Kurotaki Mai

Born in 1995 in Hokkaido. Graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Department of Sculpture in 2023. Currently enrolled in the doctoral program at the same university.

A story is born by confronting trees, and the production process of “carving, dividing, and stacking up trees” is regarded as an act of mourning and regeneration out of interest in nature within people, and figures of people born from there are created by wood carving.

Representative works include “me after another,” where you meet your inner self, and “HOKKAIBOKKO,” an eye that looks through everything, “depends on clothing,” which lies between body and mind. Recent works include works such as “Goodbye BOKKO,” which expresses feelings escaping from a single tree.

Mai KUROTAKI

Education:

1995 Born in Hokkaido, Japan

2021 B.F.A. in Sculpture, Musashino Art University

2023 M.F.A in Sculpture, Tokyo University of the Arts

Ph.D. student in Sculpture, Tokyo University of the Arts

Group Exhibitions:

2024 “ART FAIR TOKYO”TOKYO INTERNATIONAL FORUM

“Exhibition 2023” N’s YARD, Tochigi

2023 “Exhibition 2023” N’s YARD, Tochigi

“GEIDAI ART JUNGLE returns” Geidai art plaza, Tokyo

“CONCERTO” Lurf MUSEUM, Tokyo

“Rokko Meets Art 2023 beyond” Mt. Rokko in Kobe, Hyogo

“artKYOTO 2023”, Kyoto

“ARTTAIPEI”, Taiwan

2022 “KUMA EXHIBITION 2022” ANB Tokyo, Tokyo

“CAF Award 2022 Selected” Daikanyama Hillside Forum, Tokyo

“Sculptures with the house3” Denchu Hirakushi and Atelier, Tokyo

2021 “Sculptures with the house2” Denchu Hirakushi and Atelier, Tokyo

Awards and Others

2023 “Mitsubishi Jisho Award” Tokyo University of the Arts

2022 “CAF Award 2022” Selected

2021 “Creator Scholarship 5th graduates” KUMA Foundation