Yayoi Kusama Curator’s Talk with Mika Yoshitake
Photo courtesy of Mika Yoshitake
This ticket is for admission to Curator's Talk with Mika Yoshitake and does not include admission to the Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrorsexhibition.
Yayoi Kusama Curator’s Talk with Mika Yoshitake
Join Mika Yoshitake, curator of Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, for an insightful talk about Kusama’s life and work.
Mika Yoshitake was a Curator at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., where she has curated Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors (2017), Shana Lutker: Le ‘NEW’ Monocle, Chapters 1-3 (2015-16), Le Onde:Waves of Italian Influence (2015), Days of Endless Time,Speculative Forms, and Gravity’s Edge (all 2014);Sitebound: Photography from the Collection and Dark Matters (2012), and coordinated the first North American survey of Ai Weiwei: According to What? (2012). A specialist on postwar Japanese art, Mika earned her doctorate in Art History from UCLA, which culminated in the AICA-USA award-winning exhibition and book, Requiem for the Sun: The Art of Mono-ha (2012). She has published widely in magazines and exhibition catalogues including Carl Andre: Sculpture as Place (Dia Art Foundation, 2014); Tokyo 1955–1970: A New Avant-garde (MoMA, 2012);Lee Ufan: Marking Infinity (Guggenheim, 2011) and © MURAKAMI (MOCA, 2008).
