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Introducing Artists

About

Mayumi Oku

After resigning from a design office in 2002, Mayumi Oku began creating and exhibiting her artwork. Her works span a wide range of media, including two-dimensional art, sculpture, installations, video art, zines, and performances. In a collaborative exhibition with musician HARCO, she first created paintings, which then inspired HARCO to compose music based on them, and vice versa. This approach received positive feedback. In 2006, Oku held a residency and solo exhibition at a gallery in Mexico, and around that time, themes of ethnographic elements and spirits sensed in nature began to frequently appear in her work. She creates art using various methods to explore nature itself or the "invisible but definitely perceptible something" felt within it.

Biography

Born in Ishikawa Prefecture in 1976

Solo Shows
2002 ”DREAMY SWEET EXHIBITION” GALLERY SIESTA（Tokyo）
2003 "GHOST OF SWEETS" UTRECHT FLO GALLERY（Tokyo）
2004 "FANTA SCOPE" GALLERY appel（Tokyo）
2005 "no! boundary line" UPLINK GALLERY（Tokyo）
2005 CET2005 "Mayumi Oku Solo Shows" Takahashi building（Tokyo）
2005 "The sweet and thin forest" Salon de Raraku（Kanazawa）
2006 "Temperature" gallery its（Tokyo）
2006 "El Bosque" Galeria Nebulosa（Mexico, Xalapa）
2008 "Vivir" Dining Bar ito（Tokyo）
2010 "Certainty,Uncertainty" Yu-gakutei（Mie）
2013 "Ubusuna" Yamato City Cultural Festival , Lifelong Learning Center（Kanagawa）
2016 "Small World Big World" Nijigaro（Tokyo）
2020 "BOX" （Picture book exhibition）Kameido Art Center（Tokyo）
2022 "there’s no place like home" Hebel House Hiranumabashi Exhibition Hall (37 lots)（Tokyo）
2022 " A Story for Someone Else" FALL（Tokyo）
2023 " Monochrome World " WASHIN（Kanagawa）

Group Shows
2004 "dime novel" kotomizu seisakushitsu（Tokyo）
2004 "Three Exhibition" GALLERY SIESTA（Tokyo）
2005 "exhibition of self-publishing" spiral market（Tokyo）
（Traveling exhibition／Kanazawa,Nagoya,Kyoto and more）
2007 "Mayumi Oku × HARCO　Wild picnic" gallery its（Tokyo）
（Traveling exhibition／Fukuoka,Osaka,Hiroshima）
2011 "in the waitingroom" waitingroom（Tokyo）
2011 "Total Senseist School" Kiyokawa Taiji Memorial Gallery,Inhabitant of a ward. Gallery（Tokyo）
2021 "Found object exhibition" Kameido Art Center（Tokyo）
2022 "Serendipity in Shibuya", ShbuyaSACS（Tokyo）
2022 "HER OWN STORY", Kameido Art Center（Tokyo）

Grants and Awards
2006 Nomura Cultural Foundation grant
2008 Tokyo Wonder seed 2008 "Selected"
2008 AMUSE ARTJAM 2008"Selected"
2009 TAGBOAT SPRING AWARD 2009"Selected"
2009 TAGBOAT AUTUMN AWARD 2009"Judge special award (Kentaro Totsuka prize)"
2009 AMUSE ARTJAM 2009 "Grand prize"
2011 Yamato-city cultural art future prize"Selected"
2022 The 225th The Choice"Selected"
2022 The Choice Annual Award"winning a prize or place"

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