Tokyo Gendai | Booth A07 (September 11-14, 2025)

SEIZAN Gallery is pleased to announce its inaugural participation in Tokyo Gendai, taking place September 11–14, 2025, at Pacifico Yokohama. The gallery will present works by Aya Fujioka, Alex Ito, and Toshiyuki Kajioka.

Photographer Aya Fujioka (b. 1972, Hiroshima, Japan) presents Here Goes River, an award-winning series capturing her hometown of Hiroshima between 2013 and 2017. Initially aiming to depict a Hiroshima not solely defined by its tragic past, Fujioka created a deeply personal and unembellished record of the city as it exists today. The project became a means for the artist to re-embrace her hometown while portraying the reality of contemporary Hiroshima, now eighty years after the historic tragedy. Fujioka was awarded the prestigious Kimura Ihei Award for Here Goes River, and her work has been widely exhibited, including at The National Art Center, Tokyo; the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa; and the Irie Taikichi Memorial Museum of Photography Nara City, among others.

Alex Ito (b. 1991, USA) crafts sculptural works using silver-nitrate chromed resin on fiberglass and oxidized iron powder. Their chemically reactive surfaces act not as mirrors but as unstable, ephemeral reflectors—fracturing and refracting memory and identity. Ito also presents assemblages referencing his Japanese American heritage, including ikebana-inspired forms, archival photographs, and documents from his grandfather, who was incarcerated during World War II. Ito’s work has been exhibited at prominent institutions across the U.S. and Europe. In 2025, Ito was featured in the group exhibition OTHER WORLD/S at the Schneider Museum of Art in Oregon.

Toshiyuki Kajioka (b. 1978, Japan) is known for his ongoing “Waterscape” series—delicate yet monumental paintings created with sumi ink and graphite on washi paper. Composed of layered, meticulously brushed water imagery, the works draw from the artist’s meditative observation of rivers and lakescapes. They evoke a timeless space where memory and presence converge, bridging nature and abstraction. For Tokyo Gendai, Kajioka also debuts a new body of work: abstract depictions of forests rendered in washi paper, ink, and pencil. His works have been exhibited at SEIZAN Gallery, Chicago Expo, Art on Paper, among others.

SEIZAN Gallery at Tokyo Gendai

Booth A07

Pacifico Yokohama

1-1-1   Minato Mirai, Nishi-ku

Yokohama 220-0012, Japan

VIP Preview (Invitation Only) & Vernissage

Thursday, September 11

General Admission:

September 12-14

Top image: Alex Ito This Is the Way, 2020 Silver nitrate chromed resin, foam, oxidized iron powder, steel 30 x 30 x 30 in (76.2 x 76.2 x 76.2 cm) Photo by Thomas Barratt

Aya Fujioka Here Goes River (112), 2017 Edition 3 of 8 Chromogenic print

©︎ Aya Fujioka

Toshiyuki Kajioka Mujou / Impermanence, 2024 Sumi Ink, pencil on Japanese paper (Kochi Mashi) mounted on wood panel 89.5 x 71.6 x 1.5 in (227.3 x 181.8 x 3.8 cm) Photo by GION