Kyoko Sato is a Japanese curator, editor, and former television producer known in New York City. She is the founder…
Kyoko Sato is a Japanese curator, editor, and former television producer known in New York City. She is the founder, publisher, and editor-in-chief of JapanContemporaries.com, which highlights cross-cultural artistic exchanges and emerging Japanese artists. Sato began her career at NHK Enterprises in Tokyo before moving to curatorial work in New York. Her most notable exhibition, A Colossal World: Japanese Artists and New York, 1950s–Present, has been acclaimed as the most important historical group show of Japanese art since Alexandra Munroe’s Scream Against the Sky. The exhibition explored decades of Japanese artistic innovation and diaspora presence in New York. She has appeared multiple times on the cover of Shūkan NY Seikatsu, a Japanese-language newspaper in New York, and twice on the cover of Japan’s Gekkan Gallery magazine. Sato's work has been profiled in publications including The Japan Times, which noted her role in inspiring new artistic energy between Japan and New York, and Whitehot Magazine, which featured her as a Japanese curator in New York. She has also curated exhibitions of Japanese designer Hiroko Koshino at WhiteBox in New York, and co-produced projects with filmmaker Motoichi Adachi. Sato’s curatorial efforts extend to collaborations with institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and contemporary art websites like Tagboat. In The Brooklyn Rail, her work was highlighted for its role in reshaping perceptions of Japanese contemporary art through new generation artists.
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Mami Kataoka (Japanese: 片岡 真実) is a Japanese art curator and writer. She is presently the director of the Mori Art…
Mami Kataoka (Japanese: 片岡 真実) is a Japanese art curator and writer. She is presently the director of the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo.
Maha Harada (原田 マハ, Harada Maha; born 1962) is a Japanese writer and filmmaker. She has won the Japan Love Story Grand…
Maha Harada (原田 マハ, Harada Maha; born 1962) is a Japanese writer and filmmaker. She has won the Japan Love Story Grand Prize, the Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize, and the Nitta Jiro Literature Prize, she has been nominated multiple times for the Naoki Prize, and several of her novels have been adapted for film and television.
Yuko Hasegawa (長谷川祐子, Hasegawa Yuko, born 1957) is the director of the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art…
Yuko Hasegawa (長谷川祐子, Hasegawa Yuko, born 1957) is the director of the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa and professor of curatorial and art theory at Tokyo University of the Arts.
Fumio Nanjo (南條 史生, Nanjō Fumio; born 1949 in Tokyo) is a curator and art historian. Between 2006 and 2019 he was the…
Fumio Nanjo (南條 史生, Nanjō Fumio; born 1949 in Tokyo) is a curator and art historian. Between 2006 and 2019 he was the director of the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo. A graduate of Keio University, Nanjo was previously Director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in Nagoya (1986–1990) and served as commissioner of the Japan Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (1997). He has curated many art exhibitions and directed many art program, including the Taipei Biennale (1998); the Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (1999); the Yokohama Triennale (2001), the Singapore Biennale (2006, 2008) and the inaugural Honolulu Biennial (2017). In 2018 he curated the exhibition Japan in Architecture: Genealogies of Its Transformations at the Mori Art Museum. Fumio Nanjo was one of the co-organizers of 1994 exhibition “Open Air ’94 Out of Bounds̶ Contemporary Art in the Seascape” held in Naoshima. Nanjo also contributed to exhibitions catalogues, art journals and magazines, and is the author of From Art to the City (1997) and Asian Contemporary Art Report: China, India, Middle East and Japan (2010).
Ryūichi Kaneko (金子 隆一, Kaneko Ryūichi; May 18, 1948 – June 30, 2021) was a photography historian and critic, photobook…
Ryūichi Kaneko (金子 隆一, Kaneko Ryūichi; May 18, 1948 – June 30, 2021) was a photography historian and critic, photobook collector, and curator. He also worked as a monk at the Shōgyōin (正行院) temple in the Taitō district of Tokyo while he researched the history of Japanese photography.