

Wilderness as Method, Contemporaneity as Methodīased on her recent publication, Radicalism in the Wilderness: International Contemporaneity and 1960s Art in Japan (MIT Press, 2016), Dr. The book was turned into an exhibition Radicalism in the Wilderness: Japanese Artists in the Global 1960s, which opened at Japan Society Gallery in New York in March 2019. She is a prolific writer whose recent publication is Radicalism in the Wilderness: International Contemporaneity and 1960s Art in Japan (MIT Press, 2016), which has received the 2017 Robert Motherwell Book Award. 2003) of specialists interested in contemporary Japanese art. She is co-director of PoNJA-GenKon, a listserv group (est. She has worked closely with numerous artists including Kusama Yayoi, Cai Guo-Qiang, Ushio Shinohara, Xu Bing, and Yanagi Yukinori. Her early works include her contribution to Global Conceptualism (Queens Museum of Art, 1999), Century City (Tate Modern, 2001), and Art, Anti-Art, Non-Art (Getty Research Institute, 2007).

Reiko Tomii is an independent art historian and curator, who investigates post-1945 Japanese art in global and local contexts for the narration of a world art history of modernisms.
