Yuko Hasegawa (curator)


Yuko Hasegawa is Artistic Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo and professor of curatorial and art theory at Tokyo University of the Arts.

Biography

Hasegawa graduated from Kyoto University with a Bachelor of Arts in Law, and from Tokyo University of the Arts with an Master of Fine Arts in Art History.
Past positions include Chief Curator and Founding Artistic Director of the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa from 1999 to 2006 and Chief Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo from 2006 to 2016. 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.
She is known for her work in various biennales including the 7th Moscow Biennale, 11th Sharjah Biennale, 12th Venice Biennale of Architecture, the 29th Sao Paulo Biennale, the 4th Seoul International Media Art Biennale, and the 7th Istanbul Biennial.
Her recently curated exhibitions include Fukami: A Plunge into Japanese aesthetics at Hotel Salmon de Rothschild, Paris, at Centre Pompidou-Metz, and Kishio Suga: Situations at Pirelli Hangar Bicocca, Milan. She is also the artistic director of the Inujima Art House Project.

Exhibitions