East Asian Painting Conservation Team

Yuan-li Hou joined the department in 2003. A leader in The Met's Asian Art Conservation Studio, she is responsible for restoring and remounting fragile or damaged works, as well as training students in traditional remounting techniques. Yuan-li has forty-one years of experience as a conservator. She trained and worked at The Palace Museum from 1975 to 1985 and, after immigrating to the United States in 1986, she worked as a restoration consultant for both private collectors and cultural institutions. She was a conservation specialist at the Freer and Sackler Galleries from 1998 to 2000.

Jennifer Perry joined The Met in 2010 to oversee treatment and preservation of the Japanese paintings collections. After completing an MA in art history and an advanced certificate in conservation at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University in 1993, she received her training at the Yamaguchi Bokunindo Studio and the Oka Bokkodo Co. Ltd. in Japan, where she worked on numerous Designated Cultural Properties. Prior to joining The Met, she worked at the Cleveland Museum of Art where, as associate conservator, she established the studio for Asian paintings conservation.

Kewei Wang joined The Met in 2013. She restores fragile or damaged works, and trains students in traditional techniques of remounting. Kewei has forty years of experience in the conservation of Chinese painting. She trained and worked at The Palace Museum from 1976 to 1989. Later, she served as conservator of Asian and Western artworks on paper at The Hai Yan Institute for Conservation of Works of Art in Germany from 1989 to 1993 and senior conservator of Asian painting at the University of Michigan Museum of Art from 1996 to 2013, where she conserved Asian paintings from the university museum as well as from other American museums.

Masanobu Yamazaki is responsible for the Museum's Japanese paintings collection. Before coming to The Met in 2015, he spent fifteen years as a conservator of Japanese paintings for Oka Bokkodo Co. Ltd., one of the premier conservation studios in Japan. He has also worked on special projects for The British Museum and The Museo Nacional de Soares dos Reis in Porto, Portugal. As an affiliate with the Association for the Conservation of National Treasures in Japan, he has worked on national treasures and important cultural properties for institutions throughout Japan.

Jianxiang Zhou joined the Department of Asian Art as Assistant Conservator for Chinese paintings in September 2018. A graduate of the College of Art and Science at Beijing Union University, he trained and worked at the Palace Museum from 2012 to 2018, where his work played a vital role in the restoration and remounting of Chinese paintings and calligraphy. Jianxiang will train and work closely with master conservators Yuan-li Hou and Kewei Wang.