NELO AKAMATSU

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N a m e : NELO AKAMATSU

Born & Lives

Born in Tokyo, Japan
Lives and works in Kanagawa, Japan

Education

2005 MFA in Intermedia Art, Tokyo National University of the Fine Arts and Music, Tokyo, Japan
2003 BFA in Sculpture, Musashino Art University, Kodaira, Japan

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2024 "Polycosmos Everywhere" Mizuma Gallery, Singapore
2022 "Chijikinkutsu" Galerija Nova, Zagreb, Croatia
2019 "Meteon" Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2018 "Chijikinkutsu/Chozumaki" Vima House, Taichung, Taiwan
"Chijikinkutsu/Chozumaki" Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2017 "+29/-5000" Art Trace Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2016 "Chijikinkutsu" Galerija Kapelica, Ljubuljana, Slovenia
2013 "Magnetica Animata" Art Trace Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2012 "Lost in Clouds" Art Trace Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2009 2009 "Paradise in Train Window" Embassy of Italy in Tokyo, Japan

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023 "Imagine. fantasies, Dreams, Utopias" Saudi Arabia Museum of Contemporary Art (SAMoCA), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
"Typhoons" Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
"BienalSUR" Museo de Arte Hispanoamericano Isaac Fernández Blanco, Buenos Aires, Argentina
"Takamatsu Art Museum Collection Exhibition 1st term 2023" Takamatsu Art Museum, Kagawa, Japan
2022 "BIWAKO Biennale 2022 : ORIGIN" Omihachiman Old Town, Shiga, Japan
"Takamatsu Contemporary Annual vol.11 Fragile Calm Landscape" Takamatsu Art Museum, Kagawa, Japan
2021 "The Invisible Sounds" Museum of Waste, Changsha, China
"Ōrai" Exhibition, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2020 "Interaction: Souls in Synchronicity" Toyama Glass Art Museum, Japan
"BIWAKO Biennale 2020 : Cosmic Dance" SMITH Memorial Hall, Shiga, Japan
"Intermedia Art 2020 Apparation" Chinretsukan Gallery, Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan
"SUKIKEI / New View" Nihombashi Mitsukoshi, Tokyo, Japan
"SUKIKEI / New View" Mitsubishi-Jisho Artium, Mitsukoshi Gallery, Fukuoka, Japan
"MATERIA Opening Exhibition" MATERIA – Centro de Ciencias de Sinaloa, Culiacán, México
2019 "CYFEST-12: ID" The State Hermitage Youth Education Center, St. Petersburg, Russia
"40 Years of Humanizing Technology" Design Society – Sea World Culture and Arts Center, Shenzhen, China
"SUKIKEI / New View" Hankyu Umeda Gallery, Osaka, Japan
"Lux Aeterna (ISEA2019)" Asia Culture Center, Gwangiu, Korea
"magnetic_T" New Media Gallery, New Westminster, Canada
2018 "Hsinchu City Glass Art and Design Festival: LIGHT-DRIVING" Hsinchu Park WIND livehouse, Hsinchu, Taiwan
"HÖHENRAUSCH 2018: The Other Shore" OK im OÖ Kulturquartier, (OK Center for Contemporary Art), Lintz, Austria
"Abaton" Blueproject Foundation, Barcelona, Spain
2017 "Les Faits du hasard (Biennale Némo)" Le Centquatre-Paris, France
"УЯВНИЙ ПУТІВНИК. ЯПОНІЯ" Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kiev, Ukraine
"Sonica" Govanhil Baths / Lighthouse, Glasgow, Scotland
"¿Como decir nosotxs?" Casa de Electromagnético, Mexico City, Mexico
"Ars Electronica in Berlin" DRIVE. Volkswagen Group Forum, Berlin, Germany
2016 "The Alchemists of Art and Science" Ars Electronica Center, Linz, Austria
"Alchemists of our Time (Ars Electronica Festival 2016)" POSTCITY, Linz, Austria
"Impetus and Movement" Knowledge Capital, Osaka, Japan
"Open Space 2016 | Media Concious" NTT Intercommunication Center, Tokyo, Japan
2015 "Takamatsu Media Art Festival" Tamamo Park Hiunkaku, Kagawa, Japan
"Materia Prima" LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijón, Spain
"CYBERARTS 2015" OK im OÖ Kulturquartier, Linz, Austria
2014 "The 17th Taro Okamoto Award of Contemporary Art Exhibition" Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan
2008 "SaiSei" BankART Studio NYK, Kanagawa, Japan
2007 "RE:MELT" ZAIM, Kanagawa, Japan
2004 "Asia Digital Art Award FUKUOKA" Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan
"Digital Art Festival Tokyo 2004" Panasonic Center Tokyo, Japan
"Me Kara Toku" Tokyo Zokei University Manzù Museum, Japan
"The 7th Taro Okamoto Memorial Award of Contemporary Art Exhibition" Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan
2003 "Green Space2_light/shadow" Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany

Awards

2023 Prix Ars Electronica 2023, Honorary Mention in AI & Life Art "Perhaps, art begins with the fireflies"
2017 Artist in Residence for the sound and visual arts festival "Sonica" by Cryptic in Glasgow, Scotland
Grant for "Sonica" over Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation and Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation
2015 Prix Ars Electronica 2015, Golden Nica (Grand-Prix) in Digital Musics & Sound Art "Chijikinkutsu"
2014 The 17th Taro Okamoto Award of Contemporary Art, Selected "Magnetica Animata"
2004 Asia Digital Art Award FUKUOKA, Finalists' Awards in Interactive Arts "The Creation"
The 7th Taro Okamoto Memorial Award of Contemporary Art, Special Prize "Weather in Abyss"

Museum Collections

Takamatsu Art Museum, Kagawa, Japan

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