'Five Rooms for Kyoto: 1972-2019'
Dec. 14-Feb. 2, 2020 When media began to influence art during the early 1970s, Joan Jonas was an influential pioneer of video performance art, and is often cited as one of the most important female artists of her generation. Today, at the age of 83, she ...
'Kenjiro Okazaki: Retrospective Strata'
Nov. 23-Feb. 24, 2020 Since his first solo exhibition in 1981, Kenjiro Okazaki has pursued various genres, including sculpture, painting, film, media arts, architecture, textiles, scenography, picture books and even drawing using robotic art. As a follow-up to his 2017 show, "Abstract Art as Impact" at ...
'Itsukushima in Art: An Enchanting Voyage Through a Sacred Land'
Nov. 23-Dec. 29 The island of Itsukushima, also known as Miyajima of Aki, is located northwest of Hiroshima Bay. Historically known as a sacred place, it was often visited by nobles, including Tairano Kiyomori, a military leader of the late Heian Period (794-1185) who helped ...
Nov. 15-Dec. 14 Daisuke Ida is a Japanese contemporary artist whose artworks highlight various social issues such as income inequality and excessive productivity. Ida's recent focus has been on researching and photographing mannequins, which made him realize that the invention of photography has caused the image ...
'Umeda Tetsuya: On the Origin of Voices'
Nov. 2-Jan. 13, 2020 Tetsuya Umeda is an internationally acclaimed Japanese contemporary artist, largely known for his live interactive installation and performance works that incorporate daily objects, waste and human-generated "phenomena" such as sound and movement. He also produces site-specific works in rural and urban spaces, ...
'Aono Fumiaki: Mono, Sleeping, Koejiyama, Voice-over'
Nov. 2-Jan. 12, 2020 Fumiaki Aono is known for his work with found objects from various regions of Japan. He has worked with worn-out furniture and items washed up on beaches, "repairing" them into works of art based on imagined narratives, histories and memories of ...
Nov. 1-Dec.15 Led by pop artist Shinjiro Okamoto, "Earth Attack" is an art project by nine collaborators — Yoshio Isaka, Giichi Ichikawa, Miho Otsubo, Reiko Kobori, Yoko Shimizu, Miho Shirai, Akira Matsumoto, Keisuke Yamaguchi and Wang Shuye. Inspired by the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World ...
'The Works of Architect Shizutaro Urabe'
Oct. 26-Dec. 22 Shizutaro Urabe (1909-1991), an architect known in particular for re-working old structures, contributed to more than 280 postwar buildings over the course of half a century. Around 20 percent of his works are in Kurashiki in Okayama Prefecture — where he was ...
Oct. 12-Dec. 21 Since his first solo exhibition in 1983, sculptor Shiro Matsui has continued to use various materials, such as wood, metal, soil and stone, for installations of different forms, colors and scale that not only speak to our senses with wit and humor, ...
'Haji Oh: Memories in Weaving'
Oct. 12-Dec. 15 Haji Oh works with textiles and fiber arts, focusing on weaving, dyeing, tying and stitching techniques to create installations. Primarily following the concept of "unravelling memories and re-weaving them," her pieces explore untold histories and stories of women and other individuals who ...
'Wow, See You in the Next Life.'
Oct. 12-Jan. 19, 2020 The Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media has invited contact Gonzo and the Yamaguchi Center of Arts and Media (YCAM) Bio Research team to present a collaborative installation piece that explores the questions "Where did the body come from, and where ...
'Travelers Through a Hundred Ages'
Oct. 5-Dec. 15 "Preface for a Spring Evening Banquet with Cousins in a Peach Blossom Garden," a text by poet Li Bai (701-62) was the inspiration behind "Travelers Through a Hundred Ages," an exhibition that aims to connect the past, present and future by looking ...
