Since the 1990s, Midori Yamamura has been introducing artists of color, many of them from Third World countries, to both Japan and the U.S.A. Among the projects she had coordinated, Faret Tachikawa Project (1994), a Tokyo municipal government’s public art project, took professional attentions for inclusion of artists from diverse areas of the world in a particular geographic area such as Japan.
Between the years 1992 and 95, Yamamura was a program director of Hillside Gallery / Art Front Gallery in Tokyo. From 1995 to 97, she was an associate director of Central Fine Arts, Z Gallery in New York’s Soho district. She has an MA in art history from the Queens College, the City University of New York. Her thesis was on the art and aesthetics of Filipino postcolonial art. Currently, she is a doctoral candidate at the Graduate Center, the City University of New York.

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