About: Karin Higa

Karin Higa (June 19, 1966 – October 29, 2013) was a curator and specialist in Asian American art. As senior art curator of the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles from 1992 to 2006, her exhibitions and research contributed to the history of Asian American and contemporary art. Higa's 1992 exhibit, "The View from Within: Japanese American Art from the Internment Camps, 1942-1945", was co-organized by the Japanese American National Museum, the UCLA Wight Art Gallery, and the UCLA Asian American Studies Center. In September 2012, the Hammer Museum named her and Michael Ned Holte curators of the museums biennial, "Made in L.A. 2014." She withdrew from the project due to her cancer diagnosis.