This exhibition introduces some new acquisitions made by our museum in FY2022 and FY2023. It features 59 works by 35 creators, with a focus on works not yet introduced in one of our earlier exhibitions.
Our museum has the following five collection policies.

① Modern Japanese-style painting, with a focus on Nihon Bijutsu-in (the Japan Art Institute)
② Arts and crafts related to Shiga Prefecture
③ Postwar American and Japanese contemporary art
④ Art Brut
⑤ Works that represent diversity in the arts and culture

　In accordance with this policy, our museum newly acquired 161 works by 46 creators in FY2022 and 590 works by 64 creators in FY2023.
　These included Flowers of Sumida by the Japanese-style painter Saigo Kogetsu (①), The Buddha’s Self-Sacrifice for Half a Verse by Yamamoto Shunkyo, a Japanese-style painter from Shiga Prefecture (②), My Stones by Matsunobe Soshi (②, ③, ⑤), Project on Roosevelt Island Plan 17 (model) by Kawamata Tadashi (③, ⑤), and Anthony Doubled by Devan Shimoyama, an artist based in the United States (③, ⑤). As for ④, our museum was gifted 549 art brut works from The Nippon Foundation (*1).
　Over these two fiscal years, we managed to expand our ongoing collection of Japanese-style paintings, arts and crafts by local creators, and art brut works. In order to reflect today’s multicultural world, we also acquired examples of contemporary American art as well as works by contemporary Japanese artists who are active on the global stage, such as Kawauchi Rinko (*2) and Kawamata Tadashi.
　Collecting is a fundamental part of what museums do, so we hope this exhibition serves to stimulate interest in our collection activities. We will present the other new acquisitions at various exhibitions staged from here on. Finally, we would like to express our gratitude to all those who gifted us these precious works.

Shiga Museum of Art

*1 447 of these 549 works were introduced in our exhibition Creative Adventures by 45 Japanese Art Brut Creators in April 2024. The works in this current exhibition were chosen from among those not introduced at the April exhibition.
*2 Our new Kawauchi Rinko acquisitions will be introduced in Shiga Museum of Art 40th Anniversary exhibition BUTSUDORI: The Photographic Expression of “Objects” (January 18–March 23, 2025).