A conversation with artist Yuji Agematsu and curator Rhea Anastas presented in conjunction with the exhibition 2023–2024. They will discuss the year-long Zips 2023 and 2024 within the scope of twenty years of Agematsu walking and picking up objects in New York City. Learn more.
This event is free and open to the public though advance registration is encouraged. Please note priority will be given to those who have registered in advance, though advance registration does not guarantee admission once the event reaches capacity.
Yuji Agematsu (b. 1956, Kanagawa, Japan) has lived in New York since 1980. Agematsu studied with Tokio Hasegawa, a member of the band Taj Mahal Travellers, and the jazz drummer and choreographer Milford Graves. Recently Agematsu has had solo exhibitions at Gladstone Gallery, Brussels (2023); The Clark Art Institute, Massachusetts (2022); and Secession, Vienna (2021). Recent group exhibitions include Le Contre-Ciel at Empty Gallery, Hong Kong (2024); The Irreplaceable Human, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark (2023); and Greater New York at MoMA PS1, New York (2021–22). His most recent performance was Chasing Milford at Artists Space, New York, as part of Milford Graves: Fundamental Frequency (2022). His work is in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum, New York; Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York; Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio; Guggenheim Museum, New York; Loewe Foundation, Madrid; Pinault Collection, Paris; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.
Rhea Anastas is an independent curator, a cofounder of Orchard, and Associate Professor in the Department of Art, Claire Trevor School of the Arts, University of California, Irvine.
