Exhibitions in Tokyo and Toyota showcase female innovators, visiting foreign artists
Concurrent shows “Prism of the Real: Making Art in Japan, 1989-2010” and “Anti-Action: Artist Women’s Challenges and Responses in Postwar Japan” reexamine the country’s modern art through fresh feminist and postmodern lenses. (Source photos by Edward M. Gomez, websites of the National Art Center, Tokyo, and Toyota Municipal Museum of Art)
EDWARD M. GOMEZ
November 22, 2025 08:20 JST
TOKYO — In recent decades, Japanese modern and contemporary art have become well established within the broader historical narrative of modernism’s evolution from the latter 1800s through the late 20th century. Since the 1980s, high-profile exhibitions at such venues as the Pompidou Center in Paris, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York have introduced audiences in Europe and the U.S. to the creations and ideas of noteworthy Japanese modern artists.