Against bright colored background, media artist Tony Cokes (USA) has combined text and music on the themes of American politics and pop culture, re-contextualizing culture and history in his unique visual expressions. In addition to his exhibit and screenings at Tokyo Photographic Art Museum in the Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2025, his works are unfolded at different places in Yebisu Garden Place including the Ebisu Skywalk (moving path) that connects JR Yebisu Station and Yebisu Garden Place, making a large-scale installation possible. This is the first large-scale exhibition in Japan for Tony Cokes who won the Genius Grant from the MacArthur Fellows Program in 2024 and is gaining increasing attention. Moreover, an off-site display using enlarged photographs is implemented to introduce the Tokyo Metropolitan Collection.

Where you can see Tony Cokes’x’s works

1. Tokyo Photographic Art Museum 2F Lobby / 1F Hall（screening four times during the festival）
2. Tokyo Photographic Art Museum exterior wall
3. CREATORE with PLUS (Yebisu Garden Place Center plaza B1F)
4. Ebisu Skywalk (between JR Ebisu Station and Ebisu Garden Place)

Tony Cokes’’s works

The Queen is Dead… Fragment 1, 2019 1, 3
The Queen is Dead…Fragment 2, 2019 1, 4
Free Britney? 2022 1
Evil.66.2 (DT.sketch.2.7), 2016 2

Enlarged Photo Exhibition from the Tokyo Collection

1. Glass Square 1F entrance
2. Yebisu Garden Place Tower Entrance