Past
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Hitoshi Fugo: KAMI
April 19 - June 1, 2024 Japanese photographer Hitoshi Fugo (b. 1947)’s still-life studies explore a single subject’s nuanced multi-faceted expressions until the subject becomes detached from its category, meaning, or identity. He commits to an ongoing experimentation in dismantling these boundaries.This exhibition features one of his most ambitious yet long-silenced project entitled KAMI. Read more -
Joo Myung Duck: Sensory Space in Photography
In Conversation with Korean Abstract Painting March 8 - April 13, 2024 From March 8 to April 13, 2024, MIYAKO YOSHINAGA is pleased to present Sensory Space in Photography by Korean artist Joo Myung Duck (b. 1940), an exhibit showcasing the artist's transition from social realism to abstract photography. Sensory Space in Photography is a follow-up to the gallery's first exhibition of... Read more -
Melissa Shook: Krissy's Present
"Krissy" Series 1965-1983 December 8, 2023 - January 20, 2024 In the mid-1960s Shook, a single mother, began photographing her mixed-race infant daughter Kristina – “Krissy.” Krissy recalls she could think of no other way to have grown up with her mother, holding the camera and photographing her all the time. “My earliest memories are of being photographed with my... Read more -
More Than ONE
Ken Ohara's Photographic Journey 1972-2012 September 15 - October 31, 2023 Ken Ohara (b. 1942) is known as an innovator in the genre of photographic portraiture by transforming our standard perceptions of others, ourselves, and what photography might be best suited to accomplish. In 1970, while working as an assistant to Hiro and Richard Avedon, he emerged as a young... Read more -
Carolyn Swiszcz: Burgers & Bonsai
May 19 - June 30, 2023 Burgers & Bonsai is an exhibition by Minnesota-based American artist Carolyn Swiszcz and features her signature uncanny, yet affectionate landscapes and building exteriors. She imbues her works with vibrant colors and patterns, drawing inspiration from quirky features of buildings, parks, signs, banners, window displays, and trees. Using a wide range of printmaking techniques including stencils, stamps, and monoprint processes, she makes her images pop with delightful surprises. Read more -
Manika Nagare: Spectrum of Vivid Moments
March 17 - April 22, 2023 Tokyo-based painter Manika Nagare applies multiple layers of unmixed colors onto the canvas, conveying shifting differences in light and perspective. Her powerfully sophisticated work strives to elicit vivid moments of all human life. This exhibition will also introduce Nagare's new project Track of Colors, inspired by the works of Japanese female artists of the last century who were active but marginalized in society. Read more -
Eccentric Vision
Works on Paper from a Private Collection February 17 - March 11, 2023 Our new exhibition of twenty works on paper recreates the distinctive spirit of a lifetime interest in non-traditional techniques, mediums and narrative visions. The exhibition features works dating from the 1970s to 2010s that embody the collector’s open-minded approach with a nod to eccentric imagery. While Susan Te Kahurangi King... Read more -
Hitoshi Fugo: WATCHERS
November 2, 2022 - January 7, 2023 Hitoshi Fugo’s photography not only captures his subjects with surrounding realities but also inspires a new set of perspectives through his conceptual approach. This exhibition features the artist’s lesser-known color series entitled Watchers consisting of a series of head-and-shoulder portraits of an anonymous person watching a scenic view from a distance. Viewed from behind, Fugo’s camera focuses on the person’s back, leaving the scenery blurry and abstract. Read more -
Melissa Shook: Early Self-Portraits 1972-1973
September 8 - October 15, 2022 Featuring 31 images, the exhibition highlights American artist Melissa Shook’s early self-portraits, a pioneering project exploring intimate female identity in photography. Read more -
Lasting Life
Works by Dominique Paul and José Luis Fariñas July 6 - August 5, 2022 "Lasting Life," an elegant thought-provoking two-person show featuring a selection of works by Canadian artist Dominique Paul and Cuban artist José Luis Fariñas. Both artists utilize insects – bees, butterflies, etc. – as a metaphor for the changing nature of human existence. Paul’s opulent photographic prints concern the biological and ecological coexistence of humans and insects, whereas Farinãs‘s intricate ink-and-watercolor drawings deal with the introspective and philosophical implications of their coexistence. Read more -
Emi Anrakuji: Ehagaki – Picture Postcard
May 14 - June 30, 2022 This exhibition features over 30 color-pigment self-portraits that Anrakuji meticulously printed on vintage postcards (in Japanese, ehagaki – picture postcard) collected by her grandfather at the turn of the last century. The grandfather, a wine importer in Tokyo, frequently traveled to Europe and brought back these postcards, a popular novelty among collectors especially from the 1890s to the 1910s. In the early 2000s, Anrakuji was struck by these images/objects that cross lines of geography, economy, and politics revealing a complex history of visual culture. In them, she felt a strong connection to her grandfather who passed away well before she was born. Each work demonstrates a lyrical and sometimes provocative interplay between Anrakuji’s own shadowy figure and the miniature landscapes, buildings, ruins, and artifacts portrayed a century before by commercial photographers. Read more -
Jonathan Yukio Clark
In the Space of the Near and Distant March 17 - April 30, 2022 Jonathan Yukio Clark’s multi-disciplinary practice bridges his work in printmaking, sculpture, drawing, and textile with a focus on the intercorrelation of distant landscapes threaded together through a personal lens of family history and relationship to place. The exhibition highlights a monumental wall piece “In the Realm of Mount Mihara,” the... Read more -
Just Visiting This Planet
February 4 - March 12, 2022 In tribute to 'Just Visiting This Planet,' the 1991 documentary film of the same title which featured the legendary Japanese butoh dancer Kazuo Ôno (1906-2010), our group exhibition celebrates the creativity of a free soul without physical boundaries through the works by six contemporary Japanese photographers – Emi Anrakuji, Hitoshi... Read more -
Hai Zhang: Aged Innocence
September 17 - November 20, 2021 Between 2013 and 2017, Hai Zhang (b. 1976, lives in New York City) frequently returned to his homeland China and captured tens of thousands of black-and-white photos that exemplify the historically and culturally complex locales and their inhabitants who were facing dramatic economic changes. And yet, fascinated by stubbornly unchanged... Read more -
Karen Miranda Rivadeneira: Meda
April 23 - July 31, 2021 Karen Miranda Rivadeneira‘s new series MEDA consists of photographs, silkscreens, and paintings that are the results of her investigation on the primordial relationship between humans and the earth. Read more -
Manika Nagare: In Between
December 10, 2020 - March 31, 2021 "In Between" is the artist’s third solo exhibition in New York and her first presentation at the gallery’s Upper East Side location. The exhibition will run from December 4, 2020, to March 31, 2021. The title "In Between” is a signifier for the hypothetical space where you reaffirm life while the lives of your loved ones are near the end. Read more -
Dominique Paul: Silent Spring
September 25 - November 21, 2020 MIYAKO YOSHINAGA presents a new solo exhibition, Silent Spring by Dominique Paul (b.1967), a Canadian artist based in Montréal and New York. Inspired by Rachel Carson’s 1962 prophetic essay Silent Spring, Paul explores her visual language in the light of current political climate with an acute sense of environmental crisis. Read more -
Yojiro Imasaka: Correspondence: A benefit for covid-19 medical workers
July 1 - September 11, 2020 This exhibition sheds light on New York-based photography artist Yojiro Imasaka’s introspective work created during the last three months of the lockdown. Read more -
The Legacy of Issei Suda (1940-2019): Human Memory
January 17 - February 27, 2020 The Legacy of ISSEI SUDA (1940-2019): Human Memory is he first posthumous exhibition in the United States of renowned Japanese photographer Issei Suda, as a tribute to Suda’s legacy. The exhibition features approximately 25 monochrome prints selected from his 1996 monograph entitled "Human Memory." Read more -
Mikiko Hara: Kyrie
September 12 - October 26, 2019 In Mikiko Hara’s latest series Kyrie — the title of which is inspired by its mystic sound rather than its origin in Christianity — the artist’s intuitive eye taps into hidden narratives behind seemingly mundane moments in the suburbs of Tokyo. Read more
Online
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Coexistence
Four-Person Online Exclusive Exhibition January 11 - February 15, 2023 To kick off the new year, MIYAKO YOSHINAGA is pleased to present Coexistence, an online-exclusive exhibition featuring landscapes by four gallery artists: Hai Zhang, Jonathan Yukio Clark, Koyoltzintli, and Lisa Ross. Read more -
Synesthesia
Asia Week New York Online Exhibition September 14 - 23, 2022 The artist Manika Nagare (b. 1975) strives to extract colors from the infinite spectrum of light omnipresent in her surroundings – people and the world at large. When light sparkles, she can see “the simple and absolute color”– according to the artist. Nagare plays with multiple layers of simple colors, conveying shifting differences in light and perspective. Brushstrokes are as light as a feather touching skin and lines are as organic as a flowing waterfall.
Hitoshi Fugo (b. 1947) combines images from two different sites to create a simple structure. In this "Waterfall" series. he juxtaposes the act of watching Kegon Falls (Japan) on the left and Niagara Falls (US/Canada) on the right. The photographs focusing on the back of a watcher present countless visual clues to the subjects’ individuality and even evoke our imagination of his/her inner feelings. There are a total of 23 such pairs. Fugo created another set of 23 pairs of a person watching a city scape from a skyscraper n Tokyo and New York respectively. Read more
