MA Curatorial Practice presents a talk with Yuko Hasegawa, the director of the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, and professor of curatorial and art theory at Tokyo University of the Arts.
Hasegawa’s past positions include: chief curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, from 2006 to 2020, and chief curator and founding artistic director of the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, from 1999 to 2006. Hasegawa was a board member of Hong Kong’s West Kowloon Cultural District Authority from 2009 to 2011 and has remained a member of the Asian Art Council at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York since 2008. She is also a member of the Istanbul Biennale Advisory Board.
Hasegawa is known for her work in various biennales, including the 7th Moscow Biennale (curator, 2017), 11th Sharjah Biennale (curator, 2013), 12th Venice Biennale of Architecture (artistic advisor, 2010), the 29th São Paulo Biennale (co-curator, 2010), the 4th Seoul International Media Art Biennale (co-curator, 2006), and the 7th Istanbul Biennial (curator, 2001). Her recently curated exhibitions include “Feminisms” (2022), 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa; “Olafur Eliasson: Sometimes the river is the bridge” (2020), 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa; “Fukami: A Plunge into Japanese aesthetics,” Hotel Salmon de Rothschild, Paris (2018); “Japanorama: New Vision on Art Since 1970,” Centre Pompidou-Metz (2017); and “Kishio Suga: Situations,” Pirelli Hangar Bicocca, Milan (2016). She is also the artistic director of the Inujima Art House Project. Hasegawa was a member of the juries that selected Doris Salcedo (2019) for the Nomura Art Award; and Salcedo (2016), Isa Genzken (2019), Michael Rakowitz (2020), Senga Nengudi (2023) and Otobong Nkanga (2024) for the Nasher Prize.
The Curatorial Roundtable, an international forum for curators and institutional leaders to discuss formative and current projects, is hosted by Steven Henry Madoff, founding chair of the MA Curatorial Practice at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.