Takuya TSUTSUMI
堤 拓也
- ART EXHIBITION
Born in 1987, lives in Otsu City, Shiga Prefecture.
Independent curator and graphic designer.
After graduating from the Department of Information Design at Kyoto University of Art and Design in 2011, he served as director and curator of ARTZ ONE, a facility attached to the university, from 2013 to 2016.
In the same year, he completed a one-year residency at the Poznań University of the Arts (Poland), and in 2019 he completed a major in Cultural Studies at Adam Mickiewicz University.
Major curatorial achievements include Onioka Onioka (Ghost Mountain Ghost Shovel): Temporal Rinshu (Kyoto, 2023), Takuya Yamashita's solo exhibition "Light in Darkness: Bears, Munch, Cheeseburgers, etc." (Taipei, 2023), Yudai Iikawa's exhibition "Decorator Club: Rulers and Ropes for the Future" (Kagoshima, 2023), and "Aichi 2022" (Aichi, 2022), "Blood Salt, Afterlight" (Tokyo, Kyoto, 2021), and the drive-in exhibition "Mirror of Analogy" (Shiga, 2020).
While aiming to launch a limited space such as an exhibition and publish printed materials, he does not place any restrictions on how he interacts with artists, and conducts organic practices that include the transformation of his own role.
Other activities include participation in Para Site Workshops for Emerging Art Professionals 2018 (Hong Kong, 2018) and East Call Curatorial Residency Program 2019 (Budapest, 2019). Since 2018, he has been the program director of the joint studio Yamanaka Suplex. He is a part-time lecturer at Kyoto University of the Arts, a part-time lecturer at Nagoya University of the Arts, and a member of the ICA Kyoto Program Committee.
photo by Kai Maetani
Independent curator and graphic designer.
After graduating from the Department of Information Design at Kyoto University of Art and Design in 2011, he served as director and curator of ARTZ ONE, a facility attached to the university, from 2013 to 2016.
In the same year, he completed a one-year residency at the Poznań University of the Arts (Poland), and in 2019 he completed a major in Cultural Studies at Adam Mickiewicz University.
Major curatorial achievements include Onioka Onioka (Ghost Mountain Ghost Shovel): Temporal Rinshu (Kyoto, 2023), Takuya Yamashita's solo exhibition "Light in Darkness: Bears, Munch, Cheeseburgers, etc." (Taipei, 2023), Yudai Iikawa's exhibition "Decorator Club: Rulers and Ropes for the Future" (Kagoshima, 2023), and "Aichi 2022" (Aichi, 2022), "Blood Salt, Afterlight" (Tokyo, Kyoto, 2021), and the drive-in exhibition "Mirror of Analogy" (Shiga, 2020).
While aiming to launch a limited space such as an exhibition and publish printed materials, he does not place any restrictions on how he interacts with artists, and conducts organic practices that include the transformation of his own role.
Other activities include participation in Para Site Workshops for Emerging Art Professionals 2018 (Hong Kong, 2018) and East Call Curatorial Residency Program 2019 (Budapest, 2019). Since 2018, he has been the program director of the joint studio Yamanaka Suplex. He is a part-time lecturer at Kyoto University of the Arts, a part-time lecturer at Nagoya University of the Arts, and a member of the ICA Kyoto Program Committee.
photo by Kai Maetani