J. Cabelle Ahn is a New York–based art historian and writer. Trained as a specialist in Old Masters, she holds a PhD from Harvard University. Her writing focuses on in-depth artist interviews, the history of drawing, and contemporary artists whose practices revisit or reframe the European Old Masters. She has held curatorial and research positions at the Harvard Art Museums, the Morgan Library & Museum, and the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, and her byline has appeared in The Art Newspaper, Artnet News, Observer, and Master Drawings, as well as in exhibition catalogues and edited volumes. She is currently President of the Association of Print Scholars, where she has served as an officer since 2019.
