For Frieze Los Angeles 2025, Gomide&Co, São Paulo and Ortuzar, New York are pleased to feature a solo presentation surveying the oeuvre of the artist Megumi Yuasa (b. 1938, São Paulo, Brazil). This marks the first presentation of Yuasa’s work in the United States, following his recent solo exhibition at Gomide&Co, held in the second half of 2024—the artist's first solo show since 1998.
For over six decades, Yuasa has crafted a distinctive body of work that fuses Japanese and Brazilian aesthetics, materials, and techniques, reflecting the history of the East Asian diaspora in Brazil. Yuasa began his career in 1964 and quickly gained recognition for his innovative sculptures that elaborated on the conventions of Japanese ceramics by incorporating non-traditional materials like metals, oxides, and paints. While exhibiting frequently in Japanese-Brazilian circles around Brazil, the artist has also organized and taught ceramics classes and workshops for many decades. His work and teachings express his personal cosmology of absolute interconnection and universal source: “Everything is made from everything, everything depends on everything. Everything is everything.” His sculptures isolate elements and moments from nature, acting as distilled landscapes in which elements like trees, moons, and seeds interact, whether balancing on, projecting off or supporting one another.
The artist has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Gomide&Co, São Paulo (2024); Galeria de Arte São Paulo (1987 and 1991); and Galeria Astréia, São Paulo (1973); among others. Group exhibitions featuring his work include Diásporas asiáticas: Tocar a terra – cerâmica contemporânea nipo-brasileira, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo (2024); O Curso do Sol, Gomide&Co, São Paulo (2023); Laços do Olhar, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo (2008); Nipo-Brasileiros no Acervo da Pinacoteca de São Paulo, Pinacoteca de São Paulo (2008); Mostra Internacional Brasil-Japão, Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (MASP), São Paulo (1998); 80 anos da Imigração Japonesa, Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (MASP), São Paulo (1988); 10º Panorama de Arte Atual Brasileira – Escultura Objeto, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo (MAM-SP), São Paulo (1978); the 13th and the 14th editions of the Bienal de São Paulo (1975 and 1977), among others. Yuasa’s work is part of the permanent collection of the Pinacoteca de São Paulo, the Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo (MAM-SP), and the Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo (MAC USP).
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