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About Mami Kataoka

Senior curator, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo. International Curator, The Hayward, Southbank Centre, London.

She has been curating numbers of contemporary art exhibitions at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo since 2003, while she has joined the curatorial team at the Hayward Gallery in London under their new director Ralph Rugoff since summer 2007 as Hayward’s first international curator.

The exhibitions she curated at the Mori Art Museum include “Roppongi Crossing: New Visions in Contemporary Japanese Art 2004” (2004), “Ozawa Tsuyoshi: Answer with Yes and No!” (2004), “All about Laughter: Humor in Contemporary Art” (2006) and most recently “Art Is For The Spirit: Works from The UBS Art Collection” (2008). At the Hayward, she curated “Laughing in a Foreign Language” (2008).

Previously she was a chief curator at the Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery from 1998 to 2002 where she curated “Releasing
Senses” (inaugural exhibition in 1999), “Tatsuo Miyajima” (2000), “Encounter” (2001), “Rirkrit Tiravanija” (2002) and collaborated on projects including “Territory: contemporary art from the Netherlands” (2000), “My home is yours, your home is mine” (2001), “JAM: Tokyo-London” (2001) among others.

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