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Naho Kawabe & Hanae Utamura "STRATA"

10/15 (Sat.) - 11/13 (Sun.), 2022
*We are open on Wed to Sat. 12-7pm and Sun. 12-5pm
*Closed on Mon., Tue. *11/3 open
*Naho KAWABE will be present at the opening reception on 10/15, Saturday, 6-8pm. The exhibition opens at noon before the reception.
Installation View
Works

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Naho KAWABE "Doppelwalzenschrämlader / Double waltzing rolling shearer"
2022
charcoal, light bulb, plastic, string, pecker, ceramic, acrylic paint, acrylic lacquer dimension variable

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Naho KAWABE "The fate of the lost energy (small version)"
2022
charcoal, light bulb, commercially available wall-mounted shelf with a width of at least 100 cm and a depth of at least 26 cm all with a white surface (In the exhibition “STRATA”, we used the shelf made by IKEA), string, glass fiber, acrylic lacquer, dimension variable

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Naho KAWABE "On the social contract"
2022
charcoal, plastic, book, acrylic paint, acrylic lacquer, 150 x 190 x 145 mm

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Naho KAWABE "Tarantula"
2022
charcoal, plastic, acrylic paint, acrylic lacquer, 120 x 105 x 100 mm

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Naho KAWABE "On the social contract (Dinosaur, Sheep, Human)"
2022
charcoal, plastic, book, ceramic, acrylic paint, acrylic lacquer, 150 x 205 x 140 mm

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Naho KAWABE "Apple"
2022
charcoal, plastic, acrylic paint, acrylic lacquer, 70 x 110 x 95 mm

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Naho KAWABE "Bird"
2022
charcoal, plastic, acrylic paint, acrylic lacquer, 65 x 80 x 133 mm

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Naho KAWABE "Banana boat"
2022
charcoal, plastic, acrylic paint, acrylic lacquer, 35 x 210 x 95 mm

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Naho KAWABE "Irrigation I"
2022
light bulb, charcoal, string, glass fiber, acrylic paint, acrylic lacquer, 1810 x 780 x 150 mm

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Naho KAWABE "coal beds"
2022
Ink, lacquer spray, watercolor, 496 x 694 mm

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Naho KAWABE "Palm"
2022
plastic, acrylic resin, acrylic lacquer, acrylic box, wood, 140 x 140 x 155 mm
multiple work (Ed.15)

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Naho KAWABE "Banana boat"
2022
charcoal, plastic, MDF, acrylic paint, acrylic lacquer, 205 x 300 x 110 mm

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Naho KAWABE "coal beds"
2022
Ink, lacquer spray, watercolor, 496 x 694 mm

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Naho KAWABE "coal beds"
2022
Ink, lacquer spray, watercolor, 496 x 694 mm

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Naho KAWABE "wise men's stone"
2017
A page from a book, acrylic box, tin, 60 x 60 x 60 mm

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Naho KAWABE "wise men's stone"
2017
A page from a book, acrylic box, tin, 60 x 60 x 60 mm

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Naho KAWABE "wise men's stone"
2017
A page from a book, acrylic box, tin, 60 x 60 x 60 mm

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Hanae UTAMURA "Uncanny Valley - Study for Future Strata series"
2022
mixed media, spray paint, 535 x 412 mm each (535 x 955 mm as a set)

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Hanae UTAMURA "Earth’s Breath - Seafloor Core Glass"
2022
Glass, deep-sea terrestrial source volcanic formations, brass, mirrors, schalstein (slaty greenstone), 570 x 860 x 570 mm

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Hanae UTAMURA "Ancient Air - Seafloor Core Glass "
2022
Glass, deep-sea terrestrial source volcanic formations, brass, mirrors, schalstein (slaty greenstone), 250 x 250 x 1060 mm

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Hanae UTAMURA "Spring Water, Fault, Body"
2021
single channel video with sound, 16 min. 03 sec.
video still

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Hanae UTAMURA "Residue: Skin"
2015
Posters and spray paint on the streets of Berlin, 1170 x 745 x 100 mm

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Hanae UTAMURA ”Residue: Skin”
2015
Posters and spray paint on the streets of Berlin, 845 x 930 x 100 mm

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Hanae UTAMURA "Residue: Skin"
2015
Posters and spray paint on the streets of Berlin, 672 x 451 mm

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Hanae UTAMURA "Fallen Meteorite"
2019
glass, light emitting diode, 140 x 200 x 150 mm

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Hanae UTAMURA "Fallen Meteorite"
2019
glass, light emitting diode, 140 x 200 x 170 mm

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Hanae UTAMURA "Fallen Meteorite"
2019
glass, light emitting diode, 140 x 200 x 150 mm

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Hanae UTAMURA "Fallen Meteorite"
2019
glass, light emitting diode, 120 x 200 x 140 mm

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Hanae UTAMURA "Fallen Meteorite"
2019
glass, light emitting diode, 120 x 200 x 140 mm

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Hanae UTAMURA "Fallen Meteorite"
2019
glass, light emitting diode, 200 x 200 x 160 mm

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Hanae UTAMURA "Fallen Meteorite"
2019
glass, light emitting diode, 230 x 200 x 170 mm
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left: Naho KAWABE “Züchtung (Breeding)”, 2020, glass, plastic, charcoal, acrylic, light bulb, dimensions variable
right: Hanae UTAMURA “Ancient Air – Seafloor Core Glass Volcanic Moment”, 2022, grass, sediment cores from the Deep Sea, Breath (Photo by Shintaro Yamanaka (Qsyum!))

WAITINGROOM (Tokyo) is pleased to present “STRATA,” a two-person exhibition by Naho Kawabe and Hanae Utamura from October 15 (Sat) to November 13 (Sun), 2022. Based on her research into the social contexts of materials, Kawabe creates works that traverse media including video and installation, exploring how these materials undergo various transformations. Utamura, who actually travels to places where civilization and the natural world collide, creates works based on her physical experiences in order to pose fundamental questions about the origins of the world through the energy of nature and the history of the land. Both artists are based not only in Japan but also abroad: Kawabe in Germany, and Utamura in New York. This two-person exhibition is the first time that both artists are meeting each other: they have created their works in real time online, as well as in the places where their physical bodies are located.
At this exhibition, Kawabe will exhibit charcoal installations based on her research into coal mines, as well as objects, small installations, and new drawings. Utamura will show new sculptures composed specifically for this exhibition from her Ancient Air: Deep Sea Strata Glass series, as well as new two-dimensional works and three-dimensional works and video pieces from past series.
Individuals, humanity, matter, the Earth, multiple accumulations of time
There is a time difference of 6 hours and a physical distance of 6,230 km between Naho Kawabe, who lives in Germany, and Hanae Utamura, who lives in the United States. Up until this exhibition in Tokyo, the two artists had a series of online conversations, without ever meeting each other in real space.

Since the early 2000s, Kawabe has been focusing on the social context surrounding the material of charcoal, and creating works based on painstaking research. Kawabe’s works in this exhibition, including installations of various sizes using charcoal and light bulbs based on the law of conservation of energy, which states that the total amount of energy does not change even if its location or form shifts; “Coal Beds”, a new drawing depicting plants growing out of a coal layer in a geological formation; and “On the social contract” and “Boat”, objects consisting of books and fruits painted over with charcoal, were conceived based on her research on 436 Japanese miners who came to work in the Ruhr coalfield in Germany to learn technical skills immediately after World War II. Telecommunications and energy, which make online conversations possible, are only recognized in the context of our daily lives in terms of numbers and units like gigabytes. The existence of this prodigious material and human infrastructure that facilitates the unobstructed supply of these resources struck me with a much greater impact through this survey of coal mining,” says Kawabe. “These traces of geological and climatic shifts, products, and human movements, brought about by the coal formed by the carbonization of plants 350 million years ago, will one day become part of these strata, too.”

The works by Utamura on display at this exhibition represent a rethinking of the notion of “evolution” that has propelled modernity, as well as the energy resources that have supported this process, addressing our entangled relationship with natural energy that far surpasses the scale of the human. They include Traces: Skin, in which the artist spray painted posters that had fallen due to their own weight after having been pasted all over the streets of Berlin; Ancient Air: Deep Sea Strata Glass, in which the air released by the strata of the ocean floor is trapped in hot glass; Uncanny Valley, in which images of these strata and the sky are overlaid onto each other and the viewer’s own reflection is projected onto them; and Spring Water, Faults, and the Body, which represents a kind of memoir for the artist’s father, who was once involved in the field of nuclear energy engineering. “I feel that life can never be reduced to information alone, that it can never be conceptualized,” says Utamura, whose works are created by confronting the energy of nature and the history of the land with the artist’s own body, which has accumulated memories of the land and experiences of pregnancy and childbirth.

The works of both of these artists are based on their own experiences of visiting places far from where they live. Their works, created while looking at things that exist on an immeasurable scale and temporal axis that transcend the human scale of time zones, national borders, and physical distances between two points, prompt viewers to imagine human existence as a type of life on Earth, as well as a temporal axis that almost defies logic and comprehension. We invite you to visit the actual venue to see this exhibition, the result of a dialogue that has accumulated in each of the two artists’ respective locations.


left: Naho KAWABE “coal beds”, 2022, Sumi ink, acrylic spray, watercolor on paper, 496x694mm (Photo by Shintaro Yamanaka (Qsyum!)
right: Hanae UTAMURA “Residue: Skin”, 2015, Graffiti Spray on fallen poster, 745 x 1170 x 100 mm

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ART WEEK TOKYO

We will be participating in a four-day art event that will take us on a bus tour of galleries and museums in Tokyo.
Date: 11/3 Thu. – 6 Sun. 2022
Detai: https://www.artweektokyo.com

TALK EVENT
Naho Kawabe & Hanae Utamura “STRATA” ARTIST TALK

Date: 11/2(Wed.), 2022 5-7pm
Artists: Naho Kawabe, Hanae Utamura
Moderator: Tomoko Ashikawa (WAITINGROOM, Director)
YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iti5oMbxe-g

The exhibiting artists, Naho Kawabe and Hanae Utamura, will talk about the theme of this two-person exhibition, their exhibited works, and their past activities. (*Japanese Only)
More Info: https://waitingroom.jp/en/news/2210011300/

ONLENE VIEWING
Naho Kawabe & Hanae Utamura ONLINE VIEWING

Date: 11/2(Wed.)- 6(Sun.)
Viewing Room: https://waitingroom.jp/viewing_room/strata/
*This link will available on 11/2, 2022.

Naho Kawabe and Hanae Utamura’s video works (past works) will be available online only during Art Week Tokyo.
More Info:https://waitingroom.jp/en/news/2210011200/

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Exhibiting Artists

Naho KAWABE

“Black and Green” (detail), 2021, lacquered MDF, plastic, book, charcoal, acrylic, pottery, dimensions variable (photo by Claus Sautter)

1976 Born in Fukuoka, Japan
1999 Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Bachelor
2006 University of Fine Arts of Hamburg, Diploma
Currently lives and works both in Germany and Japan.

SOLO EXHIBITION

2022
Black and Green, TOM REICHSTEIN CONTEMPORARY, Hamburg, Germany

2021
1/3 2/3 3/3, Paper Gallery, Kosovo
Artist in Quarantin, nachtspeicher23 e.V., Hamburg, Germany

2019
Blooming Black, Boxes Art Museum, Guangzhou, China

2018
Save for the Noon, WAITINGROOM, Tokyo, Japan In Other Words, konya-gallery, Fukuoka, Japan

2017
The Children of Icarus, WAITINGROOM, Tokyo, Japan

2016
delikatelinien, Ermekeilkaserne, Bonn, Germany

2014
piece, piece (with Jane Brucker), Port Gallery T, Osaka, Japan

2013Observer Effect, Wassermühle Trittau, Germany
Observer Effect, Galerie du Tableau, Marseille, France
relation, unscharf, STORE contemporary, Dresden, Germany

2012
Blüthenstaub, Port Gallery T, Osaka, Japan

2011
Open Secret: 5th shiseido art egg Award Exhibition, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2010
Most things happen in the interval, Port Gallery T, Osaka, Japan

2009
StipendiatenArt (with Anne Rinn), Johann-Friedrich-Danneil-Museum, Salzwedel, Germany

2005
Helgoland, Gallery IAF SHOP*, Fukuoka, Japan

2004
dem Anschein nach, Einstellungsraum e.V., Hamburg, Germany

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022
New Collection Exhibition, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan

2021
Kleine Gesellschaft für Weg und Umweg, Hinterconti, Hamburg, Germany
OUT FOR ART  Jugend kuratiert, Haerder Center, Lübeck, Germany
ISOLA, Galerie Hengevoss-Dürkop, Humburg, Germany

2020
LRRH_Contribution, ZERO FOLD, Cologne, Germany
Aufenthaltswahrscheinlichkeiten, 8. Salon e.V., Hamburg, Germany

2019
Aufenthaltswahrscheinlichkeiten / Stochasric Effect, The Blend Apartments & Artist in Residence, Osaka
, Japan
Posture Training, FLAG studio, Osaka, Japan

drawings and objects, Galerie Nanna Preußners, Hamburg, Germany
Fuzzy Dark Spot, Deichtorhallen Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg, Germany

2018
Transitons, Frappant, Hamburg, Germany
Landschaft. Gebrochene Idylle, Schloß Agathenburg, Agathenburg, Germany

2017
NEWSPACE, WAITINGROOM, Tokyo, Japan
wie es sich ereignet – Naho Kawabe + Hendrik Lorper, Take Maracke & Partner, Kiel, Germany

2016
LIFESTYLES – KUNST aus FUKUOKA, JAPAN, WESTWERK, Hamburg, Germany
Grenzenlos – Himmlische Perspektiven, Schlosskirche, Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany
The Material of Memory, Frise, Hamburg, Germany
ort-m migration memory, Frappant, Hamburg, Germany

2015
Von Wörtern und Räumen, Galerie im Marstahll, Ahrensburg, Germany
Sudden Change of Idea, Union Art Museum, Wuhan, China

2014
IN SEARCH OF CRITICAL IMAGINATION, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Notausgang am Horizont, 8. Kunstfrühling, Bremen, Germany
Can I ask you personal question?, Sichuan University Art Gallery, Chengdu, China
Bien Merci, Galerie Le Couer, Cologne, Germany

2012
boesner art award 2012, Märkisches Museum, Witten, Germany
Moving Surface, Künstlerforum, Bonn, Germany
Video Violence, Kunsthaus, Dresden, Germany
Thermal noise (The Bee to Bee Net, solo), FRISE, Hamburg, Germany
Out of Space, Gallery SUZUKI, Kyoto, Japan

2011
Archive und Geschichte(n), Hamburger Kunsthalle/Galerie der Gegenwart, Germany
JCE: Jeune Création Européenne, with The Bee to Bee Net, Paris and other cities in Europe

2010
Versus Whiteout, with The Bee to Bee Net, Kunsthaus, Hamburg, Germany

2009
Twinism. 20 years partnercity Hamburg/Osaka, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Germany / AD&A Gallery, Osaka, Japan
StipendiatenArt, Johann-Friedrich-Danneil-Museum, Salzwedel, Germany

2008
The Bee to Bee Net meets hulahoop, Gallery hulahoop, Hong Kong
Wir nennen es Hamburg, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Germany

2007
Lebe wohl. Suizidalität, Kunst und Gesellschaft, Kunsthaus, Hamburg, Germany

2006
Migration Addict, Sculpture squer, Singapore
Joint the dots, Ben Kaufmann Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Plattform#3, Kunstverein Hannover, Germany

2005
Migration Addict, Warehouse, Shanghai, China

ART PROJECT

2022
Das war mal ein ganz tolle Idee, https://www.nahokawabe.net/oase-der-kunst/

2020
Camera Isolata, Online Art Projekt, https://camera-isolata.nahokawabe.net

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

2022
Toshiaki Ogasawara Memorial Foundation

2021
Zukunftsstipendium, Hamburg Cultural Foundation
NEUSTART KULTUR, Federal Republic of Germany
Nordhorn Art Award Short list

2020
Kunst kennt keinen shutdown, Hamburg Cultural Foundation

2019
15th Workshop Projekt, Boxes Museum, Guangzhou, China

2016
Project grant, the city of Hamburg

2013
Nomura Foundation Fellowship

2012
Wassermühle Trittau, Sparkassen-Kulturstiftung Stormarn
boesner art award 2012, Jury’s Special Award

2011
The 5th shiseido art egg Finalist

2009
Japanese Government Overseas Study Programme for Artists

2008
Hamburger Arbeitsstipendium für bildende Kunst
Artist in residency, Salzwedel, Sachsen-Anhalt

2006
Artist in residency, Mecklenburgisches Künstlerhaus Schloss Plüschow

2005
Leistungsstipendium für Ausländische Studenten, University of Fine Arts of Hamburg

2001
DAAD

PUBLICATIONS

Aufenthaltswahrscheinlichkeiten, 2019
DELIKATELINIEN, 2016
Observer Effect, 2012, Revolver Publishing

CATALOGUES AND BROCHURES

Fuzzy Dark Spot. Videoart from Hamburg, Deichtorhallen Sammlung Falckenberg Hamburg, 2019
Belinda Grace Gardner, Transitorisch: Strategien gegen die Vergänglichkeit, transcript Verlag, 2017
Lifestyles, Lifestyles Exhibition Executive Committee, Jan. 2017
ort_m (migration memory), Revolver Publishing, Feb. 2017
Von Wörtern und Räumen, Stiftungen der Sparkasse Holstein, Oct. 4, 2015
Kunst Frühling 2014, BBK Bremen e.V., May. 16, 2014
IN SEARCH OF CRITICAL IMAGINATION, Fukuoka Art Museum, Feb. 10, 2014
BOESNER ART AWARD 2012, boesner GmbH holdings + innovations, 2013
Moving Surface, ML Moving locations e.V., 2012
Shiseido art egg vol.5, SHISEIDO, May. 25, 2011
INDEX 11, Index, Nov. 2, 2011
EXTRA 3, Kunsthaus Hamburg, May. 11, 2010
The BeetoBee.Net, The Bee to Bee Net, 2010
TWINISM, Kunsthaus Hamburg, 2009
WIRNENNEMES Hamburg, Kunstverein Hamburg, Oct. 11, 2008
28. Hamburg Arbeitsstipendium für bildende Kunst 2008, Hamburg City, 2008
index 2007, Index, Nov. 6, 2007
EINLANDUNG, Förderkreis Schloss Plüschow e.V., 2007
VierTakter + X, EINSTELLUNGSRAUM e.V., 2005

PUBLIC COLLECTION

Fukuoka Art Museum (Fukuoka)
Boxes Museum (Canton, China)
Hamburger Kunsthalle (Hamburg, Germany)
Sparkassen-Kulturstiftung Stormarn (Ahrensburg, Germany)
Sichuan University Art Gallery (Chengdu, China)

ARTIST WEBSITE
http://www.nahokawabe.net


left: “Social Distances 1,5M”, 2022, charcoal, barrier tape, motor, metal, dimensions variable
right: Solo Exhibition “Black and Green” (2021) installation view(TOM REICHSTEIN CONTEMPORARY, Hamburg, Germany) (Photo by Claus Sautter)

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Hanae UTAMURA

left: “Fallen Meteorite”, 2019, glass, light emitting diode
(both: Photo by Yamamoto Tadasu 
Photo courtesy: Aomori Contemporary Art Centre, Aomori Public University)
right: “Spring Water, Fault, Body”, 2021 (Photo courtesy: Hanae Utamura)

1980 Born in Ibaraki, Japan
2004 Graduated from BA Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, University of London
2010 Graduated from MA Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London
2019 Visiting Scholar at New York University
2022 Doctoral Student, Department of Electronic Arts, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Currently lives and works both in New York and Japan.

SOLO EXHIBITION

2022
Transmutation, Frontispace, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States

2018
Weather Constellation, Rosenberg Gallery, Hofstra University, New York, United States
Holiday at War: 12th shiseido art egg Award Exhibition, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Ontology of Performance: Falls of Niagara, SOMA Gallery, Berlin, Germany

2016
Holiday at War, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany

2015
Holiday at War, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany

2014
Across the Grid, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany

2012
Construct: Fountain, Patio Project, WW Gallery, London, United Kingdom

2011
Inverted Horizons, Schwartz Gallery, London, United Kingdom

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022
The Summer Group Show, The Parsonage Gallery, Maine, United States
SUMMER Nights, Canada gallery, New York, United States
ANB Open Studio vol.1, ANB Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Futures, Narratives, and Networks, More Art, Queens Museum, New York, United States

2021
Not Words, Not Image, Krautraum, Tokyo, Japan
Phantasmapolis – Asian Art Biennial, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
Contretemps, NYU Gallatin Wetlab, New York, United States
Faculty Exhibition, Hartnett Gallery, University of Rochester, New York, United States
Living Matter, Russian National Museum Association of the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Sommerfest’, Dreams of Solidarity to Fill the Vacuum, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany
Pars Pro Toto, Peer to Space, Berlin, Germany
Resonances of DiStances, basedonart gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany
2020 ecofeminism(s), Thomas Erben Gallery, New York, United States

2019
Image_between History and Human being – The Korean Society of Art and Media International Exhibition 2019, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea
From Here to Eternity-The research of temporality and eternity of contemporary art No.5, B-galleria, Turku, Finland
Lively in Between, Aomori Contemporary Art Center, Aomori, Japan
Modest Expressionism #1 Water, Wood, Cloth’, J & M Studios #210, New York, United States
Overflow, at Gallatin Gallery, New York University, As a part of Museum of Future Fossils, New York, United States
Multiversant, Chashama, New York, United States

2018
Sweep~Landskip, Kinokino, Stavanger, Norway

2017
Auguries, Seoul Art Space_GEUMCHEON, Seoul, S. Korea
From Here to Eternity, OMO artspace, Berlin, Germany
Whenever the Heart Skips a Beat, Mehring Platz, Berlin, Germany

2016
L’intru (Invaders)’, Lage Egal, Berlin, Germany

2015
AS_pedia Project Vol. 1, Gallery Purple, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
Kameradschaft Zollverein’, Atelier Exceptionnel, PACT Zollverein, Essen, Germany
Sluice Art Fair 2015, London, United Kingdom
Le Lait Du Miroir, Le 6B, Paris, France
Relational Geographies, UAL Showroom, London, United Kingdom
Borderlands, Month of Performance Art Berlin, MeinBlau, Berlin, Germany
From Here to Eternity, Gallery Purple, Seoul, South Korea

2014
Super Romantics, Daegu Art Factory, Daegu, South Korea
Mapping the Space, Project Space Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany
From Here to Eternity, Gallery FACTORY, Seoul, South Korea

2013
Tightrope, Sumarria Lunn Gallery, London
ASYAAF, Cultural Station 284, Seoul, South Korea
Pyeong Chang Biennale, Pyeong Chang, South Korea
TOPFLOOR/TOPOS’, Dordtyart, Dordrecht, The Netherlands
Seoul Seoul Seoul, National Art Studio Changdong, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Korea, Seoul, South Korea
Here I am, Hole and Corner Media Art Gallery, Gwangju, South Korea

2012
Three Gates, Hanmi Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Convergence/Divergence, Los Medanos College Gallery, California, United States
FT Summer Exhibition 2012, Florence Trust, London, United Kingdom
London Art Fair, Business Design Centre, London, United Kingdom
Wish You Were Here 11′, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, United States
Bread & Roses – Bristol Biennial Community Arts Festival‘, Motorcade/FlashParade, Bristol, United Kingdom
Function Room 2, Solché, London, United Kingdom
Winter Open Studios, Florence Trust, London, United Kingdom
ONSITE 2012, CoExist Gallery, Southend, United Kingdom

2011
Chain Letter, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, California, United States
I am not a good enough feminist, Concrete Utopia, New York, United States
“Divide and Rule” Film and Live Art Festival, Firestation Centre for Arts & Culture, Windsor, United Kingdom

2010
Showroom, Man Cannot Live by Bread Alone, London, United Kingdom
Chute (Aichi Triennale), Aichi, Japan
Asian Invasion, NEST, Den Haag, The Netherlands
SV10: Members, Studio Voltaire, London, United Kingdom

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

2022
Rensselaer Graduate Fellowship

2021
MoreArt Engaging Artist Fellowship
Hotpicks, Smack Mellon

2020
i-style Art and Sports Foundation Grant
Nomura Foundation Fellowship

2019
Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program, New York Foundation for the Arts

2018-2019
Japanese Government Overseas Study Programme for Artists

2018
Japan – United States Exchange Friendship Program in the Arts
The 12th shiseido art egg Award

2016
The 2rd CAF Artist Award, Finalist

2015
PACT Zollverein Stipendium
Pola Art Foundation overseas research Grant for Berlin, Germany

2014
Akademie Schloss Solitude Fellowship (Visual Art)

2013
Emergency Relief Residency Bursary Award for Santa Fe Art Institute
UNESCO Aschberg Bursaries for Artists Programme

2011-2012
Axis/Florence Trust Award, Florence Trust

2010
MA Stars – Selected MA graduates 2010 selected by Monika Bobinska Awarded by Axis

SELECTED RESIDENCIES

2021
Workspace Residency, Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center, Buffalo, New York, United States

2019
Aomori Contemporary Art Center, Aomori, Japan

2018
Art Omi Residency, Ghent, New York, United States

2017
Seoul Art Space_GEUMCHEON, Seoul, South Korea

2015-16
Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany

2015
PACT Zollverein, Essen, Germany

2014
Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany

2013
Santa Fe Art Institute, New Mexico, United States
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Changdong Art Studio, Seoul, Korea

2010
NEST, Den Haag, The Netherlands

PUBLICATIONS

Image Journal, 2022, United States
AS_pedia Project, 2015, South Korea

CATALOGUES AND BROCHURES

Phantasmapolis – 2021 Asian Art Biennial Catalogue, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Oct. 2021
Lively in Between, Aomori Contemporary Art Center, 2020
FemLink-Art : les collages-vidéo du collectif International, FemLink-Art Collective, 2015
Super Romantics, Daegu Art Factory, 2014
Aichi Triennale 2010 Official Catalogue, Aichi Triennale Executive Committee, Jan. 2011

PUBLIC COMMISSION

2021
Palimpsest, Crystal Park, Hudson Valley, New York, commissioned by Crystal Park Foundation, New York, United States

ARTIST WEBSITE
https://www.hanaeutamura.com


Solo Exhibition “Holiday at War” 12th shiseido art egg (2018) installation view (SHISEIDO GALLERY, Tokyo) (Photo by Ken Kato)

Artist
川辺 ナホ
Naho KAWABE
宇多村英恵
Hanae UTAMURA