Update Jan 7th, 2025
● 1st Collection Gallery Exhibition 2025–2026
March 13 2025 –June 29, 2025
The National Museum of Modern Art. Kyoto
https://www.momak.go.jp/English/collectiongalleryarchive/2025/collectiongallery2025no01.html
Tree Trunk 1, 1971 60"x84" Photo Emulsion, Acrylic on Canvas
● Shifting Landscapes
Nov 1 2024 –Jan 2026
Whitney Museum of American Art
https://whitney.org/exhibitions/shifting-landscapes
Shifting Landscapes explores how evolving political, ecological, and social issues motivate artists’ representations of the world around them. While the art historical genre of landscape has long been associated with picturesque vistas and documentary accounts of place, the artworks gathered in this exhibition suggest a more expansive interpretation. The 120 works by more than eighty artists—including Firelei Báez, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jane Dickson, Gordon Matta-Clark, Amalia Mesa-Bains, and Purvis Young—depict the effects of industrialization on the environment, grapple with the impact of geopolitical borders, and give shape to imagined spaces as a way of destabilizing the concept of a “natural” world. Drawn from the Whitney’s collection, this exhibition features works from the 1960s to the present, most of which are on view at the Museum for the first time. The exhibition is organized in thematic sections that reflect the many meanings embedded in the idea of landscape. Together, these works bring concepts of land and place into focus, foregrounding how we shape and are shaped by the spaces around us.
● TOP 30th Anniversary TOP Collection: Continuity and Chang
April 5 –June 22, 2025
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
https://topmuseum.jp/e/contents/exhibition/index-5070.html
The Tokyo Photographic Art Museum is pleased to present a TOP Collection exhibition commemorating the 30th anniversary of our opening. Five curators collaborated on this omnibus-format exhibition, which brings together carefully selected works from our collection to offer multiple perspectives on the media of photography and film.
The exhibition title, Continuity and Change, is a translation of the phrase fueki ryuko, derived from a description by the haiku poet Matsuo Basho (1644–1694) of the essential mindset for haiku. His words – “Without knowing continuity, foundations cannot be established; without knowing change, new winds will not arise” – serve as a guiding principle for engaging with art even today. Embracing the spirit of continuity and change, this exhibition seeks to deepen our understanding of art of the past and its relevance to the present day while remaining attuned to contemporary creative practices and cultural currents. In five thematic sections, it presents works in the collection, from the 19th and 20th centuries to the present, for your interpretation.
There are no single ways to interpret these works, nor definite answers to the questions they raise. We hope that each visitor will derive their own discoveries and insights from the works and share them, enriching their viewing experience in the process.
Yellow Mum, 1969; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, purchase, by exchange, through gifts of Peggy Guggenheim and Mr. and Mrs. Louis Honig; © Kunié Sugiura;
photo: Tenari Tuatagaloa
● Kunié Sugiura: Photopainting
Apr 26 – Sep 14th 2025
SFMoMA
Press
SAN FRANCISCO, CA (December 3, 2024) – For more than 60 years, Kunié Sugiura has explored the intersections between photography and painting with an aesthetic sensibility that reflects her bicultural identity as a Japanese artist who has lived in the U.S. since the 1960s. Creating work with and without a camera—and in and out of the darkroom—Sugiura has combined photography with painting and other mediums to produce unique, hybrid works that defy easy categorization. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) presents Kunié Sugiura: Photopainting, the artist’s first survey exhibition in the U.S., on view from April 26 to September 14, 2025.