Yusuke Minami

Born in Tottori, Japan. After serving as curator at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, joined the team at the Preparatory Office of the National Art Center, Tokyo, in April 2004. Currently serves as Deputy Director and Chief Curator. Curated exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo include, Rethinking Modernism in Japan 1900-2000 (2004), Tadanori Yokoo: All Things in the Universe (2002), Takashi Murakami (2001), MOT Annual 1999: Modest Radicalism (1999), On Kawara: Whole and Parts (1998), and NAKANISHI Natsuyuki (1997) among others. Curated exhibitions at the National Art Center, Tokyo, include, NAKAMURA Kazumi (2014), American Pop Art from the John and Kimiko Powers Collection (2013), Given Forms: TATSUNO Toeko / SHIBATA Toshio (2012), Light: MATSUMOTO Yoko / NOGUCHI Rika (2009), Artist File 2008: The NACT Annual Show of Contemporary Art (2008), and Living in the Material World: "Things" in Art of the 20th Century and Beyond (2007) among others. Lives in Yokohama.