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Osaka Eriko has coordinated and curated many international exhibitions of contemporary art while at the Japan Foundation and ICA, Nagoya. She worked at the Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito as senior curator (1994–1997) and artistic director (1997–2006) and Mori Art Museum as artistic director (2007–2009), before assuming her position as director, Yokohama Museum of Art in 2009. She became director of the National Art Center, Tokyo in October 2019, and has been director of the National Museum of Art since July 2021. She served as commissioner for the Japan Pavilion in the 49th Venice Biennale (2001), and since the 4th Yokohama Triennale in 2011 until the 7th Yokohama Triennale in 2020, has served roles such as the director general and chair of the Yokohama Triennale Organizing Committee.

Wanibuchi was first elected to the 20th House of Councilors in July 2004 and served one term of six years. in October 2017, she was elected to the 48th House of Representatives. Appointed parliamentary vice-minister for Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in the Suga Cabinet in September 2020. In October 2021, she was elected to a second term in the Kinki Block of the House of Representatives and reappointed as parliamentary vice-minister for Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in the first Kishida Cabinet.

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Kataoka was chief curator at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery (1997–2002) prior to the Mori Art Museum (2003–), where she assumed the position of director in 2020. Kataoka was also international curator at the Hayward Gallery, London (2007–9); co-artistic director for the 9th Gwangju Biennale, South Korea (2012); and artistic director of the 21st Biennale of Sydney (2018), artistic director of the Aichi Triennale 2022. She has been serving as a board member of International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art (CIMAM; 2014–) and was appointed the president of CIMAM 2020–22. Other positions include: visiting professor at Kyoto University of the Arts Graduate School; visiting professor at Tokyo University of the Arts’ Faculty of Fine Arts, Graduate School of Fine Arts; chair of Contemporary Art Committee Japan, Art Platform Japan; and member of International Association of Art Critics (AICA). Kataoka frequently writes, lectures, and juries on contemporary art from Japan, Asia, and beyond.

Devika Singh is curator, International Art at Tate Modern where she is in charge of South Asian art and part of the Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational. She holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge and was Smuts Research Fellow at the Centre of South Asian Studies at Cambridge as well as a fellow at the Centre allemand d’histoire de l’art in Paris. She is the author of the book International Departures: Art in India and its Transnational Context (Reaktion Books, 2023). Her writing has also appeared widely in exhibition catalogues, magazines including frieze, Art Press, and MARG and in the journals Art History, Modern Asian Studies, Journal of Art Historiography and Third Text. Singh co-curated Gedney in India (Jehangir Nicholson Foundation, CSMVS, Mumbai, 2017; Duke University, 2018) and curated exhibitions including Planetary Planning (Dhaka Art Summit, 2018) and Homelands: Art from Bangladesh, India and Pakistan (Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, 2019–20).

Jasper Sharp is a British curator and art historian. He began his career at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, in 1999, and worked there until he moved to Vienna in 2005. As the curator for Modern and Contemporary Art at the Kunsthistorisches Museum from 2011 to 2021, he mounted exhibitions of artists including Joseph Cornell, Susan Philipsz, Lucian Freud, Kathleen Ryan, and Mark Rothko. He also worked closely with Ed Ruscha, Edmund de Waal, and Wes Anderson & Juman Malouf on presentations of the museum’s historical collections. In 2013 he was Commissioner of the Austrian Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale, and was founding curator of the talks programme at Frieze Masters, London. He is the founder and Director of Phileas, an independent philanthropic organization that seeks to strengthen the voice of Austrian and Austrian-based artists on the international landscape.

Horikawa Lisa is overseeing the strategic development and sustainable promotion of collections including artworks and archives. She was a lead-curator of Between Declarations and Dreams: Art of Southeast Asia since the 19th Century (2015), (Re)Collect: The Making of Our Art Collection (2018) and co-curated Reframing Modernism: Painting from Southeast Asia, Europe and Beyond (2016). Prior to joining the Gallery, she was a member of the curatorial team of the Long March Project in Beijing, from 2002 to 2003, and Curator at Fukuoka Asian Art Museum in Japan from 2003 to 2012. She holds an MA in Art History from Kyushu University.

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Hosaka was curator at the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (MOMAT) from 2000 through 2020 prior to the Shiga Museum of Art (SMoA) where he assumed the position of director on January 1, 2021. He has curated many exhibitions including Double Vision: Contemporary Art from Japan (Moscow Museum of Modern Art and Haifa Museum of Art, 2012), Logical Emotion: Contemporary Art from Japan (Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, etc., 2014–15), The Voice Between: The Art and Poetry of Yoshimasu Gozo (MOMAT, 2016), The Japanese House: Architecture and Life after 1945 (MAXXI, the National Museum of 21st Century Arts, and MOMAT, 2016–17), and Genius: The Human Gift for Creating and Living (SMoA, 2022). He is also curator of the main program of the Vladivostok International Biennale of Visual Arts 2022.

Koike Ai started her career as a member of a startup company when she was in college. After graduating from Keio University, she joined Hakuhodo, the second largest advertisement agency in Japan. In 2012, Koike changed her career to become an investor and joined Advantage Partners, LLP, one of the top private equity funds in Asia. From 2015, she started investing in startups in Southeast Asian countries and India under Asuka Holdings Singapore. She has served as a private corporate advisor, and is a contemporary art collector and a master of Kaiseki cuisine. She launched The Creative Fund, LLP in 2020. Since 2021, she has been teaching at Kyoto University of the Art as an assistant professor.

©Koshima Yukiko

After graduating from Gakushuin University with a degree in political science, Shiomi went on to complete a diploma course in contemporary art at Sotheby’s Institute of Art in London. In 2002, she co-founded the nonprofit organization Arts Initiative Tokyo (AIT) and became its director. As part of AIT’s activities, she initiated a residency program for artists, curators, and writers in addition to a contemporary art educational program called MAD. Besides operating the organization, she is also involved in planning and managing projects with such partners as Mercedes-Benz Japan, Monex, Inc., Nissan Motor Corporation, and Mitsubishi Corporation. She also works as an advisor and a jury for art foundations and art awards.

Tsubaki exhibited his representative work Fresh gasoline in Against Nature: Japanese Art in the Eighties, an exhibition he named that toured across the US from 1989 to 1991, starting from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He participated in the 45th Venice Biennale Aperto (1993). As the director of various art projects such as “Artists’ Fair Kyoto” (2018–), he strives to create new platforms of contemporary art in Japan. He also serves as the director of cooperate collections of OCA Tokyo, Universal Music, and DMG MORI.

Uematsu has been curator of the National Museum of Art, Osaka (NMAO) since 2008 and previously worked as chief curator at Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art. She has organized numerous exhibitions at NMAO including, Danh Vo oV hnaD (2020), NMAO’s 40th anniversary exhibition Travelers: Stepping into the Unknown (2018), The Self-Portrait of Yasumasa Morimura: My Art, My Story, My Art History (2016, traveled to Moscow in 2017), Wolfgang Tillmans: Your Body is Yours (2015), and co-organized Andreas Gursky (2014). She was appointed as the commissioner of Japan Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale presenting Tabaimo and the commissioner of Japan at the 13th Bangladesh Biennale presenting Yoneda Tomoko and Suda Yoshihiro. Uematsu was awarded the 11th Western Art Foundation Prize in Japan for organizing the Wolfgang Tillmans exhibition held at NMAO.