長谷川祐子
Yuko Hasegawa is Artistic Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (2016 – present) and Professor of Graduate School of Global Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts (2016 – present). Previously, she was Chief Curator and Founding Artistic Director of the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (1999-2006) and Chief Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (2006-2016). She is also Artistic Director of Inujima Art House Project (2011-present)
Under Hasegawa’s leadership, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo has presented many of her exhibitions, including: Oscar Niemeyer The Man Who Built Brasilia (2015); Gabriel Orozco – Inner Cycles, (2015); Thomas Demand, (2012); Atsuko Tanaka – The Art of Connecting, (2012); and Trans-Cool Tokyo – Contemporary Japanese Art from MOT Collection (2011-2012). More recent exhibitions include Francis Alÿs – La dépense at Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai (2018-2019), Fukami : A Plunge into Japanese aesthetics at Hotel Salmon de Rothschild, Paris (2018), Saudade : Unmemorable Place in Time at Fousun Foundation, Shanghai (2018), Japanorama: NEW VISION ON ART SINCE 1970 at Centre Pompidou-Metz (2017) and Kishio Suga: Situations at Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan (2016)
Hasegawa also has worked on numerous biennale projects, including: The 7th International Moscow Biennale : Clouds ⇄Forests (Curator, 2017-2018), The 11th Sharjah Art Biennial “Re Emerge – Toward a New Cultural Cartography” (Curator, 2013), The 29th São Paulo Biennial (Co-curator, 2010), The 12th Venice Architecture Biennale (Artistic Advisor, 2010), The 4th Seoul International Media Art Biennale “Dual Realistic”(Co-curator, 2006), Venice Biennale 2003, 50th International Exhibition of Art, Japan Pavilion “Heterotopias , Yutaka Sone, Motohiko Odani” (Commissioner, 2003), Shanghai Biennale 2002 (Co-curator, 2002-2003), and 7th International Istanbul Biennial (Artistic Director, 2001)
Hasegawa was an advisory committee member of Shanghai’s Rockbund Art Museum (2014-2018), an international advisory board member of The Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore (CCA) (2014-2017), and a member of the Asian Art Advisory Board at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2008 – 2012). Currently she serves as an advisory committee member of Istanbul Biennale (2017-present), and an international jury member of the Nasher Prize, Nasher Sculpture Center (2015-present)
Publication; “Performativity in the Work of Female Japanese Artists in the 1950s-1960s and 1990s” in Modern Women: Women Artists at the Museum of Modern Art (2010), ed. Cornelia Butler, Alexandra Schwartz. New York: Museum of Modern Art. “Grotesque and Cruel Imagery in Japanese Gender Expression: Nobuyoshi Araki, Makoto Aida and Fuyuko Matsui” in The Persistence of Taste: Art, Museums and Everyday Life After Bourdieu (2018), ed. Malcolm Quinn, Dave Beech, Michael Lehnert, Carol Tulloch, Stephen Wilson. London: Routledge
