Born in Tokyo in 1976, Aida is a graduate of Tokyo Zokei University and Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences (IAMAS). He has been developing and managing educational programs at Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (YCAM) since 2003, and he has been head of curatorial outreach since 2019. Aida has served as a curator for the MEDIA/ART KITCHEN international touring media art exhibition (2013); project assistant professor for the Social ICT Global Creative Leaders Program (GCL) graduate program at the University of Tokyo (2014–2019); and a learning program curator for Aichi Triennale 2019 and Aichi Triennale 2022.
As a museum educator, he has put “learning outside the classroom” into practice using workshop and facilitation techniques in areas like literacy education and art education in museums, community projects, and human resource development in businesses. A series of media workshops he developed for YCAM won the Kids Design Award Grand Prize. He also oversaw the planning of the KOROGARU Park Series, which won a Japan Media Arts Festival award and the Good Design Award.

Born in Ibaraki Prefecture in 1976, Hosaka has an MA from Keio University in Aesthetics and Art History. He served as a curator at the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (MOMAT) from 2000 to 2020, and he has been in his current position since 2021.
At MOMAT, he curated Where is Architecture? Seven Installations by Japanese Architects(2010), Francis Bacon (2013),The Voice Between: The Art and Poetry of Yoshimasu Gozo(2016), and The Japanese House: Architecture and Life after 1945(2017). Recent exhibitions include Genius: The Human Gift for Creating and Living (Shiga Museum of Art, 2022), and Worlds in Balance: Art in Japan from the Postwar to the Present (AWT FOCUS, Okura Museum of Art, Tokyo, 2023). He has also been involved in planning exhibitions abroad at venues including the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Haus Konstruktiv (Zurich, Switzerland), and MAXXI, the National Museum of 21st Century Arts (Rome, Italy). Hosaka serves as a member of the selection committee for The Obayashi Foundation’s Visions of the City research program, and as a member of the arts promotion working group of the cultural economics group within the Council for Cultural Affairs, which is under the aegis of the Agency for Cultural Affairs.

Kataoka was born in Aichi Prefecture in 1965. After serving as a researcher on cultural policy at NLI Research Institute and as chief curator at the Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, she joined Mori Art Museum (Tokyo, Japan) in 2003 and then became its director in 2020. She became director of the National Center for Arts Research in 2023.
Kataoka served as international curator for the Hayward Gallery (London, England) from 2007 to 2009. She was co-artistic director for the 9th Gwangju Biennale (2012), artistic director for the 21st Biennale of Sydney (2018), and artistic director for Aichi Triennale 2022. She was a board member (2014–2020) and then president (2020–2022) of the International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art (CIMAM). From 2018 to 2022, she chaired Contemporary Art Committee Japan, the steering committee for the Agency for Cultural Affairs’ Art Platform Japan project. Kataoka has performed many other roles, including serving as a member of the Policy Subcommittee of the Council for Cultural Affairs and as a member of the Japanese National Commission for UNESCO (JNCU).

Born in Osaka Prefecture in 1963, Yasuda is a graduate of The University of Osaka’s Faculty of Letters (majoring in art history). Beginning in 1987 he served as a curator at The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga; at the Osaka Prefectural Government’s Cultural Affairs Division; and at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art (Tokyo, Japan). In 1993, he had a short-term residency as a fellow at the Asia Society (New York, US). He worked on many solo exhibitions in the field of contemporary art, particularly photography. After that, he served as director of the Curatorial Department and deputy director of the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, and then chief curator and deputy director of the Nara Prefectural Museum of Art. He has been in his current position since 2024.
During his tenure at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art he had many opportunities to collaborate with curators at museums overseas, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art (Oslo, Norway), the Cy Twombly Foundation (New York, US), and the Deutsche Bank Collection, planning exhibitions as a co-curator. In partnership with Mercedes-Benz Japan, the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art presented Mercedes-Benz Art Scope from 2003 until the museum's closure in 2021. This was an exchange program for contemporary artists from Japan and Germany, and the museum mounted exhibitions to present works created by the artists-in-residence.