Born in Toyama, Japan
ARTISTS
Yuichiro Tamura
Yuichiro Tamura not only addresses a message towards the privileged contemporary arts audience, but also triggers an unconventional way of communication with the audience, through works that utilize his unique form of reflection which is unconstrained by the conventional division among the categories such as video or visual arts.
Born 1977, Toyama. Tamura holds a doctoral degree from the Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts, and a Bachelor’s degree of Photography from Nihon University. He was a guest researcher for the Institut für Raumexperimente at the Berlin University of the Arts (2013-14). Currently he lives and works in Kyoto, Japan. Selected recent exhibitions in Japan and overseas are Milky Mountain (Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, 2019), The Seven Lamps of The Art Museum (Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, 2019), Where am I ? (Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art and Design, Toyama, 2019), Roppongi Crossing (Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2019), The Fabric of Felicity (Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, 2019), Hell Scream (Kyoto City University of Arts Art Gallery @KCUA, Kyoto, 2018), Busan Biennale 2018 and Nissan Art Award 2017.
WORKS
EXHIBITIONS
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Saki Sumida, Yuichiro Tamura, Manika Nagare, Tomomi Nitta, José Parlá, and Candida Höfer Best Wishes,2022.06.04 - 2022.07.02
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Fabian Knecht, Yuichiro Tamura, Raul Walch suspense2020.03.07 - 2020.04.04
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Charity Exhibition for Orange Ribbon2018.07.24 - 2018.08.04
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-Special Event- Yuichiro Tamura, Cars on Fire12/21(木) 11:00 – 18:00
12/22(金) 11:00 – 20:00
12/23(土) 11:00 – 18:00 -
Yuichiro Tamura, G2017.03.11 - 2017.04.22
NEWS
CV
- Yuichiro TAMURA
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1977
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2003
BFA, Department of Photography, College of Art, Nihon University, Tokyo
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2010
MFA, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo
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2017
PhD, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo
- SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
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2022
Animal Spirits; Rebirth of the Qool, SRR Project Space, Tokyo
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2019
Milky Mountain, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth
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2018
Hell Scream, Kyoto City University of Arts Art Gallery @KCUA, Kyoto
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2017
Cars on Fire, Yuka Tsuruno Gallery, Tokyo
Week End, Kurumaya Museum of Art, Oyama
G, Yuka Tsuruno Gallery, Tokyo -
2015
Ich fliege zurück mit Lufthansa., YUKA TSURUNO Gallery, Tokyo
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2013
NIGHTLESS| Last Signing Room, YUKA TSURUNO Gallery, Art Basel Hong Kong
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2012
NIGHTLAND, YUKA TSURUNO, TOKYO
- SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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2022
Double Vision, Tai Kwun, Hong Kong
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2021
Japan Media Arts Festival in Kyoto POETRY FOUND BY SCIENTISTS Eyes for the world, The Museum of Kyoto
Try the Video-Drawing, TAV GALLERY, Tokyo
DELTA, KAYOKOYUKI, Komagome SOKO, Tokyo
Shiga Museum of Art Collection Exhibition “Voiceover”, Shiga Museum of Art, Otsu
Omoshirogara: 99 Kimonos from the Inui Collection, Museum DKM, Duisburg
ギフト、ギフト、, Hachinohe Art Museum, Aomori -
2020
suspense, Yuka Tsuruno Gallery, Tokyo
ISDRSI, Toyooka City Museum of Art -Itoh Kiyonaga Memorial Hall-, Toyooka
alter-narratives, online
Participation Mystique, Ming Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai
DOMANI plus Online 2020: Living on the Eve, online
Yokohama Triennale 2020 “Afterglow”, Yokohama Museum of Art, online
Interrupted Meals, How Art Museum, Shanghai
Super Flatland, White Conduit Projects, London
Readings from Below, Times Art Center, Berlin
Nissan Art Award Collection, Nissan Gallery, Yokohama
Welcome to Sylvanian Gallery, Utrecht, Tokyo
ENCOUNTERS, ANB Tokyo
task, Art Lab Aichi, Nagoya -
2019
2019 Asian Art Biennale: The Strangers from beyond the Mountain and the Sea, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung
Image Narratives: Literature in Japanese Contemporary Art, National Art Center, Tokyo
The Seven Lamps of the Art Museum, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima
Where am I? The Art and Design of Signage, Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art & Design, Toyama
Roppongi Crossing 2019: Connexions, Mori Museum, Tokyo -
2018
The Fabric of Felicity, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, East gallery, Moscow
Busan Biennale 2018”Divided We Stand”, Museum of Contemporary Art Busan, Former Bank of Korea in Busan, Busan
APB Foundation Signature Art Prize finalist exhibition, National Museum of Singapore, Singapore -
2017
THE SCRAP, THE SCRAP, Seoul
works on paper, rin art association, Takasaki
NISSAN ART AWARD 2017: Exhibition of New Works by Five Finalists, BankART Studio NYK, Yokohama
YOKOHAMA TRIENNALE 2017 “Island, Constellations & Galapagos”, NYK Hikawamaru, Yokohama
Festival of Future Nows, Hamburger Bahnhof: Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin
2 or 3 Tigers, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
Mode of Liaisons, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok
MARKING TRIANGLES, The Japan Foundation, Cologne -
2016
MOVING!, The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama
The 21st Art Film Festival, Aichi Art Center, Nagoya
BODY/ PLAY/ POLITICS, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama
KYOTO EXPERIMENT 2016, Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto
Japan Media Arts Festival 20th Anniversary Exhibition, 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo
ARTIST PRACTICE, Art Fair Tokyo, Japan -
2015
DOMANI: The Art of Tomorrow, The National Art Center, Tokyo
Whenever Wherever Festival 2015, Morishita Studio, Tokyo
In To Asia 2015: Time-based Art Festival, Queens Museum, New York
Monogatari no Katachi – Ima ni Utsushidasu Attarukoto, sendai mediatheque, Sendai
Oil on canvas, YUKA TSURUNO GALLERY, Tokyo
Kalte Füsse bekommen, DOCK, Basel
Oslo Night, Atelier Mondial, Basel
Making Border – Afterimages and Profections, DNA Galerie, Berlin
Asian Film Video Art Forum, the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul
Artist Fair Taiwan, Taipei -
2014
Festival of Future Nows, Berlin State Museums, Berlin
SeMA Biennale; Media City Seoul 2014, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
Photography Will Be, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Aichi
MEDIA/ART KITCHEN AOMORI, Aomori Contemporary Art Centre (ACAC), Aomori
MEDIA/ART KITCHEN YAMAGUCHI, Yamagushi Center for Arts and Media (YCAM), Yamaguchi
Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
WALK-IN-PROGRESS, Vitamin Creative Space, Guangzhou, China -
2013
Media/ Art Kitchen – Reality Distortion Field, Map KL, Publika, Kuala Lumpur/ Ayala Museum, Manila
Setouchi Triennale2013, Awashima Island, Mitomi, Kagawa
Whenever Wherever Festival 2013, MORISHITA STUDIO, Tokyo
ACCIDENTAL ACCOMPLISHMENT by the Institut für Raumexperimente/Klasse Olafur Eliasson, Institut fur Raumexperimente, Berlin
(n)on site, km temporaer, Berlin
Elastic Video, Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna -
2012
MOT Annual 2012: Making Situations, Editing Landscapes, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo
Kunisaki Art Project 2012, Bungotakada, Kunisaki, Oita
Der B ärenh äuter, trippen Harajuku, Tokyo
Awashima AIR 2012 / spring, Various places in Awashima, Kagawa
Open Skylines, Japan Foundation, Hanoi
TOKYO EXPERIMENTAL FESTIVAL ALL NIGHT FINALE, Tokyo Wonder Site Aoyama, Tokyo
TOKYO STORY 2011, Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya, Tokyo
Japan Media Arts Festival Domestic Traveling Exhibition, Sendai Drama Studio 10-BOX parking areas, Miyagi
Ay-O: Over the Rainbow Once More《events on the 7 hills》, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo -
2011
TOKYO EXPERIMENTAL FESTIVAL, Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya, Tokyo (collaboration with Noritaka Ito)
Koganecho Bazaar 2011, Yokohama
Where do we go from here?, Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya, Tokyo
TOKYO STORY 2010 Film, Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya, Tokyo
Touch of Image, Yokohama Civic Art Gallery Azamino, Yokohama
The 3rd off Free International Film Festival, Seoul, South Korea
Piemonte Share Free International Film festival 2011, Torino, Italy
HYPER JAPAN 2011, London
SIGGRAPH 2011, Vancouver, Canada
FILE 2011, Sao Paulo, Brazil
WRO biennale 2011, Wroclaw, Poland
A Window to the World, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima
The 57th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany
14th Japan Media Arts Festival, The National Art Center, Tokyo
KIRIN Big in Japan, Sydney
Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo -
2010
OPEN MISSION, Tokyo Wonder Site Hongo, Tokyo (collaboration with Yu Araki)
The Definition of Self, 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT, Tokyo (collaboration with Masahiko Sato, Atsushi Iriki)
DOUBLE VISION, Le Lieu Unique. Nantes, France
Thesis Exhibition, Tokyo University of the Arts, Yokohama -
2009
NO MAN’S LAND, The Annex of the Embassy of France in Japan, Tokyo
OPEN STUDIO 2009, Inter Continental Yokohama Grand/Shinko Building of Tokyo University of Arts, Yokohama
Media Practice08-09, BankART Studio NYK, Yokohama -
2008
Yuichiro Tamura, Hiroyuki Kishiyama Exhibition, THERME GALLERY, Tokyo
- THEATER
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2021
Tasteless, Kyoto Art Theater Shunjuza
- AWARD
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Finalist, Asia Pacific Breweries Foundation Signature Art Prize 2018
Finalist, NISSAN ART AWARD 2017
Excellence Prize, Art Awards, The 14th Japan Media Arts Festival, 2010
Judge’s Special Award, Esquire Digital Photo Award 2005-2006, 2006 - GRANTS
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TERUMO FOUNDATION for LIFE SCIENCES and ARTS, 2018
Agency for Cultural Affairs short-term funding, Germany, 2017
Grants for Young Artist by Yokohama City, 2016/ 2017
Grants for Overseas Study by Pola Foundation, Berlin, 2014
Japanese Government Overseas Study Program, Berlin, London, 2013 - RESIDENCES
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Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, Netherland, 2017
ACC Aesia Culture Center, Gwangju, Korea, 2016
Atelier Mondial, Basel, Switzerland, 2015
Wat Pho, Bangkok, 2012
Skylines With Flying People, Japan Foundation Program, Hanoi, 2012
Awasima AIR 2012 / Spring, Awasima Artist in Residence, Kagawa, 2012
Tokyo Wonder Site Aoyama, Japan, 2010 - PUBLIC COLLECTION
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“Hey Daddy, Hey Brother”, KADIST Foundation, Paris, 2017
“Apollo’s Back” “Apollo’s Back-stab”, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan, 2016
“Suzuki Knife, Social Cooking” Seoul Museum of Art, Korea, 2015
“NIGHTLESS vol.6” Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 2012
“NIGHTLESS vol.4” The University Art Museum, The Tokyo University of the Arts, 2010 - PUBLICATION
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Week End / End Game, Yuichiro Tamura + Hiroyuki Hattori, 2017
Marking Triangles, Yuichiro Tamura + Raul Walch, 2017 - BIBLIOGRAPHY
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[Catalogue]
Image Narratives: Literature in Japanese Contemporary Art, National Art Center Tokyo, 2019, p.45-72
2019 Asian Art Biennale The Strangers from Beyond the Mountain and the Sea, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, 2019, p.15
The Seven Lamps of the Art Museum, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, 2019, p.192-202, 224-225
Roppongi Crossing 2019 Connexion, Mori Art Museum, 2019, p.124-129
Busan Biennale 2018 Divided We Stand, Busan Biennale Organizing Committee, Sternberg Press, 2018, p.356-359
Asia Pacific Breweries Foundation Signature Art Prize 2018, Singapore Art Museum , Asia Pacific Breweries (APB) Foundation, 2018, p. 76-79, 129
YOKOHAMA TRIENNALE 2017 “Islands, Constellations & Galapagos”, Seigensha Art Publishing, Inc., 2017, p.132-133
Monogatari no Katachi – Ima ni Utsushidasu Attarukoto, sendai mediatheque, 2016, p. 60-72, 84-88
18th DOMANI: The Art of Tomorrow, Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japan, 2015, p.54-61
MEDIA/ART KITCHEN -Reality Distortion Field- AOMORI —Politics of Humor and Play, Aomori Contemporary Art Centre[ACAC], 2015, p.35-37
Ghosts, Spies, and Grandmothers, SeMA Biennale Mediacity Seoul, Seoul Museum of Art, 2014, p.22-23
Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2014 TRUE COLORS, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation of History and Culture, 2014, p.56-59
Photography Will Be, AICHI PREFECTURAL MUSEUM OF ART and The Asashi Shimbun, 2014, p. 93-99
MEDIA/ ART KITCHEN – REALITY DISTORTION FIELD 2013-14, The Document, The Japan Foundation, 2014, p.40-41, 73 (EXHIBITION), P.24 (ARTISTS)
MOT ANNUAL 2012 Making Situations, Editing Landscapes, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, p. 154-172
14th Japan Media Arts Festival Award-Winning Works, Japan Media Arts Festival Secretariat Office, 2011, p. 20 – 21
Tasaka, Hiroko, Another Landscape, Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Vision “Daydream Believer!!”, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 2011, p.100 – 103[Articles]
YUICHIRO TAMURA’S SUKAJAN BOMBER JACKETS, PROVENCE REPORT AW 18/19, Octover 2018, Spector Books, p162-163
Tetsuya, Ozaki, Kettle, October 2018, p.87
Taichi, Sunayama, Sandyama Taichi review: Tamura Yuichiro “Hell Scream”, ‹https://bijutsutecho.com/magazine/review/18522› , October 11, 2018,
Masaru, Igarashi, evening edition of the Mainichi Shimbun, released on October 4, 2018, p.4
Hayashi, Nakako, HYACINTH REVOLUTION issue, here and there vol.13, Nieves, 2018, p.21
Naoya, Fujita, REVIEW04, BIJUTSU TECHO, December 1, 2017 (no.1062), BIJUTSU SHUPPAN-SHA, p. 200-201
Kanai, Miki, WORLD NEWS BERLIN, BIJUTSU TECHO, June 1, 2017 (no.1054), BIJUTSU SHUPPAN-SHA, p. 142-143
Hiroyuki, Hattori, REVIEWS 08, BIJUTSU TECHO, June 1, 2017 (no.1054), BIJUTSU SHUPPAN-SHA, p. 194-195
THE STATER’S GUIDE TO BUYING ART, BRUTUS, November 1, 2016 (no.834), MAGAZINEHOUSE, p. 60
Nakako, Hayashi, GINZA magazine, November 2016, p.119
Ro, Seongja, Yuichiro Tamura, Che Onejoon: Standing At the Crossroads of Histories, SPACE magazine vol. 562, Sep 2014 (South Korea), p.98 – 101
Hayashi, Nakako, GINZA magazine, January 2013, p. 164
PHOTO GRAPHICA vol.21, 2011, p.188 – 189
JAPANESE MOTION GRAPHIC CREATORS 2011, BNN, 2011, p. 186-187
Sato, Masahiko, Attibute, Kyuryudo Art-Publishing, 2010, p. 16-17 - ARTIST WEBSITE