Midori Yoshimoto, Ph.D.

New Jersey City University Art Department 2039 Kennedy Boulevard Jersey City, NJ 07305-1597 Tel: (201) 200-2197 [email protected]

EDUCATION Ph. D., Art History, Department of Art History, Rutgers University, May 2002 M.A., Art History, and Curatorial Studies Certificate, Rutgers University, October 1996 B.A., Art History, and Museum Studies Certificate, University, Japan, March 1994

AREA OF EXPERTISE Contemporary art (with particular focus on Japanese/diasporic artists and Fluxus)

SELECT GRANTS AND AWARDS New Jersey State Council on the Arts Grant for the Persistence of History exhibition, 2018 Separately Budgeted Research Grant, New Jersey City University, 2008-2009 International Incentive Grant, NJCU, spring 2007 New Jersey State Council on the Arts Grant for the Elizabeth Catlett exhibition, 2006. Separately Budgeted Research Grant, New Jersey City University, 2004-2005 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research, Rutgers University, May 2001 Rutgers University and Bevier Dissertation Fellowship, 2000-2001 Rutgers University Graduate Student Assistantship, Zimmerli Art Museum, 1997-2000 Rotary Foundation International Friendship Ambassadorial Scholarship, 1994 -1995

SELECT TEACHING EXPERIENCE New Jersey City University, Jersey City, NJ, Art Department Associate Professor, Fall 2009 to the present Assistant Professor, Fall 2003 to Spring 2009  teach Contemporary Art, Asian Art, Women Artists, and Gallery Management I & II Rider College, Lawrenceville, NJ, Department of Fine Arts Visiting assistant Professor, Spring 2003  taught Art and Society course Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, Department of History of Art Visiting Associate Professor, Spring 2003  taught 20th-Century Art course

SELECT MUSEUM AND GALLERY EXPERIENCE New Jersey City University Galleries, Jersey City, NJ Gallery Director, August 2003 to the present  manage two galleries and work-study and student assistants  organize exhibitions and related programs and promote them The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Education Lecturer, November 2004 to the present  deliver gallery talks and other public/private lectures on demand The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ Assistant Curator of Japonisme Collection, August 1996 to August 2002/ part time 2  curated and installed exhibitions, using the museum's Japonisme collection SELECT CURATED EXHIBITIONS

 Constructed Space at NJCU Lemmerman Gallery, October 2017  Self-Reimagined at NJCU Lemmerman Gallery, March 2017  Allegory of Leaves at NJCU Lemmerman Gallery, November 2016  Hackensack Dreaming Nancy Cohen at NJCU Visual Arts Gallery, Fall 2015  Jerseyscapes at NJCU Galleries, Fall 2014  Babs Reingold: The Last Tree, at Ise Cultural Foundation Gallery, 2013  Margaret Murphy, A Ten-Year Survey, Decoding the Marketplace: coupons, dollar stores, and eBay, at NJCU Lemmerman Gallery, 2012 (traveled to Ramapo College, NJ, and Goucher College, Maryland)  New Tale of Our Age at the Visual Art Center of New Jersey, Summit, 2009  Resonance: Five Women Artists in New Jersey, at NJCU Gallery, March 2005  Do-It-Yourself Fluxus at Art Interactive, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Fall 2003

SELECT PUBLICATIONS BOOKS and EXHIBITION CATALOG ESSAYS  Women, Aging, and Art: A Crosscultural Anthology (Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2020)  Into Performance: Japanese Women Artists in New York, 1955-75 (Rutgers University Press, 2005)  “Building a Room of One’s Own: Challenges of Shizuko Yoshikawa.” (Japanese, English, German) Müller, Lars, ed. Shizuko Yoshikawa. Zurich: Lars Müller Publishers, 2018. Pp. 219 – 234.  “Gutai Women Artists” in “Why Asian Art Now?,” special English issue, Bijutsu Techō (spring 2016): 81.  “1962-1964” in Yoko Ono One Woman Show (New York: MoMA, 2015)  “Challenging Infinity: Yuko Nasaka,” in Yuko Nasaka (Ghent, Belgium: Axel and May Vervoorst Foundation, 2015)  “In Pursuit of White Abstractions: Imai Norio and the Global Art of the 1960s” (Japanese) in Norio Imai: Gutai and Later Work (Osaka: Art Court Gallery, 2014)  “Fluxus Nexus: Fluxus in New York and Japan” in post.at.moma.org, 2013  “Limitless World: Gutai’s Reinvention in Environment Art and Intermedia” in Gutai: Splended Playground. exh. cat. New York: Guggenheim Museum, 2013  “In Pursuit of White Abstractions: Imai Norio and the Global Art of the 1960s” in Norio Imai. exh. cat. Antwerp: Axel and May Voorst Foundation, 2013.  “Fluxus International: New York, Tokyo, and Beyond” in From Postwar to Postmodern: Art in Japan 1945-1989 Primary Documents. New York: MoMA, 2012.  “Kusama Saves the World through Self-Obliteration” [Yayoi Kusama sauve le monde par la Self-Obliteration] in Yayoi Kusama, exh. cat. Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2011  Entries on Ruth Asawa, Yong Soon Min, Roger Shimomura, Masami Teraoka, Lynn Yamamoto, Charlotte Moorman, and Alison Knowles. In Grove Dictionary on American Art. New York and London: Oxford University Press, 2010  “Beyond the Avant-Garde: Positions of Japanese Women Artists” in Dissonances: Six Japanese Women Artists, exhibition catalog, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, 2008  Entries on Yoshiaki Kaihatsu and Momoyo Torimitsu. In Making a Home: Japanese Artists in New York. New York: Japan Society, 2007 3  Japanese Women Artists and Fluxus. In Reiko Kokatsu, ed., Japanese Women Artists in Avant-garde Movements, 1950-1975. Tochigi: Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Art, 2005, pp. 20-29, 140-165, 194-205  Entries on Momoyo Torimitsu and Yutaka Sone. In Grove Art Online Dictionary. New York and London: Oxford University Press, 2005  “Mei-Tei-Sing Smith” and “Resonance: Five Asian Women Artists in New Jersey” in Transcultural New Jersey: Cross Currents in the Mainstream (Vol. 2). New Brunswick: Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Museum and Rutgers University Press, 2005, pp. 121-130  Do-It-Yourself Fluxus, exhibition brochure, Art Interactive, Cambridge, MA, 2003  Ten entries in Yes Yoko Ono (Alexandra Munroe and Jon Hendricks, eds.), published by Japan Society, New York, in association with Harry N. Abrams, October 2000

ACADEMIC JOURNAL ARTICLES/GUEST-EDITED VOLUMES

 “Umi no Utsuwa and Earth Vortex: Nobuho Nagasawa’s Interweaving of Oceanic and Island Imaginaries” in Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas, no. 3 (2017): 130-154.  “Beyond Japanese/Women Artists: Transnational Dialogues in the Art of Nobuho Nagasawa and Chiharu Shiota,” in Third Text, no. 126 (Jan. 2014): 67-81.  Co-edited the issue “Collectivism and Its Repercussions in 20th-Century Japanese Art” for Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique, vol. 21 (spring 2013; Duke Univ. Press)  Guest-edited and contributed an essay to a special issue on “Expo ’70 and Japanese Art” for the Josai Review of Japanese Culture and Art, vol. 23 (spring 2012; Josai Univ.)  Guest-edited the issue “Women and Fluxus” for Women and Performance: a journal of feminist theory, vol. 19, issue 3 (Nov. 2009; NYU/Routledge, UK)  Co-authored with Seth McCormick, Reiko Tomii, Hiroko Ikegami, and Jeffrey Wechsler, “Exhibition as Proposition: Responding Criticality to The Third Mind,” transcription of a roundtable discussion, Art Journal, vol. 68, no. 3 (Fall 2009): 30-49  “From Space to Environment: The Origins of Kankyō and the Emergence of Intermedia Art in Japan,” Art Journal, vol. 67, no. 3 (Fall 2008; College Art Association): 24-45  “A Study of Miyori Hayashi’s Box,” in Shinobu Ikeda, et al. ed., Kaken Study of Japanese Modern Women Artists Report. Chiba: Chiba University, 2007  “Off Museum! Performance Art That Turned the Street into ‘Theatre’ Circa 1964 Tokyo,” Performance Paradigm, no. 2, (2006), pp. 53-64  “Women Artists in the Japanese Postwar Avant-Garde: Celebrating a Multiplicity,” in Woman’s Art Journal, vol. 27, no. 1 (spring/summer 2006), pp. 26-32.  “Beyond Memories of Wars and Conflicts: Healing Art of Nobuho Nagasawa,” Image and Gender (Japanese), vol. 6 (March 2006), pp. 58-64.  “What is ‘Japanese Painting’ Today? Young Artists Deconstruct Nihonga,” Anthology of Essays Celebrating the Retirement of Dr. Eiko Wakayama. Osaka University, 2006  Some Yong People—From Nonfiction Theater. (English translation of a film transcription). Review of Japanese Culture and Society, no. 17 (2005), pp. 98-105  “Emergence of Women in the Japanese Avant-Garde, 1955-1965,” in Review of Japanese Culture and Society, an annual English journal published by the Center for Inter-Cultural Studies and Education, Josai University, Vol. XV (December 2003)  "Instructions for Life: Rediscovering Yoko Ono,” essay including an interview with 4 Yoko Ono, in Dialogue, the journal of Asian American Arts Alliance, NY, 2001

SELECT PUBLIC LECTURES and CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS  “Japanese Women Artists Then and Now,” Portland State University, February 2019  ”Legacy of Yasumasa Morimura” at Japan Society, New York, November 2018  “From Fluxus to Video Art: The Art Couple – Shigeko Kubota and Nam June Paik,” Korean Cultural Center, organized by AHL Foundation, September 2018  “Body Politics in the Art of Mitsuko Tabe,” at the College Art Association Annual Conference in New York, 2017  “Yoko Ono and Japanese Performance Artists,” Distinguished Lecturers Series, the Delaware Museum of Art, September 19, 2014  “What Does It Mean to be a Diasporic Japanese Woman Artist Today? The Case Study of Chiharu Shiota” at The Future of Asian Art Symposium, organized by Diasporic Asian Art Network at Asian/Pacific/Art Institute, , May 2011  co-organized a full-day workshop on "The Osaka Expo '70 and the Japanese Avant- Garde" at Harvard University and presented a paper, “Dissonant Voices: Artists’ Participants’ Critique of Expo ‘70” in November 2010  “Japanese Women Artists in Fluxus” at the event, "Fluxus Women: Now and Then" held at The Museum of Modern Art, New York in October 2010  organized “Fluxus Women” panel discussion at New York University, 2009  “Gazing Back: Women Artists’ Critique of the Japanese Cute” at the symposium, “Places at the Table: Asian Women Artists and Gender Dynamics” at the Berkeley Art Museum (organized by UC Berkeley and Mills College), September 13, 2008  “Gazing Back: Japanese Women Artists Subverting Stereotypes” at the Brooklyn Museum, May 31, 2008  “From Space to Environment: the Origins and Development of Japanese Kankyō,” at New England East Asian Art History Seminar (NEEAAHS) at Harvard Univ., 2008  “Public Art as Catalyst of Social Action: Transnational Collaborations in the Art of Nobuho Nagasawa" at the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Humanities Conference, "Migration, Empire, and Transformation," UCLA, May 17-19, 2007  “From Space to Environment: the Origins and Development of Japanese Kankyō” at the Second PoNJA conference “(Rajikaru!) Experimentations in Japanese Art, 1950–1975" at the Getty Research Institute, , CA, April 27, 2007  “Between Art and Crime: Performance That Pushed the Envelope of Japanese Art” at the Performance Studies International 12th Conference at Univ.of London, June 2006  co-chaired the panel, “Collectivism and Its Repercussions in 20th-Century Japan,” with Reiko Tomii, at the College Art Association Annual Conference in Boston, 2006  “Japanese Women Artists in the United States,” at the symposium held in conjunction with the exhibition Japanese Women in Avant-Garde Movements, 1950-1975, at The Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Art, August 7, 2005.  “Off Museum: Staging the Ephemeral in circa 1964 Tokyo” at the first PoNJA symposium, hosted by , April 22-23, 2005  “What is ‘Japanese Painting’ Today? Young Artists Deconstruct Nihonga” at Asian Art session at the College Art Association Annual Conference in Atlanta, February 18, 2005  “Films by Yoko Ono,” lecture in conjunction with the exhibition “Flux Mass,” at the Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, MA, April 3, 2003.