Programmes
Setsuko Migishi, Shitsunai [Interior], 1941, oil on canvas, 162.1 × 130.3 cm, Yokosuka Museum of Art
Women Artists in Japan: 19th – 21st century is a four-year research programme launched in 2022 that seeks to highlight the artistic production and contributions of women artists in Japan within a global cultural history. The project builds on previous scholarship to continue to reveal the presence of Japanese women from the 19th century through to today, within all artistic movements and currents.
A research committee composed of specialists in contemporary art, photography, nihonga (Japanese painting), yôga (Western-style painting), and women artists accompanies the project aiming to represent the diversity of the Japanese artistic scene through the lens of gender. Contributing to the programme’s content, the committee helps identify artists to be added to AWARE’s website and authors to provide research articles.
Members
Mami Kataoka
Research committee member
Director of the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Reiko Kokatsu
Research committee member, special advisor of the project
Researcher, art historian, art critic, former chief curator at the Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts
Kaori Tsurumi
Research committee member
Researcher at the Museum of Modern Art of Tokyo
Yukiko Yokoyama
Research committee member
Curator at the Museum of Modern Art of the City of Tokyo
Michiko Kasahara
Research committee member
Director at Nagano Prefectural Art Museum
