Exhibitions in Tokyo

SOMPO Museum of Art

The 15th edition of the museum's open contemporary painting competition, with an Audience Award and a 3rd-floor display of the previous winners' new work.

Tokyo Photographic Art Museum

Solo show of Ken Kitano, centred on his Collecting Light project and long-exposure series, with new work recording the sun's path from cameras left in place for months.

Suntory Museum of Art

First of the museum's Roppongi 20th-anniversary shows: kiriko, the hand-cut glass born in late Edo Japan from admiration of European cut glass, shown through technique and production centres.

National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

Retrospective of Nihonga painter Hayami Gyoshu, organized with the Mainichi Newspapers and Nikkei; title still provisional per the museum's own listing.

National Museum of Western Art

Prints and other works by Henri Matisse, drawn mainly from the Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation collection, shown in the Special Exhibition Wing.

The National Art Center, Tokyo

The history of the diva from the 19th century to today, introducing about 100 singers and performers from opera, stage, film and popular music. Organized with the V&A and Sony Music Entertainment.

Japan Folk Crafts Museum

90th-anniversary show on how museum founder Yanagi Soetsu collected the folk crafts that make up the Mingeikan.

Tokyo National Museum

Paintings and crafts depicting scenes from The Tale of Genji, with manuscripts, commentaries and its spread into performing arts and popular culture, organised with Kyoto National Museum.

Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery

Sugawara Kaho's paintings, drawings, blueprints and field journals recording wild birds and their plumage, in the 4th-floor corridor.

Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery

Postwar Japanese artists and how they treated material, from prewar abstraction pioneers to Gutai and Mono-ha, drawn from the gallery's Terada Collection.

Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery

About 250 works by Finnish designer Kaj Franck (1911-1989), in glass, porcelain and fabric, with sketches and film, drawn mainly from the Design Museum Helsinki collection.

Mori Art Museum

Japan's first major Mariko Mori retrospective since 2002, spanning three decades from her 1990s Cyborg series to recent installations shaped by Buddhist philosophy and science.

Nezu Museum

Museum collection exhibition presenting an overview of the Nezu's Buddhist sculpture holdings, among the finest of any private art museum in Japan.

Ōta Memorial Museum of Art

Exhibition tracing how ukiyo-e artists depicted Edo's licensed pleasure quarters over the centuries.

Mori Art Museum

Showcase for Katayama Mari, first Grand Prize winner of the Mori Art Award, whose analogue photography, embroidery and needlework extend the boundaries of her own body.

Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum

Traditional Lithuanian handicrafts displayed across the museum's main building and annex.

Mori Art Museum

New ceramic sculptures by Santa Fe-based Brie Ruais, made after a residency at Shigaraki and research into Japanese clay and ceramic history, shaped through full-body movement.

Mori Art Museum

Three films by Thai artist Jakrawal Nilthamrong, centred on Rhizome (2022), where a man drifts on a raft above a flooded world. Screened 18:00-22:00, about 39 minutes in total.

Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum

Around 110 works from the Musée d'Orsay spanning painting, sculpture, decorative arts and photography, including Monet, Van Gogh and Renoir.

Tokyo National Museum

A 40th-anniversary showcase in the Hyokeikan tracing the FINAL FANTASY series through art and music, staged alongside the museum's historical Japanese collection.

Tokyo Station Gallery

First retrospective in 40 years of dyeing and weaving artist Yamaga Seika (1885-1981), inventor of "hand-woven brocade," spanning traditional motifs to unconventional subjects like rockets.

Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

The first large-scale retrospective in Asia of Hans Haacke, covering works and projects on environmental issues and critiques of political and corporate power.

Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

International exhibition co-organized with the Sunpride Foundation, drawing on works from the foundation's collection, loans from artists and newly commissioned pieces.

21_21 DESIGN SIGHT

An exhibition treating the gallery as "one large clock," scattering time-related devices and design objects to examine how time structures daily life. Directed by graphic designer Tomohiro Okazaki.

Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, Tokyo

The Montmartre art scene of the late 19th and early 20th century, through works by Toulouse-Lautrec, Suzanne Valadon and lesser-known painters of their circle. Title is tentative.

Artizon Museum

A showing of the museum's recent acquisitions, from first-ever public displays of ukiyo-e prints and Noh costumes to Western and Japanese modern art, contemporary and Aboriginal art, and design.

Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

The 21st MOT Annual, bringing together emerging artists from contemporary art, performing arts and experimental music, with an emphasis on performances engaging personal and social memory.

Ghibli Museum, Mitaka

Recreation of illustrator Yuriko Yamawaki's studio, exploring her picture-book collaborations with Rieko Nakagawa and her influence on Hayao Miyazaki.