Having grown up in China, and studied Japanese and Chinese arts and cultures in China, Japan, Singapore, and the United States, Xiaojin Wu specializes in Japanese art and has extensive knowledge in Chinese art. The exhibition—Multiple Hands: Collective Creativity in Eighteenth-Century Japanese Painting—she has curated is the first special exhibition of Japanese painting at the Museum since 1976. She is also planning a future exhibition on Japanese painters’ engagement of Western art at the turn of the century. Before joining the Princeton University Art Museum in 2008, Xiaojin was a Getty Fellow at the Asia Society Museum in New York, where she co-curated the Shape of Things: Chinese and Japanese Art from the John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection, and assisted with the Art and China's Revolution exhibition. She was a Smithsonian fellow at the Freer and Sackler Galleries of Art in 2007, and an intern at the Princeton University Art Museum in 2006. She was a contributing author for the catalogue of the exhibition, Awakenings: Medieval Zen Figural Painting from Japan, held at the Japan Society in the spring of 2007. She is revising one of the chapters in her dissertation, which is titled "Metamorphosis of Form and Meaning: Ink Bird-and-flower Screens in Muromachi Japan," to be published as an article in the coming year.