Teaching Staff (Arts & Roots)

Title Associate Professor
Research Fields Contemporary art / Body art / Visual Sound art / History of Leprosy
Education
1999
Master’s, Tama Art University
1997
Bachelor’s, Tama Art University
Selected Professional Experience
2023-Present
Associate Professor (2023-Present), Akita University of Art
2021-2023
Part-time Lecturer, Meiji Gakuin University
2007-2023
    Part-time Lecturer, Tama Art University
2003-2021
    Part-time Lecturer, Joshibi University of Art and Design
1999-2003
    Research Associate(2001-2003),  Research Assistant(1999-2001), Tama Art University
Recent Activities <Selected Solo exhibitions>

2022
“Frozen Screams”, SNOW Contemporary, Tokyo, Japan
Setouchi Triennale 2022, Kagawa, Japan
2020
Yamagata Biennale 2020, Yamagata, Japan
2019
Setouchi Triennale 2022, Kagawa, Japan
2016
Setouchi Triennale 2022, Kagawa, Japan

 

<Group exhibitions>

2021
“Artists and the Disaster: Imagining in the 10th Year”, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan
2020
25 years of video art – A point of transit signals from East and South East Asia, Alien Arts Centre, Taiwan
2017
Japanorama. A new vision on art since 1970” Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France
2015
Sayoko Yamaguchi The Wearist, Clothed in the future, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan
Collection Becoming,Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo,Japan
Don’t Follow the Wind, Restricted Fukushima Exclusion Zone, Fukushima, Japan
2014
Sapporo International Art Festival 2014, Sapporo, Japan
2013
Your Voice is Mine, NUS Museum, Singapore (Group exhibition)
2012
Artists and the Disaster -Documentation in Progress-, Art Tower Mito, Ibaragi, Japan
2010
Plastic Memories” Museum of contemporary art Tokyo, Japan

 

<Selected Solo performance>

2023
“JAPAN. BODY_PEFORM_LIVE Resistance and Resilience in Japanese Contemporary Art”, Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
2021
Reborn-Art Festival 2021-22, Miyagi, Japan
2018
There is no such thing as Society -Sekaikei imagination and its narrative, Para Site, Hong Kong, China
2017
LIVE FOR 70 HOURS, YCC Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
2014
In a Heartbeat for ArtScience Late, ArtScience Museum, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore
2013
“Roppongi Art Night 2013”, Tokyo, Japan
2011
Patterns+Pleasure Festival, Theater Frascati, Amsterdam, Holland
Big In Japan 2011, Paddington Town Hall, Sydney & 1000 Pound Bend, Melbourne, Australia
2010
Aichi Triennale 2010, Aichi, Japan
GREC2010,Centre du Culture Contemporania de Barcelona, Spain
Courses Taught Introduction to Arts & Roots
Arts & Roots Seminar
Project Planning and Presentation
Art Project
Contemporary Art Seminar (Arts & Roots)
Graduation Project (Arts & Roots)
Contemporary Art Theory 1, 2
[Graduate School of Transdisciplinary Arts]
Guided Research (Master’s Program)
Guided Research (Doctoral Program)
Transdisciplinary Arts Seminar
Transdisciplinary Arts Practicum
Transdisciplinary Arts Research: Expression
Transdisciplinary Arts Research: Theory
Transdisciplinary Arts Theory
Applied Transdisciplinary Arts Theory
Transdisciplinary Arts Research Methods