MAI YAMASHITA CHIBA / JAPAN, 1976
NAOTO KOBAYASHI CHIBA / JAPAN, 1974
LIVES AND WORKS IN CHIBA, JAPAN
WWW.YAMASHITA-KOBAYASHI.COM
ABIERTO WORK EXPOSED IN MADRID ABIERTO: CANDY

EDUCATION
·    MAI YAMASHITA
2004
·    M.A.Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Oil painting
2001
·    B.A. Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Oil Painting
·    NAOTO KOBAYASHI
2002
·    M.A. Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Oil painting
1999
·    B.A. The University of Tsukuba, School of Art and Design, Oil painting

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2007
·    Vor Ort, Villa am Aabach, Uster, Switzerland

2006
·    LichtRouten Lüdenscheid, Lüdenscheid, Germany
·    ARS 06, Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA, Helsinki, Finland
·    ArtSway Open 06, ArtSway, Hampshire, UK
·    O.V. L by REC, MIACA, ZAIM, Yokohama, Japan
·    Small mischiefs, Pump House Gallery, London, UK
·    Shrewsbury Open 2006 – Unnatural Selection, Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery, UK
·    badmeister kunst und sport teil 2, Hallenbad Wald (swimming-pool), Wald, Switzerland
·    tank.tv, on-line video exhibition, UK
·    transmediale.06, Akademie der Künste, Gallery ZERO (solo), Berlin, Germany
·    EMAF:European Media Art Festival Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany

2005
·    EMERGENCY 2, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth, UK
·    Rosa!:the Exposed Colour Pink, Chinretsukan Gallery of The University Art Museum,Tokyo
·    Der Wettbewerb / The competition, Erfurt Station, Germany

2004
·    The World is Mine, Hiromi Yoshii Five, Tokyo, Japan
·    Voice of Site-Tokyo-Chicago-New York-, Former Sakamoto Elementary School, Tokyo

2003
·    Green Space 2_licht/schatten, Haus am Horn, Weimar, Germany

2002
·    Green Space, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Ibaraki, Japan
·    >, Chiba, Japan
·    Philip Morris K.K. Art Award 2002 -The First Move, Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo

2001
·    dam has broken, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Tokyo, Japan
·    Selected screenings

2007
·    tank.tv: I Am Future Melancholic, Tate Modern, London
·    Madrid Abierto 2007, Canal Metro, Madrid, Spain

2006
·    Staring into Space, The Temps d'Images Festival, Trafó-House of Contemporary Arts, Budapest
·    Fair Play 2006, play - gallery for still and motion pictures, Berlin
·    Trans_vision, V&A Friday Late, the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
·    PHOTOESPAÑA 2006, Madrid, Spain, as a part of video program “Pixapins”
·    Indblik, Herning Kunstmuseum, Denmark / Heine Onstad Kunstcenter, Norway
·    Theory of Everything, LocationOne, NY, USA / Workstation Arts Center, Beijing, China
·    /www.tank.tv/Einstain Auditorium,New York University,NY
·    The Peninsula, Singapore History Museum, Singapore
·    isfilmu Nakts #1, kSuns, Latvia
·    12˚canariasmediafest 2006, Gran Canaria, Spain
·    VAD International Video and Digital Arts Festival, Girona, Spain
·    shnit Kurzfilm Festival, Bern, Switzerland
·    Media Art Friesland, Friesland, the Netherlands
·    CYNETart_06 humane, Kunsthaus Dresden, Germany
·    Ars Electronica Animation Festival, Linz, Austria
·    Gstaad Film Festival 2006, Gstaad, Switzerland
·    7th Media Forum of MIFF, Moscow, Russia
·    International Portfolio Review, Kaufleuten, Zürich, as a part of tank.tv's Showreel
·    transmediale.06–video selection, touring events, tesla, Berlin, Gemany / transit_06.by,
·    minsk, Russia / [plug-in] Basel, Switzerland / Athens Video Art Festival, Athens, Greece etc.
·    2005Kasseler Dokumentarfilm und Videofest, Kassel, Germany
·    LOOP :THE PLACE FOR VIDEO ART LOVERS, Barcelona, Spain

PRIZES AND GRANTS
2007
·    Schleswig-Holsteinisches Künstlerhaus, Stipendium, Germany

2006
·    The Asahi Shimbun Foundation, Stipend, Japan
·    The Nomura Cultural Foundation, Stipend, Japan
·    Special Prize of VAD International Video and Digital Arts Festival, Girona, Spain
·    2nd Prize of Gstaad Film Festival 2006, Gstaad, Switzerland
·    Künstler Atelier AKKU Uster, Atelierstipendium, Uster, Switzerland
·    Honorable Mention of transmediale.06, Berlin, Germany

RESIDENCY AND WORKSHOP
2007
·    Schleswig-Holsteinisches Künstlerhaus, Eckernförde, Germany

2006
·    Residency in Künstler Atelier AKKU Uster, Uster, Switzerland
·    Workshop “Shooting Star Party”, Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA, Helsinki, Finland

2005
·    Workshop, Academy of Fine Art, Poznan, Poland

PUBLICATIONS
2006
·    ARS 06, catalogue, Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA, Finland
·    KIASMA MAGAZINE 30-06, magazine, Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA, Finland
·    LichtRouten Lüdenscheid, catalogue, Lüdenscheid, Germany
·    Lüdenscheider Rundschau, newspaper, 23 Sep. 2006
·    Elisabeth Davies “When I wish”, area revues, special issue [art et nuits], P.166
·    VAD International Video and Digital Arts Festival, catalogue, Girona, Spain, P.42
·    CYNETart_humane, catalogue, Kunsthaus Dresden, Dresden, Germany, P.44
·    EMAF:European Media Art Festival Osnabrück, catalogue, Germany
·    transmediale.06, catalogue, Germany
·    Shrewsbury Open 2006 – Unnatural Selection, catalogue, UK
·    Pink The Exposed Color in Contemporary Art and Culture, Edited by Barbara Nemitz,
·    Published by Hatje Cantz, P.310-311

2005
·    Helsingun Sanomat, newspaper Finland
·    Kasseler Dokumentarfilm und Videofest, catalogue, Germany, P.40

2004
·    The World is Mine, catalogue, Japan, P.4-7

2002
·    PHILLIP

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