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Gendai Gallery
Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre
6 Garamond Court
Don Mills, ON
In 1994 Aiko Suzuki, Walter Sunahara, Louise Noguchi, Banri and Michiko Nakamura came together to found Gendai Gallery, the first of its kind in North America. The Gallery is a not-for-profit public art gallery with a mandate to:
“dedicate itself to the promotion of excellence in contemporary art and design with a curatorial emphasis on work by Canadian and international artists of Japanese heritage, and by the larger Asian community “.
Gendai Gallery began as a gallery without walls, mounting series of artists' talks, literary readings and consultation meetings with the public. The gallery has an excellent exhibition/office/storage space in the new site and officially opened in 2000 with an exhibition called Recollection Project, a group show with works commissioned to respond to the Centre's archival collection. Major groundbreaking shows followed includingTashme2: Early Works of Kazuo Nakamura (2001), Paper/Scissors/Stone (2003) and Aiko Suzuki: selected works from 1973 to the present (2003). Catalogues are available for these shows.
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Paper/Scissors/Stone exhibit at
Gendai Gallery 2003.
(photo:Yuseke Tanaka)
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