Members & Museums
Curator
Mitome Sayaka
Curator, Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media [YCAM]Born in 1986, Mitome is based in Yamaguchi.
She served as a curator at Towada Art Center (2016–2023) before assuming her current position in 2024. She researches the relationships between sexuality and gender classifications and divisions that have been shaped by androcentrism and modern values. As for methodology, she is interested in crossovers between curation and education, and she explores the role of art museums operating beyond the realm of privilege, focusing on provincial art museums and art facilities. During her time at the Towada Art Center, Mitome was responsible for workshops, gallery talks, and artist interviews (Hans Op de Beeck, Shiota Chiharu, and others) as well as speaker events (Suzuki Yasuhiro, Morikita Shin, Kuribayashi Takashi, Takahashi Kyota, and others).
Photo: Kanagawa Shingo
Curated exhibitions
- 2025
- Maya Erin Masuda: Ecologies of Closeness, Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (YCAM), Yamaguchi
- 2023
- Liu Jianhua: Fluid voids, Towada Art Center, Aomori
- 2022
- Momose Aya: Interpreter, Towada Art Center, Aomori
Nawa Kohei: Generative Interface, Towada Art Center, Aomori
Arts Towada 10th Anniversary Exhibition: Inter+Play Season 3, Towada Art Center, Aomori - 2021
- Permanent Collection | Shiota Chiharu: Memory of Water, Towada Art Center, Aomori
- 2019
- Stranger Than Fiction: Taking creation beyond location, Towada Art Center, Aomori
- 2018
- Where is Chiiki Art? Project, Towada Art Center, Aomori
ACTIVE IMAGINATIONS, Towada Art Center, Aomori - 2017
- Art in the City – Bears of the East, Spirits of the Blue Forest, Towada Art Center, Aomori
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Liu Jianhua: Fluid voids, Towada Art Center, 2023
Photo: Oyamada Kuniya -
Momose Aya: Interpreter, Towada Art Center (2022–2023)
Photo: Seo Kenji