• Update Date: 2025.04.17
• Category: Talk Event

As a related event to Daichiro Shinjo’s solo exhibition “Aka,” a talk event will be held on the first day of the opening. Guests will be 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa registrar Hitoshi Motohashi and TOO MUCH Magazine editor-in-chief Keito Tsujimura. This is a rare opportunity for three people active in different fields to discuss about Daichiro’s works and this exhibition from their respective perspectives. Please join us.

Date & Time: 2025.4.26 (Sat.) 15:00  – 16:30
*Please note that the exhibition will not be accessible during the talk event. We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your understanding.

Speakers: Daichiro Shinjo, Jin Motohashi (Registrar of 21st Century Museum, Kanazawa), Yoshito Tsujimura (Editor-in-Chief of TOO MUCH Magazine)

Venue: ANOMALY, Tokyo

Capacity：30 people　*Reservation request

*Reservation details will be announced on the website and social media later.

Speakers’ Profiles:

Daichiro Shinjo (Artist of the Exhibition)
(b. 1992) was born and raised on Miyako Island, Okinawa. Introduced to the world of Buddhism from an early age by his grandfather, the folklorist and Zen priest Keisho Okamoto, Shinjo first began practicing calligraphy at the age of four. Building on his upbringing steeped in the teachings of Zen and the spiritual culture of Okinawa, Shinjo brings contemporary new light to calligraphic traditions with his own free style, unbound by traditional calligraphic forms.
A graduate of the Shizuoka University of Art and Culture, Shinjo’s work has been exhibited widely both in Japan and abroad. In 2017, he presented his first solo exhibition, Surprise, at Playmountain Tokyo. In 2023, he made his international exhibition debut with a solo show at the ALTA Gallery in Los Angeles. Shinjo has also collaborated with fashion brands such as Comme des Garçons and Hermès, appearing in the latter’s documentary film series Human Odyssey in 2021. Shinjo currently resides on Miyako Island, where he founded the artist residency and gallery PALI in May 2022. He participated in an art project held in the Tokyu Kabukicho Tower in 2023 by installing works in a hotel entrance and guest rooms, and contributed a work for the exhibition DANCING WITH ALL: The Ecology of Empathy at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, in 2024. In 2025, he published SUDIRU (Published by Akaaka Art Publishing, Inc.), a collection of photographs taken by his late grandfather Keisho Okamoto, who documented festivals and functions in Miyakojima in the 1970s, and his own works as his grandson.

Jin Motohashi
Ph.D. Engineering. Curator and historian of architecture. Registrar, 21st Century Museum, Kanazawa; Visiting researcher, Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties; Visiting Associate Professor, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature. Previously worked as an intern at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Assistant Curator at the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; Director at Meguro Architecture Laboratory Co., Ltd.; and Research Associate at the Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University. In 2014, he participated in the Japan Pavilion at the 14th International Architecture Exhibition – Venice Biennale. In 2020, he curated 100 Years of BUNRIHA: Can Architecture Be Art? In 2024, DANCING WITH ALL. His publications include Critical words for contemporary architecture (Film Art, Inc. 2022) and HOLZ BAU──Timber Architecture in the Early Modern Period of Germany (TOTO, 2022). He was in charge of a renovation project of the former Honjo Commercial Bank Brick Warehouse in Honjo, originally constructed in 1896.

Yoshito Tsujimura
Editor-in-Chief of TOO MUCH Magazine. Born in Kyoto. Started independent publishing after graduating from university and launched TOO MUCH Magazine in 2011. With its motto, ‘Magazine of Romantic Geography,’ it focuses on people’s experiences within urban spaces and is sold both domestically and internationally. As an editor, they were involved in editing ‘SUDIRU’ (Akaaka-sha), co-authored by Keisho Okamoto and Daichiro Shinjo, and in the production of Naoki Ishikawa’s photo exhibition ‘With the Whole Earth Below’ (Goldwin).