Yuji Agematsu: 2023–2024 is an exhibition that ran from May 10 to August 30, 2025 in two locations in New York City, presenting tiny sculptures that the New York-based artist Yuji Agematsu has created in 2023 and 2024. These artworks are small devotional sculptures crafted by Agematsu from debris found on New York’s streets, delicately arranged within the cellophane wrapper of a cigarette pack. Agematsu calls them zips. Since 1996, Yuji Agematsu has made one zip for each day, twenty-eight years of walking and arranging. 366 of these zips documenting Agematsu’s walks in 2024 have been displayed at the Judd Foundation, 101 Spring Street, another 365, from 2023, have been presented at the Harlem house of Gavin Brown.

Yuji Agematsu (b. 1956, Kanagawa, Japan) has lived in New York since 1980. Agematsu studied with Tokio Hasegawa, a member of the band Taj Mahal Travellers, and the jazz drummer and choreographer Milford Graves. Recently Agematsu has had solo exhibitions at Gladstone Gallery, Brussels (2023); The Clark Art Institute, Massachusetts (2022); and Secession, Vienna (2021). Recent group exhibitions include Le Contre-Ciel at Empty Gallery, Hong Kong (2024); The Irreplaceable Human, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark (2023); and Greater New York at MoMA PS1, New York (2021–22). His most recent performance was Chasing Milford at Artists Space, New York, as part of Milford Graves: Fundamental Frequency (2022). His work is in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum, New York; Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York; Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio; Guggenheim Museum, New York; Loewe Foundation, Madrid; Pinault Collection, Paris; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.

Yuji Agematsu: 2023–2024. 101 Spring Street (Judd Foundation) and 229 Lenox Avenue (Gavin Brown’s house), New York City, August 29, 2025.