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Contemporary Artist / Photography, Moving Image
Mami Kosemura
Mami Kosemura
Contemporary Artist / Photography, Moving Image
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Mami Kosemura
Contemporary Artist / Photography, Moving Image
Mami Kosemura is a Tokyo-based contemporary artist working primarily with photography, moving image, and installation.
Drawing on classical Western painting, still life, and traditional Japanese painting, she reconstructs pictorial images using real objects and spaces, presenting them through photography and moving image. Her practice includes what she calls “moving still lifes,” created through techniques such as stop-motion, high-speed photography, and extended-duration filming, as well as tranquil photographic works that embody extensive research and accumulated time.
Her work develops from experiments prompted by the question of whether media art can engage bodily sensation, while seeking to subtly introduce the question, “What is reality?” into the work itself.
In recent years, she has developed research-based projects in regional art festivals, examining Japanese everyday life and material culture from the Meiji and Taisho periods into the modern era through objects and traces preserved in buildings and storehouses, as well as through modern painting. Using photography and moving image, she recreates paintings that emerge in places where different periods and cultures intersect, transform, and become entangled.
Following a research residency in New York in 2016, she held a solo exhibition at Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, in 2018. Her most recent solo exhibition was held at ZILART Museum in Moscow in 2026, following Before the Beginning at MA2 Gallery in 2023, presented as part of the Regional Collaboration Program of the Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2023. She participated in the Setouchi Triennale in 2025 and Tokyo Biennale in 2026, and is scheduled to participate in the Boso Triennale in 2027.
Kosemura completed the doctoral program in Oil Painting at the Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts. She is currently Professor at Tokyo University of the Arts and Senior Lecturer at Image Forum Institute of the Moving Image.
Mami Kosemura is a Tokyo-based contemporary artist working primarily with photography, moving image, and installation. Her work is characterized by quiet, painterly imagery in which multiple layers of time, perspective, and perception coexist.
Drawing on classical Western painting, still life, and traditional Japanese painting, she records actual objects and landscapes through the camera to construct distinctive images that exist between reality and fiction, painting and photography, stillness and movement. In recent years, her practice has also developed through research into regional architecture, everyday material culture, and modern painting, reconstructing the accumulated time and memory of specific places through photography and moving image.
Kosemura completed the doctoral program in Oil Painting at the Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts. She is a recipient of the Gotoh Memorial Cultural Award and held a solo exhibition at Hara Museum of Contemporary Art in 2018. She is currently Professor at Tokyo University of the Arts and Senior Lecturer at Image Forum Institute of the Moving Image.
獲獎紀錄
1996｜Kume Keiichiro Award｜Tokyo University of the Arts
2001｜Takahashi Geiyukai Award｜Tokyo University of the Arts
2001｜Honorable Mention, 1st Gunma Biennale for Young Artists 2001｜The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma
2002｜Award Winner, Young Video Artist Initiative｜Mori Art Museum
2002｜Finalist, PHILIP MORRIS K.K. ART AWARD 2002
2005｜Nomura Art Prize｜Nomura Foundation
2015｜Gotoh Memorial Cultural Award, Newcomer’s Prize in Fine Arts｜The Gotoh Memorial Foundation
個展
2026｜Mami Kosemura within “MA: Space Between”｜ZILART Museum｜Moscow, Russia
2023｜“Before the Beginning”｜MA2 Gallery / Regional Collaboration Program of Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2023｜Tokyo, Japan
2022｜“SHOP@CAFE: Mami Kosemura”｜Cafe & Shop, Hara Museum ARC｜Gunma, Japan
2022｜“Classic – Outline of a Painting”｜kenakian｜Saga, Japan
2021｜“Pictures and Life”｜TIME & STYLE MIDTOWN｜Tokyo, Japan
2021｜“Anatomical Observation”｜MITSUKOSHI CONTEMPORARY GALLERY｜Tokyo, Japan
2018｜“Mami Kosemura: Phantasies Over Time”｜Hara Museum of Contemporary Art｜Tokyo, Japan
2016｜“Pendulum”｜Dillon + Lee｜New York, USA
2015｜“Tenkei”｜un petit GARAGE｜Tokyo, Japan
2015｜“Still”｜Ai Kowada Gallery Hanare｜Tokyo, Japan
2012｜“The Collector”｜ROPPONGI HILLS A/D Gallery｜Tokyo, Japan
2011｜“The Bird in The Darkness, The Ashen White Shadow”｜Yuka Sasahara Gallery｜Tokyo, Japan
2007｜“Miniature Garden”｜Yuka Sasahara Gallery｜Tokyo, Japan
2004｜“Flowering Plants of the Four Seasons -spring-”｜ASK? art space kimura｜Tokyo, Japan
聯展
2026｜MOT Collection “Seeing the Light of a Certain Time Now”｜Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo｜Tokyo, Japan
2026｜CADAN Study Vol.2 “Setting the Inside and Outside” – Kosemura Laboratory｜CADAN Otemachi｜Tokyo, Japan
2025｜Tokyo Biennale 2025, “Mami Kosemura: Landscape Painting — Aoi Room, Toeizan Kan’ei-ji Temple”｜Toeizan Kan’ei-ji Temple, Aoi Room Corridor｜Tokyo, Japan
2025｜Setouchi Triennale 2025, Seto Ohashi Area / Sei Island Project “SAY YES”｜Former Sei Elementary School｜Kagawa, Japan
2025｜Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum Selection Group Exhibition 2025, “Touching Qe”｜Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum｜Tokyo, Japan
2025｜“East-East. An Exhibition of Contemporary Art from Japan”｜Manggha Museum of Japanese Art and Technology｜Kraków, Poland
2025｜“The Beautiful, the Ambiguous, and Itself,” CURATION⇄FAIR｜kudan house｜Tokyo, Japan
2025｜“REAL TIME IN KIRYU 2025,” Tokyo University of the Arts Oil Painting Departments 2 & 5 Art Research Exhibition｜Kiryu Yurinkan｜Gunma, Japan
2025｜Tenku Art Festival 2025 “Floating Stratum”｜Umeno Memorial Museum and other venues in Tōmi｜Nagano, Japan
2024｜“(THISIS)NATURE × Mai Miyake × ArtSticker Vol.2”｜(THISIS)NATURE, Takashimaya T8｜Kyoto, Japan
2023｜“SOKO MONO KOTO / Whereabout, Things, Action”｜MA2 Gallery｜Tokyo, Japan
2023｜“icon CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY 2023”｜AXIS Gallery｜Tokyo, Japan
2023｜“The Everyday Interrupted”｜Yu-Hsiu Museum of Art｜Taiwan
2022｜“Visionary Legacies: A Tribute to Harold J. Newman”｜Asia Society Museum｜New York, USA
2021｜“NATURES MORTES”｜Galerie Valery Delaunay｜Paris, France
2021｜“Crossing Boundaries Between Photo and Film”｜Dazibao｜Montreal, Canada
2021｜“E-Motion Graphics — Mami Kosemura × Saori Miyake”｜MA2 Gallery / Regional Collaboration Program of Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2021｜Tokyo, Japan
2019｜“Cross Domain Sino-Japanese Youth Art Exhibition”｜Suzhou Jinji Lake Art Museum｜Suzhou, China
2018｜“The 25th Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film”｜Schlossplatz｜Stuttgart, Germany
2016｜“Past Forward” — screening for Paola Prestini’s The Hotel That Time Forgot｜Carnegie Hall｜New York, USA
2015｜“Art of Life: The Aesthetics of Living”｜The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma｜Gunma, Japan
2014｜“Kuandu Biennale 2014”｜Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts｜Taipei, Taiwan
2013｜“Re: Play — The Sixth Sense Awakened by Moving Images”｜Art Tower Mito｜Ibaraki, Japan
2013｜“Now Japan”｜Kunsthal KAdE｜Amersfoort, the Netherlands
2009｜1st Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions｜Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography｜Tokyo, Japan
2009｜International Incheon Women Artists’ Biennale｜Incheon, Korea
2008｜“Portraits from Asia and Europe”｜The National Museum of Art, Osaka; The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura & Hayama; and other venues｜Japan
2007｜“East of Eden”｜Freer & Sackler Galleries｜Washington, D.C., USA
2006｜“Projected Realities”｜Asia Society Museum｜New York, USA
2005｜“Summer Mirage: Contemporary Artists Reflecting Nature”｜Gunma Museum of Art, Tatebayashi｜Gunma, Japan
2005｜“EXiS 2005 CINEMA? CINEMA! Experimental Film and Video Festival”｜Seoul Art Cinema & Space Cell｜Seoul, Korea
2004｜“Nihon × Ga”｜Yokohama Museum of Art｜Kanagawa, Japan
2004｜“MOT Annual 2004: Where Do I Come From? Where Am I Going?”｜Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo｜Tokyo, Japan
2002｜“Young Video Artists Initiative”｜THINK ZONE / Museum für Asiatische Kunst / Station Gallery at Mousonturm｜Tokyo / Berlin / Frankfurt
公開收藏
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo｜Tokyo, Japan
The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts｜Tokyo, Japan
Asia Society Museum, Harold J. Newman Media Art Collection｜New York, USA
Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts｜Taipei, Taiwan
Gunma Museum of Art, Tatebayashi｜Gunma, Japan
CMarts｜Switzerland
