05/14/2026
Seizan gallery is pleased to present its participation at FUTURE FAIR 2026, featuring works by artists Marina Berio, Miné Okubo and Asako Tabata. The fair is on view from May 13 to May 16. Find us at Booth U10.
Miné Okubo (b. 1912, Riverside, CA. d. 2001, New York, Ny) was a pioneering Nisei (second-generation Japanese American) artist whose work as an illustrator and painter occupies a vital place in the history of American modernism. Associated with a generation of Japanese American artists that includes Chiura Obata and Matsusaburo Hibi, she developed a distinctive visual language shaped by both modernist aesthetics and lived experience. Her oeuvre has undergone significant reappraisal in recent years, with renewed institutional attention highlighting its historical and cultural importance. A major travelling exhibition, Pictures of belonging: Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo, curated by Dr. ShiPu Wang, had bought her work to new audiences and is currently on view at the Monterey Museum of Art, with subsequent presentations scheduled at the Japanese American National Museum. Okubo’s works are held in prominent public collections, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Japanese American National Museum, the Oakland Museum of California, and the Centre for Social Justice & Civil Liberties, among others.
