About Collective Action
Collective Action is an art collective formed by Yoshida Shinichiro, a prominent artist, collector, and scholar of plant-based textiles, and the curator Akimoto Yuji. Yoshida formerly produced paintings that sought new expressions of the color white, but shifted to studying plant-based textiles after first encountering them over 40 years ago and starting his own collection of ramie and hemp textiles. Akimoto is an art critic and curator. He first became involved in art projects as a curator on the island of Naoshima in 1991. After serving as the director of the Chichu Art Museum and the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, he taught as a professor at the Tokyo University of the Arts while serving as the director of the University Art Museum, and the director of Nerima Art Museum. He has served as the executive director and curator of Go for Kogei since 2021.