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Iemura Seminar Exhibition 2026: Placing Sawako Nasu’s Paintings in Space, Using Only Natural Light will be held at the Art-Theque Gallery, Tama Art University Hachioji Campus.

Organized by Professor Tamayo Iemura's Exhibition Design Seminar in the Department of Arts Studies at Tama Art University, the Iemura Seminar Exhibition is an annual exhibition project developed over the course of a year through close collaboration between invited artists and students. Since its inception in 2017, the project has emphasized not only the finished exhibition itself, but also the process of experimentation, dialogue, and trial and error involved in its creation. This year's edition marks the tenth installment of the series.

In recent years, the seminar has presented a series of exhibitions exploring the relationship between artworks and exhibition space using only natural light, allowing changes in daylight and weather to shape the viewing experience.

For this exhibition, approximately twelve new paintings by Sawako Nasu will be presented alongside a spatial intervention incorporating plywood panels proposed by the artist herself, introducing a new development to the ongoing series. The subtle layers of color in Nasu's paintings and the ways they shift and resonate throughout the space under changing natural light form one of the exhibition's central highlights.

Two talk sessions will also be held during the exhibition.

Sawako Nasu

Iemura Seminar Exhibition 2026: Placing Sawako Nasu's Paintings in Space, Using Only Natural Light

• Dates: October 3 (Sat) – October 26 (Mon), 2026
• Closed: Sundays (October 4, 11, 18, and 25)
• Opening Hours: 10:00–17:00
• Venue: Art-Theque Gallery, 1F (Rooms 101–105) Tama Art University Hachioji Campus (2-1723 Yarimizu, Hachioji, Tokyo 192-0394, Japan)
• Admission: Free
• Official Website: https://www.iemuraseminar.com/2026

Event:

Talk Session 1

• October 10 (Sat), 2026 | 13:00–15:00
• Venue: Art Teak Gallery 1F, Room 105
• Speakers: Sawako Nasu (Artist), Masato Kobayashi (Artist), Yoshimi Chinzei (Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo), Tamayo Iemura

Talk Session 2

• October 12 (Mon, National Holiday), 2026 | 13:00–15:00
• Venue: Art Teak Gallery 1F, Room 105
• Speakers: Sawako Nasu (Artist), Jun Aoki (Architect), Takuya Nakao (Art Critic), Ryuji Nakamura (Architect)

Photo by Suzune Kamiya

Yuki Harada's One Million Seeings (2019) will be included in Collection Exhibition 2026-I, opening June 27 at the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art.

Following Collection Exhibition 2025-III (finished in June 7), Harada’s work continues its presence in the museum's collection exhibitions.

One Million Seeings (2019) is a video work documenting the artist's act of seeing photographs he collected that "have nowhere to go”—over the course of twenty-four hours. This is an attempt to create a retreat for images that were once disposed of. The first in the series, filmed at KEN NAKAHASHI, it featured the artist himself. 

It is also the first work by Harada to be acquired by the museum.

We hope you will have the opportunity to see it.

Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art

Collection Exhibition 2026-I

June 27 (Sat) — September 23 (Wed/Holiday), 2026

https://www.hiroshima-moca.jp/exhibition/collection2026-1

Yuki Harada One Million Seeings

2019, 2-channel color video

24 hours 5 minutes 21 seconds

We are pleased to share that Yuki Harada has received the Energia Art Prize for 2026.

The Energia Prize honors achievements in art, music, traditional culture, and sports across Japan's Chūgoku region.

Our sincere thanks to everyone who continues to support Harada's practice.

We look forward to sharing more of his work in the time ahead.

Energia Prize 2026 Laureates

• Art: Yuki Harada
• Music: Satoshi Yoneda
• Traditional Culture: Ayaura Tachi-odori Preservation Society
• Sports: Takaaki Ozaki

Four works by Yuki Harada Acquired by Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art: Home Port (1 Video, 2 Print) and Light Court (1).

Harada held a solo exhibition at the museum from November 2024 to February 2025. The museum, which opened in 1989, the same year as Harada's birth, had previously acquired One Million Seeings, bringing his holdings there to five works in total.

Three of the newly acquired works, the two Home Port works on paper and the video, will be on view from 14 April, as part of a partial rehang of the museum's collection presentation. 

Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Collection Exhibition 2025-Ⅲ

• February 14 – June 7, 2026
• https://www.hiroshima-moca.jp/exhibition/collection2025-3?moca-lang=en

Light Court is also currently on view at KEN NAKAHASHI as part of the group exhibition In a Landscape (10 April – 27 June).

Created with computer graphics (CG), this work is an interior portrait of the light court in the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art. This work was produced for Harada’s solo exhibition at the museum.

We warmly invite you to visit.

Installation View: “Yuki Harada: Home Port” Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, November 30th, 2024 – February 9th, 2025

Photo: Katsura Muramatsu

Sawako Nasu’s work Green Field (2024) has been acquired by the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo as her first public collection.

We would like to express our sincere gratitude to everyone who supported this acquisition.

Nasu will also be presenting new work at a group exhibition starting April 10th.

Sawako Nasu Green Field 2024, Oil on canvas 194 x 194 cm

Installation View: Linus' Blanket, KEN NAKAHASHI, 2025 (Photo by Yuya Saito)

KEN NAKAHASHI will hold a group exhibition titled In a Landscape, on view from April 10 to June 27, 2026.

• Dates: April 10 (Fri) – June 27 (Sat), 2026
• Artists: Ryosuke Imamura, Erik Swars, Sawako Nasu, Yuki Harada, Eiki Mori
• Opening hours: Tue–Sat, 11:00–18:00
• Closed: Sun, Mon, and Public Holidays
• Opening reception: April 10 (Fri), 17:00–19:00
• Exhibition Details

Image: Yuki Harada Light Court 2024 Inkjet Print CGI: SUNJUNJIE

We are pleased to announce that The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Kazuhito Kawai has been newly acquired by the Spencer Museum of Art - The University of Kansas, USA.

Yuki Harada presents Sleep, a new performance work developed for Theatre Commons ’26.

Created in collaboration with choreographer Saori Harada, the work takes virtual reality as its central theme and unfolds as a performative installation at SHIBAURA HOUSE.

Sleep will be presented on March 4–6, 2026, as part of Theatre Commons ’26 (February 26 – March 8, 2026).

For details and reservations, please visit the official website.

https://theatercommons.tokyo/program/yuki_harada/

WhereDoWeStand? – Art in Our Time, currently on view at The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto.

Yuki Harada will participate in an artist talk featuring three exhibiting artists, to be held on Saturday, February 28 at 2:00 PM.

Artist Talk

• Date & Time: Saturday, February 28, 2026, 2:00–3:30 PM (Doors open at 1:30 PM)
• Speakers: Emiko Kasahara × Sachiko Kazama × Yuki Harada
• Venue: 1F Auditorium, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
• Capacity: 80 (first come, first served)
• Admission: Free (valid exhibition ticket required)

WhereDoWeStand? – Art in Our Time

• The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
• December 20, 2025 – March 8, 2026
• Participating Artists (in alphabetical order): Satoru Aoyama, Tomoaki Ishihara, AKI INOMATA, Motohiko Odani, Emiko Kasahara, Sachiko Kazama, Akane Saijo, Nobuhiro Shimura, Tadashi Takamine, Kyo Takemura, Koki Tanaka, Aiko Tezuka, Yuki Harada, Yukio Fujimoto, Teiji Furuhashi, Chie Matsui, Tatsuo Miyajima, Yuko Mohri, Yasumasa Morimura, Miwa Yanagi

Photo: Kohei Omachi (W)

Courtesy of the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto

Works by Masaharu Sato and Yuki Harada will be exhibited at Matsumoto Architecture Art Festival 2026 ADVANCE – Vol. 1: Video Art Festival.

Two works by Sato—Hands (2017) and I touch Dream #1 (1999)—will be presented.

Harada will exhibit his latest work, Shadowing (Aimi).

We sincerely hope you will take this opportunity to view the exhibition.

Info:

Matsumoto Architecture Art Festival 2026 ADVANCE – Vol. 1: Video Art Festival

Participating Artists: Naoki Ishikawa, Akino Kondo, Masaharu Sato, ShiShi Yamazaki, Yuki Harada, Naoki Honjo, Johnson Cheng (China/USA), Hui-song Son (Korea), Emily Reekers & Eugene Arts (Netherlands)

Dates: February 14 (Sat) – March 15 (Sun), 2026

Hours: 9:30–16:30 (Last admission at 16:00)

Venue: Special Exhibition Room, 2nd Floor, Matsumoto City Museum

Admission: Adults ¥1,100 / High school students ¥700 / Free for junior high school students and younger

Tickets: Available here

Official Website

Four works from Yuki Harada’s Shadowing series—Dan, Suzu, Rie, and Tomigoro—have been acquired by the Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto.

Dan features Pidgin translation and narration by Dwayne Mukai of the Hawaii Island Kumamoto Kenjin-kai, while Suzu and Rie are based on autobiographical writings by Barbara F. Kawakami, who was born in Kumamoto. Together with Tomigoro, which speaks of a “boat with a crooked rudder,” the works form a composition in which voices originating in Kumamoto resonate dynamically.

We would like to express our sincere gratitude to everyone who who supported this acquisition.

Photo by Shintaro Yamanaka

Yuki Harada’s One Million Seeings has been acquired by the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, with three works entering the collection.

The acquired works include:

– The first piece, filmed in 2019 at KEN NAKAHASHI (Tokyo)

– The third piece, filmed in 2021 at Hotel Gracery Shinjuku (Tokyo)

– The sixth piece, filmed in 2024 at CUBE (Tochigi)

Each work spans 24 hours, meaning a total of 72 hours of moving image have now entered the museum’s collection.

We extend our sincere gratitude to everyone who supported this acquisition.

We will share the details again once the works are publicly presented.