Category: jc-presents

Koho Kurihara: Meditations Koho Kurihara was awarded First Runner-Up at the Japan Contemporaries Series 11, Juried Open Call, The Art of Sho, curated by Motoichi Adachi and Kyoko Sato. This groundbreaking exhibition, held from November 5-12, 2024, at the Tenri Cultural Institute in New York, featured an opening reception and live performance on November 7.…

Saori Kashimura: Cyber Muse Saori Kashimura’s work “Cyber Muse” (2024) received the Second Runner-Up award at the exhibition “Japan Contemporaries Series, Juried Open Call, Stepping into A World III” curated by Motoichi Adachi and Kyoko Sato, held at Tenri Cultural Institute from July 16 to 22, 2024. In her beautifully crafted piece, Kashimura used pink…

Nobuko: Coffin of Happiness Nobuko’s work “Coffin of Happiness” (2023) received an honorable mention at the exhibition Japan Contemporaries Series 5: Juried Open Call, Stepping Into A World II, curated by Motoichi Adachi and Kyoko Sato. The exhibition was held from February 15-21, 2024, at Gallery Max in New York’s SoHo district. On February 20, 2024, Nobuko performed Coffin…

Hiroko Saigusa: Wabi Sabi in Action By Jonathan Goodman, June 11, 2024 Tokyo-based Hiroko Saigusa is idiosyncratic in her wide choice of vocations–she is a painter, a performance artist, a collaborator with hip hop DJs and dancers, and, not least, a fortune teller on demand. On June 6th, in the slightly cramped studio space of…

Toshiki Hayasaka: Ephemeral Samurai By Jake Price, December 5, 2023 Born in 1990 in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Toshiki Hayasaka is a self-taught multidisciplinary artist based in Tokyo. Through his art and way of life, Hayasaka is dedicated to living life in the present. These moments of living in the present ultimately weave together to form…