• Update Date: 2024.05.17
• Category: Offsite Events

Miyuki Tsugami X Akemi Sakamoto Talk Event

A talk event will be held on Saturday 25 May, the last day of Miyuki Tsugami’s solo exhibition “Fragments, Plants, and Places with People” at ANOMALY. Akemi Sakamoto, the Chief Curator at Ueno Royal Museum, will be invited, offering a rare opportunity to discover the connection between Tsugami and Sakamoto; as well as the behind-the-scenes of Tsugami’s works,  the series of View, 20 Pieces, 2020-21 and copperplate prints, which are being shown for the first time at this exhibition.

We sincerely look forward to your participation.

Date & Time: May 25 (Sat.), 2024. 18:00 – 19:30
Speakers: Miyuki Tsugami and Akemi Sakamoto (Chief Curator, Ueno Royal Museum)
Language: Japanese
Admission: Free
Reservation: Booking through ArtSticker
*Same-day tickets are available. However please be aware that seatings are reserved on a first-come-first-serve basis.
Venue: ANOMALY, Tokyo
*The talk is fully booked.
*Additionally, this talk event will have a live stream on YouTube.
For visitors who are unable to attend on the day, please watch it via the link here.

Speakers Profile:

Miyuki Tsugami
Born in 1973, Tokyo, raised in Osaka. Lives and works in Kanagawa.

Completed a Master’s degree in fine art from the Kyoto University of the Arts in 1998. The artistic maneuver of Tsugami’s painting is based on her long-standing reexamination and continuous exploration derived from her stay in New York in 1996 to her time on a residency program hosted by Ohara Museum of Art in Okayama in 2005 when she established a distinctive practice to create a painting from numerous sketches taken in her everyday life. As part of the Gotoh Memorial Foundation Award in Fine Art Division she was given in 2013, the one-year experience to stay in the UK – known for the birthplace of landscape painting cultivated her practice further and the artistic production with contemplation over the many painters of all time. The titles of her works are prefixed with “View” which originates from a perspective that the artistic depiction of her painting extends more than just a single subject or a scene, moreover, it encompasses a wider point of view and its complexity.
Her major exhibitions include “ARKO TSUGAMI MIYUKI,“ Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama (2005), “TSUGAMI Miyuki View－Trace and Reprise,” Ichinomiya City Memorial Art Museum of Setsuko Migishi, Aichi, (2013), “TSUGAMI Miyuki Japanese Landscapes-Uckermark Landscapes,” Dominikanerkloster Klostergalerie, Prenzlau, Germany (2015), “Tsugami Miyuki,” Kitakata City Museum of Art, Fukushima (2018), “TSUGAMI Miyuki,” The Ueno Royal Museum Gallery, Tokyo (2018), “TSUGAMI Miyuki View-People and Landscapes,” Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum, Nagasaki (2019). Tsugami was also the recipient of the Vision of Contemporary Art (VOCA) Award in 2003.

Akemi Sakamoto
Chief Curator, The Ueno Royal Museum / Lecturer, Joshibi University of Art and Design

Has been working as a curator for the Hakone Open-Air Museum（1988-1997） and the Ueno Royal Museum (1997-).
Exhibitions and projects she curated include Pablo Picasso Exhibitions（1999, 2002, 2003）, “VOCA, The Vision of Contemporary Art”（annually since 2000 to 2022）, one-person exhibitions of artists selected from “VOCA”——Koki Tanaka, Izumi Kato, Yuken Teruya, Tsuyoshi Higashijima, Eri Takayanagi, Miyuki Tsugami, etc., “art-Link Ueno-Yanaka” (since 1997 to 2013), “Sigmar Polke: Alice in Wonderland” (2005), “Makoto Aida and Akira Yamaguchi” (2007), and “Art of our time” (2008).
Since  2022, she has been holding exhibitions in a gallery space “Soramame” set up in her own home.