J. Cabelle Ahn, PhD, is a NY-based writer, art historian, and non-profit director. She specializes in histories of drawing and contemporary artists that are inspired by Old Masters. Her bylines can be found at Artnet News, the Art Newspaper, Master Drawings, Journal18, and in several edited volumes and periodicals.

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She received her PhD in History of Art & Architecture at Harvard University in 2024, where she completed a dissertation titled "Multiple Exposures: Drawings, Displays, and their Spaces in Eighteenth-century France." The project undertook a comprehensive analysis of early exhibition strategies in response to increasing public access to drawings, and the corresponding changes in the secondary market for drawings and prints after them. She additionally received MA degrees from the Bard Graduate Center (2015) and Courtauld Institute of Art (2013), and holds a BA in Art History from Wellesley College (2012).

 

Drawing from her decade plus experience in museums, she remains passionate about broadening audience engagement for the arts, strategizing new modes of exhibition making, and exploring innovative fundraising models. She is currently the President of the Association of Print Scholars, where she has been an officer since 2019. 

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