Yeewan Koon; Mika Yoshitake Events On Yoshitomo Nara A Conversation with Yeewan Koon & Mika Yoshitake Thursday, Oct 15, 20208 PM EDT / 5 PM PDT Instagram Live On the occasion of Yoshitomo Nara's exhibitions After all I'm cosmic dust in New York and Yoshitomo Nara at LACMA, we are pleased to present a conversation between author Yeewan Koon and LACMA curator Mika Yoshitake. Event DetailsOn Yoshitomo Nara: A Conversation with Yeewan Koon & Mika YoshitakeThursday, Oct 15, 20208 PM EDT / 5 PM PDT How to WatchThis event has concluded. ExploreYoshitomo Nara: After all I'm cosmic dust Yoshitomo Nara by Yeewan Koon, published by Phaidon © 2020 Phaidon Yeewan KoonProfessor Yeewan Koon is Chair of the Department of Art History at The University of Hong Kong. She is the author of Yoshitomo Nara, the first major monograph on the artist, published by Phaidon Press. In 2018, she was selected as one of the curators for the Gwangju Biennale and she is currently preparing an exhibition on Hong Kong art as a satellite event of the Helsinki Biennale. (opens in a new window) Purchase Phaidon's Yoshitomo Nara Installation view, Yoshitomo Nara, LACMA, Los Angeles, 2020 © Yoshitomo Nara Mika YoshitakeMika Yoshitake is an independent curator with expertise in postwar Japanese art. She earned her MA and PhD in Art History from UCLA, which culminated in the AICA-USA award-winning exhibition Requiem for the Sun: The Art of Mono-ha (2012) at Blum & Poe, Los Angeles. Recent curatorial projects include Parergon: Japanese Art of the 1980s and 1990s (2019) at Blum & Poe and Topologies (2018) at The Warehouse in Dallas, TX. Currently, Yoshitake is guest curator of Yoshitomo Nara (2020), an international retrospective originating at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, KUSAMA: Cosmic Nature (2021) at New York Botanical Garden, and forthcoming exhibitions at M+ Hong Kong (2022) and Hammer Museum (2024). Formerly curator at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (2011–18), where she curated Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors (2017–19), Shana Lutker: Le “New” Monocle, Chapters 1–3 (2015–16), Days of Endless Time (2014) among other exhibitions, she also helped organize Lee Ufan: Marking Infinity (2011) at the Guggenheim Museum, New York; and © MURAKAMI (2007–09) at Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Past Yoshitomo Nara After all I'm cosmic dust Sep 18 – Oct 24, 2020 New York Journal View All Essays Nara: A Timeline 1988 – 2023 Jan 17, 2024 Films Explore "Ceramic Works" with Yoshitomo Nara Sep 22, 2023 Museum Exhibitions Yoshitomo Nara at The Art Gallery of Western Australia Jan 24, 2023 Pace Publishing Yoshitomo Nara: Pinacoteca Sep 13, 2022 Events — On Yoshitomo Nara: A Conversation with Yeewan Koon & Mika Yoshitake, Oct 15, 2020