Born in Osaka, Japan

BFA Music performance (jazz piano), The City College of The City University of New York

Master Artistic Research, The Royal Academy of Art and The Royal Conservatory The Hague, Netherlands

WE MELT THEM AND POUR IT ON THE GROUND, Yuka Tsuruno Gallery, Tokyo

散華 上段- Upper Sange 2017, Yuka Tsuruno Gallery, Tokyo

a long listening journey of a Possible thiStory especially of Japanese & Dutch & something more, Yuka Tsuruno Gallery Viewing Space, Tokyo

THE WAY I HEAR / Several Scores for Imagination, 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo (lecture performance)

wind study and the lecture performance + a show of its score, Former Yokota hospital, Tottori (lecture performance, exhibition)

Open Studio Program 57: THE WAY I HEAR, Fuchu Art Museum, Tokyo (installation, performance)

etude for everyday life, 2P Contemporary Art Gallery, Hong Kong

etude no.39 instant noodle, YUKA CONTEMPORARY, Tokyo

etude for orange –soda, YUKA CONTEMPORARY, Tokyo

etude no.12 variations, Museum Quartier, Vienna

etude, La Chambre Blanche, Quebec

otozure, BankART NYK Hall, Yokohama (sound performance)

something remain, National Gallery of Armenia, Yerevan (sound performance)

sound performance, Espace Pier Paolo Pasolini, Vallemcienne

more silent, Belgium Flanders Center, Osaka (sound performance)

echo – meaning – self, O-gallery Tops, Tokyo

HER/HISTORY, Kishiwada Municipal Jisen Kaikan, Osaka
Archives of Salvage Archaeology, National Museum of Prehistory, Taitung

Letter. Callus. Post-War., Galeri Lorong, Yogyakarta and Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei
Parallax Trading das weisse haus, Vienna
Voice and Sound Waves: The Japanese Scene, LE26BY, Brussels
MOT Collection Part 3, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo

Future Historical Site ART/EXPLORING/HISTORY, National Museum of Prehistory, Taiwan
Yebisu International Festival for Art ; Alternative Visions 2018 Mapping the Invisible, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
20th DOMANI: “The Art of Tomorrow”, The National Art Center, Tokyo

Reperformed Stereotypes, iCAN, Indonesia
Seeds of Memory: Japanese Artists in Yogyakarta, Langgeng Art Foundation, Yogtakarta
BEHIND THE TERRAIN, Nhà Sàn Collective, Hanoi

BEHIND THE TERRAIN, Studio Kalahan, Yogyakarta
Time of others, Queensland Art Gellery | Galley of Modern Art, Brisbane

Shinainaru Terada Sensei, Kochi Literary Museum, Kochi
Time of others, The national Museum of Art Osaka, Osaka (lecture performance)
Time of others, The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo

Tokyo Story 2014, Tokyo Wander Site Shibuya, Tokyo
Yuichi Saito / mamoru, Museum of Art WARAKOH, Kochi

MEDIA ART/KITCHEN, SENSORIUM, Ayala Museum, Manila
Towada Oirase Art Festival “SURVIVE” -Time hoppers on the planet- , Towada lake excursion boat , Aomori
『Blue Valentine』- presented by XYZcollective –, XYZcollective, Tokyo

Over the Rainbow : Flights of Fancy Link Here and Beyound, Fuchu Art Museum, Tokyo
Various Drawings, YUKA TSURUNO, Tokyo
Ligeti Quartet x Choi Sai Ho x mamoru, SOUTHSITE, Hong Kong (sound performance)
Ay-O: Over the Rainbow Once More 《events on the 7 hills》, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo(as one of the 6 performer) 　
RYUGU IS OVER!!, RYUGU BIJUTU RYOKAN, Yokohama
Tokyo Experimental Festival Allnight Finale After 3.11. Pray ? John Cage 《Sonatas and Interludes》, Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo (performance festival)

NOWHERE, The Japan Foundation Center for Culture Exchange in Vietnam, Hanoi, Vietnam
Invisibleness is Visibleness, Museum of Contemporary Art in Taipei, Taipei
Re-Modernologio, Aomori Contemporary Art Centre, Aomori
TOKYO STORY 2010, Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo
VIRTUAL EFFECT, Antenna Media Space #2, Kyoto
ENSEMBLE MODERN & TOKYO WONDER SITE ACADEMY EAST×WEST TOWARDS NEW TRADITION, Tokyo Women’s Plaza Hall, Tokyo（as a performer）

Tokyo Experimental Festival, Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo (performance festival)

10ms / Perspective on microsound, Diapasson Gallery, New York
Oorverdovend Stil, SCHELTEMA, Leiden (art festival)
CODED CULTURES, MUKOK, Vienna (art festival/ performance, workshop)
to rest, Nagi Musuem of Modern Art, Okayama (collaboration with dance)

Fire Squid, De Young Museum, San Francisco (collaboration with video)

City of London Festival, All Hallows, London (collaboration with video)

wearing the eyes opened, Avanza, Osaka (sound performance for Flanders Festival)

happening, James Chapel, New York City (performance with video, script reading)

Listen, The National Museum of Art, Osaka
SCHOOL IN PROGRESS, Tottori Geiju + HOSPITALE PROJECT, Tottori

etude for everyday life, coco laboratory, Akita
etude for everyday life, GREEN, Akita

etude for everyday life, Aomori Contemporary Art Centre, Aomori
VIRTUAL EFFECT, Antenna Media Space #2, Kyoto

etude, BORG Krems, Austria

Anthro-film Laboratory 21, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka

Sound Workshop – etude no.7, Rhode Island School of Design, Rhode Island
etude, Laval University, Quebec

sound artist mamoru and traditional Japanese music, Columbia University, New York

Artist’s Responsibility in Our Society, Sato Museum, Tokyo (panel discussion)

Tokyo Experimental Festival (First Prize), Tokyo

Cafe Live Series 2006 (Prize), BankART NYK, Yokohama

Future Historical Site, National Museum of Prehistory, Taiwan (2 month)

ARCUS Exchange Residency Program, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan (2 month)

Artist Overseas Training Program promoted by Agency for Cultural Affairs

Local Creator in Residency Program, Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo (1 year)

Artist in Residency with grant, quartier21, Vienna (1 month)
Artist in Residency with grant, Kunstmeile Krems, Krems (2 months)

Artist in Residency with grant, La Chambre Blanche, Quebec (6 weeks)

Museum of Contemporary Art
Takahashi Collection
Daisuke Miyatsu Collection
Izumi City (Sound work)

Imaginary Soundscape, Batavia 1658, Gekkan Minpaku, National Museum of Ethnology, October 2016, p9
Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Museum – 6 stories (joint authorship), Kawade Shobo Shinsha, 2014
Traveling Research Laboratory, Tokyo Culture Creation Project, 2014
etude for everyday life, YUKA CONTEMPORARY, 2011

[Catalogue]
Traveling Research Laboratory III (joint authorship), Arts Council Tokyo, 2017
Traveling Research Laboratory II (joint authorship), Arts Council Tokyo, 2015
Time of others, The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, 2015, p.78 – 81
Yuichi Saito / mamoru, Museum of Art WARAKOH, 2014
Traveling Research Laboratory (joint authorship), Tokyo Cultural Creation Project, 2014
MEDIA/ ART KITCHEN, The Document, The Japan Foundation, 2014
THE WAY I HEAR, Fuchu Art Museum, 2013
Kamiyama, Ryoko, Over the Rainbow : Flights of Fancy Link Here and Beyond, OVER THE RAINBOW, Fuchu Art Museum, 2013, p. 42 – 50
Hattaori, Hiroyuki, The Practice of Everyday Life for Transforming Value Structure, Re – MODERNOLOGIO, Aomori Contemporary Art Centre, 2011, p. 36 – 38
Takahashi, Mizuki, The Freedom to Say That “It Is Beautiful”, NOWHERE, October 2011
Elstgeest, Tanja, sound from everyday object, utopisch nest, SCHELTEMA, 2010
ETUDE FOR EVERYDAY OBJECTS, CODED CULTURES, May 2009, p. 36 – 37

[Articles]
Machida, Makoto, Hokkaido Newspaper, September 3, 2013, p.２５
Motoe, Kunio, Chuokoron Magazine, March 2013, p.112
Onishi, Wakato, Asahi Newspaper, 23 January, 2013
TOKYO MUSEUM 2013 – 2014, Ei Publishing, 2013, p.11
Miyatsu, Daisuke, Lisning, Wearing, Reading, The posibility of visual art through Re – MODERNOLOGIO, AC2, Aomori Contemporary Art Center, 2012, p.42 – 44
Hattaori, Hiroyuki, Artist Interview, AC2, Aomori Contemporary Art Center, 2012, p. 52 – 55
Akitasakigake, 14 March 2012
Akita Keizai Newspaper, 12 March 2012
Otomo, Makiko, The discovery of new sense of values through lisning to sound of everyday life, VIRTUAL EFFECT, Antenna Media Space #2, November 2011
Hattori, Hiroyuki, From the Scene of Art, Mutsu Shinpou, September 2011
Lin, Su-Hsing, Spotlight ART TAIPEI 2011, ARTCO Magazine, August 2011, p.162 – 163
Ichihara, Shoji, Next Generation, Yomiuri News Paper, August 2011
Kawasaki, Shohei / Hasegawa, Yuko (Supervisor), ANA MEETS ART, Inflight Magazine of ANA Group, February 2011, p.153
Groom, Amelia, clutchin at straws, and making music, KIRIN Big in Japan!, April 2010
Miyatsu, Daisuke, mamoru “etude for orange soda”, ARTiT, March 2010
Hudon, Sébastien, REVUE 2008, Voir Québec, 25 December 2008
Hudon,Sébastien, Le roi du silence, Voir Québec, 16 October 2008
Côté, Nathalie, Tableux sonores, Le Soleil, 25 October 2008

[Others]
mamoru, Sound of this Month, Haha no Tomo magazine, Hukuinkan Shoten, April 2012 – March 2013
Morning Latte (radio program), ABS Akita broadcasting, 19 January 2012
It’s my radio (radio program), FM Aomori, 20 July 2011
Looking for Art (radio program), NHK radio (Japan), 21 May 2011
It’s my radio (radio program), FM Aomori, 22 February 2011
tom and alex (radio program), ABC / trippleJ (Australia), 15 Nov 2010
Spirituelle japanische Musik gemixt mit Elektronik (radio interview), ORF (Austria, national channel), 2009
Realist with compound eyes (TV program), NHK (Japan, national channel), 2009
sound artist mamoru (15 minutes documentaly, TV program), TV (Japan, cable), 2009
quiet in motion (radio program), ckia FM, 24 September 2008
etude no.7 (radio program), CKLR FM, 5 October 2008
etude / Mamoru Okuno (TV broadcast, Web streaming), Télé-Québec, 20 Oct 2008
in-visible-room (TV program), h2 Inter-News (Armenia), 2006
POST911 (TV program), PBA (Japan), 2001

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