{{Short description|Japanese painter, sculptor, and performance artist}}
{{Infobox artist | name = Minoru Yoshida | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date text|1935}}<ref name="Ulterior">{{cite web |url= http://www.ulteriorgallery.com/minoru-yoshida_wave-of-light |title= Minoru Yoshida: Waves of Light|website= ulteriorgallery.com|access-date= 9 Jul 2023}}</ref> | birth_place = Osaka<ref name="Ulterior"/> | death_date = {{Death date text|2010}} | death_place = | resting_place_coordinates = <!-- {{Coord|LAT|LONG|type:landmark|display=inline}} --> | education = | alma_mater = Kyoto City University of Fine Arts<ref name="Ulterior"/> | known_for = Painting, Sculpture, & Performance Art | notable_works = | style = | movement = Gutai Art Association | spouse = | partner = | awards = | elected = | patrons = | memorials = | website = | module = }}
'''Minoru Yoshida''' (1935–2010) was a Japanese painter, sculptor, and performance artist, associated with the Gutai Art Association.
==Early life and education== Yoshida attended a high school which specialized in science before studying painting at Kyoto City University of Fine Arts.<ref name="ArtAsiaPacific">{{Citation| last = Horisaki-Christens| first = Nina| title = When Video Promised a Sci-Fi Future| journal = ArtAsiaPacific| issue = 112| pages = 73–76| date = March 2019| orig-date = March| language = English| url = https://artasiapacific.com/magazine/issue-112| archive-url = | archive-date = | doi = | id = | mr = | zbl = | jfm = }}</ref>
He briefly ran a kimono-dyeing shop before beginning his professional career as an artist.<ref name="New York Times">{{cite web |url= https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/03/arts/design/minoru-yoshida-caitlin-cherry.html |title= 2 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now|website= nytimes.com|access-date= 9 Jul 2023}}</ref>
==Work== thumb|京都九条山 ヨシダ ミノル アトリエ Yoshida is a second-generation Gutai artist, noted in the 1960s for his hard edge abstract paintings and futuristic sculptures before shifting the focus of his work to the performance format in the 1970s.<ref name="RealTokyo">{{cite web |url= https://www.realtokyo.co.jp/en/exhibition/minoru-yoshida/ |title= Minoru Yoshida Performances in New York|website= realtokyo.co.jp|access-date= 9 Jul 2023}}</ref> In 1965 he joined the Gutai movement.<ref name="New York Times"/> Yoshida began incorporating performance art into his practice while living in New York City.<ref name="RealTokyo"/> His performances often incorporated a "synthesizer jacket," a garment the artist created from plexiglass and adorned with circuits and resembling his earlier sculptures.<ref name="Artforum">{{cite web |url= https://www.artforum.com/picks/minoru-yoshida-77559 |title= Minoru Yoshida|website= artforum.com|access-date= 9 Jul 2023}}</ref> The artist also wired speakers into panels that were worn around the wearer’s thighs. By operating the different switches on the jacket, sculptural garment emitted a series of different rhythmic electronic sounds.<ref name="The Brooklyn Rail">{{cite web |url= https://brooklynrail.org/2018/11/artseen/Minoru-Yoshida-Performance-in-New-York |title= Minoru Yoshida: Performance in New York|website= brooklynrail.org|access-date= 9 Jul 2023}}</ref> Yoshida lived in New York City from 1970 to 1978 before returning to Japan where he continued to work and perform until his death in 2010.<ref name="New York Times"/>
===Notable exhibitions=== He was included in the 15th, 16th, 17th, 19th, 20th, and 21st Gutai Art Exhibitions at the Gutai Pinacotheca.<ref name="Ulterior"/> His piece ''Bisexual Flower'' was included in the Osaka World Expo 1970.<ref name="RealTokyo"/> In 2013, Yoshida was included in ''Gutai: Splendid Playground'' exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum.<ref name="Guggenheim">{{cite web |url= https://www.guggenheim.org/exhibition/gutai-splendid-playground|title= Gutai: Splendid Playground|website=guggenheim.org|access-date= 14 Jul 2023}}</ref>
===Public collections=== Yoshida's works can be found in the collections of Ashiya City Museum of Art and History, Hyogo, Japan; Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan; Takamatsu Municipal Museum, Kagawa, Japan; Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Niigata, Japan; and National Museum of Modern Art,<ref name="NMMA,K">{{cite web |title=Yoshida, Minoru |url=https://search.artmuseums.go.jp/search_e/sakuhin_list.php?sakka=5424 |website=National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto}}</ref> Kyoto, Japan.<ref name="artland">{{cite web|url=https://www.artland.com/artists/minoru-yoshida-1f32a9|access-date=August 14, 2023|title=Minoru Yoshida}}</ref><ref name="AW">{{cite news |title=Minoru Yoshida: Paintings from 1960s |url=https://www.artweek.com/events/united-states/art-exhibition/new-york/minoru-yoshida-paintings-1960s# |access-date=14 August 2023 |publisher=ArtWeek}}</ref>
== References ==
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