Born in 1974 in Tokyo, Japan. Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (MOT). Yabumae has curated Shinro Ohtake; Zen-Kei Retrospective 1955-2006 (2006), Omnilogue: Your Voice is Mine (2013, NUS Museum, Singapore) and has organized the “MOT Collection” since 2007, including special features such as Kenjiro Okazaki (2009-10), Chronicle 1995- (2014), Sayoko Yamaguchi: The Wearist, Clothed in the Future (2015), and An Art Exhibition for Children: Whose place is this? (2015). Her writings on modern and contemporary Japanese art have appeared in a number of journals in Japan.