ALLOTMENT｜Artist Archive

Allotment short-lists the final nominated artists as an archive. This archive was initiated to support artists and their artistic practice by showcasing their information. Hoping to be the platform for the artists’ further development with a desire to showcase to a new audience globally. It is updated regularly and also added nominee from the Travel Award short-list: Their practice crosses the boundaries of genre, and the archive is to further understand artists' work as well as the current art scene in Japan.

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2010｜Artist Archive

Daisuke HAYATA／Tokyo


Born in 1981, Hyogo. Graduated from BA in Social Studies, Yokohama City University in 2005 – Attended a seminar series at BankART 1921 by Daido Moriyama and Risaku Suzuki in 2004.

EXHIBITION:
2010 solo: The visual perspectives of 15 photographers, Gallery Kobo Chika, Tokyo
2010 solo: Ubatama, Gallery MUSÉE F, Tokyo (During Tokyo Photography Month)
2009 SLICK, Paris
2009 ART OSAKA 2009, Osaka
2009 solo: Ubatama, Gallery Kobo, CHIKA, Tokyo
2009 solo: Isanatori, ZAIM, Yokohama
2005 solo: Untitled, Gallery MUSÉE F, Tokyo
2001 solo: Untitled, L'Institut Franco-Japonais de Tokyo et Yokohama, Yokohama

URL：http://www.hayatadaisuke.com/

WORKS：

１｜ubatama #012
２｜ubatama #013
３｜ubatama #014
４｜ubatama #016
５｜ubatama #017
All photo's (c) Daisuke Hayata

CONTACT：mail(at)hayatadaisuke.com

Tomoe MURAKAMI/Tokyo


Born 1980 in Chiba, is a graduate from BA in Art and Literature, Waseda University in 2004. Awared for 6th Miki Jun prize, Nikon Salon Juna21 in 2004 and 1st Place Award for The Art Photography Show, Lyceum Theatre Gallery in 2010. Currently works as the Assistant Professor, Photography Center, Tokyo University of the Arts.

URL：http://www.tomoemurakami.com/
http://cashi.jp/lang/ja

EXHIBITION:
2010 solo: The universe is fine photic particles, I imagine, CASHI, Tokyo
2010 group: ULTRA003, Spiral Garden, Tokyo
2010 group: The Art Photography Show 2010, Lycuem Theatre Gallery, San Diego
2010 group: Seoul Photo 2010, B Hall COEX, Seoul,
2010 touring: Crossing Chaos 1999-2009, Higashikawa International Photo Festival, Hokkaido
2009 group: OCTAVE_01, TIME & STYLE MIDTOWN Roppongi, Tokyo
2008 solo: the stars and the water, PUNCTUM Photo+Graphix Tokyo, Tokyo
2008 group: Ephemeral, Ohnishi Gallery, NYC
2007 solo/touring: the series of water, Shinjuku Nikon Salon, Osaka Nikon Salon, Osaka
2004 solo: Line is woven on the globe, Juna21, Shinjuku Nikon Salon, Tokyo

WORKS：

１｜Line is woven on the globe, 2004, C-print, dimensions vary
２｜in the clouds_01, 2007 C-print, dimensions vary
３｜into the blue_02, 2007, C-print, dimensions vary
４｜hoshi-08 01 (detail), 2009 C-print, dimensions vary
５｜Box of Niépce/right, 2009 C-print, dimensions vary
All photo's (c) Tomoe MURAKAMI

CONTACT：info(at)tomoemurakami.com

Tamotsu KIDO/Nagoya


Born 1974 in Mie and graduated from BA in Oil Painting at Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music in 1999. He completed MFA from Department of Fine Art Research in 2001 and MFA in Fine Art Practicum Course at Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music.

URL：http://g-tokyohumanite.jp/human/2010/0823/0823.htm

EXHIBITION:
2011 touring: Aichi Gene, Kiyosu City Haruhi Art Museum & Toyota City Museum, Aichi
2010　 solo: Tamotsu Kido, Galerie Tokyo Humanité, Tokyo
2009 In the little ground: Nobuya Hitsuda and his surrounding students, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Aichi
2005 next station, Nagoya Citizen's Gallery YADA, Aichi
2004 fushigi na kaiten tobira no youni – exchange between photography and painting, Gallery Bumpodo, Tokyo
2003 solo: Gallery NAF, Aichi
2002 solo: Gallery MAKI, Tokyo
2002 solo: Nikko Cordial Securities Window Gallery, Aichi

WORKS：

１｜fruit,2008,gelatin silver print, 456x558 mm　
２｜lily,2008, gelatin silver print, 525x1080mm
３｜view ♯10, 2008, gelatin silver print, 507x608mm
４｜white horse,2008, gelatin silver print, 456x558mm　　
５｜blue sky, 2008, gelatin silver print, 608x507mm
All photo's (c) Tamotsu KIDO

CONTACT：kidotamo(at)aol.com

Are You Meaning Company/Berlin


The Company was established in 1999. It takes an interest in the forms of individual human daily life, and tries though its projects to see the various small aspects of our lives from new angles. It is important that the Company’s work develop through positive social interactions across cultural gaps. AreYou Meaning Company operates through collaborative processes. It allows multiple interpretations to emerge.

EXHIBITION:
2011 The Arranged Marriage, Smartloft Apt & Art, Berlin
2010 We are the islands, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin
2009 You Meaning Company, Bernardo Oyarzún, Sherae Rimpsey, José Carlos Teixeira and Gwen van den Eijnde, Akademi Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart
2008 Whistling Dixie – AreYou Meaning Company & Peter Liversidge, Gallery Lucy Mackintosh, Lausanne
2007 Let’s go to the Museum,The Bernard Buffet Museum, Shizuoka
2006 Conversation with Art on Art, Tokyo Opera City,Tokyo
2005 Our Garden,Akiyoshidai International Art Village,Yamaguchi
2003 group: Girl! Girl! Girl!, Tokyo Opera City, Tokyo
2003 Utopia Station, 50th Venice Biennale, Venice

URL：http://areyoumeaning.com/

WORKS：

１｜Island, 2010
２｜Sound of Whistle, collaborate with Sachi Hirata
３｜Untitled, collaborate with T.M.
４｜The Ten People No.1 I
５｜The Ten People No.5 W
All photo's (c) Are You Meaning Company

CONTACT : areyoumeaning(at)gmail.com

Kana YOSHIDA/Yokohama


Born in 1975 and is graduated from Hiroshima city university, Faculty of Art in 2002. Yoshida previously participated artists-in-residency in Los Angels in USA and Fiskars in Finland. She is currently working on painting in search for various landscape since 2003.

EXHIBITION:
2011 solo: project N 44, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo
2010　 award: Tokyo wonder site - Emerging 148, Tokyo Wonder Site (Hongo), Tokyo
2009 award: Tokyo Wonder Wall 2009 - selected work, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
2009 solo: Sky diving to Fiskars - open studio, Fiskars, Finland
2007 solo: MONTAGNES FOR FRENCH DINING, French Dining, Tokyo
2003 solo: MOVING HOME-over the lake, Performance, Hijiri lake, Hiroshima
1998 solo: SHIMASHI MACHINE, Design Festa gallery, Tokyo

URL：http://web.me.com/knyshd/2009/kana_top.html

WORKS：

１｜Beautiful Limit: Adventure into the endless chaos (detail), 2010, 605x910mm each, crayon, oil pastel on paper with wooden board
２｜ Beautiful Limit Adventure into the endless chaos (detail), 2010, 605x910mm each, crayon, oil pastel on paper with wooden board
３｜FOR THE LOVE OF BEER, 2007, 1300x6400mm (F100 canvas size: Quadtych) acryl on canvas ４｜BEER CAN LAST FOREVER, 2007, 1300x3200mm (F100 canvas size: Diptych) acryl on canvas
５｜HETEROTOPIA, 2006, 1600x5500mm, acryl on canvas
All photo's (c) Kana YOSHIDA

CONTACT：knyshd(at)mac.com

Mari OTA/Kyoto


Born 1982 in Nagoya, and graduated from the department of oil painting at Tama Art University in 2006. Participated the Exchange programme to Royal College of Art in 2007 and completed MA in painting from Kyoto City University of Arts.

EXHIBITION:：
2010 group: Tora, Tora, Tora, Galerie Clemens Thimme, Karlsruhe
2010 solo: Chocolate for Sysphus, Youkobo, Tokyo
2009 solo: Mawaru, shin-bi, Kyoto
2009 solo: Mari Ota, Mizuma Action, Tokyo
2007 solo: Etude, Gallery K, Seoul
2006 solo: my diary by Mari Ota: the perspectives for the new generation 2006, Galerie Tokyo Humanité, Tokyo
2005 solo: unfinished zoo: humanité lab vol.2, Galerie Tokyo Humanité, Tokyo

URL：http://www.mari-ota.net/

WORKS：

CONTACT：mari(at)mari-ota.net

Youki HIRAKAWA/Nagoya


Born 1983 in Nagoya and Completed MA in Media and Design from Nagoya University of Arts and Sciences in 2008. He will be the resident artist at the Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart.

EXHIBITION:
2010 CINESONIKA, Simon Fraser University Theater, Vancouver (awarded The Golden Earwax)
2010 The Nakagawa Canal -the forgotten waterside scenery in the city- as part of AICHI TRIENNALE 2010, Aichi Arts Center, Nagoya
2010 Floating Forest, Standing Pine-cube, Nagoya
2009 screening: Electrofringe 09, Newcastle, Australia
2009 Day Dream, Aichi Arts Center, Nagoya
2009 solo: Unlinked Images, Gallery Standing Pine-cube, Nagoya
2009 selected: 12th Japan Media Art Festival 2008, The National Art Center Tokyo, Tokyo
2007 KOBE Biennale, Port of Kobe, Kobe

URL：http://www.youkihirakawa.jp
http://jp.standingpine.jp/artist/0911hirakawa.htm

WORKS：

１｜Resight, 2007, site-specific Video Installation / 02:30 Loop / SD
２｜synchrome, 2009, Double Channel Video Installation / 08:40 Loop / Full HD
３｜pulse, 2009, Single Channel Video Installation / 05:40 Loop / Full HD
４｜Reflecting Forest, 2010, Triple Channel Video Installation / 03:32 Loop / HDV
５｜Double Dream, 2010, site-specific Video Installation / 07:00 Loop / Full HD
All photo's (c) Youki HIRAKAWA

CONTACT：youkihirakawa(at)yahoo.co.jp

Yoichi SANO/Tokyo


Born 1970 in Tokyo and graduated from BA in Design at Tokyo Zokei University in 1994 and completed Non-degree Graduate Course in Design at Tokyo Zokei University in 1996. He was awarded scholarship by Agency For Cultural Affairs Scholarship Japan and lectured in Tokyo Zokei University and Tokyo University of the Arts in 2004. Currently he is the associate lecturer for Department of Inter Media Art, at Tokyo University of the Arts.

EXHIBITION:
2009　 solo: water of light, light is not seen, switch point, Tokyo
2009　 Japan meets China: Our Future reflected in Contemporary Art, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Art
2007　 Japan Caught by Camera: Works from the Photographic Art in Japan, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
2007　 The Photograph: What You See & What You Don't, Chinretsukan Gallery of The University Art Museum, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
2007　 subtle green, IID GALLERY, Tokyo
2007　 solo：vessel, switch point, Tokyo
2005　 solo：transparency, Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo
2004　 competition: VOCA 2004: The Vision of Contemporary Art, The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo

URL：http://www.switch-point.com/2009/0906sano.html
http://www.japandesign.ne.jp/GALLERY/NOW/sanoyoichi/

WORKS：

１｜reservoir, 2003, infochrom, 100.0×126.0㎝
２｜vessel, 2006-07、C-print on acryl mount, each 11.4×14.6×2.0㎝
３｜hikari no mizu（0754-2), 2007-09 C-print 6.6×33.8㎝
４｜untitled（onshitsu）2008-09, C-print , 17.8×22.4㎝
５｜flow（nihon no kareki）2009-10, C-print , 33.8×26.6㎝
All photo's (c) Youichi SANO

CONTACT：yoichi.sano(at)gmail.com

Tatsuo MAJIMA/Tokyo


Graduated from Goldsmiths College, University of London in 1993 and joined in Studio Shokudo in 1997-2000. Previously the lecturer for B-semi Learning System of Contemporary Art in 2000-2004. His practice highlights the ironies of reality through the absurdity of his performative acts. On first site the actions appear to be improvised, yet they are carefully constructed through various media. His recent works serve as a ‘trace’ of the ordinary life of influential people - a portrayal of the social-reality of causality.

EXHIBITION:：
2011 solo: 0.2, blanClass,Yokohama
2010 solo: Beijing Diary,Taro Nasu gallery,Tokyo
2010 solo: Right/Left, blanClass,Yokohama
2010 solo: Kugenuma Diary/Kyoto Boxing, blanClass, Kanagawa
2007 Roppongi Crossing 2007: Future Beats in Japanese Contemporary Art, Mori Art Museum,Tokyo
2003 Sharjah International Biennial 6, Sharjah Museum/Expo Center, Sharjah
1997 Contemporary Art from Japan, Hafnarborg, Hafnarfjörður, Iceland
1994 solo: Criterium 12, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki

URL：http://www.taronasugallery.com/

WORKS：

１〜５｜Beijing Diary, Tokyo Version (performed in 10th and 11th Aug 2009 ）
All photo's (c) Tatsuo MAJIMA and Courtesy of TARO NASU

CONTACT：info(at)taronasugallery.com