NISHIKAWA Mihoko

Profile

Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo since 2004.

Recent curation
2022 "MOT Annual 2022 My justice might be someone else’s pain,” Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
2021 "Viva Video! :The Art and Life of Shigeko Kubota,” Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (Co-Curation)
2014 “Fluxus in Japan 2014,” Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
2012 “MOT Annual 2012 Making Situations and Editing Landscapes,” Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
2012 "Ay-O, Over the rainbow once more,” Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

Awards
2022 "Ringa Art Encouragement Award" for Curation and essay in the catalogue of ”Viva Video! :The Art and Life of Shigeko Kubota” 
2012 The Japan Association of Art Museums "Exhibition Catalog Excellent Essay Award" for “Ay-O, Over the rainbow once more”

About works

She is interested in immaterial expressions such as performance, conceptual art, and video art since the 1960s. Exhibitions she has curated at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo include retrospectives of Fluxus artists such as Ay-O and Shigeko Kubota, and the exhibition “Making Situations and Editing Landscapes,”in which she collaborated with artists who create situations rather than forms.