ART WEEK TOKYO

November 7–10, 2024

TOKYO’S CITYWIDE

INITIATIVE FOR

CONTEMPORARY ART

Mami Kataoka is Director of the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo. Since 2023 she has concurrently served as Director of the National Center for Art Research, Tokyo. From 2007 to 2009 Kataoka was the first International Curator at Hayward Gallery, London. From 1997 to 2002 she was Chief Curator at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery. She was Artistic Director of Aichi Triennale 2022, Artistic Director of the 21st Biennale of Sydney (2018), and Co-Artistic Director of the 9th Gwangju Biennale (2012). From 2020 to 2022 Kataoka served as President of CIMAM (International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art).

Sohrab Mohebbi is Director of SculptureCenter, New York. Previously he served as the Kathe and Jim Patrinos Curator of the 58th Carnegie International (2023) as well as SculptureCenter’s Curator-at-Large (2020–21) and Curator (2018–20). He received an MA from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College and a BFA in photography from Tehran Art University.

Eiko Tomura is the founder of eiko tomura landscape architects. The firm’s current landscape projects include Hiroshi Sugimoto’s Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden Revitalization in Washington, DC, and Expo 2025 in Osaka. eiko tomura landscape architects was also recently named a finalist in landscape competitions including the Camden Highline in London and the ZEVO Energy Park in České Budějovice, Czech Republic.

Tomura was born in Tokyo in 1978 and studied architecture at Kogakuin University, Tokyo, before earning her Master of Landscape Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, in 2007. That same year, she started her career at WRT in Philadelphia and then joined Mosbach Paysagistes, Paris. In 2012 she moved to junya.ishigami+associates, Tokyo, where she was project manager for the award-winning Art Biotop Water Garden in Nasu, Japan. She established her own firm in 2017. Tomura is an associate professor at Kogakuin University, Tokyo, and lectures at Tama Art University, Tokyo.

Miya Enmeiji is the owner and chef of Emmé in Tokyo. Combining a Japanese seasonal sensibility with the culinary traditions of France, she specializes in making colorful, aromatic desserts that incorporate not only fruits but also vegetables, foie gras, and other unconventional ingredients.

Enmeiji was born in 1987 and raised in Kyoto. After graduating from Tsuji Culinary Institute in Osaka she continued her studies at the institute’s Lyon branch. Following her return to Japan she honed her skills at patisseries and restaurants in Tokyo, serving as head pastry chef at T’suki sur la mer and the Michelin-starred Lature. She opened Emmé in 2019 with her sommelier husband. In 2023 she was named Best Pâtissier by Gault & Millau Japan.