Statement Profile GlogauAIR Project CV Summary

Statement

I have been constantly pursuing the possibilities of colour and light.

I began with two-dimensional art, moving into three-dimensional objects, installations, and moving images, changing the form of expression as necessary.

Recently I have explored new colours, shapes, and spaces produced by the action of time.

For the past few years, I have been subjecting sunlight to various forms of spectral decomposition, and using the colours obtained to make video works and then creating installations with these works.

During the various artist-in-residencies I have attended since Banff, Canada in 2002, I have enjoyed the way that my work absorbs and is changed by the landscapes, materials, and people that I encounter along the way. I think that working in residence is the most effective method for me, and I hope to continue this path in the future.

Profile

GlogauAIR Project

The pursuit of the possibilities of colour and light has been the consistent theme of my work. Recently, time has become a major factor in my work. I have begun to explore new colours, shapes, and spaces produced by the action of time. I would like to use this opportunity to develop this theme. Especially during residency, I would like to use the colours extracted from city lights in Berlin as a base, I would like to create new work that combines the themes of my work.

At the end of last year, I happened to connect an old television to an old DVD player. To my surprise, the sound that was supposed to have been erased in editing emerged from the DVD, and I experienced for myself the moment when light was converted to electricity and then changed to sound. That inspired a growing interest in sound art. I realized that another space can be created by changing light to sound or changing sound to light. I hope to pursue my search for light and sound in Berlin, which overflows with both. I will gather various types of light and sound, and create new artworks while exploring the possibilities that exist between light and sound and the spaces that are born from those effects.

CV Summary

b. 1969 Japan

Education

1999

Graduated from Tama University of Arts Graduate school, Master of fine Arts (Tokyo)

1997

Completed studies as a research student at Tama University of Arts (Tokyo)

1996

Graduated from Tama University of Arts (Tokyo)

Exhibition

2018

Month of the Artist Culture House Korundi (Rovaniemi, Finland)

SPECTRUM -Colour- Light- SÄRESTÖNIEMI-MUSEO (Kaukonen, Finland)

2017

SPECTRUM-polar- Galleria Napa & Musta Napa (Rovaniemi, Finland)

2016

SPECTRUM -Colour- Light- Galleria Huuto (Helsinki, Finland)

SPECTRUM -Polar Light- Gallery Musta Napa (Rovaniemi, Finland)

Valo Kiikartorni (Rauma, Finland)

2015

SPECTRUM -Outer space- UTAS Academy gallery (Tasmania, Australia) (2013)

SPECTRUM -Colour-Light- Nahkuri (Kärsämäki, Finland)

2014

SPECTRUM -Polar Lyset- Vadsø Kunstforening (Vadsø, Norway)

SPECTRUM-Going to Catch Rainbows- ABN Centre (Vernon, Canada)

SPECTRUM – Litróf heimskautsljós- Deiglan Gallery (Akureyri, Iceland) (2008)

2013

SPECTRUM -The Ocean- Vancouver Art centre (Albany, Australia)

SPECTRUM –The Pixel Town- Point B (NYC, USA)

2012

To the sky where northern lights are dancing Rafu Gallery (Saitama, Japan)

2011

Colour-Light Gendai Hights Gallery Den (Tokyo, Japan) (2008, 2004)

2009

Colour-Light Upernavik Museum (Upernavik, Greenland)

Colour-Light The Banff Centre, The Other Gallery (Alberta, Canada) (2002)

2005

Colour-Light TOKI Art Space (Tokyo, Japan)

Group Exhibition

2018

POHJOISTUULI Galleria Valo, Arktikum (Rovaniemi, Finland)

LUONNOLLISESTI – NATURALLY Anu Pentik Galleria (Posio, Finland)

Echos from the North Kakslauttanen Art Gallery (Saariselkä, Finland)

2016

Phenomena Paramatta Lanes Parramatta Artists Studios galley (Parramatta, Australia)

2015

“18 x 8: From Point A to Point B and back again…” Point B (NYC, USA)

2012

Lumière (Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada)

2010

Porin Juhlaviikot 3H + K Gallery (Pori, Finland)

2008

Great Northern Art festival (Inuvik, Canada)

Kyobashi 3.3.8 Exhibition Ai Gallery (Tokyo, Japan)

2007

「Optical Nature」Gallery Visions (Tokyo) Galerie Kritiku (Prague)(2006)

「Polar Night Light」 (Kemijärvi, Finland)

「Individuals」Kawasaki Citizen Museum (Kanagawa, Japan)

2006

EchigoTsumari Art Triennale 2006 (Niigata, Japan)

Made in Kawasaki Contemporary Art Award Exhibition, Kawasaki Citizen

Museum (Kanagawa, Japan)

2005

Art life FORUM ART SHOP(Tokyo), Za Gallery (Tokyo)

2004

「GLOW」CAC Gallery (Nevada, USA)

2002

13th Anniversary of Montreal Massacre (Studio XX, Banff Centre, Canada)

Award & Scholarship

Residency

2017

Residency Grant The Arctic Circle (International Territory of Svalbard)

Residency Grant Ars Bioarctica (Kilpisjärvi, Finland)

2016

Residency Grant RaumArts (Rauma, Finland)

2015

Residency Grant University of Tasmania (Tasmania, Australia, 2013)

Residency Grant Parramatta Artists Studios (Parramatta, Australia)

2014

Residency Grant Light in Varanger (Vadsø, Norway)

Work stipend and Residency Grant Caetani Culture Centre (Vernon, Canada)

2013

Residency Grant Agder Kunst Center (Kristiansand, Norway)

Residency Grant Point B (NYC, USA)

2012

Work stipend Cape Breton University (Nova Scotia, Canada)

Residency Grant Hafnarborg (Hafnarfjör.ur, Iceland)

2010

Work stipend and Residency Grant Aalto University Art and Design (Pori, Finland)

2009

Thematic Residency Grant and Scholarship The Banff Centre for the Arts

(Banff, Canada, 2002)

Residency Grant Upernavik Museum (Upernavik, Greenland)

Residency Grant SIM (Reykjavik, Iceland)

2008

Great Northern Art Festival Travel stipend (Inuvik, Canada)

Residency Grant Ted&Harrison Artist Retreat (Yukon, Canada)

Can Serrat Artists Residency, awarded support stipend (Spain)

2006

Asahi Newspaper Cultural Foundation Scholarship, Asahi Newspaper

Cultural Foundation (Japan)

Made in Kawasaki Contemporary Art Award Judge Prize (Kawasaki, Kanagawa)

Residency Grant Klondike Institute of Arts & Culture (Yukon, Canada)

2004

Residency Grant and Work shop stipend Est-Nord-Est (Quebec, Canada)

Lecture and Artist’s talk

2017

Lady Antigua ship (International Territory of Svalbard)

2016

Works at Artist in residencies (Muriwai, NewZealand)

2015

Works at Artist in residencies University of Tasmania (Tasmania, Australia)

2014

Allan Brooks Nature Centre (Vernon, Canada)

Ketilhúsinu (Akureyri, Iceland)

2012

Rafu Gallery (Saitama, Japan)

2013

University of Tasmania (Tasmania, Australia)

Vancouver Art Centre (Albany, Australia)

2011

KUNSTNARHUSET MESSEN (Alvik, Norway)

Vilnius Academy of Arts (Nida Art Colony) (Nida, Lithuania)

2010

Aalto University (Pori, Finland)

2008

Akureyri Colledge (Akureyri, Iceland)

2007

Gallery Baku (Fukuoka, Japan)

2006

Macaulay Residence (Yukon, Canada)

2003

TOKI art space (Tokyo, Japan)

Workshop

2017

Taide yö (Rovaniemi, Finland, 2016)

2008

Great Northern Art Festival (Inuvik, Canada)

2005

Echigo Tsumari Summer 10days (Niigata, Japan)

2004

Est-Nord-Est (Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Quebec, Canada)

Kazuko Kizawa

Japan

Former artists

Guglielmo Castelli

Neda Kovinic

Maria Santi

Sophia Borowska

Chen Siyu

Chen Wei

Jacqueline Forest Andrews

Sara Agudo Millàn

Meghan Marie Malar

Mar Ripoll

Stella Wiemann

Ayumi Miyano

Wei Fei

Zoë Robertson

José Yisa

Jorge Nava

Elen Alien

Bianca Durrant

Yaewon Yun

Akiko Kuniyoshi