You, Yao-Fen

Senior Curator and Head of Product Design and Decorative Arts

Decorative arts; history of dining; history of collecting and provenance research

Acting Director, Asian Pacific American Center 2022 -
Associate Curator of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, Detroit Institute of Arts 2008 - 2018
Theodore Rousseau Post-Doctoral Fellow in European Paintings, The Harvard Art Museums 2004 - 2007

B.A. in Art History, University of California, Berkeley , Art History, High Honors 1991 - 1995
Ph.D. in History of Art, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor , History of Art 1996 - 2005

Article
- You, Yao-Fen. 2019. "Pieter Bruegel the Elder's Wedding Dance: An Iconic Painting Reconsidered." Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts, 93, (1) 12–23. https://doi.org/10.1086/707418. 2019
- You, Yao-Fen. 2017. "The 'infinite variety' of Netherlandish carved altarpieces." Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art / Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek, 67 34–77. https://doi.org/10.1163/22145966-90000792. 2017
Book
- You, Yao-Fen, Hellman, Mimi, and Saska, Hope. 2016. Coffee, Tea, and Chocolate: Consuming the World. Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts & Yale University Press. 2016
Conference Paper
- You, Yao-Fen. 2019. "Paul Coremans, Edgar Richardson and the 1960 Flemish Art Show: A Transatlantic Friendship Forged by a Transatlantic Exhibition." from A Man of Vision: Paul Coremans and the Preservation of Cultural Heritage (Proceedings of the International Symposium Paul Coremans Held in Brussels, 15-17 June 2015). Scientia Artis (15), 158–173. (Brussels) 2013-06-15. Turnhout: Brepols. 2019
- You, Yao-Fen. 2016. "Another Piece of the Rogerian Puzzle: Recent Findings on the Arenberg Lamentation." from Rogier van der Weyden and Spain - Rogier van der Weyden y Espana. 77–87. (Madrid, Spain) 2015-05-05. Madrid: Museo del Prado. 2016