Future Fair | Booth U10 (May 13 - 16, 2026)

MARINA BERIO, MINÉ OKUBO, ASAKO TABATA

Wednesday, May 13: VIP Preview 

Thursday - Saturday, May 14-16, 2026: Public days

Chelsea Industrial

535 W 28th St New York City

Miné Okubo, Untitled, 1940's, Charcoal and pastel on paper. 18,7 x 23,9 in (47,5 x 60,8 cm)

SEIZAN Gallery is pleased to announce its participation in Future Fair, taking place May 13 – May 16, 2026, at Chelsea Industrial. The gallery will present works by Marina Berio, Miné Okubo and Asako Tabata.

Marina Berio (b. 1966, Boston, MA)

Berio was born to an Italian father and a Japanese American mother. She studied photography, drawing, sculpture, and art history before earning her MFA in Photography from Bard College. She has received grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Pollock/Krasner Foundation, and the New York Foundation for the Arts, and has been an artist-in-residence at MacDowell, Yaddo, and the Millay Colony. Her work was recently featured in a major historical survey on materiality in photography at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, and she has had solo exhibitions at Galerie Miranda (Paris), Galería Phuyu (Buenos Aires), Michael Steinberg Fine Art (New York), and the OFF Triennale (Hamburg).  Her recent project, Ten Photography Lessons for a Dead President, is an artist’s book exploring her family history and the incarceration of her relatives—along with 120,000 other Japanese Americans—during World War II.

A Nisei (second-generation Japanese American) artist Miné Okubo (b. 1912, Riverside, CA – d. 2001, New York, NY) worked prolifically as an illustrator and painter and became a prominent figure of Japanese modern artists such as Chiura Obata and Matsusaburo Hibi. Her oeuvre has been widely reappraised and newly recognized in recent years. A traveling group exhibition, Pictures of Belonging: Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo, curated Dr. ShiPu Wang is currently on view at the Monterey Museum of Art and is scheduled to travel to the Japanese American National Museum. Okubo’s works are held in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Japanese American National Museum, the Oakland Museum of California, and the Center for Social Justice & Civil Liberties, among others.

Asako Tabata (b. 1972, Kanagawa, Japan)

After studying painting at Tama Art University, she became a mother and homemaker, continuing to make art while working at home. For many years, she kept her practice largely private, exhibiting only occasionally in small galleries in Tokyo. In 2022, Tabata held her first solo exhibition in the United States, Cutting a Loquat Tree, at SEIZAN Gallery New York. Her work is included in prominent private collections in the United States and Japan.

Asako Tabata, More Hands Than Needed, 2023, Acrylic, papier-mâché, 8.3 x 2.6 x 2.8 in (21.1 x 6.6 x 7.1 cm)