Midori Yamamura

Midori Yamamura is an Assistant Professor of Art History at Kingsborough Community College/CUNY, and the author of Yayoi Kusama: Inventing the Singular (MIT Press: 2015). Prof. Yamamura is a specialist in post-WWII Asian and Asian Diaspora art. She is currently working on her second book, Japanese Contemporary Art Since 1989: Emergence of the Local in the Age of Globalization, and co-edited Visual Representations of the Cold War and Postcolonial Struggles Art in East and Southeast Asia (Routledge, 2021).

Prof. Yamamura has taught art history at Fordham University, Hunter College/CUNY, Pratt Institute, and lectures regularly at the Museum of Modern Art. She has received fellowships from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Terra Foundation, Mellon Foundation, Center for Place Culture and Politics at CUNY, Terumo Foundation, and Ford Foundation. Her essays have been published in major museum catalogues, including the Tate Modern and the Whitney Museum of American Art. She is the co-curator of UnHomless NYC (Kingsborough Art Museum).

UnHomeless NYC: Art, Activism, and Political Spatiality in Post-Pandemic World

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UnHomeless NYC (Kingsborough Art Museum, online and off-site Oct. 10, 2021 – Apr 14, 2022/in-person exhibition Mar 3 – Apr 14, 2022) is a group exhibition of artists utilizing participation, activism, and pedagogy as their media to consider and better understand New York City’s housing crisis, and to think about our future as the city emerges from the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Visual Representations of the Cold War and Postcolonial Struggles: Art in East and Southeast Asia

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Co-organized with the Department of Visual Studies at Lingnan University (Hong Kong), the editors of Visual Representations of the Cold War and Postcolonial Struggles: Art in East and Southeast Asia, Midori Yamamura and Yu-Chieh Li, will lead a panel discussion with select contributors: Hiroshi Sunairi, Lesley Ma, Roger Nelson, and Kidlat Tahimik.

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Revisiting the 1960s, Globalization, Monopoly, and Art Outlaws: Yayoi Kusama and the Rise of the Global Art Market

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Based on her 2015 book, Yayoi Kusama: Inventing the Singular, Prof. Midori Yamamura will discuss Japanese-born artist Yayoi Kusama and Jewish art dealer Leo Castelli, who both launched their careers in New York’s 1950s multicultural downtown scene, where immigrants from diverse backgrounds converged after the Second World War. By the early 1960s, Kusama was exhibiting … Read more