Art in Conversation with Miwako Tezuka

teamLab, Flowers and People—Gold and Dark, 2014, interactive digital installation, sound by Hideaki Takahashi, Installation view from exhibition Garden of Unearthly Delights: Ikeda, Tenmyouya & teamLab, Japan Society, NY, Oct 2014 - Jan 2015

AIKO, Sunrise, 2013, spray paint and acrylic, Installation view from exhibition Edo Pop: The Graphic Impact of Japanese Prints, Japan Society, NY, Mar - Jun 2013 

Maya Lin, The Hudson Bight, 2018, aluminum, 14 ft. 9 in. x 30 ft. x 12 ft., Installation view from exhibition Maya Lin: A River Is a Drawing, Hudson River Museum, Oct 2018 - Jan 2019

ART IN CONVERSATION WITH DR. MIWAKO TEZUKA 

WED • 09 DEC 2020

4pm–5pm (HST)

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Join Dr. Miwako Tezuka, associate curator for Hawai‘i Triennial 2022, in conversation with Katherine Don, executive director of Hawai‘i Contemporary. A noted specialist of post-war Asian art, Miwako will discuss her transnational approach to curating, drawing examples from her rich and diverse curatorial practice as both an independent and institutional curator, working across foundations and museums.

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Dr. Miwako Tezuka is associate director of Reversible Destiny Foundation, a progressive artist foundation in New York established by Arakawa and Madeline Gins. Previously, she held the positions of gallery director of Japan Society (2012–15) and curator of Contemporary Art at Asia Society Museum (2005–12). She has curated numerous exhibitions; on Maya Lin, Robert Indiana, Ikeda Manabu, Tenmyouya Hisashi, teamLab, Mariko Mori, U-Ram Choe, Yang Fudong, Chen Chieh-jen, among many others. She also co-curated, with Melissa Chiu, the ground-breaking exhibition Yoshitomo Nara: Nobody’s Fool (Asia Society Museum, 2010). Tezuka holds a doctorate in postwar Japanese art history from Columbia University, and is co-director of PoNJA-GenKon, a global network of postwar Japanese art scholars and curators.