小泉 明郎

Born in 1976. To date, he has presented large-scale video installations that interweave reality and fiction about the relationship between the human body and emotions, as well as the relationship between the community and the individual, at numerous international exhibitions and museums both in Japan and abroad. His works are collected in museums around the world. He has participated in major international exhibitions such as the Gwangju Biennale, Sharjah Biennale, Shanghai Biennale, and Aichi Triennale. Major solo exhibitions include “Projects 99: Meiro Koizumi” (MoMA, New York, 2013), “Captive Voices Dream of Silence” (Arts Maebashi, 2015), “Battlelands” (Perez Museum of Art, Miami, USA, 2018). ), etc. The VR play “Bound Prometheus” (2019) won the Grand Prize in the Art Division of the 24th Agency for Cultural Affairs Media Arts Festival. In 2021, he won the Artes Mundi Prize (Cardiff, UK), an international art prize.

 

Born in 1976. He has realized numerous large scale vieo installation works and VR works that explore the relationships between community and the individual, between the human body and emotions, and between technology and the future of humanity in biennales and museums all around the world. His installation works are included in public collections worldwide. His solo exhibitions include "Battlelands" at Perez Art Museum Miami (2018), “Portrait of a Failed Silence”, MUAC, Mexico City (2015), and “Project Series 99: Meiro Koizumi ” at Museum of Modern Art, New York (2013). Recent group shows include Gwangju Biennale (2023), Aichi Triennale (2019), Sharjah Biennale 14 (2018), and Shanghai Biennale (2018) His VR Theater piece “Prometheus Bound” won the Grand Prize in the 24th Art Division of the Japan Media Arts Festival. In 2021, he won Artes Mundi Prize (Cardiff, UK).

Meiro Koizumi CV

oto: Matadero Madrid / Photo: Bego Solís