Name
YOSHIDA, Yuri
Degree
Ph.D. in Art History
HP (URL)
https://researchmap.jp/yuriyoshida
Status
Assistant Professor
Research Topic
Topological Imagination and Postwar American Art: Reconfiguring Space and Time in the 1960s and Beyond
My research in modern and contemporary art history centers on the question of how and why visual forms take on particular configurations at specific historical moments, and what such processes disclose about the entanglement of art and history. Currently, I focus on diverse artistic practices in American art since the 1960s, examining how technological developments and mathematical modes of thought have shaped visual expression, and how such perspectives may open new approaches to writing the history of postwar art.
Education and Academic Employment
Education
| 2022 | Ph.D. in Art History, Rice University |
| 2014 | M.A. in Art History, Hunter College, The City University of New York |
| 2011 | M.A. in Value and Decision Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology |
| 2009 | B.S. in Mathematics, Tokyo Institute of Technology |
Academic Employment
| 2024- | Adjunct Lecturer, Musashi University |
| 2023-2026 | JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Tokyo |
| 2019-2020 | William A. Camfield Fellow, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston |
| 2018-2019 | The John and Dominique de Menil Fellow, The Menil Collection |
| 2014-2015 | Scholar-in-Residence, The Barnett Newman Foundation |
| 2010-2012 | Curatorial Assistant, Mori Art Museum |
Fields of Research Interests
Modern and Contemporary Art History, American Art History, Historiography and Theory of Art History, Art and Science
Academic Publications
[Books]
- Yoshida, Yuri. Barnett Newman and Post-war American Abstract Expressionism. Tokyo: Chuo Koron Bijutsu Shuppan, 2025 (in Japanese)
[Selected Essays]
- “The Influence of Natural Sciences on Walter De Maria’s Production.” The Kajima Foundation for the Arts: Annual Research Report, vol. 40, 2023, pp. 283–293 (in Japanese)
- “Placing Abstraction: Barnett Newman and the System of Historicization.” Ph.D. dissertation, Rice University, 2022
- “Barnett Newman’s Bird’s-Eye View of His Contemporaries: An Analysis of Several November 1959 Drafts” Bijutsushi: The Journal of the Japan Art History Society, 2020, pp. 45–49 (in Japanese)
- “Barnett Newman’s Perception of Artistic Genealogy and Production as Seen in His Criticism of Ad Reinhardt’s “Black” Paintings.” NACT Review: Bulletin of the National Art Center, Tokyo, 2019, pp. 51–68 (in Japanese)
- “Barnett Newman’s Self-Historicization: Analysis of Late 1960s Letters on Deposit at the Barnett Newman Foundation.” Bijutsushi: The Journal of the Japan Art History Society, 2017, pp. 50–66 (in Japanese)
- “The Depth of the Canvas: The Transformation of Spatial Awareness in Barnett Newman’s Paintings.” Bijutsushi: The Journal of the Japan Art History Society, 2012, pp. 302–319 (in Japanese)
Other Interests
Museum-going, regular exercise, translation, reading, and pursuing research even outside working hours.
Affiliated Academic Organizations
The Japan Art History Society
The Japanese Society for Aesthetics
ICOM Japan
