Global Speed Lecture Series 2023
Theme: Japan

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Global Speed is a community lecture series featuring international figures in the art world, to entertain and inform on global art topics.

February 2, 6:30 – 7:30 PM

Speaker: Miwako Tezuka

“What Emerges after the Floating World”
Hokusai and Yayoi Kusama may be household names in the art world today. But how was the bridge between then and now, between the pre-modern and the contemporary, built in our consciousness? This talk will trace back the “making-of” of the field of postwar (post-1945) Japanese art and its continuing impact on world art history.

About the Speaker

Dr. Miwako Tezuka is Associate Director of the 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, New York (2012–15), and Curator of Contemporary Art at Asia Society Museum, New York (2005–12). She has curated numerous exhibitions of artists, including Kimsooja, Maya Lin, Mariko Mori, Yoshitomo Nara, Pinaree Sanpitak, teamLab, Yang Fudong, among many others. Her most recent project as Associate Curator includes the Hawaiʻi Triennial 2022. Tezuka holds a doctorate in post-war Japanese art history from Columbia University and is Co-Director of PoNJAGenKon, a global network of over 250 postwar Japanese art scholars and curators.