Dakin Hart

About the Author Dakin Hart

Dakin Hart is Senior Curator at The Noguchi Museum, where he oversees the Museum’s exhibitions, collections, catalogue raisonné, archives, and public programming, and has the daily good fortune of collaborating with Isamu Noguchi in absentia. His previous positions include Assistant Director at the Nasher Sculpture Center (Dallas), Artistic Director and Director of Artists in Residence at Montalvo Center for the Arts (Saratoga, CA), and Assistant to the Director of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. He has worked as an independent curator and writer, was born in French Hospital at 6th and Geary, has two young children who make it difficult to sleep or concentrate, enjoys unconventional curatorial duties such as tending Tom Sach’s tea garden, and once caught a disoriented sparrow by hand in the middle of a board meeting and set it free.