Chief Curator, The Ueno Royal Museum / Lecturer, Joshibi University of Art and Design
Received BA in art history from Ochanomizu University.
Has been working as a curator for the Hakone Open-Air Museum（1988-1997） and the Ueno Royal Museum (1997-).
Exhibitions and projects she curated include Pablo Picasso Exhibitions（1999, 2002, 2003）, “VOCA, The Vision of Contemporary Art”（annually since 2000）, one-person exhibitions of artists selected from “VOCA”——Koki Tanaka, Izumi Kato, Yuken Teruya, Tsuyoshi Higashijima, Eri Takayanagi, etc., “art-Link Ueno-Yanaka” (since 1997), “Le monde de Jean-Paul Gaultier” （2000）, “Sigmar Polke: Alice in Wonderland” (2005), “Makoto Aida and Akira Yamaguchi” (2007), and “Art of our time”（2008）.