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MORIOKA SHOTEN: THE BOOK OF TEA May 20–31, 2025 Special Talk & Music Performance: Saturday, May 24 at 2 PM SEIZAN Gallery is pleased to present  MORIOKA SHOTEN:  THE BOOK OF TEA ,  a special two-week pop-up from May 20 to 31, 2025, featuring the internationally celebrated Tokyo bookstore  Morioka Shoten . This marks the bookstore’s first-ever appearance in New York. The event will take place in SEIZAN's project room and culminates in a talk by founder  Yoshiyuki Morioka , followed by a live  clavichord performance by Akira Uchida  on  Saturday, May 24 at 2 PM . Tea will be served by  Ippodo Tea  from Kyoto. Founded in 2015,  Morioka Shoten  is a one-of-a-kind bookstore that presents just  one title per week , accompanied by related artworks, design objects, and cultural programming. With its minimalist concept and deep reverence for the power of books, Morioka Shoten has developed a devoted international following and become a quietly iconic cultural destination in Tokyo. For this special New York edition, Morioka has selected  The Book of Tea  by  Okakura Kakuzō  (also known as Okakura Tenshin, 1863–1913), a seminal work first published in English in 1906. Blending philosophy, aesthetics, and cultural commentary, the book explores the Japanese tea ceremony ( chanoyu ) as a lens through which to understand Japanese spirituality, design, and worldview. Over the decades, it has deeply influenced Western artists, writers, and intellectuals—including  Georgia O’Keeffe . Morioka recently traveled to  O’Keeffe’s Home and Studio in Abiquiú, New Mexico , where he discovered two copies of  The Book of Tea  in her personal library, one with handwritten underlines. Photographs taken during his visit, along with a portrait of O’Keeffe by  Todd Webb , will be on view alongside a first edition and recent versions of the book. Join us on  Saturday, May 24  for a special program featuring Morioka’s reflections on his research journey and a live  clavichord performance  by  Akira Uchida , described by Morioka as “an urban alternative to the sounds of the tea house.” Special thanks to The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum and Todd Webb Archive, and Ippodo Tea. RSVP for Talk & Live Performance on May 24 Left (O’Keeffe): Todd Webb Georgia O’Keeffe Pouring Tea at the Ghost Ranch, 1962 Vintage gelatin silver print 10 x 8 inches (25.4 x 20.32) Right (book page): Photo by Yoshiyuki Morioka

Wednesday, May 7, 6 PM SEIZAN Gallery, 525 W 26th St, Ground Floor, New York, NY 10001 Featuring: Margit Erb – Director, Saul Leiter Foundation Michael Parillo – Director, Saul Leiter Foundation Siri Hustvedt – Writer Sam Messer – Artist Motoyuki Shibata – English-to-Japanese Translator, Writer Pauline Vermare – Phillip and Edith Leonian Curator of Photography, Brooklyn Museum Photo: (Auster, left) ©Spencer Ostrander, (Leiter, right) Robert Freson, Saul Leiter , c. 1965 Tickets for this event are sold out. Tune in to the gallery’s Instagram account (@seizan_ny) to watch the livestream. SEIZAN Gallery  invites you to a special evening honoring Paul Auster  and Saul Leiter —two artists who reimagined New York City in deeply personal ways through their work. In commemoration of the first anniversary of Paul Auster’s passing, we welcome a distinguished group of speakers—close collaborators and longtime friends of the acclaimed writer: Siri Hustvedt , author and Auster’s partner; Sam Messer , celebrated painter and longtime friend; and Motoyuki Shibata , renowned translator of most of Auster’s titles in Japanese.  Though Paul Auster and Saul Leiter never met—Leiter having been born 25 years earlier—their words and images seem to echo each other. They were combined in the publication It Don’t Mean a Thing (The Gould Collection) in 2017. Both artists have built enduring communities of admirers, not only in New York but around the world, particularly in France and in Japan. Joining the conversation are Margit Erb and Michael Parillo  of the Saul Leiter Foundation, along with Pauline Vermare  of the Brooklyn Museum. Together, they will discuss the connections and resonances between the writer and the photographer. The talk will be accompanied by an exhibition featuring selected prints by Saul Leiter, paintings and prints by Sam Messer, and portraits of Auster by the photographer Spencer Ostrander , Auster son-in-law. Together, they had collaborated on an acclaimed publication focusing on gun violence in America: Bloodbath Nation . (Grove Press, 2023). The exhibition will be on view from  May 7 through May 17 . Copies of  The Gould Collection Volume 2: Saul Leiter & Paul Auster   (reprint edition) and recent issues of  MONKEY New Writing from Japan  will be available for purchase at the event. Paul Auster was born in Newark in 1947.  Working mainly as a poet during his youth, he turned to prose with The Invention of Solitude , published in 1982. He gained renown as a novelist with The New York Trilogy —three novellas published in 1985–86.  He continued to publish novels and books of essays for four decades, establishing himself as one of the most important and beloved contemporary American writers.  His novels include The Music of Chance (1990), The Book of Illusions (2002), 4 3 2 1 (2017), and Baumgartner (2023).  Among his books of nonfiction is Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane (2021).  Auster died in 2024.  His books have been translated into more than forty languages, and his work is treasured all over Europe as well as in Japan.   Saul Leiter  was born in Pittsburgh in 1923. He began painting and taking photographs as a teenager and enjoyed some early success in exhibiting his paintings. When he moved to New York City in 1946, he focused on photography as a way to earn a living, while continuing to paint. In 1957 Leiter started a fashion career in magazines such as Esquire  and Harper’s Bazaar , shooting street photographs all the while, mostly in his downtown Manhattan neighborhood. In 2006 his first monograph, Early Color (Steidl), was published, revealing the artist as a master of color photography from as far back as the late 1940s. Leiter died in 2013 as his popularity was growing, and since then the Saul Leiter Foundation has arranged museum exhibitions and book releases worldwide.

SEIZAN Gallery is pleased to announce its participation in EXPO CHICAGO 2025, presenting a group exhibition featuring works by Hiroyoshi Asaka, Toshiyuki Kajioka, and Danielle Winger at Booth 125. Each artist demonstrates extraordinary dedication to their chosen medium and subject, creating immersive encounters that invite viewers to contemplate time, process, and transcendence.   Hiroyoshi Asaka  (b. 1977, Osaka, Japan) meticulously hand-carves marble - his sole chosen material - into uncanny sculptures resembling Styrofoam objects. By transforming a medium historically synonymous with permanence, power, and prestige into what appears as its disposable antithesis, Asaka creates a compelling dialogue between the monumental and the mundane. His KASHOUMON series prompts deeper questions about value, labor, and time.   Asaka’s works were exhibited at EXPO CHICAGO 2024, Art Miami 2024 and other international venues. At SEIZAN Gallery, he has been featured in ROCK, PAPER, SALT  (2024, New York) and The Truth of Illusions (2024, Tokyo). His works are included in major public collections such as Osaka City, Oharayama Shrine (Fukuoka, Japan), and Fujitsu Karuizawa-sou (Nagano, Japan). He lives and works in Osaka, Japan.   Toshiyuki Kajioka  (b. 1978, Tokyo, Japan) has devoted the past twenty years to painting a single subject: the surface of flowing rivers at night. Using only sumi ink and graphite pencil on Japanese paper, Kajioka captures water's shifting states between wildness and tranquility, transforming fleeting moments into timeless, immersive experiences. For EXPO CHICAGO, Kajioka will present a monumental work from his signature "Waterscape" series.   Kajioka's recent presentations include EXPO CHICAGO 2024, Unconscious River  (SEIZAN Gallery New York, 2023) and Edge of Night  (SEIZAN Gallery Tokyo, 2021). His works are in the permanent collections of Toyohashi City Museum of Art & History, Kyoto University of the Arts, and Aizu Museum in Tokyo. He lives and works in Shiga, Japan.   Danielle Winger  (b. 1986, Nevada, USA) creates contemplative landscapes with bold brushstrokes and striking colors that evoke both physical places and emotional states. Drawing inspiration from German Romantic traditions, she approaches landscape as both subject and metaphor—where mountains become paths to transcendence, deserts embody profound solitude, and moonlit forests take on human qualities. Her deeply personal meditative spaces invite viewers to explore themes of sublimity and the divine.   Winger’s works have been shown at König Bergson in Munich (2025), Lamb Gallery in London (2024), and Red Arrow Gallery in Nashville (2021, 2023). At SEIZAN Gallery, she has exhibited in The Shape of Water (2024, Tokyo) and participated in Art Taipei (2024) and Art Tokyo (2024). Her work has been published in ArtMaze Magazine and New American Paintings Midwest #173 (2024). She lives and works in La Fontaine, Indiana.   EXPO CHICAGO | BOOTH 125 Navy Pier's Festival Hall 600 E. Grand Ave. Chicago, IL   Thursday, April 24, 12:00pm–8:00pm (VIP Preview) Friday, April 25, 11:00am–7:00pm Saturday, April 26, 11:00am–7:00pm Sunday, April 27, 11:00am–6:00pm   www.expochicago.com   For press inquiries and further information, please contact manager@seizan-gallery.com . Photos by Silvia Ros Hiroyoshi Asaka, KASHOUMON - The Box of Truth -2 , 2023. Marble, Styrofoam. 7.1 x 13.8 x 11.8 in (18 x 35 x 30 cm). Photo by GION. Toshiyuki Kajioka, Current , 2011. Sumi ink, pencil on Japanese paper (Kochi Mashi) mounted on wood panel. 89.5 x 143.1 x 1.4 in (227.3 x 363.6 x 3.5 cm). Photo by Thomas Barratt. Danielle Winger,  Crystal Deeps , 2025. Oil on canvas. 60 x 48 in (152.4 x 121.9 cm). Photo by Stuart Snoddy.

SEIZAN Gallery is excited to announce our inaugural participation to Art Miami , open from December 5th through 10th at One Herald Plaza in Miami, FL. The gallery will present recent works by five distinguished artists: Ruiji Aiba , Astrid Köppe , Yen Yen-Jui Lai , Asako Tabata , and Motohide Takami . SEIZAN Gallery (Booth AM228) Art Miami One Herald Plaza NE 14th Street & Biscayne Bay Miami, FL, 33132 Hours: Platinum VIP Preview Tuesday, December 5th: 4:30-6:30pm VIP Preview Tuesday, December 5th: 6:30-10pm General Admission Wednesday, December 6th: 11am-7pm Thursday, December 7th: 11am-7pm Friday, December 8th: 11am-7pm Saturday, December 9th: 11am-7pm Sunday, December 10th: 11am-7pm To receive preview, please email info@seizan-gallery.com

SEIZAN Gallery is excited to announce our return to VOLTA New York , open from May 17th through 20th at the Metropolitan Pavilion in New York City. The gallery will present recent work by three contemporary artists, Yen Yen-Jui Lai , Asako Tabata and Motohide Takami . SEIZAN Gallery (Booth C2) VOLTA New York Metropolitan Pavilion 125 W. 18th St. (bet. 6th & 7th Aves) New York, NY 10011 Hours: Wednesday, May 17, 5-9pm (for VIP ticket holders) Thursday, May 18, 12-9pm Friday, May 19, 12-8pm Saturday, May 20, 12-8pm Sunday, May 21, 12-5pm Register for Tickets here . (Code: SVNY) For previews, email: info@seizan-gallery.com Image: Motohide Takami, You(r desire) Ablaze , 2022. Oil and chalk on Panel. 63.8 x 63.8 x 1.2 inches (162 x 162 x 3cm). Photo by Kenichi Hashimoto.

ART ON PAPER 2020 MARCH 5 - 8, 2020 PIER 36 299 SOUTH STREET NEW YORK, 10002 SEIZAN Gallery Tokyo | New York is pleased to announce the gallery’s participation in the 2020 edition of Art on Paper . Our presentation will showcase a selection of contemporary artists who have mastered traditional materials and techniques, including hand-made washi paper. Featured Artists: Yasuko Hasumura Eri Iwasaki Haruomi Izumi Toshiyuki Kajioka Hasui Kawase Étienne Krähenbühl To request a preview please contact us via email info@seizan-gallery.com For more information on Art on Paper and how visitors can purchase tickets, please visit the Fair’s website . Top: Toshiyuki Kajioka Hyohaku / Spiritual Darkness , 2017 Ink, pencil on hemp paper mounted on wood panel 63.9 x 63.9 x 1.4 in (162.2 x 162.2 x 3.5 cm) Middle: Étienne Krähenbühl Plastique , 7 June 2018 Monotype 22 x 29.5 inches (55.9 x 74.9 cm) Bottom: Yasuko Hasumura Yo / Within the Wind – Embrace , 2010 Ink, Japanese paper on canvas mounted on wood panel 51.3 x 63.8 x 1.2 in (130.3 x 162 x 3 cm)

SEATTLE ART FAIR AUGUST 1-4, 2019 CENTURYLINK FIELD EVENT CENTER SEIZAN Gallery has been selected to participate in the 2019 edition of the Seattle Art Fair . For the fair, SEIZAN Gallery will present a selection of paintings from Japanese artists that include Yasuko Hasumura , Yasushi Ikejiri , Yuichi Inoue , Haruomi Izumi , Toshiyuki Kajioka , Yayoi Kusama , and Toko Shinoda . SEIZAN is pleased to join the fifth edition of the Seattle Art Fair, and to present a cutting-edge selection of contemporary Japanese art. Each artist chosen for the SEIZAN Gallery booth pursues a fresh view of the world with their distinctive style and extraordinary skill gained through their dedication to enduring practices of Japanese painting. For more information on the Seattle Art Fair and how to purchase tickets, please visit the fair’s website. Photos by Robert Wade

SEIZAN Gallery Tokyo & SEIZAN New York are delighted to announce our participation in Art on Paper . It takes place at Pier 36 from September 9th through 12th. Our booth will feature a solo presentation of work by Japanese artist Toshiyuki Kajioka . Born in 1978 in Tokyo, now living and working in Shiga, Japan, Toshiyuki Kajioka has stoically painted one subject only for the last twenty years: the surface of a flowing river. He received his training in Nihonga, traditional Japanese painting, as a young artist at school. Early on, Kajioka experienced an epiphany with the profound realization that the surface of a flowing river was to be his ultimate subject. Working in sumi ink and graphite pencil, Kajioka captures the transcendental wildness, tranquility, and depth of rivers. While the artist captures a riverscape, the work also displays the intense, experiential characteristics of abstract painting. Fumio Nanjo, a curator and former director of Mori Art Museum wrote of Kajioka’s painting, “The creative spirit here is rooted in a kind of outer limit. This very much embodies the spirit of contemporary art. Art is a clear concept, but also a ‘limit’ that is a common thread throughout insanity.” DOWNLOAD ARTWORK LIST DOWNLOAD ARTIST BIO Art on Paper New York Booth: B37 Sep 9 - 12, 2021 Pier 36, Downtown Manhattan 299 South Street New York, 10002 Select VIP Preview Thursday, September 9, 2021 — 6:00pm to 7:00pm Opening Evening Thursday, September 9, 2021 — 7:00pm to 10:00pm Public Hours Friday, September 10, 2021 — 11:00am to 7:00pm Saturday, September 11, 2021 — 11:00am to 7:00pm Sunday, September 12, 2021 — 12:00pm to 6:00pm Image: Toshiyuki Kajioka, Nagare / Flow , 2021. Ink, pencil on Japanese paper mounted on wood panel. 89.4 x 71.6 x 0.8 inches (227.3 × 181.8 × 2cm).

SEIZAN Gallery is proud to be an exhibitor with Intersected Chicago Virtual Fair (Formerly SOFA) for the 2020 edition due to COVID-19. Live online from November 6-12, 2020 at Intersect Chicago with a dedicated VIP Preview Day by invitation only on November 5. The fair will be open to the public, virtually, from November 6 at 12am ET through November 12 at 9pm ET. SEIZAN Gallery will present selected works by contemporary Japanese painters Yasuko Hasumura , Haruomi Izumi , Shigemi Yasuhara and by acclaimed Swiss sculptor Étienne Krähenbüh l . About Intersect Chicago The fair is the evolution of SOFA – Sculpture Objects Functional Art. It is the intersection of art, design, and objects. SOFA includes daily highlights on Glass, Contemporary Art, Design, Ceramic and Craft, Outsider Art, Fiber, and Public Art / Sculpture. Intersect Chicago will feature institutions from around the globe with dedicated programming and a selection of galleries showcasing work of these disciplines. Visit the Fair on Artsy Intersect Chicago has partnered with Artsy, the global marketplace for discovering and collecting art. In addition to accessing the fair through the Intersect Chicago website, visitors may also visit the fair through Artsy. As Intersect Chicago’s Main Marketplace Partner, Artsy will provide a unique opportunity for exhibiting galleries to promote their virtual booths to Artsy’s global audience. Collectors can experience Intersect Chicago on Artsy to discover artists, save favorite works, as well as view works on their home walls through Artsy's AR mobile tool to directly purchase work from galleries. Join the Conversation Connect with us on Instagram and Facebook @sofaexpo and hashtags #IntersectChicago and #IntersectFairs. Intersect Chicago Contact: Ashlin Ballif, ashlin@vgmgt.com SEIZAN Gallery Contact: director@seizan-gallery.com Image: Haruomi Izumi The Eternal Hour , 2019 Natural mineral pigment on Japanese paper mounted on wood panel 38.2 x 63.8 x 0.8 inches (97 x 162 x 2 cm) Photo by GION

BEYOND NIHONGA: TRADITION MEETS MODERNISM IN JAPANESE FIGURE PAINTING BY DARIA MELNIKOVA SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2 PM AT SEIZAN GALLERY 521 W 26TH STREET NEW YORK, NY 10001 SEIZAN Gallery welcomes Daria Melnikova, Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer at the Mary Griggs Burke Center for Japanese Art at Columbia University, for a unique gallery talk on Nihonga painter Eri Iwasaki. Melnikova, whose essay on Iwasaki is included in the exhibition catalog, will explore major artistic traditions in Japan and beyond as well as how contemporary artists rediscover and reinterpret the traditions of the past. Participants will look at The Tale of Genji and 17th-century genre paintings, Ukiyo-e prints, Renaissance portraiture, modern Yōga and Nihonga, and contemporary artists such as Yoshitomo Nara in conjunction with Iwasaki's work. To attend the talk, please RSVP to info@seizan-gallery.com. Image: Eri Iwasaki, Tiny Light, Tiny Night , 2019 Photo by GION

Motohide Takami Painter Motohide Takami will join the Artist Talk for the upcoming exhibition Catenations hosted by Tiger Strikes Asteroid . Cantenations , is a group exhibition curated by Rachael Gorchov and Jo Yarrington. Works in various mediums explore the roles water plays in health, happiness, as well as the politics of water. Motohide Takami will be showing FIRE.P , 2013 along with works by Atul Bhalla, Gail Biederman, Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow, Mary Dwyer, Timothy Fadek, Julia Krolik and Owen Fernley, Phoebe Murer, Bridget Frances Quinn, Karolin Schwab, and Cheryl Yun. FIRE.P is from the artist's iconic series of “burning house” paintings. They reference the Japanese expression, “fire on another shore,” meaning unfortunate events that are not related to you. This painting addresses the limitations of human empathy and is especially resonant now in 2020. In anticipation of the opening of “Cattentions” now rescheduled for fall, Gorchov and Yarrington are hosting Zoom discussions to introduce the works. Takami will join five of the participating artists from his studio in Tokyo. DATE: JUNE 24, 2020 @8PM (EDT) RSVP HERE: HTTPS://BIT.LY/2AP8N3K You will receive a Zoom link two hours before the start time for this event. Image: Motohide Takami FIRE.P , 2013 Oil on canvas 51.2 x 76.4 inches (130 x 194 cm)

SEIZAN Gallery Tokyo, New York is delighted to announce our participation for the first time ever in Market Art & Design The Hamptons . It takes place at The Bridgehampton Museum from August 12 through 15. We will present new and recent work of three women artists: Yasuko Hasumura, Eri Iwasaki and Rose Morant. Each artist masterfully utilizes traditional materials of art making as they explore their unique vision in highly contemporary expressions. Yasuko Hasumura (b.1958, Hokkaido, Japan) manipulates Japanese washi paper and sumi ink into a unique abstract expression, capturing air, light or a fleeting instant onto canvas. Hasumura studied oil painting at Tama Art University and contemporary art theory under Lee Ufan. Greatly influenced by her encounter with Noh theatre, which she describes as a “soul-trembling experience,” Hasumura recreates this experience onto canvas. Eri Iwasaki (b. 1968, Hyogo, Japan) circumvents the boundaries of Nihonga, the traditional Japanese painting style. While exploring new techniques via the traditional mediums of mineral pigments, shell powders and gold leaves, Iwasaki powerfully interprets her favorite subjects: nuanced portraits of women and children. Amid haunting dreamlike atmospheres, the strong and willful faces of Iwasaki's portraits appear both real and divine; archaic and contemporary. Rose Morant (b. 1963, Paris, France) has extensive experience of working with artisans in Asia as a collaborator with European luxury fashion and homeware brands. After changing careers and becoming a full-time artist, she began creating sculptural works made of “flower powder.” The powder is derived from dried petals collected from a pagoda in Myanmar and mixed with black lacquer by a local family of artisans. With this unique and vernacular material, Morant presents rhythmic sculptures and golden panels which offer the viewer an epiphanic yet serene experience of strolling in nature. DOWNLOAD ARTIST BIO DOWNLOAD LIST OF WORKS SEIZAN Gallery : Booth B33 General Hours Select VIP Preview: Thursday, Aug 12th - 1:00-5:00 Opening Evening: Thursday, Aug 12th - 5:00-9:00 Public Hours: Aug 13th - 11:00-7:00 Aug 14th - 11:00-7:00 Aug 15th - 11:00-6:00 Location: The Bridgehampton Museum 2368 Montauk Highway Bridgehampton, NY 11932 https://artmarkethamptons.com/ Image: Eri Iwasaki. Tiny Night , Tiny Light, 2021. Mineral pigment, gofun, gold leaf on Japanese paper mounted on wood panel. 35.8 x 35.8 inches (91 x 91 cm) Photo by GION