Andreas Marks studied East Asian art history at the University of Bonn, Germany, and obtained his PhD from Leiden University, The Netherlands, with a thesis on 19th-century actor prints. Since 2013, he has been the Mary Griggs Burke Curator of Japanese and Korean Art and director of the Clark Center for Japanese Art at the Minneapolis lnstitute of Art. He is an award-winning author of al most 30 books on different aspects of Japanese art. His research has earned him the International Ukiyo-e Society Award. In 2024, Marks was awarded the commendation of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs for his contributions to the promotion of Japanese culture.