SAWAKO INANIWA

Sawako Inaniwa
Senior Curator, Learning
National Center for Art Research, Japan
Independent Administrative Institution National Museum of Art

Sawako Inaniwa holds master’s degrees from Aoyama Gakuin University and University College London. After working at the Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura & Hayama, she joined Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum to oversee its newly launched learning and communication projects. With a focus on social issues, she planned and ran community-based initiatives like the Tobira Project and Museum Start iUeno, and Creative Ageing Zuttobi, a response to the rapidly aging society. Her exhibitions at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum include Kubbe Makes an Art Museum (2015). Inaniwa took up her current position in April 2022. She is the author or co-author of several books in Japanese and, in English, co-author of New Museum Practice in Asia (2018) and Designing Society Through Art: A Collaboration Between Citizens and Cultural Institutions (2021).