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AGWA to deliver Yoshitomo Nara’s first Australian solo exhibition

AGWA's exclusive Yoshitomo Nara show is about building on momentum for growth, rather than charging for a ticket, says Director Colin Walker.

1 Feb 2023

Celina Lei

Visual Arts

L to R: Yoshitomo Nara, ‘Mini drawing’, 2016. On loan from the artist, courtesy Pace Gallery. © Yoshitomo Nara, 2016. Yoshitomo Nara, ‘No war love and peace’ 2020. On loan from the artist, courtesy Pace Gallery. © Yoshitomo Nara, 2020. Yoshitomo Nara ‘Reach out to the moon, even if we can’t’ 2016. On loan from the artist, courtesy Pace Gallery. © Yoshitomo Nara, 2016. Images: Supplied.

The first Australian solo exhibition of Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara, Yoshitomo Nara: Reach Out to The Moon, Even If We Can’t, will open at the Art Gallery of Western Australia (AGWA) on 26 February. It will be free to gallery visitors.

The exhibition is not only an AGWA exclusive, but has been locally curated following close discussions with Nara and Pace Gallery, which has represented the artist in New York since 2011.

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Celina Lei

Celina Lei is an arts writer and editor at ArtsHub. She acquired her M.A in Art, Law and Business in New York with a B.A. in Art History and Philosophy from the University of Melbourne. She has previously worked across global art hubs in Beijing, Hong Kong and New York in both the commercial art sector and art criticism. She took part in drafting NAVA’s revised Code of Practice - Art Fairs and was the project manager of ArtsHub’s diverse writers initiative, Amplify Collective. Celina is based in Naarm/Melbourne.