●Hiraku Suzuki
Born in 1978. Artist.
With the theme of the relationship between drawing and language, he engages in production activities such as plane, sculpture, video, installation, and performance. He explores the scalability of drawing in modern time and space through the act of discovering potential linear events in the environment.
He stayed in the United States with the support of the Asian Cultural Council from 2011 to 2012, and in Germany from 2012 to 2013 with the support of the Paula Foundation for Art. 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (Ishikawa, 2009), Mori Art Museum (Tokyo, 2010), Vrotswav Architecture Museum (Poland, 2015), Yinchuan Contemporary Art Museum (China, 2016), MOCO Panacée (France, 2019), and Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (209, 209, 209, Tokyo, 2019, 2019, Tokyo, Tokyo, 2019.
Since 2016, he has been running Drawing Tube, a platform for drawing research.
He also collaborates with different fields such as musicians and poets, and also works on large-scale public art.
Major collections include "GENGA" (2010) and "SILVER MARKER-Drawing as Excavating" (2020). He is currently an associate professor at the Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts.
http://hirakusuzuki.com
Goro Murayama photo by Yoi Kawakubo
●Goro Murayama
Born in Tokyo in 1983. Artist. Ph.D. (Art).
He expresses self-organized processes and patterns through paintings and drawings.
He expands the field of expression by exploring the possibilities of social production in artist collectives and exploring the sensitivity of AI pattern recognition and generation in collaboration with science and technology.
Graduated from the Department of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts in 2015 and completed the study of oil painting (murals) in art. In 2015-17, he stayed in Vienna as an overseas trainee for emerging artists of the Agency for Cultural Affairs (Vienna, Visiting Researcher, Institute of Cultural Philosophy, University of Vienna). 21st Domani Tomorrow Exhibition, The National Art Center, Tokyo (2019), Setouchi Triennale 2019, Ogijima Hamaguchi House, Kagawa (2019), Aichi Triennale 2019, Aichi (2019), "L'home qui marche, Verköröper, 2019, Japan and overseas.
Received the shiseido art egg award (Shiseido Gallery) in 2010.
Currently, he is a part-time lecturer at the Department of Oil Painting at Tokyo University of the Arts and a visiting researcher at Toyo University's International Philosophy Research Center.
http://goromurayama.com
●Yanto
Born in Kanagawa Prefecture in 1984. Artist.
He creates a lot of installation works that intervene in existing dynamic products that have introduced today's technology, such as spaces for Segway to appreciate works, drawing machines using machine learning systems, or intervene in existing information systems and combine them in the form of diversion and misuse. We will examine the public nature of advanced technology and criticize the works of what political nature they have, how they act on society, or how they relate to humans themselves.
His joint work with Sou Kanno received the 15th Newcomer Award (2012) in the Art Division of the Agency for Cultural Affairs, and the Excellence Award (2018) in the 21st.
In 2013, he stayed in Barcelona and Berlin under the Overseas Training Program for Upcoming Artists. Major exhibitions in recent years include "Someone is a distant thing" (SCARTS, Sapporo, 2021), "DOMANI, Tomorrow Exhibition" (The National Art Center, Tokyo, Tokyo, 2018), "Vanishing Mesh" (Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Arts [YCAM], 2017), Aichi Triennale 2016 (Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art). In addition, there are many collaborations with different fields, such as performance works with contact Gonzo and stage art with the theater work "pseudo delivery" directed by Nagara Wada.
Currently a part-time lecturer at the Media Arts Course, Department of Information Design, Tama Art University.
http://yang02.com