Name: Curator Tour | Cut + Paste: Experimental Japanese Prints and Photographs
Start: 2026-02-22T13:30:00-05:00
End: 2026-02-22T14:30:00-05:00
Location: National Museum of Asian Art - East Building (Arthur M. Sackler Gallery), Gallery 25

Curator Tour | Cut + Paste: Experimental Japanese Prints and Photographs

Join contemporary art curator Carol Huh for exclusive insights on these multilayered prints and photographs that blur reality and challenge
About this Event

Leave your assumptions about prints and photographs behind and join curator Carol Huh for a tour of . This exhibition showcases twentieth- and twenty-first-century Japanese artists who push the limits of their mediums. By combining techniques, these artists created multilayered images that challenge categorization and blur reality. Flat surfaces expand, are reworked, and accumulate layers of unusual materials. The many angles and textures of these prints and photographs beg to be viewed in person.

Please meet at gallery 25 for the tour. We recommend you register in advance.

Image: Taniguchi Shigeru; Finger Painting Triangle; Japan, 1982; mixed media; National Museum of Asian Art Collection, Smithsonian Institution, Purchase and partial gift of the Kenneth and Kiyo Hitch Collection from Kiyo Hitch with funds from the Mary Griggs Burke Endowment, S2019.3.1773, © The Tolman Collection Tokyo