Mika Yoshitake

Mika Yoshitake, PhD is an independent curator with expertise in postwar Japanese art. She received her MA and PhD in Art History from UCLA, which culminated in the AICA-USA award-winning exhibition and catalogue "Requiem for the Sun: The Art of Mono-ha" (2012), introducing the late 1960s Japanese art movement, Mono-ha (School of Things) into an international context. Previously Curator at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (2011–18), she organized the six-venue North American tour of "Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors" (2017–19) among other exhibitions. She has been guest curator of "Topologies" (2018) at The Warehouse in Dallas, TX, "Parergon: Japanese Art of the 1980s and 1990s" (2019) at Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, "Yoshitomo Nara" (2021) at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, "KUSAMA: Cosmic Nature" (2021) at the New York Botanical Garden and “YAYOI KUSAMA: 1945-NOW” (2022) at M+ Hong Kong. Yoshitake has published in Artforum, Art in America, Bijutsu Techō, Exposure, and Kaleidoscope and edited/contributed to catalogues on Carl Andre, Takashi Arai, Adam Helms, Donald Judd, Yayoi Kusama, Kwon Youngwoo, Lee Ufan, Shana Lutker, Takashi Murakami, Kazumi Nakamura, Yoshitomo Nara, Shōzō Shimamoto, Kishio Suga, Mika Tajima, and Miwa Yanagi.