Cusi Masuda

Japanese-American Contemporary Artist

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Masami Masuda (Masuda Masami, born June 8, 1944), known professionally as Cusi Masuda, is a Japanese-American artist, sculptor and painter.[1]

Born in Shizuoka prefecture, Matsuda attended Musashino Art University in Japan.[2] He then worked on sculptures, taking part in then Yugoslavian (now Slovenia) Forma Viva 1970 in Maribor[3] before moving to New York City in late 1970. After he moved to New York City, he participated in the 1981 Whitney Counterweight.[4] He continues to make art in New York. He took on the name Cusi because of his admiration of and deep reverence for Romanian artist Brancusi.[4] He has been featured in multiple art publications including Artforum, Art in America, and Sulfur.[5][6][7][8] He also has a minor role in the 2013 documentary, Cutie and the Boxer. His work Eternal performance for the 50th anniversary of Hiroshima is included in the Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.[9] Masuda's work was also included in Out of Actions - Aktionismus, Body Art & Performance, 1949-1979 at the Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna in 1998[10]

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1. ^ Stiles, Kristine (March 26, 1998). Out of actions : between performance and the object, 1949-1979. Thames and Hudson. ISBN 0500280509.
2. ^ "Cusi Matuda: Profile". Retrieved 2023-04-30.
3. ^ "Pogled spomenika - Likovna umetnost v prostoru mesta Maribor". www.mariborart.si. Retrieved 2023-04-10.
4. ^ a b "Whitney Counterweight 2014 - Video". www.whitneycounterweight.com. Archived from the original on October 2, 2018. Retrieved April 4, 2023.
5. ^ Heinemann, Susan (1975). "Susan Heinemann on Cusi Masuda". Artforum (6).
6. ^ Sulfur. California Institute of Technology. 1989.
7. ^ Golub, Leon. "A Note on Cusi Masuda". Sulfur (25): 135.
8. ^ Kuspit, Donald. "Cusi Masuda at 75 Hudson Street". Sulfur (25): 53.
9. ^ "Eternal performance for the 50th anniversary of Hiroshima". School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
10. ^ Deepwell, Katy (1998). "OUT OF ACTION / OUT OF MIND" (PDF). N.paradoxa (7): 43. ISSN 1461-0434.