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Gallery Talk: Kenji Yoshida: Joe Nickols & Gerard Houghton in Conversation

7 Mar 2026 3-4.30pm

October Gallery
London WC1N 3AL
Kenji Yoshida, La Vie,, 1991, Oil and metals on canvas, 51 x 61 cm.. Credit: © The Estate of Kenji Yoshida. Courtesy the Estate of Kenji Yoshida and October Gallery, London. Photo © Jonathan Greet.

Overview

Join Joe Nickols, Project Curator of Samurai at The British Museum and Gerard Houghton, Director of Special Projects, October Gallery, for a discussion about Japanese artist Kenji Yoshida and his solo exhibition, The Meaning of Life. The conversation will examine the late artist's extraordinary life and artistic career. Yoshida is best known for the monumental, almost transcendent works that employ precious metals of gold and silver leaf upon Japanese lacquer and coloured paints on canvas. Highlights in the exhibition The Meaning of Life include exemplary works on paper from the 60s and 70s, portraying a unique combination of traditional Japanese and European modernist styles.

This free talk takes place on October Gallery’s ground floor and has disabled access.

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Artists

Kenji Yoshida

Japanese, 1924-2009

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