Yoichi Kamimura
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Solo Exhibitions
Selected Group Exhibitions / Projects / Artist In Residence
Selected Sound Performances / Screenings / Broadcasts
Awards
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| 1982 | Born in Chiba, Japan |
| 2008 | Graduated from Department of Oil Painting, |
| Tokyo University of the Arts | |
| 2010 | Completed MA of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts |
| Works both within and outside Japan |
| Drawing chiefly upon his field recordings, Kamimura experiments with methods that draw upon sight, hearing, and other senses to perceive different scenes. His extensive body of work includes sound installations, paintings, video works, sound performances, and audio works - unveiled in venues both within Japan and abroad. Kamimura refers to the field-recording process as an act of “meditative hunting” - in the process, he acts an observer to the amorphous relationship between humankind and nature. Kamimura composes his sound installations by creating highly-immersive “sound-scapes,” many of which draw upon our own biology to create unique sensory experiences. Recent exhibitions, projects and residency programs include “From Seeing to Acting”(Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2021), “HIAP - Helsinki International Artist Programme”(HIAP, Helsinki, Finland, 2021), “Land and Beyond”(POLA MUSEUM ANNEX, Tokyo, Japan, 2021), “Floating Between the Tropical and Glacial Zones” (Tokyo Arts and Space Hongo, Tokyo, Japan, 2021), “Michikusa: Walks with the Unknown” (Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan, 2020), “Hyperthermia” (NTT Intercommunication Center [ICC], Tokyo, Japan, 2019), among others. Selected sound-based works(CDs) and performances, screenings include "Yoichi Kamimura & Olli Aarni at Temppeliaukion kirkko"(Temppeliaukio Rock Church, Helsinki, Finalnd, 2021), “Ecotherapy”(Phonurgia Nova Awards 2021, Centre Wallonie Bruxelles, Paris, France, 2021), “Music for Environment”(Plaza, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, 2020), “Hyperthermia”(Phonurgia Nova Awards 2020, BnF, Paris, France, 2020), “re/ports” (Ftarri, Tokyo, Japan, 2019). |
Solo Exhibitions
| 2021 | "Floating Between the Tropical and Glacial Zones" Tokyo Arts |
| and Space Hongo, Tokyo | |
| 2019 | "Hyperthermia" NTT InterCommunication Center, Tokyo |
| "Temporary Ground" MARUIEDO JAPAN, Tokyo | |
| 2015 | "grandmother, prologue" Space Wunderkammer, Tokyo |
| 2011 | "CRITERIUM82" Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki |
| 2010 | "conductor’s garden" Omote Sando Gallery, Tokyo |
Selected Group Exhibitions / Projects / Artist In Residence
| 2022 | "SIM Residency" [A.I.R] Reykjavik, Iceland [UPCOMING] | |
| "TOKAS Creator-in-Residence 2022 Exhibition" Tokyo Arts and | ||
| Space Hongo, Tokyo [UPCOMING] | ||
| "LA RADIO DU VIVANT" National Museum of Natural History (Paris), | ||
| Paris, France [UPCOMING] | ||
| 2021 | "HIAP Open Studios / Autumn 2021" HIAP(Helsinki | |
| International Artist Programme), Helsinki, Finland | ||
| "Mutable Ecologie" RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia [Online] | ||
| "From Seeing to Acting" Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam, Netherlands | ||
| "Exchange Residency Program 2021" [A.I.R] HIAP(Helsinki | ||
| International Artist Programme), Helsinki, Finland | ||
| "Land and Beyond" POLA ANNEX MUSEUM, Tokyo | ||
| "Youth(Temporary)" Yutaka Kikutake gallery, Tokyo | ||
| "Memory of the Drift Ice" Shiretoko Club, Hokkaido | ||
| "Collision point on dimensions" The 5th Floor, Tokyo | ||
| 2020 | "Sapporo International Art Festival 2020" Sapporo, Hokkaido | |
| "sori ni hikarete" Hokkaido University Museum, Hokkaido | ||
| "CONNECT" The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto/ Kyoto City | ||
| KYOCERA Museum of Art/ ROHM Theatre Kyoto, Kyoto | ||
| "Michikusa: Walks with the Unknown" Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki | ||
| "Wasteland Allelopathy" MITSUKOSHI CONTEMPORARY GALLERY, Tokyo | ||
| "Dark Independent" Online Site | ||
| "Artist in Shirietok Vol.14" [A.I.R] Shiretoko Club, Shari, Hokkaido | ||
| 2019 | "0℃" NTT InterCommunication Center, Tokyo | |
| "The Drowned World Anchor" Spiral, Tokyo | ||
| "Artist in Shirietok Vol.13" [A.I.R] Shiretoko Club, Shari, Hokkaido | ||
| "Kagaku into Art" [A.I.R] Teshio / Shari, Hokkaido | ||
| 2018 | "Sound Research in NY" [A.I.R] New York, USA | |
| "trans_2017-2018 Exchange Artists Exhibition" [A.I.R] Akiyoshidai | ||
| International Art Village, Yamaguchi | ||
| 2017 | "2017 Season 4 Residency Artists Exhibition" [A.I.R] Taipei Artist | |
| Village, Taipei, Taiwan | ||
| "Sound of Therme Vals" [A.I.R] Therme Vals, Vals, Switzerland | ||
| "Sound of Wasserhaus" [A.I.R] Blausee, Switzerland | ||
| "Super Open Studio 2017" Art Laboratory Hashimoto, Kanagawa | ||
| 2016 | "LagoArt Residency Program" [A.I.R], Hamburg, Germany | |
| "Ubiquitous Views" [A.I.R] Aomori Contemporary Art Centre, Aomori | ||
| "0℃" blanClass, Kanagawa | ||
| 2014 | "Identity X―fusion of memory, memory for the future" nichido | |
| contemporary art, Tokyo | ||
| 2012 | "Age of Prints" JOSHIBI Art Museum, Tokyo | |
| "TRANS ARTS TOKYO" Fomer Tokyo Denki University, Tokyo | ||
| "KOSHIKI ARTS PROJECT" [A.I.R] Koshiki Islands, Kagoshima | ||
| 2011 | "G-Tokyo 2011" Mori Arts Center, Tokyo | |
| "power of painting" 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo | ||
| 2010 | "Mado/WIND-OW" MA 2 Gallery, Tokyo | |
| "Hints for The Story" GALLERY MoMo Ryogoku, Tokyo | ||
| "MA graduation show" Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo |
Selected Sound Performances / Screenings / Broadcasts
| 2021 | "Planéte Hypnotique" France [Broadcasts] |
| "Yoichi Kamimura & Olli Aarni at Temppeliaukion kirkko" | |
| Temppeliaukio Rock Church, Helsinki, Finalnd | |
| "PHONURGIA NOVA AWARDS 2021 2 Special evenings" [Broadcasts] | |
| Phaune Radio, France | |
| "Phonurgia Nova Awards 2021" [Screening] Centre Wallonie Bruxelles | |
| Paris, France | |
| "Ecotherapy" Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam, Netherlands | |
| 2020 | "Music for Environment" Plaza, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki |
| "Phonurgia Nova Awards 2020" [Screening] BnF, Paris, France | |
| "sound performance at ICC" NTT InterCommunication Center, Tokyo | |
| "Things happening around the ice" Shiretoko Club, Shari, Hokkaido | |
| 2019 | "Ftarri Festival 2019" BUoY, Tokyo |
| "re/ports" Komagome SOKO, Tokyo | |
| "Talibam! in Ftarri" Ftarri, Tokyo | |
| 2018 | "Sound Session with Matt Mottel(from Talibam!)" DIAP, City College of |
| New York, New York, USA | |
| "Sound Performance" Arts Maebashi, Gunma | |
| "0°C" PARADISE AIR, Chiba | |
| 2017 | "Ilha Formosa" Ting Shuo hear say, Tainan/ Jiang Shan Yi Gai Suo, |
| Hsinchu/ Venue, Taipei, Taiwan | |
| "Super Open Studio 2017" Art Laboratory Hashimoto, Kanagawa | |
| "Blue Architects AG" Zurich, Switzerland | |
| "Wasserhaus" Blausee, Switzerland | |
| 2016 | "Nord Tracks" Shiroiya Ryokan, Gunma/ Kurumaya Museum of Art, |
| Tochigi/ CICAKU, Tochigi/ Aomori Contemporary Art Centre, Aomori | |
| "World Listening Day 2016" Schneider House, Tokyo | |
| "0°C" blanClass, Kanagawa | |
| "NEW YEAR MUSIC, MONKEY MUSIC!!" blanClass, Kanagawa | |
| 2015 | "collision" Ochiai Soup, Tokyo |
| "collision" Hagiso, Tokyo |
Awards
| 2021 | Awarded "the Prix Matsutani 2021", Paris, France |
| Nominated for "Phonurgia Nova Awards 2021", Paris, France | |
| Awarded "19th Chiba City Arts and Culture Newcomer Award", Chiba, Japan | |
| 2020 | Nominated for "Phonurgia Nova Awards 2020", Paris, France |