Fumio Nanjo

Japanese art administrator
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IntroJapanese art administrator
PlacesJapan
isCritic Art critic Historian Art historian Arts administrator
Work fieldAcademia Arts Social science
Gender
Male
Birth1949, Tokyo, Japan
Age76 years
Education
Keio University
Awards
Officier des Arts et des Lettres‎2016
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Biography

Fumio Nanjo at a party in his honor, November 2007.

Fumio Nanjo (南條 史生, Nanjō Fumio, born 1949 in Tokyo) is a curator and art historian. Since 2006 he has been the director of the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo. A graduate of Keio University, Nanjo was previously Director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in Nagoya (1986–1990) and served as commissioner of the Japan Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (1997).

He has curated many art exhibitions and directed many art program, including the Taipei Biennale (1998); the Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (1999); the Yokohama Triennale (2001), the Singapore Biennale (2006, 2008) and the inaugural Honolulu Biennial (2017). In 2018 he curated the exhibition Japan in Architecture: Genealogies of Its Transformations at the Mori Art Museum.

Nanjo also contributed to exhibitions catalogues, art journals and magazines, and is the author of From Art to the City (1997) and Asian Contemporary Art Report: China, India, Middle East and Japan (2010).

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