Mayuko Kanazawa Biography

Born in 1981 Kobe City, Japan

2008 Kyoto Saga University of Arts Graduate School completion

Member of Japan Childre‘s Book Artists Society. Member of Institute of Environmental Art and Design
and, Department of Image Media Art of KOBE DESIGN UNIVERSITY

Official Website: http://www.mayuart.com

I am Expressing the Charm of Hand-Drawing Painting Using Picture books,Animation,and Experiential art advanced technology.

Solo exhibitions

2006「scopie」Kyoto Saga University of Arts Attachment Museum（kyoto）

「Boku Pagu」galerie16（kyoto）

2007 「Existence Metaphor」Kyoto Saga University of Arts Attachment Museum（kyoto）

2008「Existence Metaphor
-From “Spece of The Night” of Otto Friedrich Bollnow-」galerie16（kyoto）

2010「Sweet home -Atelier of Media art room2 exhibition Vo.1」Kyoto Saga University of Arts（kyoto）

2011「Sweet home Pictures of the light of image animation」galerie16（kyoto）

2012「『The present from heavens』Original picture exhibition」Oshima Museum of Picture Books（Toyama）

2013 「Poetry of the sheep」ShinseidoGallery（Omotesando）

2014 「Mayuko Kanazawa‘s Moving Picture」The Yamazaki Mazak Museum Of Art（Nagoya）

2014 「『The present from heavens』Original picture exhibition」Oshima Museum of Picture Books（Toyama）

2014 「『Boku Pug』Original picture exhibition」StepsGallery（Ginza）

2014 「Mayuko Kanazawa‘s Moving Picture」Shinseido Tokyoberlin ArtBox（Berlin）

2015 「Go into a Picture? Science×Art  Challenge」Chiba City Museum of Science（Chiba）

2015 「Moving Picture-Utsuroi Iroha-」Andersen Children‘s Museum of Science（Chiba）

2015 「Moving Picture Books-Welcome to Wonderland-」Kusatsu-Creahall（Shiga）

2016 「『Picture Book time』Exhibition-The present from heavens–」StepsGallery（Ginza）

2017 「『INU-Pug-』Exhibition-Affair between you and me–」StepsGallery（Ginza）

2018 「『Japan Brand Submission Business』Exhibition & Speech」Belgrade Museum of Applied Art（Serbia）February Schedule

2018 「『Japan Brand Submission Business』Exhibition & Speech」（Ukraine）February Schedule

2018 「『Japan Brand Submission Business』Exhibition & Speech」（Sweden）February Schedule

Selected group exhibitions

2005「Kobe Art Annual」Kobe Art Village Center （Hyogo）

2006「Intercollege Media Art Exhibition」Kyoto Seika University Gallery Fleur（kyoto）

2008「DIGITAL ART FESTIVAL TOKYO」Panasonic Center（Tokyo）

2008「ACG eyes：Image and Drawing -narrative-」ARTCOURT Gallery（Osaka）

2009「ART COCKTAIL 2009 in kasama 」Gruyeres（Ibaragi）

2009「Voices from the Land,Vision of Life 」National Museum of Ethnology（Osaka）

2009「Voices from the Land,Vision of Life 」Kanzai TV Kids plaza（Osaka）

2011「Philosophy of look – Kyoto Saga University of Arts of 40 years」 Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art（Kyoto）

2011「Art Stream in DAIMARU」Shinsaibashi DAIMARU（Osaka）

2012 「Polyphonic Jump！New Year Physical feeling Art exhibition」Hotel Okura Kobe（Hyogo）

2012 「On the Steps」Steps Gallery Ginza（Tokyo）

2012 「1th Kawaii+ Grand-prix exhibition 」Spiral Garden（Tokyo）

2012 「Japan Media Arts Festival in Kobe」Design creative centre Kobe （Hyogo）

2012 「Kitaaoyama ∞ KOBE Biennale」Orie Gallery

2012 「New Art NEXT,Foreword to Moving Picture and Depicted Time」Yokohama Civic Art Gallery

2013 「1th Kawaii+ Grand-prix exhibition」Shiga Kogen Roman Museum（Nagano）

2013「Picture-book writer original picture, print and Picture-book exhibition」SOGO Kashiwa（Chiba）

2014 「Wonderful world」Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo（Tokyo）

2014 「Find the Light and Shadow in the Forest of ASAGO」Asago Forest Of Art Museum（Hyogo）

2015 「KOBE Biennale-Invited Artists Exhibition-」Meriken Park（Hyogo）

2017 「Science×Art-Magic is  Science–」Shizuoka Science Museum（Shizuoka）

2017 「Magical Park of Light」Inuyama Monkey Park（Aichi）

2017 「Playful Summer in your hand.」TsukishimaTemporary Contemporary（Tokyo）

2017 「A Chellenge from Dr.Purple」Fukuoka Youth Science Museum（Fukuoka）

2017 「Art Cats-Exhibition-」Takamatsu Tower Museum of Art（Kagawa）

2017 「200years of Cats and Man-Art Cats-」Niigata Prefectural  Museum of Histori（Niigata）

2018「 Imaginarium 2018: Into the Space of Time.」 Singapore Art Museum (SAM) （Singapore）May Schedule

Conference

2007〜2017「IEAD・Institute of Environmental Art and Design」Announcement 10 times

2011 「ACE」Lisbon International Workshop（Portugal）

「SIGGRAPH Asia Art Gallery」Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre （Hong Kong）

Screening / Broadcasting

2009 「Degisuta・Night & Day＠Roppongi Art Night」ZEL CAFÉ/GALLERY（Tokyo）

「9th Nippon Connection」Frankfurt university（German）

「TAFF’09 Garls animation program」Taketoyo Community Arts Center（Aichi）

「7th Nippon Koma 」（Lisbon、Portugal）

「Mirror of Transfiguration」Government of Canada（Tokyo）

「Baby Smap」appearance、「SMAP×SMAP」 （Fuji TV）

Prizes / Scholarships

2005 「6th JCF Student film festival」Grand Prix、One Minute section prize

2006 「Itami grand-prix exhibition」Prize for effort（Itami City Art GALLERY、Hyogo）

2006 「Art MOVE」Cafe de Marche prize

2008 「NHK digital stadium-ExperimentImage section-」Best selection

2008 「Kyoto Saga University of Arts Graduate SchoolCompletion work exhibition」Highest award

2008 「P＆E」Selection（ARTCOURT Gallery、Osaka ）

2008 「Gunma Biennale for Young Artists」Selection

2010 「Result of Oshima International Handmade Picture Book Contest」Gold prize・Imizu Mayor Prize

2011 「Result of Oshima International Handmade Picture Book Contest」Grand Prix・Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology prize

2011 「Kobe Biennale Art in container international Competition」Encouragement prize

2012 「1th Kawaii+ Grand-prix exhibition」Grand Prix、neutron prize

2015 「The Evolving Rinpa-Haura Exhibition-」Encouragement prize

2012 「Environmental Art and Design Academic Award」Encouragement prize

Literary(Japan)

「The present from heavens」Oshima Museum of Picture Books 2012

「Boku Pug」Kawade Shobo Shinsha Publishers Inc./Shuppan Works Inc. 2014

「Powan」Kawade Shobo Shinsha Publishers Inc./Shuppan Works Inc. 2015

「The present from heavens」Kawade Shobo Shinsha Publishers Inc./Shuppan Works Inc. 2016

「When the Earthquake comes」BL Publishers Inc. 2017

Literary(Foreign Translation)

「Boku Pug・流浪的毛小孩，帕古」日出出版(Taiwan）　2015

「Boku Pug・我是帕古」外文出版(China）　2015

「・BOKUPUG・」KIZM(Korea）　2016

「Powan・不小点」外文出版(China）　2016

Literary(Joint work)

「The wise saying 100 in the world」Boutique-sha 2010