Gozo Yoshimasu awarded Inaugural Serpentine x FLAG Art Foundation Prize
The recipient was selected by an official jury comprising Michelle Kuo, Venus Lau, Hans Ulrich Obrist (Serpentine) and Jon Rider (FLAG Art Foundation) and Rirkrit Tiravanija.
Gozo Yoshimasu (b. 1939, Tokyo, Japan; lives and works in Tokyo, Japan) will stage a solo exhibition that debuts at Serpentine North in autumn 2027, followed by a presentation reimagined for the FLAG Art Foundation in New York in spring 2028. This long-term collaboration initiates an ongoing artistic dialogue between the two institutions and underscores their shared belief in the power of collaboration to shape the future of contemporary art.
Having emerged from Tokyo’s interdisciplinary avant-garde of the 1960s, Yoshimasu has developed a distinctive practice that combines poetry with performance, audio recordings, photography and his own moving-image form known as gozoCiné. The exhibition will mark the first major solo institutional exhibition of the artist’s work in both the UK and the United States. It will be accompanied by a dedicated catalogue and a dynamic live programme, developed and produced collaboratively by both institutions.
Main Image: Portrait of Gozo Yoshimasu. Photo by Masashi Asada