KinoSaito’s spacious galleries are designed to highlight ideas at the core of the center’s mission—experimental practices of artists working today seen in relation to Kikuo Saito’s paintings, works on paper and theater design from throughout his over fifty-year career. In the first gallery, visitors encounter a selection of Saito’s work that changes quarterly, each iteration highlighting a theme, motif, painting style or area of focus worthy of the artist’s extended study. The second gallery is a rotating series of exhibitions featuring the work of contemporary artists across disciplines, media, and artistic practices.
Kikuo Saito: Reminiscence in Color
Curated by Mikiko Ino Saito
24 May – 21 Dec. 2025
Kikuo Saito, Perugia, 1995, Oil on canvas, 78 x 82 1/2 in
Kikuo Saito forged his own path in the Color Field movement, on a mission to find colors that had never before existed. Curated by Mikiko Ino Saito, wife of the late artist, this selection of works explores his bold and unique use of colors and gestures to evoke moods, feelings, and sensations.
GALLERY 2, THEATRE GALLERY, and OUTDOOR
The Unknown and Its Poetics
Curated by Adrián S. Bará
24 May – 21 Dec. 2025
Adrián S. Bará, The Unknown and its poetics, 2025, Video still
This exhibition presents a group of works by international artists that live or have lived away from their home country and have been impacted by cross-cultural influences. Artists whose abstract work engages experiences and identities related to the unknown and the construction of home.
As the Italian painter Giorgio Morandi once said, “Nothing is more abstract than reality.” The group of artists included in this survey share the ability to communicate the importance of the small poetic gesture, and explore what we call reality through the language of abstraction.
With works in a range of media, this exhibition will span throughout the art center and will address relationships between cultures, languages, political systems, life under globalization, individuality and liberation.
Past Exhibitions
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Kikuo Saito: The Wrong Side of the Brush
Curated by Kikuo Saito Studio
8 Mar. – 18 May 2025 -
Reuven Israel: U.F.O. (Untitled Folding Object) 1329
Curated by Kathy Battista and Sarah Strauss
8 Mar. – 18 May 2025 -
Soli Pierce and Bruce Odland: Sound Forest / Between Worlds
8 Mar. – 18 May 2025
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Alice Mizrachi: Unifying Threads of Our Evolution
8 Mar. – 18 May 2025
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2024 KinoSaito Annual
Community Art Benefit
Curated by KinoSaito Art Center
13-15 Dec. 2024 -
Kikuo Saito: Summer Song
Curated by Kikuo Saito Studio
11 May – 15 Dec. 2024 -
Chie Fueki: Petal Storm Memory
Curated by David A. Ross
11 May – 15 Dec. 2024 -
NON Objectified
Curated by Kathy Battista
11 May – 15 Dec. 2024 -
Natsuki Takauji: The Heart of the Tree
11 May – 15 Dec. 2024
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Kikuo Saito: Unraveling
Curated by Kikuo Saito Studio
9 Mar. – 5 May 2024 -
Alina Tenser: Wrk Frm Hm
Curated by Sarah Strauss
9 Mar. – 5 May 2024 -
Bel Falleiros: Navel-Knot // Root-Rise
Curated by Jess Wilcox and organized in partnership with River Valley Arts Collective
9 Mar. – 5 May 2024 -
Ricardo de Oliveira: As The Years Went On… (Woman’s Eye)
Curated by CLEA RSKY
9 Mar. – 5 May 2024 -
KinoSaito Annual: Community Art Benefit
Curated by KinoSaito Art Center
15-17 Dec. 2023 -
Lee Tribe
Curated by Kikuo Saito Studio
2 Sep. – 17 Dec. 2023 -
Kikuo Saito and Friends: New York City Downtown and Beyond, 1970s and 1980s
Curated by Karen Wilkin
13 May – 17 Dec. 2023 -
Niki Lederer: Knickerbocker Ice
Curated by Kikuo Saito Studio
4 Mar. – 30 Aug. 2023 -
Kikuo Saito: Pictorial Clay
Curated by Jim Walsh
4 Mar. – 7 May 2023 -
Patrice Renee Washington: Tendersweet
Curated by Olga Dekalo and organized in partnership with River Valley Arts Collective
4 Mar. – 7 May 2023 -
Murray Hochman: New Dimensions
Curated by Kikuo Saito Studio
4 Mar. – 7 May 2023 -
Kikuo Saito: Hatching Color
Curated by Kikuo Saito Studio
9 Sep. - 18 Dec. 2022 -
Signaling
Curated by Alexander Provan
9 Sep. - 11 Dec. 2022 -
XYZ: Alphabetical Ruptures and Reformations
Curated by Sophie Landres
8 Jul. - 4 Sep. 2022 -
Kikuo Saito: The Alphabet Paintings
Curated by Kikuo Saito Studio
3 Jun. - 4 Sep. 2022 -
Pooneh Maghazehe: Half-Life
Curated by Beth Venn
6 May – 26 Jun. 2022 -
Material Presence: Kikuo Saito
Curated by Karen Wilkin
4 Mar. – 22 May 2022 -
Material Presence: Jilaine Jones + Fran O’Neill
Curated by Karen Wilkin
4 Mar. – 24 Apr. 2022 -
Christina McPhee: Regeneration
Curated by Beth Venn
4 Mar. – 24 Apr. 2022 -
Kikuo Saito: Cloud Paintings
Curated by Kikuo Saito Studio
9 Sep. – 19 Dec. 2021 -
Painting as Performance / Performance as Painting: The Theater Paintings of Kikuo Saito
Curated by Kikuo Saito Studio
9 Sep. – 19 Dec. 2021