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Midori Yoshimoto is professor of art history and gallery director at Â鶹´«Ã½. As art historian, Yoshimoto specializes in post-1945 Japanese art and its diaspora with a focus on women artists, Fluxus, and intermedia. Her 2005 book, Into Performance: Japanese Women Artists in New York, led to numerous publications including an essay in Yoko Ono One Woman Show (Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2015). Yoshimoto co-curated a major survey exhibition of Japanese American artist Shigeko Kubota, which traveled three museums in Japan in 2021-22. Its catalog, Viva Video! The Art and Life of Shigeko Kubota was published by Kawade Shobo Shinsha and received the Ringa Art Encouragement Award in Japan. She is also a co-editor and author of Women, Aging, and Art: A Crosscultural Anthology (Bloomsbury, 2021). 

As curator, she has curated numerous exhibitions at NJCU which include: Resonances: Five Asian Women Artists in Â鶹´«Ã½ (2005); Elizabeth Catlett: For My People (2006); Yoko Ono Imagine Peace: Featuring John and Yoko’s Year of Peace(2008); Afterwards & Forward: A Ten Year 9/11 Reflective Exhibition (2011); Margaret Murphy: A Ten Year Survey (2012); Nancy Cohen: Hackensack Dreaming (2015); The Persistence of History (2018); Mapping Life (2019); The Embankment on My Mind (2022).

The highlights of Dr. Yoshimoto's external curatorial projects are: Do-It-Yourself Fluxus (Art Interactive, Cambridge, MA, 2003), New Tale for Our Age, (The Visual Arts Center of Â鶹´«Ã½, Summit, 2009), Emerging Patterns (Arts Council of Morris Area, 2010), Forms and Effects: Ukiyo-e to Anime (Kresge Gallery, Ramapo College, 2017), Jerseyscapes III (Hamilton Square, Jersey City, 2020), Viva Video!: The Art and Life of Shigeko Kubota (3 Japanese museums, 2021-22).

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