How has Mono-ha shaped the understanding of postwar Japanese art, both within Japan and internationally? The Nasher Sculpture Center presents this Curator Lecture as part of "Deep Dive: Japanese Postwar Art and Its Contemporary Impact with Mika Yoshitake," a collaboration with The Warehouse. Drawing on Yoshitake’s research, this talk will offer a broad look at the movement’s development, reception, and continuing relevance in Japan and internationally.
FREE for Nasher Members and students, $10 for non-members. In-person and open to the public. Includes museum admission.
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About Mika Yoshitake
Mika Yoshitake is an independent curator based in Los Angeles specializing in postwar Japanese and contemporary art. She received her MA and PhD in Art History from UCLA, research that culminated in the AICA-award-winning exhibition Requiem for the Sun: The Art of Mono-ha (2012) at Blum & Poe, which introduced the Japanese art movement Mono-ha to an international audience. She also curated the two-part exhibition Parergon: Japanese Art of the 1980s and 1990s at Blum & Poe (2019). As Curator at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (2011–2018), she organized the six-venue North American tour of Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors (2017–2019), as well as solo museum retrospectives presented elsewhere on Takashi Murakami, Yoshitomo Nara, Yayoi Kusama, and Lee Ufan. Recent projects include Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice (2024–2025), co-curated with Glenn Kaino at the Hammer Museum as part of Getty PST Art: Art x Science Collide; Yayoi Kusama: 1945–Now at M+ Hong Kong, Guggenheim Bilbao, and the Serralves Museum, Porto (2022–2024); Yoshitomo Nara at LACMA and the Yuz Museum (2021–2022); and Kusama: Cosmic Nature at the New York Botanical Garden (2021). Her writings appear in Artforum, Art in America, and numerous museum catalogues, and she recently edited Yukinori Yanagi (BLUM, 2025). She is currently preparing exhibitions for The Warehouse (2026) and SFMOMA (2027).