Yuko Hasegawa | 長谷川 祐子 is a curator, academic, writer, arts and cultural worker and current Director of the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa and professor in Curatorial Studies, Graduate School of Global Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts. Hasegawa’s previous roles include Artistic Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (2016–2021),  Curator of the 7th Moscow Biennale (2017), 11th Sharjah Biennale (2013), Co-Curator of 29th São Paulo Biennial (2010), and Artistic Director of the 7th International Istanbul Biennial (2001). From 1999 to 2006, as Chief Curator and then Artistic Director, Hasegawa contributed significantly to the establishment of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa as a model for a new kind of “open 21st-century art museum” via her involvement in development of the museum’s concept, design of the museum building in collaboration with architectural unit SANAA, and building of the collection.