Lee Talbot

Curator, The Textile Museum Collection

Lee Talbot joined The Textile Museum as a curator in 2007, specializing in East Asian textile history. 

Most recently, Talbot curated the exhibitions Irresistible: The Global Patterns of Ikat (2024) and Korean Fashion: From Royal Court to Runway (2022).He was also curator or co-curator of exhibitions including Vanishing Traditions: Textiles and Treasures from Southwest China; Bingata! Only in Okinawa; Stories of Migration: Contemporary Artists Interpret Diaspora and Unraveling Identity: Our Textiles, Our Stories. His publications include exhibition catalogs, articles and the chapters “Ikat in Japan” in Global Ikat: Roots and Routes of a Textile Technique (2023) and “Scholarly Discourses on Fashion Change in Late Joseon” in Dress History of Korea: Critical Perspectives on Primary Sources (2023).

Talbot was previously curator at the Chung Young Yang Embroidery Museum in Seoul, Korea. He graduated from Rhodes College with a bachelor’s degree, and holds a M.B.A. from the Thunderbird School of Global Management and a M.A. and M.Phil. from Bard Graduate Center. He serves on the board of American Friends of Attingham and the editorial board of Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture.