YUICHIRO TAMURA
Tamura was born in Toyama in 1977, now based in Tokyo and Berlin. He holds a Master of Film and 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 2010, and has been shown internationally. He has consistently pursued the possibilities of the moving image, taking photography as a point of departure while straddling various other media and frameworks, including film, installation, and performance. 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.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
- 2015
- Basel Nightmare, Atelier Mondial, Basel, Switzerland
Ich fliege zurück mit Lufthansa, YUKA TSURUNO Gallery, Tokyo, Japan - 2013
- NIGHTLESS / LAST SIGNING ROOM, Art Basel Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- 2012
- NIGHTLAND, YUKA TSURUNO, Tokyo, Japan
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
- 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, Aichi, 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
- Sendai Mediatheque, Miyagi, Japan
- Oil on canvas, YUKA TSURUNO Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
- Kalte Füsse bekommen, DOCK, Basel, Switzerland
- Making Border - Afterimages and Projections, DNA Galerie, Berlin, Germany
- Asian Film & Video Art Forum, the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea
- 2015 Artist Fair Taiwan, Taipei
- 2014
- Festival of Future Nows, Neue National Galerie, Berlin, Germany
- SeMA Biennale; Mediacity Seoul 2014, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South 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), Aomori, Japan
- Media/Art Kitchen YAMAGUCHI, Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media(YCAM), Yamaguchi, Japan
- Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, 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, Japan
- ACCIDENTAL ACCOMPLISHMENT by the Institut für Raumexperimente; Klasse Olafur Eliasson, Berlin, Germany
- (n)on site, km temporaer, Berlin, Germany
- Elastic Video, Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna, Austria
- 2012
- MOT Annual 2012; Making Situations, Editing Landscapes, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Kunisak Art Project 2012, Kunisaki, Oita,
- TOKYO STORY 2011, Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
- Ay-O: Over the Rainbow Once More《events on the 7 hills》, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- 2011
- Koganecho Bazaar 2011, Yokohama, Japan
- TOKYO STORY 2010, Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
- Touch of Image, Yokohama Civic Art Gallery Azamino, Yokohama, Japan
- FILE 2011, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- WRO biennale 2011, Wroclaw, Poland
- Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
- The 57th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany
- 14th Japan Media Arts Festival, The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
- Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography,Tokyo, Japan
- 2010
- OPEN MISSION, Tokyo Wonder Site Hongo, Tokyo, Japan
- The Definition of Self, Directed by Masahiko Sato, 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT, Tokyo, Japan
PUBLIC COLLECTION
"NIGHTLESS vol.4" The University Art Museum, The Tokyo University of The Arts
"NIGHTLESS vol. 6 " Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
"Suzuki Knife, Social Cooking" Seoul Museum of Art