藤倉麻子
Asako FUJIKURA
1992 Born in Saitama, Japan
Currently lives and works in Tokyo
profile photo by rei
WORKS EXHIBITIONS NEWS CV

WORKS

  • Art Fair "Art Fair Tokyo 2023"
    2023
    Installation view
    Venue: Tokyo International Forum (Tokyo) / photo by Shintaro Yamanaka (Qsyum!)
  • Ideal Wall / Actual Brick
    2022-2023
    single channel video with sound (Full HD), acrylic and sun-dried brick, 8min.36sec.
    video still
  • The First Orange Piers
    2023
    single channel video (loop), 19 inch monitor, media player, MDF/ Urethane coating, 1900 x 1400 x 500 mm
  • Water Pipe Man - beach mark
    2023
    mixed media, 630 x 750 x 2200 mm
  • Oasis Chain
    2023
    single channel video (loop), 19 inch monitor, media player, MDF/ Urethane coating, 355 x 425 x 200 mm
  • Adjacent to ornamental stone and pink deformed
    2023
    single channel video (loop), 8 inch monitor, media player, MDF/ Urethane coating, 165 x 205 x 252 mm
  • Clean water and long handrail on toilet floor
    2023
    single channel video (loop), 8 inch monitor, media player, MDF/ Urethane coating, 165 x 205 x 300 mm
  • Group Exhibition "SPRING SHOW"
    2023
    Installation view
    Venue: WAITINGROOM (Tokyo) / Photo by Shintaro Yamanaka (Qsyum!)
  • Group Exhibition "Urban Sansui"
    2023
    installation view
    Venue: kudan house (Tokyo) / Photo by Takahiro Omura
  • The Great Nine and the third storage (in survey)
    2023
    video, maquette
  • Group Exhibition "Spread Distance / Convert Method / Variable Sun"
    2022
    Installation view
    Venue: Nihombashi Mitsukoshi Honten, Mitsukoshi Contemporary Gallery (Tokyo) / Photo by Shintaro Yamanaka (Qsyum!)
  • The Light from Outstanding Billboards
    2022
    single channel video with sound (Full HD), 8min.44sec.
    video still
  • Tires for the sandy ground in front
    2022
    single channel video with sound (Full HD), 6min.9sec.
    video still
  • Squared timber shelves in the vanpool on the cliff in front
    2022
    Wood, exhibition catalogue, 365 x 270 x 935 mm
  • The time when reflections appear across the rising up of these silver plates, and the arrangement of pink clouds becomes clearer
    2022
    inkjet print mounted with acrylic, 200 x 250 mm
  • Signs that the rope is creating shadows, just as this period of clarity is about to end
    2022
    inkjet print mounted with acrylic, 200 x 250 mm
  • The proliferating balls have grown and the horizontal hanging wall is just about to reach the top of the movable sunrise
    2022
    inkjet print mounted with acrylic, 200 x 250 mm
  • Suburban last stop glass
    2022
    inkjet print mounted with acrylic 363 x 545 mm
  • Pier sea route water
    2022
    inkjet print mounted with acrylic 363 x 545 mm
  • enclosure
    2022
    UV print on aluminum composite plate, 840 x 1500 mm
  • The Great Glass Group
    2022
    inkjet print mounted with acrylic, 450 x 450 mm
  • Shadows behind the speakers
    2022
    inkjet print mounted with acrylic, 450 x 450 mm
  • Group Exhibition "Encounters in Parallel"
    2021
    installation view
    Venue: ANB Tokyo (Tokyo) / Photo by Taisuke Koyama
  • Night Game Reservation, the Container over the Window
    2021
    single channel video, 10min. 26sec.
    video still
  • 3 Minutes Informations for Tourists
    2021
    single channel video, 4min. 30sec.
    video still
  • Night Game Reservation
    2021
    single channel video, 4min. 30sec.
    video still
  • Ridges and ranges and side depths, streetlights and construction and tire thicknesses
    2021
    installation (tarpaulins, pachinko game tables, LED lights)
    Photo by Kai Maetani
  • Shipment of garden rocks, a story of water vein
    2021
    installation (video, mooring poles, painted bamboo, tarpaulin inkjet printing, U-shaped ditch)
    Photo by Takehisa Naoki
  • left: Arrangements behind the fence, two forces fighting over water vein center: Side roadside collection, dangerous discussion right: Settlement of the sunrise zone, departure of garden rocks
    2021
    tarpaulin, wooden panel, 800 x 550x 50 mm each
    installation view / photo by NAOKI TAKEHISA
  • left: pink rocks center: highway radio rocks right: Standby Container
    2021
    tarpaulin, wooden panel, 257 x 363 x 25 mm each
    installation view / photo by NAOKI TAKEHISA
  • Solo Exhibition "Paradise for Free"
    2021
    installation view
    Venue: Calm & Punk Gallery (Tokyo) / Photo by Yutaro Tagawa
  • Photo taken inside the depths of "Paradise for Free"
    2021
    inkjet print, 420 x 594 mm each
  • Midway Stone
    2021
    iron container, bollard, hemp rope, video, QR code, FRP stone, dimension variable
    Photo by Akira Arai(Nacása&Partners Inc.)
  • Indefinite Gaze, Overlapping Spots
    2021
    Installation (AR, Styrofoam, wood)
    Photo by Keizo Kioku
  • Bus Stop Giant Rock
    2020
    installation (Video, wooden cargo container, Styrofoam, steel poles, horn speakers, chairs, monitors, wooden roof, mesh)
  • Street Ads in drylands
    2020
    installation (Video, monitors, wooden enclosure, cloth, wheels, mannequins, speed 50 sign, wallpaper, tarpaulin banners, wooden signs)
  • How to Enjoy Mornings
    2020
    single channel video with sound, 11 min.
    video still
  • Water Street
    2020
    single channel video with sound, 7min.
    video still / music : ermhoi
  • Colony Highway Broadcast
    2018
    5 channel video installation 10 min
    video still
  • Esplanade
    2018
    2 channel video, 11min
    video still
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NEWS

CV

EDUCATION
2018

Tokyo University of The Arts, Master’s degree, Department of Film and New Media

2016

Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Bachelor’s degree, School of Language and Culture Studies, Persian Language Program

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024

Sunlight Announcements, WAITINGROOM, Tokyo, Japan

2021

Paradise for Free, CALM& PUNK GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan

2018

emergencies! 035 FUJIKURA Asako “Colony Highway Broadcast”, NTT InterCommunication Center[ICC], Tokyo, Japan
Bald Mountain and the primitive of the deserted city/functional, primitive, art space kimura ASK?P, Tokyo, Japan

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025

The Japanese Pavilion at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia “IN-BETWEEN — A Future with Generative AI”, The Japanese Pavilion La Biennale di Venezia, Venezia, Italy
MACHINE LOVE: Video Game, AI and Contemporary Art, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

2024

AWT FOCUS: Earth, Wind, and Fire: Visions of the Future from Asia - Okura Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
Mindscapes, Gana Art Center, Seoul, Korea
Taguchi Art Collection + Hirosaki Museum Contemporary Art - How Did You Come into the World?, Hirosaki Museum of Contemporary Art, Aomori, Japan
A Personal View of Japanese Contemporary Art: Takahashi Ryutaro Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Art Squiggle Yokohama 2024, Yamashita futo, Kanagawa, Japan
RE: FACTORY_2, WALL_alternative, Tokyo

2023

Urban Sansui β, kudan house, Tokyo, Japan
Invisibles in the Neo City, SusHi Tech Square, Tokyo, Japan
MOT Annual 2023: Synergies, or between creation and generation, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan [as Unexistence Gallery (Iku Harada / Naoya Hirata / Asako Fujikura / yang02) ]
A New Lie, NITO, Tokyo, Japan [as Asako Fujikura + Takahiro Omura]
Biotope Circles - Where the Breathing of Living Beings Can Be Heard-, Stone and Light Square in Symbol Promenade Park ,Tokyo, Japan
Energies in the Rural [Exhibition 2], Aomori Contemporary Art Centre, Aomori, Japan
SPRING SHOW, WAITINGROOM, Tokyo, Japan
Urban Sansui, kudan house, Tokyo, Japan
Encounters, Warehouse TERRADA B&C HALL, Tokyo, Japan
Sapporo Parallel Museum, siatte sapporo B1F step garden, Sapporo, Japan

2022

Exhibition organized by NMWA Japan Committee: New Worlds, M5 GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
PROJECT ATAMI: ATAMI ART GRANT 2022, Hotel ACAO, Shizuoka, Japan
Spread Distance / Convert Method / Variable Sun, Nihombashi Mitsukoshi Honten, Mitsukoshi Contemporary Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Vanpool over the Cliff in the Foreground, Tokyo Bay, Tokyo, Japan

2021

Encounters in Parallel, ANB Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Light of My World, Former GINREI building, Kyoto, Japan
3331ART FAIR Open-air art exhibition Beasts, 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan
Digital Art Festival Taipei, ONLINE
CULTURE GATE to JAPAN, TOKYO INTERNATIONAL CRUISE TERMINAL, Tokyo, Japan
The Museum in the Multi-layered World, NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC], Tokyo, Japan
FLUSH, EUKARYOTE, Tokyo, Japan
NITO05, NITO, Tokyo, Japan
Poster exhibition by artists, NITO, Tokyo, Japan

2020

Close to Nature, Next to Humanity, Taitung Art Museum, Taitung, Taiwan
LUMINE meets ART AWARD 2019-2020 The Award Winner’ s Exhibition, LUMINE Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan

2019

The Shape of Things to Come: Technology, AI and the Human, Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan
PHENOMENON:RGB, Laforet HARAJUKU, Tokyo, Japan

2018

Artists in FAS 2018 Exhibition of selected artists showing the results of their work, Fujisawa City Art Space, Kanagawa, Japan
19th “1_WALL” Graphics, Guardian Garden, Tokyo, Japan
MEC AWARD Media Explorer Challenge Award 2018, SKIP CITY Visual Plaza, Visual Museum, Saitama, Japan
MEDIA PRACTICE 17-18, BankART Studio NYK, Kanagawa, Japan
Tokyo University of the Arts, Virtual Department of Games, Tokyo, Japan

VIDEO SCREENINGS
2022

KAAT Atrium Video Effects Project vol.21 | Asako Fujikura, KAAT, Kanagawa. Japan

2019

TOKYO_ANIMA!_2019, The National Art Centre, Tokyo, Japan

2018

Young Perspective 2018, Image Forum, Tokyo, Japan

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2022

Project to Support Emerging Media Arts Creators “Program for Japanese Creators with Exploratory Projects” (project with Takahiro Omura)

2020

LUMINE meets ART AWARD 2019-2020 Grand Prix

2019

22nd Japan Media Arts Festival Jury Selections

2018

Young Perspective 2018
Artists in FAS 2018
9th “1_WALL” Graphics Finalist
Kitakyushu Digital Creator Contest KDCC] 2018 Shigeru Kobayashi Award
MEC AWARD Media Explorer Challenge Award 2018 Finalist

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
2023

Aomori Contemporary Art Center, Aomori, Japan

2022

PROJECT ATAMI, Shizuoka, Japan

2021

BnA Alter Museum, Kyoto, Japan

2018

Artists in FAS2018, Kanagawa, Japan

ART FAIR
2023

NADA Miami 2023, Ice Palace Studios, Miami, USA [Group]
ART FAIR TOKYO 2023, Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo, Japan [Solo]

CATALOGUES AND BROCHURES
”AWT FOCUS: Earth, Wind, and Fire: Visions of the Future from Asia”, ART WEEK TOKYO 2024, November 2024
“A Personal View of Japanese Contemporary Art: Takahashi Ryutaro Collection”, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, 10 September, 2024
“Urban Sansui” exhibition catalogue, Sansui Tokyo, December 2023
ARTICLES
“ARTIST IN FOCUS”, Bijutsu Techo, vol. 77, no. 1104, January 2025, Bijutsu Shuppansha, pp. 176-181
“Jin Katagiri Finds Joy in the Unknown: ‘Art and Life Have No Definitive Answers’” NiEW, 1 November 2024 / https://niewmedia.com/en/series/awt_2024/katagirijin/
“Gallery to Go,” The Nikkei, Nikkei Inc., October 13, 2024, p. 17
“Going Behind the Covered City -- Trilogy to Explore the Overlooked Issues of Spatial Computing: JACKSON kaki x Asako FUJIKURA x Zo Zhit,” WIRED, 2 July 2024 / https://wired.jp/article/vol53-the-forgotten-space/
“Special Feature: Images/Words of Architecture: Creating Hope from the Periphery - Interview with Asako Fujikura (Interviewer: Takahiro Omura),” kenchukutouron, 7 May 2024 / https://medium.com/kenchikutouron/周縁から希望をつくる-藤倉麻子インタビュー-インタビュアー-大村高広-929d1f07aaa3
“Scooping up the synergies that emerge between creation and generation: What is the MOT Annual 2023 asking?,” web Bijutsu Techo, 2 December 2023 / https://bijutsutecho.com/magazine/news/report/28157
“The return of the virtual and the real. / Artist Asako Fujikura depicts a new landscape,” ARToVILLA, 12 October 2023 / https://artovilla.jp/articles/interview_asako-fujikura.html
”artcsape review: Urban Sansui,” artscape, 1 September 2023 / https://artscape.jp/report/review/10187121_1735.html
“SERIES / Recruit's Aim for a New Horizon in Art: What the Experienced Artists of “1_WALL” Expect from “BUG Art Award”. Shiho Yoshida and Asako Fujikura Talk about the Necessary Place and Daily Life for Art,” web Bijutsu Techo, 30 March 2023 / https://bijutsutecho.com/magazine/series/s69/26920
”Evolution is in the way you travel. Audi Q4 e-tron x Dominic Chen x Asako Fujikura,” WIRED, 21 December 2022 / https://wired.jp/branded/special/2022/audi-q4-e-tron/
“SERIES / 30 ARTISTS U35: Asako Fujikura,” ARTnews JAPAN, 1 December 2022 / https://artnewsjapan.com/article/1579
“An Expanded Exhibition Shows the Bay City. Review of Mio Nakajima's logistical exhibition ‘Vanpool over the Cliff in the Foreground’ by Asako Fujikura,” web Bijutsu Techo, 22 July 2022 / https://bijutsutecho.com/magazine/review/25763
”Art event at ACAO SPA & RESORT in Atami, GW with full program,” atami keizai, 28 April 2022 / https://atami.keizai.biz/headline/461/
“Shoes × Culture Art of Shoes: #16 Strange Games in a Mysterious Garden: An Invitation to the ‘Third Layer’ at FORUM LOW / Asako Fujikura,” ABC-MART GRAND STAGE, 15 September 2021 / https://gs.abc-mart.net/story/10695/
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Takahashi Ryutaro Collection, Tokyo
The Taguchi Art Collection, Tokyo
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