TAKASHI AZUMAYA

Independent Curator, Art Critic

AZUMAYA Takashi

C.V.

Occupation: independent curator, art critic
Date of birth: March 21, 1968
Born in Yokkaichi City, Mie Prefecture, Japan
Nationality: Japan

Professional Experience: Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, 1994-1999; Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, 1999; "YOKOHAMA 2001 ,"2000-2001 (Performing arts Dept.); Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2003-2004 (Associate curator)

Selected Exhibitons: "Jio SHIMIZU: Elements," Misa Shin Gallery, Tokyo, 2012; "2010 Busan Biennale," Busan Museum of Art, Busan Yacht Center, Gwangalli Beach, etc, Busan, Korea, 2010 (artstic director, 72 artists); "identity, body it," nca | nichodo contemporary art, Tokyo, 2010; "GUNDAM Generating Futures," Suntory Museum, Osaka, The Royal Museum Ueno. Tokyo, and others, 2005 - 2007(22 aritsts); "Mitsuru TOKUTOMI: plus, minus, infinity," Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, 2006; "KUSAMA Yayoi: Kusamatrix," Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2004; "MURAYAMA Ruriko: Collective Charms," NADiff Gallery, Tokyo, and other, 2002; "OP Trance!," KPO Kirin Plaza, Osaka, 2001 (6 artists, Curated with SAWARAGI,Noi: Art critic); "Shinro OHTAKE: Dub-Kei," KPO Kirin Plaza, Osaka, 2000; "Hanayo Utushi Yume Kuni," Parco Gallery, Tokyo, 2000; "Yuichi HIGASHIONN: Hina Gata," NADiff Gallery, Tokyo, 2000; "Art / Domestic / Temperature of the Time," Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, 1999 (7 artists)

Curation in Team: "2008 Busan Biennale Contemporary Art Exhibition: Expenditure," Busan Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea, 2008; "Roppongi Crossing 2004," Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2004 (group show)

Commissioned: "Tangible Sound," Total Museum, Seoul, 2000; "Media City Seoul 2002," Seoul City Museum, 2002