Oko Goto

Oko Goto is a curator with an interest in areas where art and life, well-being, and care ethics meet. Since 2017, Goto has served as a curator at the Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito in Ibaraki, Japan. Recent projects include Aki Kondo: What I Saw, When I Tore Myself Open (2025), Sudo Reiko: Making NUNO Textiles (2024, co-organized with CHAT, Hong Kong), and Pipilotti Rist: Your Eye Is My Island (2021, co-organized with MoMAK). Following a thematic exhibition Thinking about Caring and Motherhood through Contemporary Art (2023), Goto co-developed and continues to lead the center’s access programme, Bridge (between art and care), which focuses on enhancing social inclusion and targeted outreach. Goto is also a visiting lecturer at Tohoku University of Art and Design and a member of Asia Art Roundtable (Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japan).

Oko Goto is visiting Vienna on a group research trip in June 2025.

Photo: Courtesy the curator