Anti-Action: Artist-Women’s Challenges and Responses in Postwar Japan
December 16, 2025 – February 8, 2026
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo
https://www.momat.go.jp/en
https://www.momat.go.jp/en/exhibitions/566
Curator: Hajime Nariai (Curator, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo)
Installation view Anti-Action: Artist-Women’s Challenges and Responses in Postwar Japan, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo, 2025 Left: Tsuruko Yamazaki Work (1964) Ashiya City Museum of Art & History ©️Estate of Tsuruko Yamazaki, courtesy of LADS Gallery, Osaka and Take Ninagawa, Tokyo
Installation view Anti-Action: Artist-Women’s Challenges and Responses in Postwar Japan, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo, 2025
Kazuko Enomoto Time in Memory (1951) Yokohama Museum of Art (Ooka Makoto Collection [Gift of Meiji University] ), Tsuruko Yamazaki Work (1964) Ashiya City Museum of Art & History ©️Estate of Tsuruko Yamazaki, courtesy of LADS Gallery, Osaka and Take Ninagawa, Tokyo
Atsuko Tanaka Work A; Gold (1962) Chiba City Museum of Art ©️Kanayama Akira and Tanaka Atsuko Association, Hideko Fukushima Work 109 (1959) Takamatsu Art Museum, Mitsuko Tabe Breeding 1 (1958-88) Fukuoka Art Museum
Aiko Miyawaki, Work (1967)
Installation view Anti-Action: Artist-Women’s Challenges and Responses in Postwar Japan, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo, 2025
Minami Tada [Work X] or [An Encounter] (1960) Minami Tada Associates, [An Encounter] or [Work X] (1960) Minami Tada Associates
Tazuko Tanaka Nada (c.1961) Nara Prefectural Museum of Art, Naught Ⅱ (1960) The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Mitsuko Tabe, Installation view Anti-Action: Artist-Women’s Challenges and Responses in Postwar Japan, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo, 2025
Installation view Anti-Action: Artist-Women’s Challenges and Responses in Postwar Japan, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo, 2025
Tsuruko Yamazaki Work (1957/2001) Ashiya City Museum of Art & History, Work (1961) Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Work (1960) Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art ©️Estate of Tsuruko Yamazaki, courtesy of LADS Gallery, Osaka and Take Ninagawa, Tokyo
Installation view Anti-Action: Artist-Women’s Challenges and Responses in Postwar Japan, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo, 2025
Atsuko Tanaka Work (1959) Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Work 1963 B (1963) Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Work 66-SA (1966) The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo ©️Kanayama Akira and Tanaka Atsuko Association
Minami Tada, Installation view Anti-Action: Artist-Women’s Challenges and Responses in Postwar Japan, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo, 2025
Mami Mori, Installation view Anti-Action: Artist-Women’s Challenges and Responses in Postwar Japan, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo, 2025
Fujiko Shiraga, Work No.1 (1961) Takamatsu Art Museum, White Board (1955/1985) Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art (part of the Yamamura Collection)
Installation view Anti-Action: Artist-Women’s Challenges and Responses in Postwar Japan, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo, 2025
Keiko Akana [Unknown] (c.1964) Private collection, [Unknown] (c.1964) Private collection
Saori (Madokoro) Akutagawa Woman ( I ) (1955) The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Myth──Birth of Gods (1956) The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Kinuko Emi, Installation view Anti-Action: Artist-Women’s Challenges and Responses in Postwar Japan, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo, 2025