Top left: Hideo Furukawa; top middle: Matthew Sharpe; top right: Tomoka Shibasaki. Bottom left: Motoyuki Shibata; bottom middle: Roland Kelt; bottom right: MONKEY, Vol.6 HORROR

Hideo Furukawa and Tomoka Shibasaki in Conversation with Matthew Sharpe
Saturday, May 16, 2026
2pm
525 West 26th Street, NYC

Seizan Gallery is excited to host a special event: Hideo Furukawa and Tomoka Shibasaki in conversation with Matthew Sharpe in collaboration with the annual anthology MONKEY. MONKEY’s contributing editor Roland Kelts and MONKEY’s founder Motoyuki Shibata will moderate a wide-ranging conversation among the three acclaimed authors, from a discussion of their latest works to their writing practices. Kendall Heitzman, a principal Furukawa translator, as well as Ted Goossen, MONKEY co founder, will also join the conversation.

MONKEY, the Japanese literary journal, and MONKEY New Writing from Japan feature visual work by artists, illustrators, and photographers, including SEIZAN artists Asako Tabata and Motohide Takami. To celebrate this special event, recent paintings by Asa Hiramatsu, a regular MONKEY contributor, will be on view in the gallery, until July 2, 2026. Volumes 3–6 of MONKEY New Writing from Japan will be available for purchase at the gallery.

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