- 絵画の双子(© Goro Murayama Courtesy of Takuro Someya Contemporary Art photo by 浅野堅一[Kenichi Asano])／2020
Goro Murayama
村山悟郎
- ART FAIR - MEET YOUR ARTISTS
Born in Tokyo in 1983. Artist. Ph.D. in Fine Arts. He studies painting and explores the temporality and emergence of human production (poiesis) using biological systems and philosophy of science as a theoretical background.
As can be seen in his masterpiece "Textile Paintings," he expresses self-organizing processes and patterns through paintings and drawings. In recent years, he has continued to expand the field of expression by collaborating with scientists, such as pattern recognition and generation of AI and exploring human emotional understanding of AI.
In 2010, he won the SHISEIDO ART EGG Award.
2010-11, MA Fine Art Course, Chelsea College, University of the Arts London,
In 2015, he completed a doctoral program at the Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts, majoring in oil painting (mural painting).
From 2015 to 2017, he stayed in Vienna as an overseas trainee for emerging artists of the Agency for Cultural Affairs (Visiting Researcher at the Inter-University Cultural Philosophy Laboratory).
As of 2024, he is a visiting associate professor of comparative literature and culture at the University of Tokyo, and a part-time lecturer at the Department of Film and Visual Arts, Musashino Art University, and the Graduate School of Tohoku University of Art and Design.
Selected Exhibitions:
2024 "Memory: Remembrance: From the Expression of Contemporary Photography and Video" Tokyo Museum of Photography, 2023 "GO FOR KOGEI 2023" Toyama City, 2022 "ICC Annual Life-like Things" NTT InterCommunication Center / Hatsudai, "FUJI TEXTILE WEEK 2022" Fujiyoshida City, "Setouchi International Art Festival" Ogijima / Kagawa('19, '22), "Drawings \u2012 Plurality: Drawings Towards Plurality (Symbols, Organisms, Machines)," PARCO Museum TOKYO, Tokyo. 2020 Solo exhibition "PaintingFolding" Takuro Someya Contemporary Art, Tokyo. 2019 "Aichi Triennale 2019: The Age of Affection" Aichi Museum, "L'homme qui marche Verkörperung des Sperrigen" Kunsthalle Bielefeld / Germany, "The Extended Mind" Talbot Rice Gallery, Scotland, "21st Domani Tomorrow Exhibition" The National Art Center, Tokyo / Tokyo. 2018 "Emergence of Order", Yamato-Japan-Japan House, London. 2016 "Simulated Poiesis" Spektakel, Vienna. 2014 "Doctoral Examination Exhibition, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts," Tokyo University of the Arts, Art Museum. 2013 "VOCA Exhibition 2013: Perspectives on Contemporary Art: Artists on a New Plane" Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan, "Visuals of Generation" Takuro Someya Contemporary Art /Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan. 2011 "Stratosphere vol.6 My Future Goro Murayama" Gallery αM / Tokyo, Japan
"TRANS COMPLEX - Painting in the Age of Information Technology" Kyoto Art Center. 2010, Shiseidou Art Egg "Re-enchantment of the Painterly Subject" Shiseido Gallery / Tokyo. 2009 "MOT Collection: Dreams at MOT" Tokyo Museum of Contemporary Art, etc.
Born in 1983 in Tokyo. Artist. Ph.D. in Fine Art. Murayama, who studied pain ting, explores the
temporality and emergence of human acts of creation (poiesis) with in the theoretical frameworks of biological systems and the philosophy of science. As seen in his representative series Woven
Paintings, Murayama expresses the processes and patterns of self-organization through his drawings and pain tings. In recent years, Murayama has extended his artistic endeavors by collaborating with scientists on AI pattern recognition and generation. These collaborations aim to deepen human understanding of and sensitivity towards artificial intelligence.
In 2010, Murayama received the shiseido art egg prize. From 2010 to 2011, he attended the MA Fine Art program at Chelsea College of Arts at the University of Arts London as an exchange student, and in 2015, he received his Ph.D. in Oil Painting from the Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School of Fine Arts. From 2015 to 2017, Murayama was a visiting researcher in the Global World/Intercultural Philosophy course at the University of Vienna as a participant in the Program of Overseas Study for Upcoming Artists, sponsored by the Japanese government’s Agency for Cultural Affairs. Murayama is currently a Guest Associate Professor of Contemporary Thought and Philosophy at the University of Tokyo and a Part-time Lecturer in the Department of Imaging Arts and Sciences at Musashino Art University and the Graduate School of Tohoku University of Art & Design.
Selected Exhibitions
2024
Remembrance beyond images, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Japan
2023
Go for Kogei, Toyama, Japan
2022
ICC Annual: Life/Likeness, NTT InterCommunication Center, Tokyo, Japan
Fuji Textile Week 2022, Fujiyoshida, Japan
Art Setouchi, Ogijima Island, Japan (2019, 2022)
Drawings – Plurality, Parco Museum Tokyo, Japan
2020
Painting, Folding, Takuro Someya Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
2019
Aichi Triennale: Taming Y/Our Passion, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan
L’homme qui marche: Verkörperung des Sperrigen, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany
The Extended Mind, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
DOMANI: The Art of Tomorrow, National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
2018
Emergence of Order, Daiwa Foundation Japan House, London, England
2016
Simulational Poiesis, Spektakel, Vienna, Austria
2014
Tokyo University of the Arts Doctoral Program Final Exhibition, The University Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2013
The Vision of Contemporary Art, Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Generating Visuals – Inspiring Circuits, Takuro Someya Contemporary Art, Kashiwa, Japan
2011
Stratosphere vol. 6 Tracing the “Self” Goro Murayama, gallery αM, Tokyo, Japan
TRANS COMPLEX – The Painting in the Age of Information Technology, Kyoto Art Center, Japan
2010
The re-enchantment of pain ting system, shiseido art egg, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2009
MOT Collection – MOT Field of Dreams, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Goro Murayama_CV
©︎Goro Murayama, Photo by vvpfoto.
As can be seen in his masterpiece "Textile Paintings," he expresses self-organizing processes and patterns through paintings and drawings. In recent years, he has continued to expand the field of expression by collaborating with scientists, such as pattern recognition and generation of AI and exploring human emotional understanding of AI.
In 2010, he won the SHISEIDO ART EGG Award.
2010-11, MA Fine Art Course, Chelsea College, University of the Arts London,
In 2015, he completed a doctoral program at the Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts, majoring in oil painting (mural painting).
From 2015 to 2017, he stayed in Vienna as an overseas trainee for emerging artists of the Agency for Cultural Affairs (Visiting Researcher at the Inter-University Cultural Philosophy Laboratory).
As of 2024, he is a visiting associate professor of comparative literature and culture at the University of Tokyo, and a part-time lecturer at the Department of Film and Visual Arts, Musashino Art University, and the Graduate School of Tohoku University of Art and Design.
Selected Exhibitions:
2024 "Memory: Remembrance: From the Expression of Contemporary Photography and Video" Tokyo Museum of Photography, 2023 "GO FOR KOGEI 2023" Toyama City, 2022 "ICC Annual Life-like Things" NTT InterCommunication Center / Hatsudai, "FUJI TEXTILE WEEK 2022" Fujiyoshida City, "Setouchi International Art Festival" Ogijima / Kagawa('19, '22), "Drawings \u2012 Plurality: Drawings Towards Plurality (Symbols, Organisms, Machines)," PARCO Museum TOKYO, Tokyo. 2020 Solo exhibition "PaintingFolding" Takuro Someya Contemporary Art, Tokyo. 2019 "Aichi Triennale 2019: The Age of Affection" Aichi Museum, "L'homme qui marche Verkörperung des Sperrigen" Kunsthalle Bielefeld / Germany, "The Extended Mind" Talbot Rice Gallery, Scotland, "21st Domani Tomorrow Exhibition" The National Art Center, Tokyo / Tokyo. 2018 "Emergence of Order", Yamato-Japan-Japan House, London. 2016 "Simulated Poiesis" Spektakel, Vienna. 2014 "Doctoral Examination Exhibition, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts," Tokyo University of the Arts, Art Museum. 2013 "VOCA Exhibition 2013: Perspectives on Contemporary Art: Artists on a New Plane" Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan, "Visuals of Generation" Takuro Someya Contemporary Art /Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan. 2011 "Stratosphere vol.6 My Future Goro Murayama" Gallery αM / Tokyo, Japan
"TRANS COMPLEX - Painting in the Age of Information Technology" Kyoto Art Center. 2010, Shiseidou Art Egg "Re-enchantment of the Painterly Subject" Shiseido Gallery / Tokyo. 2009 "MOT Collection: Dreams at MOT" Tokyo Museum of Contemporary Art, etc.
Born in 1983 in Tokyo. Artist. Ph.D. in Fine Art. Murayama, who studied pain ting, explores the
temporality and emergence of human acts of creation (poiesis) with in the theoretical frameworks of biological systems and the philosophy of science. As seen in his representative series Woven
Paintings, Murayama expresses the processes and patterns of self-organization through his drawings and pain tings. In recent years, Murayama has extended his artistic endeavors by collaborating with scientists on AI pattern recognition and generation. These collaborations aim to deepen human understanding of and sensitivity towards artificial intelligence.
In 2010, Murayama received the shiseido art egg prize. From 2010 to 2011, he attended the MA Fine Art program at Chelsea College of Arts at the University of Arts London as an exchange student, and in 2015, he received his Ph.D. in Oil Painting from the Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School of Fine Arts. From 2015 to 2017, Murayama was a visiting researcher in the Global World/Intercultural Philosophy course at the University of Vienna as a participant in the Program of Overseas Study for Upcoming Artists, sponsored by the Japanese government’s Agency for Cultural Affairs. Murayama is currently a Guest Associate Professor of Contemporary Thought and Philosophy at the University of Tokyo and a Part-time Lecturer in the Department of Imaging Arts and Sciences at Musashino Art University and the Graduate School of Tohoku University of Art & Design.
Selected Exhibitions
2024
Remembrance beyond images, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Japan
2023
Go for Kogei, Toyama, Japan
2022
ICC Annual: Life/Likeness, NTT InterCommunication Center, Tokyo, Japan
Fuji Textile Week 2022, Fujiyoshida, Japan
Art Setouchi, Ogijima Island, Japan (2019, 2022)
Drawings – Plurality, Parco Museum Tokyo, Japan
2020
Painting, Folding, Takuro Someya Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
2019
Aichi Triennale: Taming Y/Our Passion, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan
L’homme qui marche: Verkörperung des Sperrigen, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany
The Extended Mind, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
DOMANI: The Art of Tomorrow, National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
2018
Emergence of Order, Daiwa Foundation Japan House, London, England
2016
Simulational Poiesis, Spektakel, Vienna, Austria
2014
Tokyo University of the Arts Doctoral Program Final Exhibition, The University Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2013
The Vision of Contemporary Art, Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Generating Visuals – Inspiring Circuits, Takuro Someya Contemporary Art, Kashiwa, Japan
2011
Stratosphere vol. 6 Tracing the “Self” Goro Murayama, gallery αM, Tokyo, Japan
TRANS COMPLEX – The Painting in the Age of Information Technology, Kyoto Art Center, Japan
2010
The re-enchantment of pain ting system, shiseido art egg, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2009
MOT Collection – MOT Field of Dreams, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Goro Murayama_CV
©︎Goro Murayama, Photo by vvpfoto.
