Explore the most exciting exhibitions in Tokyo's museums and galleries ahead of the inaugural Tokyo Gendai art fair (7–9 July 2023). Highlights include a playful group exhibition at Watari-um, Hirofumi Katayama's "electric sheep" at Taro Nasu, and solo shows by painters Lauren Quin and Cristina BanBan.
Lauren Quin: Salon Real
Blum and Poe Tokyo
5 July–10 August 2023
Expect: electric abstract paintings that look like they've just exploded from a party popper.
Lauren Quin's paintings are high voltage. Though rendered in oil on canvas, they glow like neon and shine like polished metals.
Tube-like forms run through much of Quin's works, suggesting snakes, dragons, wires, or pipes in a heady mix of infrastructure and mythology.
Born in Los Angeles in 1992, Quin completed a BFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA at the Yale School of Art. Her first U.S. museum show, My Hellmouth, wrapped up at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas earlier this month. Salon Real is Quin's debut exhibition in Japan.