Michiko Tsuda
Born in 1980. Lives and works in Ishikawa, Japan.Biography
Michiko TSUDA has persistently examined the volatility of human perception and the glimpse of the richness of illusions afforded by that volatility by manipulating our sensations in terms of understanding space and time. Tsuda's works take a variety of forms, such as installation, performance, and video implying an invisible presence wavering in response to the appreciator's perspective and behavior.Exhibitions include the solo show Trilogue (TARO NASU, Tokyo, 2020), Observing Forest (zarya contemporary art center, Vladivostok, 2017), and the group exhibition 10th Asia Pacific Triennial (Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, 2021), Aichi Triennale 2019 (Ito Residence, 2019), Roppongi Crossing 2019: Connexions (Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2019). She completed a Doctoral Program in Film and New Media Studies at the Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts, in 2013, received a grant from the Asian Cultural Council(ACC) for a 6-month residency in New York in 2019, now an associate professor at Kanazawa College of Art, Faculty of Art from 2021, and received the Tokyo Contemporary Art Award 2022-2024.
Education
- 2002
- Bachelor of Engineering. Engineering System, University of Tsukuba
- 2006
- B.F.A. Inter Media Art, Tokyo National University of the Arts
- 2008
- M.F.A. Film and New Media, Tokyo National University of the Arts
- 2013
- PhD of Film and New Media Studies. Tokyo National University of the Arts
- Dissertation Title: An Experimental Project on How to Orientate the ‘Subject’ and ‘Object’ in the Visual Media
Solo Exhibitions
- 2023
- so far, not far, Kanazawa Art Gummi, Ishikawa, JP
- 2020
- Trilogue, TARO NASU, Tokyo, JP
- 2017
- Observing Forest (curator: Alisa Bagdonayte), zarya contemporary art center, Vladivostok, RU
- 2016
- Photographs show you images, taimatz, Tokyo, JP
- 2015
- The Day After Yesterday, TARO NASU, Tokyo, JP
- 2014
- Plan of the Room, switch point, Tokyo, JP
- jet lag, kasarne kultur park, Kosice, SK
- 2012
- PhD dissertation Exhibition Observer = f(t, f(t, null), f(d, Observer, f(t, null), f(t, f(r, f(t, CameraE))), f(t, null), f(r, f(r, Observer, f(d, f(r, f(r, null)))))), Shinko Studio, Yokohama, JP
- Occupants and King in the Configuration Forest, emergencies! #018 NTT InterCommunication Center[ICC], Tokyo, JP
- 2010
- Dominos : Image Association Game, Common Room, Bandung, ID
- HOLES IN GAPS -cinematographic weavings from the Migratory Project, Youkobo Art Space, Tokyo, JP
Selected Exhibitions
- 2024
- Saeborg “I WAS MADE FOR LOVING YOU” / TSUDA Michiko “Life is Delaying” Tokyo Contemporary Art Award 2022-2024 Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, JP
- Circulate through Body. Circulate through Marunouchi. Yurakucho Art Urbanism, Tokyo, JP
- 2023
- ICC Annual 2023: Shapes of Things NTT InterCommunication Center[ICC], Tokyo, JP
- 2022
- Windowology | New Architectural Views from Japan Villum Window Collection, DK
- Medium and Dimension: LIMINAL(curator: Takuya Nakao) Kakinoki-so, JP
- Summer Vacation at a Certain Art Museum Chiba City Museum of Art, JP
- My Hole: Hole in Art Part2: Mirrorless Mirror gallery αM, JP
- 2021
- 10th Asia Pacific Triennial Queensland Art Gallery & Gallery of Modern Art, AT
- Windowology | New Architectural Views from Japan Japan House London, UK
- TOKYO2020 NIPPON Festival, Our Glorious Future 〜KANAGAWA 2021〜 Kanagawa Prefectual Youth Center, JP (Online streaming)
- Back TOKYO Forth Tokyo International Cruise Terminal, JP
- 2020
- Windowology | New Architectural Views from Japan Japan House Los Angeles, US
- Inter+Play Towada Art Center, Aomori, JP
- 2019
- art trip vol.03 in number, new world Ashiya Ciry Museum of Art and History, Hyogo, JP
- FALSE SPACE TOKAS Project Vol. 2, TOKAS Hongo, Tokyo, JP
- Aichi Triennale 2019: Taming Y/Our Passion Aichi, JP
- Roppongi Crossing 2019: Connexions Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, JP
- Windshield Time Toyota, JP
- 2018
- From Window ART LAB AICHI, Aichi, JP
- London Ear Festival 2018 Cello Factory, London, UK
- Japan Media Arts Festival in Kyoto, GHOST Rohm Theater, Kyoto, JP
- 2017
- Japan Media Arts Festival Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, JP
- MAM Project 023: Agatha Gothe-Snape Mori Art Museum , Tokyo, JP (Collaborator of Agatha Gothe-Snape)
- Landscapes: New vision through multiple windows Japan Creative Centre, Singapore, SG
- 2016
- OPEN SPACE 2016: Media Conscious, NTT InterCommunication Center[ICC], Tokyo, JP
- 2015
- Ars Electronica Campus Exhibition, Linz, AT (collaboration with Caroline Bernard)
- Railroad Siding 2015 Tokorozawa, JP
- kyoto casual (curator: Zasha Colah), Japan Foundation New Delhi, IN
- 2014
- SCI-ART! SCIENCE, ART AND ILLUSION, Solyanka State Gallery, Moscow, RU
- 2013
- MEDIA/ART KITCHEN, Bangkok Art and Culture Center, Bangkok, TH
- GÉODÉSIE, Galerie B312, Montreal, CA
- 2012
- Travelling, CHUV, Lausanne, CH (collaboration with Caroline Bernard)
- story on story, Akyoshidai International Art Village, Yamaguchi, JP
- 2011
- A VISITOR FROM LOOKING-GLASS, space bandee, Busan, KR
- Changwon Asian Art Festival 2011 Self Camera, Sungsan Art-Hall, Changwon, KR
- Girlfriends Forever!, Tokyo Wandar Site, Tokyo, JP
- 2010
- DECOMPRESSION #10, Gallery National Indonesia, Jakarta, ID
- BIKKURI, Aomori Contemporary Art Center, Aomori, JP
- Rokko Meets Art, Rokko Mt., Hyogo, JP
- 2009
- NO MAN'S LAND, MEMENTO VIVRE/MEMENTO PHANTASMA, Former French Embassy,Tokyo, JP
- MOBILEFEST09, Museu Da Imagem e do Som, San Paolo, BR
- Minato Media Museum, HitachinakaKaihin-Tetsudo, Ibaraki, JP
- Re:Membering, (curator: Fumihiko Sumitomo) Gallery Loop and Doosan Art Gallery, Seoul, KR
- radiator, (curator: Emma Ota) Hand and Heart Gallery, Nottingham, GB
- Media Practice 08-09, BankArt, Yokohama, JP
- jiji, Turner Gallery, Tokyo, JP
- 2008
- version beta, Center for Contemporary Image, Geneva, CH (collaboration with Caroline Bernard)
- dislocate08, (curator: Emma Ota) ZAIM, Kanagawa, JP
- Leonardo Art/Science Student Exhibition, Berkeley Art Museum, California, US
- OS1, Tokyo National University of the Arts, Yokohama, JP
- 2007
- Pocket Films Festival in Japan, Tokyo National University of the Arts, Kanagawa, JP
- 2005
- Tokyo Competition#2 selected show, OTEMACHI-CAFE, Tokyo, JP
- Tokyo Competition#2, Marunouchi-Building, Tokyo, JP
- PingPongPlus new Modes, Permanently, Contemporary art Museum, Kumamoto, JP
- 2004
- Artists by Artists cafe, library cafe of academyhills in Roppongi Hills, Tokyo, JP
- NIKONIKO TRIENNIAL, nikoniko shopping street, Tokyo, JP
- Madia Art Festival2004, Shizuoka University of Art and Culture(SUAC), Shizuoka, JP
Selected Screenings
- 2023
- TAMAKI -eastern film promises (curator: Takashi Sawa & non-syntax), Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art, Kyoto
- 2018
- Wathann Film Festival (curator: Takashi Sawa), Yangon, MM
- 2016
- Eco Expanded City Special Screening (curator: Junya Yamamine), WRO Art Center, Wroclaw, PL
- 2015
- Crossing the Street is a Metaphor (curator: Emily Zimmerman), Henry Art Gallery, Washington, US
- 2014
- Street outside Mumbai Art Room (curator: Zasha Colah), Mumbai, IN
- 2013
- Go around Film Art, mAAch ecute, Tokyo, JP
- 2010
- ABANDON NORMAL DEVICES 2010, Cornerhouse, Manchester, GB
- 2009
- Yogyakarta International Video Festival, Yogyakarta, ID
- International Festival for Art and Media Yokohama 2009, Yokohama, JP
- 2007
- Pocket Films Festival 3e, Centre de Pompidou, Paris, FR
Selected Performances
- 2021
- Taking care of Sculptures Hakucho-pavement, Ishikawa, JP (collaboration with students of Kanazawa College of Art)
- 2020
- Gravity Dance Towada Art Center, Aomori, JP (As "baby tooth" with KAMIMURA Megumi)
- SCREEN BABY #2 OPEN SITE 2019-2020, TOKAS Hongo, Tokyo, JP (As "baby tooth" with KAMIMURA Megumi)
- 2019
- DANCE AS CHISEL (Performance with KAMIMURA Megumi and HIRAKURA Kei) Mori Art Museum Roppongi Crossing, Tokyo, JP
- 2018
- Tech Performance Fes BUoY, Tokyo, JP (As "baby tooth" with KAMIMURA Megumi)
- NEWS SCOOL, Tokyo, JP (As "baby tooth" with KAMIMURA Megumi)
- Make a reservation seat Rohm Theater, Kyoto, JP (Lecture performance in installation work, Performance with FUKUTOME Mari)
- 2017
- A Reverse View (Performance with Agatha Gothe-Snape, KAMIMURA Megumi), Mori Art Museum MAM Project, Tokyo, JP
- Screen Baby SCOOL, Tokyo, JP (As "baby tooth" with KAMIMURA Megumi)
- Tidings: Naming NTT InterCommunication Center[ICC], Tokyo, JP (As "baby toth" with KAMIMURA Megumi)
- Tidings #2 Spot Light Project vol.2 Michiko Tsuda × Megumi Kamimura, ST Spot, Yokohama, JP (As "baby toth" with KAMIMURA Megumi)
- 2016
- Tidings(snac performance series 2015 vol.4) collaboration with KAMIMURA Megumi, Morishita Studio, Tokyo, JP
- 2015
- Disposition of Apparatus, blanClass, Kanagawa, JP
- KHIRKEE, Japan Foundation New Delhi, IN
Artists-in-Residence
- 2014
- K.A.I.R. Artists in Residence Program, Kosice, SK
- 2012
- Akiyoshidai International Art Village Artist in Residence Program, trans_2011-2012, Yamaguchi, JP
- 2011
- Space Bandee Artist in Residence Program 2011, Busan, KR
- HONF Artist in Residency, Yogyakarta, ID
- 2010
- Artist in Residence Program in ACAC, Autumn 2010 BIKKURI, Aomori, JP
Grants and Awards
- 2022
- Tokyo Contemporary Art Award 2022-2024
- 2018
- Grants for Art Promotion, istyle Art and Sports Foundation
- New York Fellowship Program 2018, Asian Cultural Council (ACC)
- 2017
- Project to Support the Nurturing of Media Arts Creators
- Grant from Contemporary Art Support Program, Terumo Foundation for LIFE SCIENCES and ARTS
- New Face Award, The 20th Japan Media Arts Festival, Art Division
- 2012
- Arts and Culture grants from Nomura Foundation
- Grants for artistic projects from Asahi Shinbun Foundation
- 2010
- Introduction of Japanese Culture, Japan Foundation, Dominos Video Workshop at commonroom, Bandung, ID
- 2009
- Excellence Prize, cream competition, Yokohama, JP
- 2008
- Winner of first Leonardo Art/Science Student Contest, US
- 2007
- Selected for screening, Pocket Films Festival in Japan, JP
- 2005
- First prize of urban museum, section of visual arts, Tokyo Competition#2, JP
Others
- 2023
- Audio Guide in Aomori, Aomori Contemporary Art Centre, Aomori
- 2017
- Audio Guide, blanClass, Yokohama
- 2015
- Yabunonaka(Director : Worry Kinoshita), May Theater, Osaka, JP (Scenography)
- 2014
- King the Oedipus -Free Indirect Speech, blanClass, Kanagawa, JP (live video operation)
Employments
- 2008-09
- Researcher, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media
- 2015-17
- Limited partner, AG Productions, LLC
- 2016-2018
- Lecturer, Tokyo University of the Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts
- 2021-
- Associate Professor, Kanazawa College of Art, Department of Fine Arts, Faculty of Sculpture
Selected Lectures and Workshops
- 2022
- Vibration is the minimum form of dance, Morishita Studio (As part of a research project with Megumi Kamimura and Osamu Jareo)
- 2017
- Video Workshop, CSLAB, Tokyo Zokei University
- Film Making Workshop for Junior High School Students, Aizuwakamatsu City
- 2016
- Visiting Lecturer, Department of Sculpture, Musashino Art University
- Visiting Lecturer, "Visual Media, what seeing is and around", with Fuminao Suenaga, CSLAB, Tokyo Zokei University
- Video Workshop, CSLAB, Tokyo Zokei University
- 2015
- paraparaparadox, blanClass, Kanagawa, JP
- 2011
- Kaywon School of Art & Design, Seoul, KR
- Dongui University, Busan, KR
- 2010
- Institut Teknologi Bandung, Bandung, ID
- Video Workshop Dominos, commonroom, Bandung, ID
- cellsbutton#04, Yogyakarta, ID
- 2009
- International Symposia for Electronic Arts 2009, Belfast