Satoru TAMURA
Lives and works in Tochigi, Japan
| 1972 | Born in Tochigi, Japan |
| 1995 | Graduated from The College of Art and Design of Tsukuba University |
| 2006 | Tokyo Zokei University | Part-time lecturer |
| Musashino University of Art and Design | Part-time lecturer | |
| 2007 | Tohoku University of Art and Design | Part-time lecturer |
| 2008 | College of Art and Design of Tsukuba University| Part-time lecturer |
| Tokyo Zokei University | Part-time lecturer |
Solo Exhibitions
| 1997 | Komaba Kunstraum | Tokyo |
| 1998 | Contemporary Art Factory | Tokyo |
| 1999 | Oregon Moon Gallery | Tokyo |
| Sony Building | Tokyo | |
| 2000 | Space Big Art | Kanagawa |
| Gallery Art Works Mishima | Mishima, Shizuoka | |
| 2001 | Gallery Art Soko | Tokyo |
| 2002 | Gallery in the Blue | Tochigi |
| Sho Art Tokyo | Ginza, Tokyo | |
| 2004 | Fads Art Space | Tokyo |
| 2005 | Gallery Q | Ginza, Tokyo |
| Out-lounge | Ootsuka, Tokyo | |
| Gallery in the Blue | Utsunomiya, Tochigi | |
| Cafe Kyo-cha-An Hanare | Kanuma, Tochigi | |
| 2006 | ‘Statements from Galleries- Focusing on a New Generation in Tokyo 2006′ | Gallery Q, Ginza, Tokyo |
| 2007 | Takuro Someya Contemporary Art | Kashiwa, Chiba |
| Plaza Gallery and Sagio | Sengawa, Tokyo | |
| 2008 | Plaza North ‘Domain of Art 1 Satoru Tamura Solo Exhibition’| Saitama-city |
| Art Center Ongoing | Kichijyoji, Tokyo | |
| 2009 | Tanseisha 1F Design Gallery | Ueno, Tokyo |
| 2010 | | Art Forum, Yamagata |
| | Koyama Municipal Museum of Art, Tochigi | |
| | Art Center Ongoing, Tokyo | |
| 2011 | Airs 006 | Aomori |
| ‘Contact for 6A214’ | University of Tsukuba Art Gallery, Ibaraki | |
| ‘A’ Machine | Takuro Someya Contemporary Art, Tokyo | |
| ‘100 Switches for 100 Incandescent Lamps’ | B Gallery, Tokyo | |
| 2012 | ART OSAKA |
| ‘Machine’ | N-Mark B1, Nagoya | |
| 2013 | ‘Point of Contact #4′ | Nap Gallery, Tokyo |
| ‘Point of Contact #5′ | TEZUKAYAMA GALLERY, Osaka | |
| VOLTA 9 | Basel, Switzerland | |
| 2014 | ‘Love Machine’ | TEZUKAYAMA GALLERY, Osaka |
| VOLTA NY | New York | |
| ‘Wonderland in Mid-Summer’ | Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts | |
| 2015 | ‘Point of Contact #6’ | LAGE EGAL RAUM FÜR AKTUELLE KUNST, Berlin |
Group Exhibitions
| 1995 | ‘Art Business Audition 1995’ Special Exhibition | Laforet Harajuku Museum, Tokyo |
| 1996 | ‘Art Business Audition 1996’ Kamei Anima prize | Laforet Harajuku Museum, Tokyo |
| Tenpouzan Contemporary Museum | Osaka | |
| 1997 | ‘Komekome’ concert stage setting, Tokyo Dome Bigegg | Tokyo |
| ‘Art Exchange Society Center Public Contribution 1998’ Selected/ Sinkiba Soko Gallery | Tokyo | |
| 1998 | ‘Art Walk 1998′ | Tochigi |
| 1999 | ‘Art in Livingroom’ Contemporary Art Factory, Tokyo |
| ‘Art Exchange Society Center Public Contribution 2000’ Judge Prize / Sinkiba Soko Gallery | Tokyo | |
| ‘Kirin Contemporary Award 1999’ Encouragement Prize / Kirin beer Shinkawa bldg. | Tokyo, Kirin Plaza | Osaka | |
| ‘Biennial 1 Atami 1999′ | Shizuoka | |
| 2000 | ‘Studio BIG ART Movie Fiesta vol.1′ Space Big Art | Kanagawa |
| ‘Mitamura Shunsuke and PAMM’ Ibaraki Prefectural Tsukuba Museum of Arts | Ibaraki | |
| ‘Screening Japan Hallo!’, Copenhagen, Denmark, Rum 46, Aarhus, Denmark | |
| ‘Daejeon Media Art 2000′ Daejeon Municipal Museum of Art| Daejeon, Korea | |
| 2001 | ‘Door to Millennium’ Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts | Tochigi |
| ‘Studio Big Art Movie Festa vol.2′ space BIG ART | Kanagawa etc. | |
| ‘Tokyo Rabbit Paradise Project [ Tokyo/Life ] Selfriges | London, U.K. | |
| ‘Neo-Tokyo’ Sydney Comtemporary Art Museum| Sydney, Australia | |
| ‘Batofar…Seeking Tokyo’ Batofar | France | |
| ‘Best 12′ Contemporary Art Factory | Tokyo | |
| ‘Yokohama Eastan Rallyart’ | Kanagawa | |
| ‘Art of Object Art of Media’ Tokoha Museum of Arts| Shizuoka | |
| ‘Kyozon’ Kamloops Art Gallery | Kamloops, Canada | |
| 2002 | ‘Lucky Seven’ www.so-net/gallery | Tokyo |
| ‘Art Scholarship 2001′ Selected by Shioda Juniti, Museum of Contemporary Art | Tokyo | |
| Exhibit Live- Selected by Sawaragi Noi (Art Critic) | Tokyo | |
| ‘Philip Morris K.K. Art Award 2002 : The First Move’ P.S.1 Art Award/ Tokyo International Forum | Tokyo | |
| ‘New Media New Face 02′ NTT InterCommunication Center | Tokyo | |
| ‘Box Art’ Gallery in the Blue | Tochigi | |
| ‘performance stage – Summit meeting -‘ Space Big Art | Kanagawa | |
| ‘Studio Big Art Movie Festa vol.3′ Space Big ART | Kanagawa | |
| 2003 | ‘First Steps : Emerging Artists from Japan’ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center | New York |
| ‘No Talent Show’ Contemporary Art Factory | Tokyo | |
| ‘Landmines Exhibition 2′ Fads Art Space | Tokyo | |
| ‘Moving Japanese’ Kulturhuset| Stockholm, Sweden | |
| ‘Japan Video Night’ Filmform the Artfilm | Stockholm, Sweden | |
| ‘I am a curator’ Chisenhale Gallery | London, U.K. | |
| ‘Shinxus multiple’ Gallery Tezz | Tokyo | |
| 2004 | ‘A Clockwork Summer Orange’ Gallery Natsuka | Tokyo |
| ‘Tokyo Rabbit Paradise at Careof Milano’ Careof | Milano, Italy | |
| ‘Autonom ist Noch Nicht Einmal der Mond / Even the Moon is Not Autonomous’, ACC gallery | Weimar, Germany | |
| ‘Almanac #03 with Depositors Meeting #02′ Art and River Bank | Tokyo | |
| ‘Wedding Exhibition 37 Creators’ Space Force | Tokyo | |
| ‘Ongoing vol.03′ ex-Asahi Junior High School | Tokyo | |
| ‘Art Walk 2004′ | Tochigi | |
| 2005 | ‘Picture In Motion De Luxe’ Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Art | Utsunomiya, Tochigi |
| ‘Meta-Visual – The History and the Futurescape of Visual Media’ Centre Des Arts | Enghien-Les-Bains, France | |
| ‘The Art of Breathing in the Art World and Respiration’ Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Sakura City Museum of Art | Sakura, Chiba | |
| ‘Iimawashi’ Merz Gallery | Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K. | |
| ‘Meta-Visual – The History and the Futurescape of Visual Media’ Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography | Ebisu, Tokyo | |
| ‘The 8th Exhibition of the Taro Okamoto Memorial Award for Contemporary Art’ Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, Kawasaki | Kawasaki, Kanagawa | |
| ‘Last Spurt 2005′ Gallery Q | Ginza, Tokyo | |
| ‘SPIcafe2′ Spica Art | Aoyama, Tokyo | |
| 2006 | ‘The Arts of Passat-ism New Passat Meets Contemporary Art in Marunouchi 2006′ Maru Building | Marunouchi, Tokyo |
| ‘Japanese Art Will Entertain You!’ Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery | Las Vegas､ U.S.A. | |
| ‘Statements from Galleries- Exhibition of small works’ Gallery Natsuka | Ginza, Tokyo | |
| ‘Weekend Art Utsunomiya’ Hat | Utsunomiya, Tochigi | |
| 2007 | ‘No Tatami Spot’ Theatre Natinal de Chaillot, Grond Foyer | Paris, France |
| ‘Constructions of Nature’ Uppsala Konstmuseum | Uppsala, Sweden | |
| ‘The Party’ Gallery Q | Ginza, Tokyo | |
| ‘Jyugemuj 2007- DocuART’ Art by Xerox Gallery | Roppongi, Tokyo | |
| 2008 | ‘Liverpool Biennial 2008- ‘Pop Up’ Exhibition’ Huskisson Monument, St James’ Gardens | Liverpool, U.K. |
| ‘Yokohama Art & Home Collection’ Yokohama Home Collection | Yokohama, Kanagawa | |
| ‘CET08 Time / Space / Transform’ Taigaku Bill | Bakuro-cho, Tokyo | |
| ‘Command N 10th Anniversary | |
| ‘Akihabara TV & Tokyo Rabbit Paradise’ Screening | Kanda, Tokyo | |
| ‘Sound & Vision Vol.3 Reflect – It’s a Sunny Day’ Zaim | Yokohama, Kanagawa | |
| TSCA collection ‘Night Watch’ Takuro Someya Contemporary Art | Kashiwa, Chiba | |
| ‘Montblanc de la Culture Arts Patronage Award 2008 Patronage – Past and Present; Framed and Unframed;Works and Actions | Tsunamachi Mitsui Club, Mita, Tokyo | |
| ‘Ongoing Movie Fest’ Art Center Ongoing | Kichijyoji, Tokyo | |
| ‘Esquire Cafe 08/SS- Art’ Uncafe | Aoyama, Tokyo | |
| 2009 | ‘Viewing Week’ Takuro Someya Contemporary Art | Tsukiji, Tokyo |
| ‘Swaying Life / Crossroads of Arts Visions of a New Generation of Artists’ Koriyama City Museum of Art | |
| ‘Workshop / Making 100g’ Koriyama City Museum of Art | Koriyama, Fukushima | |
| ‘Workshop / Eating, Weighing, Delicious Art’ Tsuruoka Art Forum | Yamagata | |
| ‘Workshop / Making 100g’ Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts | Tochigi | |
| ‘Summer Vacation for Me and Art’ Ichihara City Museum of Water and Sculptures | Chiba | |
| ‘The 12th Exhibition of the Taro Okamoto Award for Contemporary Art’ Taro Okamoto Museum of Art | Kawasaki, Kanagawa | |
| ‘The Concentration’ Gallery Q | Ginza, Tokyo | |
| ‘Wedding Party’ Oya | Utsunomiya, Tochigi | |
| ‘Plaza North’ Spring Festival Spin Crocodile Garden, Plaza North Humor Square | Saitama | |
| ‘Work shop / Making Spin Crocodile’ Plaza North Humor Square | Saitama | |
| ‘Summer Festival Shaking Shark’ Plaza North Humor Square | Saitama | |
| ‘Work shop / Making Shakes’ Plaza North Humor Square | Saitama | |
| 2010 | City-o-Rama Hong Kong | Hong Kong |
| Aichi Triennale 2010 | Aichi | |
| ‘Branch Point’, Contemporary Art Exhibition 2010 | Saitama Prefectural Citizen’s Activites General Centre, Saitama | |
| ｢…Can’t Go On Like This!」| MIACA + Map Office | Hong Kong | |
| ‘Story’ Dish … Dish … Dish …‘ | Shizuoka | |
| 2011 | Osaka Canvas | Osaka |
| ‘Teratotera Festival ‘Post’’| Tokyo | |
| ‘Ogawa contemporary art stroll’ | Four locations around Ogawa-machi | |
| ‘Branch Point’, Contemporary Art Exhibition 2011 | Saitama Prefectural Citizen’s Activites General Centre, Saitama | |
| ’Essential Ongoing – Madness & Silence‘ | Shinko Pier、Kanagawa | |
| ‘Daylily Art Circus 2011’ | Various locations in Japan | |
| Tokorozawa Biennial ‘Service Wire’ 2011 | Tokorozawa Lifelong Learning Center, Saitama | |
| Zerodate / Odate 5th Anniversary Exhibition 2011 | Akita | |
| 2012 | ‘Artist-in-Residence Program AIR 3331 Exhibition Vol.2’ | 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo |
| ‘Cover‘| CAS, Osaka | |
| “Let there be light – representation of light and darkness!” | Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Art | |
| ‘Connected Roar’／ Children’s Summer Vacation Museum | Kawasaki City Museum, Kanagawa | |
| ‘Excessive! Increase Expression’ | 500m Museum Sapporo | |
| ‘Hools‘| ZACHĘTA National Gallery of Art | The Netherlands | |
| Zerodate / Station Art Exhibition 2012 ‘Tsuredzuretsudzure’ | Akita | |
| ACM Multimedia 2012 | |
| Multimedia Art Exhibition 2012 Eternal / Moment | Nara | |
| Art Toronto | Canada | |
| 2013 | ‘Re:Focus’| TEZUKAYAMA GALLERY |
| NEW CITY ART FAIR : Japanese Contemporary Art | hpgrp Gallery, New York | |
| Iron ∞ Man | Creative Center Osaka，formerly Namura Shipyard | |
| 2014 | NEW CITY ART FAIR : Japanese Contemporary Art | hpgrp Gallery, New York |
| Asian Contemporary Art Show 2014 | Hong Kong | |
| The Artist of the Taro Award II Exhibition | Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, Kawasaki | |
| +PLUS-ULTRA 2014 | Spiral, Tokyo | |
| CONTEXT | Miami, USA |
Awards
| 1996 | ｢Art Business Audition 1996」Kamei Anima Prize |
| 1997 | ‘Art Competition 1998’ Prize |
| 1999 | ‘Art Competition 2000’ Jury Prize |
| ‘KIRIN CONTEMPORARY AWARD 1999’ Award | |
| 2002 | ‘Art Scholarship 2001 First Contemporary Art Award’ | Shioda Junichi Department Selection & Critic Selection |
| ‘Philip Morris K.K. Art Award 2002 : The First Move’ P.S.1 Award | |
| 2005 | ‘8th Taro Okamoto Award for Contemporary Art Exhibition’ Selected |
| 2009 | ‘12th Taro Okamoto Award for Contemporary Art Exhibition’ Special Award |
Workshop
| 2009 | ‘To Create a Spinning Crocodile’ | Saitama Plaza North |
| ‘To Create a Vibration’ | Saitama Plaza North | |
| ‘To Create 100g’ | Koriyama City Museum of Art, Fukushima | |
| ‘Eat, Weigh, Delicious Art’ | Tsuruoka Art Forum, Yamagata | |
| ‘To create 100g’ | Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Art | |
| 2010 | Children’s Summer Vacation Museum | Gunma Prefectural Museum of Modern Art |
| 2012 | ‘Connected Roar’ / Children’s Summer Vacation Museum | Kawasaki City Museum, Kanagawa |
| 2015 | ‘Téléportation -Maho’s desk moved 2m / Satoru Tamura x Gillaume LaBrie Curated by Gilles Mihalcean | napgallery, Tokyo |
Artist’s Website