Atsushi MIURA

Atsushi MIURA is a Professor at the Institute of Art and Science, University of Tokyo, specializing in 19th-century French painting and Franco-Japanese artistic exchanges. His research focuses on artists like Manet, Fantin-Latour, and Raphaël Collin, alongside Japonism's impact on French art and modern Japanese painting development. He served as a visiting professor at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in November 2014, delivering lectures on transnational art histories within the 'Stories across Borders' program.

Key publications include Trajectories of Round Trips (2013, co-edited), analyzing 150 years of Franco-Japanese artistic exchanges, and Histories of Painting between France and Japan (2009). He has also authored influential works like The Representation of the Modern Artist (2006) and edited major exhibition catalogues such as Impressionists and their Era (2002).

His academic activities include collaborative projects with the French-Japanese Foundation (FFJ), and his research bridges art historiography with cross-cultural studies. He has contributed to institutional programs like the Uehiro Research Division for Philosophy of Co-existence and the Global COE Program.