Vol. 2 Taro Amano, Hiroshi Yoshioka

Bold × ACK Talks “Living Freely” vol.2 Speakers’ Biographies

Taro Amano (Independent Curator)
Taro Amano is Curator in Chief of the Yokohama Civic Art Gallery Azamino , Director in Chief of Sapporo International Art Festival 2020 and a part-time lecturer at Tama Art University, the Joshibi University of Art and Design, Kokushikan University and Josai International University. He is a member of the International Association of Art Critics Japanese Section (AICA JAPAN). After working for the Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Amano was appointed curator of the Yokohama Museum of Art in 1987, when preparations for the museum’s opening were in full swing. In this role, he has been involved in planning numerous exhibitions, including many outside Japan. Amano served as the curator of the Yokohama Triennale 2005 and as the curatorial head of the 2011 and 2014 editions of the triennale. The major exhibitions he curated at the Yokohama Museum of Art and the Yokohama Civic Art Gallery Azamino.

Hiroshi Yoshioka (Program-specific Professor of Kokoro Research Center, Kyoto University)
Born in Kyoto, 1956. Was professor at Konan University, Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences (IAMAS), and professor at the Graduate School of Letters/Faculty of Letters (teaching aesthetics and art theory), Kyoto University before attaining his current position. Publications include Jyoho to Seimei (Shin-yo-sha), Shiso no Genzaikei (Kodansha), and others. Has written and translated many publications on aesthetics and art theory, and information culture theory. Was the editor in chief of the critique magazine Diatxt (published by Kyoto Art Center), and director of Kyoto Biennale 2003 and Gifu Ogaki Biennale 2006. Involved in the video installation, BEACON. President of the Japanese Society for Aesthetics.