Kasahara Emiko
Completed the Graduate School of Fine Arts at Tama Art University in 1988. Using media such as sculpture, objects, photography, moving images, and performance, she develops expressions that question social structures like religiosity, institutions, and colonialism, stemming from themes such as women, the body, and gender differences. Her major projects include “OFFERING,” which documented offering boxes from churches in 85 countries, and “K1001K,” which dealt with wartime ceramic hand grenades. Her work has been presented internationally, including at the 3rd Gwangju Biennale (2000), Yokohama Triennale (2001, 2014), Sydney Biennale (2004), PARASOPHIA: Kyoto International Festival of Contemporary Arts (2015). Her works are held in collections including the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Queensland Art Gallery (Brisbane), Berkeley Art Museum (UC Berkeley), The Fogg Museum (Harvard University), Cantor Arts Center (Stanford University), and Deutsche Bank.
WORKS
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Biography
| 1963 | Born in Tokyo, Japan |
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| 1988 | Tama Art University Tokyo, Japan (M.F.A.) |
| 1990 | Asian Cultural Council, U.S.A. (grant) |
| 1991 | Fondation Cartier pour l'art Contemporain, France (artist in residence) |
| 1994 | Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japan (grant) |
| 1997 | Pola Art Foundation, Japan (grant) |
| 2003 | New York Foundation for the Arts, U.S.A. (grant) |
| 2014- | Lives and works in Tokyo, Japan |
Selected Solo Exhibitions
| 2010 | Curatorial Studies 04 Emiko Kasahara-inside/outside. Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Kyoto |
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| 2005 | Offering - Milde Garden. Volkskunde Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz |
| 2003 | Emiko Kasahara. ART & IDEA at SCOPE, New York |
| 2001 | Pink. White Box, New York |
| 1997 | Immaculate Fabrication. Deitch Projects, New York |
| 1993 | Gallery Kobayashi, Tokyo |
| 1992 | Gallery Kobayashi, Tokyo |
| 1991 | Gallery Hals, Tokyo |
| 1990 | Gallery Kobayashi, Tokyo |
| 1990 | Gallery Lunami, Tokyo |
| 1988 | Gallery Yamaguchi, Tokyo |
| 1987 | Galleri Iteza, Kyoto |
| 1986 | Gallery Paragon, Tokyo |
Selected Group Exhibitions
| 2025 | Prism of the Real: Making Art in Japan 1989–2010. The National Art Center, Tokyo, Tokyo |
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| 2024 | Love Fashion: In Search of Myself. National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Kyoto, Comtemporary Art Museum Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo |
| 2020 | HOUSE OF RITUALS. AN EXHIBITION WITHOUT AUDIENCE. , Vienna |
| 2020 | Public Device -Symbolism and Permanence of Sculpture. Chinretsukan Gallery in The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo |
| 2018 | EXODUS Part 1-A Colossal World. , New York |
| 2017 | 2D printers. Tochigi Prefecture Museum of Fine Art, Utsunomiya |
| 2016 | Order & Reorder: Curate Your Own Exhibition. National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Kyoto |
| 2016 | OptionalArt Activity:Letters. Take Minagawa, Tokyo |
| 2015 | PARASOPHIA: Kyoto International Festival of Contemporary Culture 2015, Kyoto |
| 2014 | Yokohama Triennale 2014, ART Fahrenheit 451: Sailing into the sea of oblivion, Yokohama |
| 2012 | Perfect. International Art Objects Galleries, Los Angels |
| 2010 | My Favorites-Index of a Certain Collection. Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Kyoto |
| 2009 | Unnatural Rubber. The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburg |
| 2007 | Art House. , Miami |
| 2007 | Simulation: Refiguring Asia for the 21st Century. Asian Contemporary Art Fair, New York |
| 2007 | Making at Home. Japan Society, New York |
| 2007 | James Corcoran Gallery at Art Chicago, Chicago |
| 2007 | Infinity. Shoko Nagai Gallery, Tokyo |
| 2006 | CHIKAKU. The Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, Kawasaki |
| 2006 | Tokyo Blossoms. Hara Museum of Art, Tokyo |
| 2005 | CHIKAKU. MARCO, Vigo |
| 2005 | Rosa. National Tokyo Art University, Tokyo |
| 2005 | CHIKAKU. Kunsthaus Graz, Graz |
| 2005 | 25 Years of the Deutsche Bank Collection. Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin |
| 2005 | Art Nova - Between The Contemporary Avant-garde Art and the Crafts. Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Tokyo |
| 2004 | On Reason and Emotion. Sydney Biennale, Sydney |
| 2004 | Public / Private. Auckland Triennale, Auckland |
| 2003 | SUPER YOU. Daniel Silverstein Gallery, New York |
| 2003 | Formed to Function. John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan |
| 2002 | ART & IDEA at Art Forum Berlin, Berlin |
| 2002 | Chat @ the MIMOCA. Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Marugame, Kagawa |
| 2002 | Contemporary American Paper Artists. Columbia College Chicago, Chicago |
| 2002 | A Cabinet of Curiosities. The New York Public Library, New York |
| 2002 | Oral Fixation. Center for Cultural Studies Museum at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson |
| 2002 | Reflex / Reflejo. Art & Idea, Mexico City |
| 2001 | The 1st Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama |
| 2001 | Truancy. Art & Idea, New York |
| 2001 | Rags to Riches. Kresge Art Museum, Maryland Institute College of Art, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Hecksher Museum of Art, Milwaukee Art Museum, Fort Wayne Museum of Art |
| 2001 | Made in Asia. Duke University Museum of Art, Durham |
| 2000 | Gendai, Japanese Contemporary Art - Between Body and Space -. Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw |
| 2000 | The 3rd Kwangju Biennale, Kwangju |
| 1999 | Visions of The Body: Fashion or Invisible Corset. The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Kyoto, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo |
| 1998 | Narrative Art from Collection, part I: Anthology - Books, Death, Mode, Gender. Tochigi Prefecture Museum of Fine Art, Utsunomiya |
| 1998 | Tastes and Pursuits: Japanese Art in the 1990s. National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, Metropolitan Museum of Manila, Manila |
| 1998 | Emiko Kasahara + Donald Baechler. Edition Gallery at Dieu Donné Papermill Inc., New York |
| 1997 | Art on Paper. Weatherspoon Art Gallery, The University of North Carolina, Greensboro |
| 1997 | Resurrection of Topos 3. Asakura Gallery & Hillside Forum, Tokyo |
| 1997 | Japanese Art Exhibition. National Art Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul |
| 1997 | Floating Image of Women in Art History. Tochigi Prefecture Museum of Fine Arts, Utsunomiya |
| 1996 | Asia-Pacific of Contemporary Art Triennial. Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane |
| 1996 | Nowhere -Incandescent-. Louisiana, Copenhagen |
| 1995 | The Age of Anxiety. Power Plant, Toronto |
| 1995 | Tokyo Big Sight Art Work Project. Tokyo International Exhibition Center, Tokyo |
| 1995 | Art in Japan Today 1985-1995. Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo, Tokyo |
| 1994 | Space, Time, Memory: Photography and beyond in Japan. Hara Museum of Contemporary Art,, Tokyo, Rufino Tamayo Museum, Mexico City, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, L.A. County Museum, Los Angels, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., Denver Art Museum, Denver, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu |
| 1991 | Cabinet of Signs. Tate Gallery Liverpool, , White Chapel Gallery, London, Malmo Kunstverein, Malmo, Sweden |
| 1991 | Zones of Love - Contemporary Art from Japan. Toko Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney, Australia and also in New Zealand |
| 1991 | The World of Boxes. Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Mito |
| 1991 | Art Scene of 1990s. NambaCITY City Hall, Osaka |
| 1991 | A Hybrid Garden. Bigi Art Space, Kyoto |
| 1990 | Japanese Kunst der Achtziger Jahre. Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, traveled in Germany and Austria |
| 1989 | Emiko Kasahara + Monika Brandmeir -Floating Scale-. Spiral/Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo |
| 1989 | Women Artist of the Day. IMP Hall, Osaka |
| 1989 | Japanese Clay Work Today. Tochigi Prefecture Museum of Fine Art, Utsunomiya |
| 1989 | The 26th Artists Today Exhibition. Yokohama Citizens Gallery, Yokohama |
| 1988 | The 3rd Kanagawa Art Annual. Kanagawa Prefecture Gallery, Yokohama |
| 1988 | Step toward Arcadia. Gallery αM, Tokyo |
| 1988 | The 8th Hara Annual. Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo |
| 1987 | TAMA VIVANT '87. The Seed Hall, Tokyo |
Public Collections
| Cantor Center for Visual Art, Stanford University, Palo Alto Deutsche Bank Tokyo Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, Cambridge Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo Ise Foundation, Tokyo James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo New York Public Library, New York Norton Family Foundation, Los Angeles Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane Spiral/Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo Stiftung fur Gegenwartskunst, Balzers, Lichtenstein The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto Tochigi Prefecture Museum of Fine Art, Tochigi Tokyo Big Sight, Tokyo Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley Yves Klein Foundation, Arizona Daniel Long & Lauren Parmington, New York Tracy Lew, Los Angeles |