Born in 1983 in Tokyo. Artist. Ph.D. in Fine Art. Murayama, who studied painting, explores the temporality and emergence of human acts of creation (poiesis) within 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 paintings. 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 painting system, shiseido art egg, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 2009 MOT Collection – MOT Field of Dreams, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan