Yuji Agematsu (b. 1956, Kanagawa, Japan) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York, US. Agematsu studied with Tokio Hasegawa, a member of the band Taj Mahal Travellers, and the jazz drummer and choreographer Milford Graves. Since 1985, Agematsu has collected objects as he walks the streets of New York.
His work is in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Walker Art Center, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the Brooklyn Museum, The Israel Museum, The Columbus Museum of Art, the Loewe Foundation, and the Pinault Collection. In March 2021, Agematsu mounted a solo exhibition at The Secession, Vienna, featuring the full 2020 year of his well-known zip works. The exhibition was accompanied by a catalogue with an essay by Robin Mackay. His works are currently on view in Greater New York at MoMA PS1 from October 7, 2021, to April 18, 2022.
Exhibitions
Servane Mary, Barry X Ball, David Adamo, Yuji Agematsu, Ryan Foerster, Jason Fox, Tillman Kaiser, Arnold J. Kemp, L, Justin Matherly, John Miller, Christopher Myers, Nikholis Planck, Nicolas Roggy, Sally Ross, Davina Semo, TARWUK, Gert and Uwe Tobias, Frederick Weston, Servane Mary, Huma Bhabha, Kathleen Ryan
Strange Attractors The Anthology of Interplanetary Folk Art Vol. 3: Lost In Space
