Tatsuo Miyajima
| Type | Artist Male |
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| URLs | Wikipedia Artist's page Institutions/museums Interview |
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| Artist in residence | 1993 | Artist in Residence | Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain | Paris, France | |
| Award | 1990 | Visual Art Grant | Asian Cultural Council | New York, USA | |
| Artist in residence | 1990 - 1991 | Artists in Berlin Program | Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst | Berlin, Germany |
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| Group exhibition | 2012 | Marking Time | Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, | Sydney, Australia | |
| Solo exhibition | 2011 | Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust | Ullens Center for Contemporary Art | Beijing, China | |
| Solo exhibition | 2005 | Beyond the Death | Beyond the Death | Kumamoto, Japan | |
| Group exhibition | 2003 | Happiness: a survival guide for art and life | Mori Art Museum | Tokyo, Japan | |
| Solo exhibition | 1999 | Keep Changing, Connect with Everything, Continue Forever | Japan Pavilion, 48th la Biennale di Venezia | Venice, Italy | |
| Group exhibition | 1999 | CHRONOS & KAIROS | Museum Fridericianum | Kassel, Germany | |
| Group exhibition | 1997 | The Magic of Numbers in 20th Century Art | Staatsgalerie Stuttgart | Stuttgart, Germany | |
| Solo exhibition | 1993 | Running Time | Kunsthalle Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | |
| Group exhibition | 1991 | Zones of Love: Contemporary Art from Japan | Touko Museum of Contemporary Art | Tokyo, Japan | |
| Solo exhibition | 1990 | Hiroshima Installation | Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art | Hiroshima, Japan |
| Artworks in Collections | |||
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| National Museum of Modern Art | Kyoto, Japan | ||
| Art Gallery of New South Wales | Sydney, Australia | ||
| Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain | Paris, France |
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| Monography | 2009 | Kerber Art | Tatsuo Miyajima: Time Train - Zeit, Zahl und Kosmos | n Kunsthalle Recklinghausen (Herausgeber), Ferdinand Ullrich (Herausgeber), Hans J Schwalm (Herausgeber), Eugen Blume (Mitwirkende), Friedrich Meschede | 978-3866781801 | Bielefeld, Berlin | Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Ferdinand Ullrich, Hans J Schwalm | |||||
| Monography | 2017 | Museum of Contemporary Art | Tatsuo Miyajima: Connect with Everything | Rachel Kent | 978-1921034862 | Sydney | ||||||
| Monography | 2004 | Mondadori Electa | Tatsuo Miyajima | 978-8837030490 | Florence | Cristina Garbagna |
| Research & teaching | professorship | 2006 - 2016 | Vice President | Tohoku University of Art and Design | Yamagata, Japan | professorship | 2012 - 2016 | Vice President | Kyoto University of Art and Design | Kyoto, Japan |
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Research and teaching
Kyoto, Japan
Vice President, Kyoto University of Art and Design, Japan
Research and teaching
Yamagata, Japan
Vice President, Tohoku University of Art and Design, Yamagata, Japan
Awards
New York, USA
Visual Art Grant: United States, Asian Cultural Council, Japan
Education
Tokyo, Japan
MA, Tokyo University of the Arts
Education
Tokyo, Japan
BA (Fine Arts: Oil Painting), Tokyo University of the Arts
Born
Tokyo, Japan
Places of residence
Ibaraki, Japan
Tatsuo Miyajima is one of Japan’s foremost sculptors and installation artists. Employing contemporary materials such as electric circuits, video, and computers, Miyajima’s supremely technological works have centred on his use of digital light-emitting diode (LED) counters, or ‘gadgets’ as he calls them, since the late 1980s. These numbers, flashing in continual and repetitious – though not necessarily sequential – cycles from 1 to 9, represent the journey from life to death, the finality of which is symbolized by ‘0’ or the zero point, which consequently never appears in his work. This theory derives partially from humanist ideas, the teachings of Buddhism, as well as from his core artistic concepts: ‘Keep Changing’, ‘Connect with All’, and ‘Goes on Forever’. Miyajima’s LED numerals have been presented in grids, towers, complex integrated groupings or circuits and as simple digital counters, but are all aligned with his interests in continuity, connection and eternity, as well as with the flow and span of time and space. "Time connects everything", says Miyajima. "I want people to think about the universe and the human spirit."
https://www.lissongallery.com/artists/tatsuo-miyajima (30.10.2019)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=7sh9BzVCHys
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Mega Death | 2016 | Tatsuo Miyajima | |
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Time Waterfall – ICC Building, Hong Kong | 2016 | Tatsuo Miyajima | |