Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi

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Live and works in Chiba, JapanEDUCATIONMai Yamashita
2009 PhD Tokyo University of the Arts
2005-6 The Berlin University of the Arts, Class Stan Douglas, Guest student
2004-5 Bauhaus Universtät Weimar, MFA Public Art and New Artistic Strategies
2004 M.A. Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
2001 B.A. Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
1976 Born in Chiba, JapanNaoto Kobayashi
2005-6 The Berlin University of the Arts, Class Stan Douglas, Guest student
2004-5 Bauhaus Universtät Weimar, MFA Public Art and New Artistic Strategies
2002 M.A. Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
1999 B.A. The University of Tsukuba, School of Art and Design
1974 Born in Chiba, Japan

PRIZES AND GRANTS
2023
Nomura Foundation, Japan
2016
Terumo Foundation for Life Sciences and Arts, Japan2014
Pola Art Foundation, International Exchange, Japan
2013-14 Pollock Krasner Foundation, NY, USA
2009-12 The Japanese Government Overseas Study Programme for Artists, Japan
2011
Yoshino Gypsum Art Foundation, Stipend, Japan2010
Nomura Foundation, Japan
2007-08 The Japanese Government Overseas Study Programme for Artists, Japan
2007
Special Prize of VAD International Video and Digital Arts Festival, Girona, Spain
2006
The Asahi Shimbun Foundation, JapanThe Nomura Cultural Foundation, Japan
Honorable Mention of transmediale.06, Berlin
2nd Prize of Gstaad Film Festival 2006, Gstaad, Switzerland
2004
Takahashi Art Prize, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts & Music, Tokyo
1999
Ataka Prize, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts & Music, TokyoRESIDENCIES
2014
2011
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2009
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2006

quartier21, MuseumsQuartier, Vienna, Austria
ISCP- International Studio & Curatorial Program, NY, USA
Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
LIA- Leipzig International Art Programme, Leipzig, Germany
Künstlerhäuser Worpswede, Worpswede, Germany
Schleswig-Holsteinisches Künstlerhaus, Eckernförde, Germany
Künstler Atelier AKKU Uster, Uster, Switzerland

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS ( * exhibition catalogue)
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2021
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If The Sun Had No Name, Chiba Prefectural Museum of Art, Chiba *“A mirage.”, Kurobe City Art Museum, Toyama, Japan *Nature Observation, Takuro Someya Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Notebooks, and from the Notebooks, Oyama City Kurumaya Museum of Art, Tochigi, Japan *Mountains and a Dog, hiromiyoshii roppongi, Tokyo *A Dog and Wooden Sculptures, Asifakeil, MuseumsQuartier, Wien
infinity, RL Window, Ryan Lee Gallery, NY1000WAVES, Suburban PS, Rotterdam
Works On Paper, Daikanyama T-Site, Tokyo
The Four Souvenirs and The Book, Takuro Someya Contemporary Art, Tokyo *Adventure, Courage, Love and Friendship, Kunstverein Göttingen, Germany
infinity, Arthouse at the Jones Center, Texas, USA
IMPRINT, FIT, Vancouver, Canada
GOING MAINSTREAM, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
Screen Spirit̲Continued̲#11, Städtische Galerie Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Viewing week, Takuro Someya Contemporary Art, Tokyo
The Small Mountain, Takuro Someya Contemporary Art, Chiba, Japanplaying with time, NOW IDeA by Utrecht, TokyoINUZORI, Rasche Ripken Berlin, Germany
When I wish upon a star + Infinity, STUK Kunstencentrum, Leuven, Belgium
1000 Waves, Kunsthalle Lingen, Germany
infinity, Mai Yamashita+Naoto Kobayashi, ZAIM Annex 304, Yokohama, Japan
Yamashita Kobayahshi Repeast Playback@Maruya, Naoshima, Japandam has broken, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Tokyo

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS & SCREENINGS ( * exhibition catalogue)
2020 Under the stars, Art Gallery NSW, Sydney
VIDEO ART WEEK ROMA, MAXXI Museum, Rome2019 Setouchi Art Triennale 2019, Megijima island, KagawaRafaël Rosendaal/Mai Yamashita+Naoto Kobayashi, Takuro Someya Contemporary Art, Tokyo
2018 Exhibition from the Collection "Journey", Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba
Hors Pistes : El estadio del arte, Centre Pompidou Málaga, Spain
New Japan, Solyanka State Gallery, Moscow
2017 PARC7, Sapporo Ekimae-dori Underground Walkway(Chi-Ka-Ho), Hokkaido
KizArt, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome2016 Ryuta Iida, Motomasa Suzuki, Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi, Yoshitaka Yazu,Takuro Someya Contemporary Art, TokyoTime, Light, Japan, Art Gallery NSW, Sydney
1000 waves, OnArte, Minusio, Switzerland
2015 CAFE in Mito R, Art Tower Mito Contemporary Art Gallery, Ibaraki *2014 new york stories: twenty years of iscp, International Studio & Curatorial Program, NY
Songs for a pigeon, Embassy of Switzerland, gallery COEXIST, Plaza Gallery and others, Tokyo
Art Kurabiraki Fujiyoshida 2014, Yamanashi, Japan
2013 Now Japan, Kunsthal KAdE Amersfoot, the Netherlands *Victory Obsessed, Zamek Culture Centre, Poznan
Why not live for Art?Ⅱ, Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo
Super 8, MAM Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
tireless workers, insitu, Berlin

2012 Cities and Things That Matter, Lombard Freid Projects, NY
Eleventh Hour, Futura Centre For Contemporary Art, Prague
Super 8, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San FranciscoBody Talks?, Art Fair Tokyo, Tokyo International Forum, TokyoMediated Visions, Galerie Wedding, Berlin
Kashiwa City Jack-Asia Pacific Contemporary Media Arts from Daisuke Miyatsu Collection, Chiba, Japan
2011 Yokohama Triennale 2011, Kanagawa, Japan *Invisibleness is visibleness, Moca Taipei, Taiwan
Super 8, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica
Open Studio, ISCP-International Studio & Curatorial Program, NYUNFOLDING: PROCESSES/SPACE/TIME Grimmuseum, BerlinBody Talks?, SYMPOSIA, Tokyo
Soramame, Hans Peter Zimmer Stiftung, Düsseldorf, Germany
2010 Aichi Triennale 2010, Aichi, Japan *Roppongi Art Night, Roppongi Hills, TokyoThings That Only An Artist Can Do, MARCO-Museo deArte Contemporánea de Vigo, Spain *Love Sick, Stills Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Convocatoria Internacional de Jóvenes Artistas, Luis Adelantado, Valencia, Spain
No Holds Barred, Solo presentation, Art AmsterdamCanʼt go on like this!, Map Office, HongKong
2009 5+1 Junction Box, Vacant, Tokyo *Vom Labor zum Projekt, Neuen Museum Weimar, Weimar, GermanyUNIVERSO ELECTRÓNICO, El Tanque Espacio cultural, Canary Islands, Spain
JAPAN VIDEO WINDOW, Duplex/10m2, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina *R̲minute, Info Nantes public computer screens, Nantes, France
Destroy Everything You Touch, Espaiʼd Art de Gandia, Spain
Once, there was the sea, Creative Space 9001, Kanagawa, Japan
Videonale 11 selection, Goethe-Institut Japan in Kyoto, Kyoto
I wish upon a star, Sinjuku Ganka Garou, Tokyo
Ping-Pong Critic, Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto*2008 Yokohama Art & Home Collection (with MIACA), Kanagawa, Japan
Re-imagining Asia, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin *BACKLIGHT 08, 8th International Photographic Triennial, Photographic Centre Nykyaika, Tampere, Finland etc. *IASmedia Screening 2008, Insa Art Space, Korea
Sound & Vision Vol.3 RefLect, ZAIM, Yokohama, Japan
Ohayo JAPAN , Japan Festival Leipzig, LIA - Leipzig International Art Programme, Leipzig, Germany
VIDEOZOMER, Petersburg Project Space, Amsterdam
GOING TO OUESSANT ‒ Video on the island, Ouessant, France
Visions in the Nunnery 2008, The Nunnery Gallery, London
FairPlay Film&Video Award Selection, Product Festival, Varna, Bulgaria
Art Amsterdam, with Rasche Ripken Berlin, AmsterdamPreview Berlin ‒ Video Art Program, with Rasche Ripken Berlin, Berlin
Theory of Everything, CASZ with tank.tv, Amsterdam
Screening #10, ART CLAIMS IMPULSE, Berlin
The Doctoral Program Final Exhibition , The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan
2007 I Am Future Melancholic, Tate Modern, London
I Am Future Melancholic, GoGallery, Milan, Italy
Crawford Open 2007, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland
Compendium 07 by MIACA JAPAN, H-I-T, Göteborg, Sweden
Works by Emerging Video Artists, Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN, US
Theory of Everything, DongFang The Cinema of the Far East, Napoli

Museumsnacht, Stadtgalerie Kiel, Germany
Videonale 11 selection, Insa Art Space of the Arts Council Korea, Seoul, Korea
Videonale 11 selection, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
Videonale 11, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany *Madrid Abierto 2007, Canal Metro, Madrid
Japanese Video Art Screening, Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden, NorwaythNightcomers, 10 Istanbul Biennial, Turkey *Evolution 2007, The Linacre Studio, Leeds, UK
Saison Video 2007 #31, Musée des Beaux-Arts et la Dentelle, Calais, France *MIACA@LUX, LUX, London
Artist as Activist, Plan B, Tokyo*
Future Landscape, Cambridge Film Festival, Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge, UK*
Evolution 2007, The Linacre Studio, Leeds, UK*
Saison Video 2007 #31, Musée des Beaux-Arts et la Dentelle, Calais, France *Vor Ort, Villa am Aabach, Uster, Switzerland
Theory of Everything, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin2006 ARS 06-Sense of the Real, The Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA, Helsinki *LichtRouten Lüdenscheid, Lüdenscheid, Germany
Small mischiefs, Pump House Gallery, LondonIndblik, Herning Kunstmuseum, Denmark
O.V. L by REC, MIACA, ZAIM, Yokohama, Japan
Staring into Space, Trafó-House of Contemporary Arts, Budapest
Fair Play 2006, play - gallery for still and motion pictures, Berlin
Trans̲vision, V&A Friday Late, the Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Pixapins, PHOTOESPAÑA 2006, Madrid, Spain
Theory of Everything , LocationOne, NY/ ACC, NY/Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin/and others
The Peninsula, Singapore History Museum, Singapore
Everyday Life is a Microcosm, Cornel University Department of Artʼs Experimental Studio, Ithaca, New YorkTo Be Continued..., Double Trouble, tank.tv
ArtSway Open 06, ArtSway, Hampshire, UK
Shrewsbury Open 2006-Unnatural Selection, Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery, UKbadmeister kunst und sport teil 2, Hallenbad Wald, Wald, Switzerland
kunstkanister, Zeughaus Uster, Uster, Switzerland
2005 EMERGENCY 2, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth, UK
Rosa!:the Exposed Colour Pink, The University Art Museum, Tokyo *2004 The World is Mine, Hiromi Yoshii Five, Tokyo *Voice of Site ‒Tokyo-Chicago-NewYork-, Former Sakamoto Elementary School, Tokyo *2003 Green Space 2̲licht/schatten, Haus am Horn, Weimar, Germany *2002 Philip Morris K.K. Art Award 2002 -The First Move, Tokyo International Forum *Green Space, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Ibaraki, Japan *Nanohana-Satomi-Hakken-Ten[Art Universiade], Chiba, JapanFESTIVALS2017
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Nimman Film Festival, Asian Culture Station, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Tweetakt Festival 2016, Fort Ruitenhoek, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Hors Pistes 2011, Centre Pompidou, ParisInternationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, Switzerland
Near Sighted, Far Out: Video Art Festival #003, Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center, NY
VIDEOAKT international videoart show, Glogauair, Berlin2007 Future Landscape, Cambridge Film Festival, Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge, UK
Trunk/The Nordic Art Video Festival, Östersund, Sweden
Optica: the Gijon International Festival of Video Art, Spain
D-NEFF, Victoria-Gastaiz, Spain
Transitio̲MX, Mexico CityVAD International Video and Digital Arts Festival, Girona, SpainKANSK VIDEO FESTIVAL 2007, Moscow
EXiS2007, Seoul, Republic of Korea
d/Art/07, The Australian Centre for Photography etc., Sydney
17th International Videofestival Bochum, Bochum, Germany
23rd Hamburg International Short Film Festival, Germany
ZEMOS98 [ninth edition], Sevilla, Spain
20th Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Stuttgart, Germany
FILE 2007, OI FUTURO CULTURAL CENTER, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
36th International Film Festival Rotterdam, the Netherlands
10th Japan Media Art Festival, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan
12th ifva festival, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
2006 transmediale.06, Akademie der Künste, Gallery ZERO, Berlintransmediale.06‒video selection touring events
The 11th Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Centre Pompidou etc., Paris
CODE: BLUE Millennium Dialogue 2006, China Millennium Art Museum, Beijing
VAD International Video and Digital Arts Festival, Girona, Spain
shnit short film festival, Bern, Switzerland
isfilmu Nakts #1, kSuns, Latvia
12th canariasmediafest 2006, Gran Canaria, Spain
Ars Electronica Animation Festival, Linz, Austria
EMAF:European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany
Media Forum, Moscow International Film Festival, Moscow
Media Art Friesland, Friesland, the Netherlands
CYNETart̲06 humane, Kunsthaus Dresden, Germany
Gstaad Film Festival 2006, Gstaad, Switzerland
SHOWCASE International Portfolio Review, Kaufleuten, Zürich
2005 Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Kassel, Germany
LOOP :THE PLACE FOR VIDEO ART LOVERS, Barcelona

TV BROADCASTINGS
2010 Die Nacht/La Nuit #98, arte TV2009 Die Nacht/La Nuit #90, arte TV

PUBLIC COLLECTIONArt Gallery of New South Wales (Sydney)
Pigozzi Collection