Taro Masushio in conversation with Matilde Guidelli-Guidi

We are pleased to convene a conversation between Matilde Guidelli-Guidi, curator at Dia Art Foundation, and Taro Masushio on the occasion of his solo exhibition Pass at Empty Gallery.

This free ranging discussion will explore the poetics of Masushio’s practice, touching on topics such as his recurring interest in informal archives, the notion of form as a tool for evading semantic foreclosure, and the economies of presence enabled by a curved approach to time.

The exhibition will be on view through Saturday, November 30th.

Matilde Guidelli-Guidi is a curator and co–department head at Dia Art Foundation, where she has organized exhibitions of work by Leslie Hewitt, Jill Magid, Mario Merz, Senga Nengudi, Fred Sandback, and Jack Whitten, among others. As the curator of Dia’s Artists on Artists Lecture Series, she has commissioned work by artists including Olga Balema, Aria Dean, Duane Linklater, Naeem Mohaiemen, Precious Okoyomon, Marina Rosenfeld, and Tiffany Sia. Prior to joining Dia, she worked at international institutions including the Musée du Louvre, Paris; Paula Cooper Gallery, New York; and The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. She lives in New York.

Taro Masushio is a Japanese born artist currently working in New York City. Masushio works with a range of mediums including photography, video, drawing, and sculpture. Masushio received his BA from University of California, Berkeley and MFA from New York University. Solo and group exhibitions include Empty Gallery; Hong Kong, Ulrik; New York, Felix Gaudlitz; Vienna, Bonner Kunstverein; Bonn, 47 Canal; New York, Capsule Shanghai, and Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; California, amongst others. He was the 2022/23 City Artist in Residence at Internationales Atelier-stipendium Mönchengladbach. In Fall 2024, he joined Cooper Union; New York as the Henry Wolf Chair in Photography.