Yamakawa Fuyuki

Teaching Staff (Arts & Roots)

Title Associate Professor
Research Fields Contemporary art / Body art / Audiovisual media / 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
2021-2023
    Media Arts Creators Support Project Advisor, Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan
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>

2025
Setouchi Triennale 2025, Kagawa, Japan
    “MIKAMI MEME 2025”, √K Contemporary, Tokyo, Japan
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, Museumof 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>

2024
“Geijutsu Gekiryu 2024″  The Upper Tama river, MOAO, Tokyo, Japan

   “115 Kaime no Natsu, the 115th Summer”, National Sanatorium Matsuoka hoyoen, Aomori, Japan

2023
“JAPAN. BODY_PEFORME_LIVE Resistance and Resilience in Japanese “Contemporary Art”, Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy

    “KYOTOPHONIE2023”, CLUB METRO, Kyoto, JAPAN
    “Koe kikoyu, kotoba no hateni, A Voice heard, beyond words” by Tomoe Sawa and Fukuki Yamakawa, National Sanatorium, Nagashima Aiseien, Okayama, Japan

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

<Awards/Prizes>

2015
Encouragement Award for Culture and Art, Yokohama Cultural Award

<Projects selected for grants-in-aid>

2023-2025
Hansenbyo ni okeru body image to hyosho no kenkyu- Ryoyojonai to sototono bunkageijutsu no hikakukara [Study on Body Image and Representations in Hansen’s Disease: A Comparison of Culture and Art Inside and Outside Sanatoriums] (‘Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up (KAKEN-HI))
Courses Taught [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 Theory
Applied Transdisciplinary Arts Theory
Transdisciplinary Arts Research MethodsIntroduction 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