Carrie was the Linda Wyatt Gruber '66 Curatorial Fellow in Photography at the Davis Museum at Wellesley College. She is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including a Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Grant for the exhibition "Komatsu Hiroko: Creative Destruction," the Chino Kaori Memorial Essay Prize from the Japan Art History Forum, and a Fulbright Graduate Research Fellowship. Carrie has published two exhibition catalogues, Komatsu Hiroko: Creative Destruction (2022) and Going Viral: Photography, Performance, and the Everyday (2020), and her writing appears in scholarly journals, including the Review of Japanese Culture and Society and Verge: Studies in Global Asias.