Japan In/Out of View
Middlesex
Zimmerli Art Museum
Prints, photographs, archival materials, and other works by Japanese and Japanese-American artists explore 150 years of cultural exchange between Japan and the United States.
Detail: Tom Nakashima, "Turtle," 1994. Etching and mixed media on paper. Jersey City Museum Collection at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, gift of Jersey City Museum, 2018; Gift of Judith and Gerson Leiber, 1994.
Japan In/Out of View traces the complex cultural exchange between Japan and the United States from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. It begins in the 1860s and 1870s, when Rutgers hosted some of the earliest Japanese students in America. Prints, photographs, and archival materials reveal these early connections, while later works by Japanese and Japanese American artists explore new artistic forms. Considered together, these artworks reveal the fluid nature of influence and subtly reorient our understanding of Japanese and American art.
Japan In/Out of View is organized by Nicole Simpson, Curator of Prints and Drawings, with Haruko Wakabayashi, Associate Teaching Professor, Asian Languages and Cultures, and Fernanda Perrone, Archivist & Head of Exhibitions Program and Curator of William Elliot Griffis Collection, Special Collections and University Archives.