Oral History Archives of Japanese Art

Founded in 2006 by a group of art historians and curators, the Oral History Archives of Japanese Art is an organization that is devoted to conducting interviews with individuals involved in the field of art, and collecting and preserving the results as historical documents. On this website, we publish transcripts of these interviews as part of an ongoing project. Although most of the interviews are conducted and available only in Japanese, in the English section of our website, we publish some that are partially translated.

Contributions

Interview with Yamaguchi Katsuhiro

Throughout a career that spans the late 1940s to the present, Yamaguchi Katsuhiro has consistently proven to be one of Japan’s most visionary artists, distinguished by his restless curiosity about new media and means of artistic expression, and a powerful intellect that has been expressed not only through artworks but also through the organization of…