Talk

BFA Fine Arts presents a visiting artist lecture with Midori Yoshimoto

Midori Yoshimoto is professor of art history and gallery director at New Jersey City University. Yoshimoto specializes in post-1945 Japanese art and its diaspora with a focus on women artists, Fluxus, and intermedia. Her 2005 book, Into Performance: Japanese Women Artists in New York, led to numerous publications including an essay in Yoko Ono One Woman Show (Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2015). Yoshimoto co-curated a major survey exhibition of Japanese American artist Shigeko Kubota, which traveled three museums in Japan in 2021-22. Its catalog, Viva Video! The Art and Life of Shigeko Kubota was published by Kawade Shobo Shinsha and received the Ringa Art Encouragement Award in Japan. She is also a co-editor and author of a groundbreaking publication, Women, Aging, and Art: A Crosscultural Anthology (Bloomsbury, 2021). Most recently, she guest-curated the exhibition, Out of Bounds: Japanese Women Artists in Fluxus at the Japan Society Gallery, which received critical acclaim.