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Toshihisa Yoda
CONTINUUM, 1967-Today
June 4 – August 7, 2026
Opening Reception:
Wednesday, June 10, 6-8pm
NowHere is pleased to announce the opening of its new gallery at 40 Lispenard Street with Continuum, 1967-Today, an exhibition dedicated to the work of painter Toshihisa Yoda. Presented in two consecutive parts, the exhibition traces six decades of the artist’s practice through 30 selected works—from his early geometric abstractions of the 1960s to the present—marking both a homecoming for NowHere and a long-overdue survey of one of New York’s most quietly enduring painters.
Yoda was born in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan in 1940, and arrived in New York in 1966, quickly immersing himself in the city’s downtown art scene at one of its most generative moments. While the art world shifted around him, from abstraction to figuration and back, Yoda remained steadfastly committed to his own evolving language of abstraction, developing a body of work distinguished by gentle accumulations of color, rhythmic brushwork, and a meditative sense of composition.
Continuum, 1967-Today is presented in two parts. The first, Toshihisa Yoda: 1960s–1990s, open June 4 through July 2, traces the arc of his early and mid-career practice, from rigorous line paintings made with masking tape to the emergence of the triangular form that would become central to his work. The second, Toshihisa Yoda: 2000s–Today, on view July 9 through August 7, presents recent paintings that demonstrate the continued vitality and evolution of his practice.
Yoda’s work draws from both Japanese tradition and the visual language of New York. The disciplined repetition of his mark-making and his attentiveness to the natural world speak to a sensibility rooted in his upbringing; the peeling paint of bridges, the geometry of cast-iron facades, and the colors of an aging city give his abstract works their form.
Yoda’s decades-long presence in the neighborhood was recently documented in The New York Times, which visited the artist and his wife Junko Yoda and son Yoichiro Yoda at their SoHo loft on Mercer Street—a 4,000-square-foot space they have shared as home and studio for over three decades, and one of the last living relics of the neighborhood’s artist era.
Toshihisa Yoda (b. 1940, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan) is a painter living and working in New York City. He studied at Musashino Fine Art University in Tokyo before moving to New York in 1966, where he continued his training at the Brooklyn Museum Art School and the Art Students League. His work is held in the permanent collections of the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; the National Museum of Art, Osaka; the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art; the Ohara Museum of Art; and IBM New York, among others. He has exhibited extensively across the United States and Japan over six decades, with solo exhibitions at institutions including the Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art and group presentations at the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, and the Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Karuizawa.
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