YUICHIRO TAMURA
Tamura was born in Toyama in 1977, now based in Atami, Japan. He holds a Doctor of Film and New Media from Tokyo University of the Arts, and a Bachelor of Photography from Nihon University. He was guest researcher of the Institut für Raumexperiment, Olafur Eliasson class at the Berlin University of Arts by the Japanese Government Overseas Study Program for Artists. His film work NIGHTLESS has received the excellence award at the 14th Japan Media Arts Festival in 2011, and has been shown internationally.
Tamura samples not only images that he has taken himself but also preexisting footage, coaxing unique relationships out of them in order to create new landscapes. The form of these works varies from installations that incorporate elements of bodily presence and experience, as well as performances that draw the spectator in.
In recent years, he focuses on approach to sites and places, and attempts to produce his works based on elaborate research of reading their history and context. As same as until now, by connecting context of sites and places with his own experience in his unique way, he creates new landscapes with various final forms.
His work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions including the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin(2017), Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin(2017), Yokohama Museum of Art(2016), Neue National Galerie Berlin (2014), Mediacity Seoul, Korea (2014), Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (2012)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
- 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
- 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
PUBLIC COLLECTION
"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
PRIZE
Signature Art Prize 2018, Finalist
Nissan Art Award 2017, Finalist
The 14th Japan Media Arts Festival, Excellence award, 2011
Esquire Digital Photo Award, Special Jury award, 2006
GRANT
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
RESIDENCE
Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, Netherland, 2017
ACC Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, Korea, 2016
Atelier Mondial, Basel, Switzerland, 2015
Tokyo Wonder Site Aoyama, Japan, 2010