Indigenous Artists and Creators from the Ancient Americas

Hugo C. Ikehara-Tsukayama is the Harris Family Curator of the Arts of the Americas at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art. Before joining Cornell, he was part of the curatorial team reinstalling the permanent collection of the Arts of the Ancient Americas (2021-2204) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York). Trained as an anthropological archaeologist, Dr. Ikehara-Tsukayama was also Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile between 2018 and 2020, and Lecturer in Archaeology at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú between 2015 and 2018.