田村 友一郎
Yuichiro Tamura

YUICHIRO TAMURA

Born 1977 in Toyama. Lives and works in Kyoto.
Tamura holds a doctoral degree from the Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts, and a Bachelorʼs 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). Tamura’s work centers on installations and performances derived from existing images and objects. Using a uniquely reflective approach that transcends traditional artistic genres, Tamura not only sets out to convey a message to visitors from the privileged world of contemporary art, but also invites an unusual form of communication with the viewer. Tamura creates multilayered narratives, containing a mixture of fact and fiction, based on a wide range of sources from indigenous historical themes to well-known popular subjects. His recent exhibitions have included the solo shows Milky Mountain (Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Zealand, 2019), Hell Scream (Kyoto City University of Arts Art Gallery @KCUA, Kyoto, 2018) and G (Yuka Tsuruno Gallery, Tokyo, 2018), and the group shows Asian Art Biennial (National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, 2019), Image Narratives: Literature in Japan (National Art Center, Tokyo, 2019), The Seven Lamps of the Art Museum (Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, 2019), Where Am I?: The Art and Design of Signage (Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art & Design, Toyama, 2019), and Roppongi Crossing 2019: Connexions (Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2019), Busan Biennale (Museum of Contemporary Art Busan, Korea, 2018), Nissan Art Award 2017 (BankART Studio NYK, Yokohama, 2017), 2 or 3 Tigers (Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, 2017) and BODY/PLAY/POLITICS (Yokohama Museum of Art, 2016)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2019

“Milky Mountain,” Govett-Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand

2018

“Hell Scream,” Kyoto City University of Arts Art Gallery @KCUA,

2017

Week End, Kurumaya Museum of Art, Oyama City, Tochigi

G, Yuka Tsuruno Gallery, Tokyo

2015

Basel Nightmare, Atelier Mondial, Basel, Switzerland

Ich fliege zurück mit Lufthansa, Yuka Tsuruno Gallery, Tokyo

2013

NIGHTLESS / LAST SIGNING ROOM, Art Basel Hong Kong

2012

NIGHTLAND, Yuka Tsuruno Gallery, Tokyo

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2019

Asia Art Biennial, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung

Image Narratives: Literature in Japan, National Art Center, Tokyo

Roppongi Crossing 2019: Connexions, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo

Where am I?: The Art and Design of Signature, Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art and Design

The Seven Lamps of The Art Museum, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art

2018

“The Fabric of Felicity,” Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow

“Busan Biennale: Divided We Stand,” Museum of Contemporary Art Busan

“Asia Pacific Breweries Foundation Signature Art Prize,” Singapore Art Museum

2017

2 or 3 Tigers, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin

Mode of Liaisons, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Thailand

Marking Triangles, The Japan Foundation, Cologne, Germany

Yokohama Triennale 2017, Yokohama Sites, Hikawamaru, Japan

Nissan Art Award 2017, BankART NYK, Yokohama

Festival of Future Nows, Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin

Works on paper, rin art association, Takasaki

2016

BODY/PLAY/POLITICS, Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan

KYOTO EXPERIMENT 2016, Kyoto Art Center, Japan

MOVING, The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan

21th Art Film Festival, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan

Japan Media Arts Festival 20th Anniversary Exhibition, 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo

ARTIST PRACTICE, Art Fair Tokyo, Japan

2015

inToAsia 2015:Time-based Art Festival , Queens Museum, New York

Form of Narrative, Sendai Mediatheque, Miyagi, Japan

Domani, The National Art Center, Tokyo

Oil on canvas, Yuka Tsuruno Gallery, Tokyo

Whenever Wherever Festival 2015, Morishita Studio, Tokyo

Kalte Füsse bekommen, DOCK, Basel, Switzerland

Oslo Night, Atelier Mondial, Basel, Switzerland

Making Border - Afterimages and Projections, 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, Neue National Galerie, Berlin

SeMA Biennale; Mediacity Seoul 2014, Seoul Museum of Art, Korea

Photography Will Be, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan

WALK-IN-PROGRESS, Vitamin Creative Space, Guangzhou, China

Media/Art Kitchen AOMORI, Aomori Contemporary Art Centre (ACAC), Japan

Media/Art Kitchen YAMAGUCHI, Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media(YCAM), Japan

The 6th Yebisu International Festival, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan

2013

Media/Art Kitchen, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia / Ayala Museum, Manila, Philippines

Setouchi Triennale 2013, Awashima-island, Kagawa, Japan

Whenever Wherever Festival 2013, Morishita Studio, Tokyo

ACCIDENTAL ACCOMPLISHMENT, Institut für Raumexperimente, Berlin

(n)on site, km temporaer, Berlin

Elastic Video, Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna, Austria

2012

MOT Annual 2012; Making Situations, Editing Landscapes, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan

Kunisaki Art Project 2012, Oita, Japan

Open Skylines, Japan Foundation Hanoi, Vietnam

TOKYO EXPERIMENTAL FESTIVAL, Tokyo Wonder Site Aoyama, Tokyo

TOKYO STORY 2011, Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya, Tokyo

Ay-O: Over the Rainbow Once More《events on the 7 hills》, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan

2011

Koganecho Bazaar 2011, Yokohama, Japan

TOKYO STORY 2010, Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya, Japan

Touch of Image, Yokohama Civic Art Gallery Azamino, Japan

FILE 2011, Sao Paulo, Brazil

WRO biennale 2011, Wroclaw, Poland

Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan

The 57th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany

The 14th Japan Media Arts Festival, The National Art Center, Tokyo

The 3rd Yebisu International Festival, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan

2010

OPEN MISSION: Sister Cities | Different Mother, Tokyo Wonder Site Hongo, Japan

The Definition of Self directed by Masahiko Sato, 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT, Tokyo

DOUBLE VISION, Le Lieu Unique Nantes, France

Thesis Exhibition, Tokyo University of the Arts, Yokohama

[Performances]

2016

“KYOTO EXPERIMENT 2016 spring Showcase,” Kyoto Art Center

“Basel Nightmare” Atelier Mondial, Basel, Switzerland

2015

“Nomination Competition | unbuildbody”, whenever wherever festival 2015: Invisible Body, MORISHITA STUDIO, Tokyo

2013

“D. H. L.” whenever wherever festival 2013: rebirth of improvisation of improvisation, MORISHITA STUDIO, Tokyo

2012

Toru Takemitsu, “Seven Hills Events” [Ay-O: Over the Rainbow Once More], Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

TOKYO EXPERIMENTAL FESTIVAL John Cage《Sonatas and Interludes》, Tokyo Wonder Site Aoyama

2011

TOKYO EXPERIMENTAL FESTIVAL Olivier Messiaen《Catalogue d'Oiseaux》, Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya