Announcement of contemporary artist group exhibition “ATAMI ART GRANT × BEAMS CULTUART Showcase”

*Due to various circumstances, only Taiji Moriyama's works are no longer on display.

2024.03.13 Updated

Kenta Ishige

Artist, exhibition maker, and many other side jobs. Participating projects include Urban Research Group, SCAN THE WORLD, and Installations. Major solo exhibitions include “Aion” (2020, BIYONG POINT) and “Chrono Reticulate Sight-System” (2024, Warehouse A). Major projects include “WHITEHOTEL” (2022, WHITEHOUSE) and “Junks Sports” (2023, ANOMALY).

Midori Kawano

Visual director/graphic artist. Strongly attracted to the cosmic view of music and art, he began his creative activities in the mid-2000s, and graduated from Tama Art University with a degree in product design in 2006. Major solo exhibitions in recent years include “NOTHING in SOMETHING” (LOVUS gallery, Tokyo, 2023), “Regeneration in the Brain” (HA RUKA ITO, Tokyo, 2022), and “←Left and Right→” (CALM & PUNK gallery, Tokyo, 2021) etc.
http://md-k.net

Keeenue

Artist born in Kanagawa Prefecture in 1992 and currently living in Chigasaki. He engages in a wide range of activities including creating murals, presenting paintings and three-dimensional works, and providing artwork. Keeenue is a coined word made from the katakana reading of the real name KANA. His unique worldview, which continues to change without being bound by style or genre, is supported by many people both in Japan and abroad. Numerous collaborations with Nike, Facebook, Sapporo Beer, etc. are also attracting attention. Major solo exhibitions and projects include “Roppongi Art Night” (2023), “Yanbaru Art Festival” (2023, 2024), “The Me in the Mirror” (OIL by Bijutsu Techo/2022), “ODD ONE OUT” (HA RUKA) ITO by island/2021), “Story in Story” (hpgrp GALLERY TOKYO/2019), “PROJECT ATAMI” (2022), etc.
keeenue.com

SCAN THE WORLD

A general term for a city scanning project led by two artists, Kenta Ishige (born 1994, Tokyo) and BIEN (born 1993, Tokyo). SCAN THE WORLD is one of the current expressions of street expression, and at the same time it is a new play practice. Major solo exhibitions include "SCAN THE WORLD [NEW GAME]" (2022, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa).

Naoki Takehisa

Born in 1995. Artist. Graduated from the Media Arts Course, Department of Information Design, Tama Art University, and has been affiliated with Semi-Transparent Design since 2019.
Through the concept of "photography," he creates and researches images after the spread of the Internet, and the systems of human consciousness and communication surrounding them. In addition to continuing to record exhibitions at various museums and galleries, he also collaborates with artists in other fields.
Major solo exhibitions in recent years include “Home Steel” (The 5th Floor, Tokyo, 2023), “Suicide Sheet” (Decameron, Tokyo, 2022), and group exhibitions include “Counterattack” (SNOW Contemporary, Tokyo, 2023) and “Shiji '(con_, Tokyo, 2022), 'Planet Zamza' (Odaka Bookbinding Industry Site, Tokyo, 2022), 'ATAMI ART GRANT' (Kimiya Shrine et al., Shizuoka, 2022), 'Ecumene' (BLOCK HOUSE, Tokyo, 2020) Such. Exhibition projects include "power/point" (Akibatamabi 21, Tokyo, 2022) and "Display" (CALM & PUNK GALLERY, Tokyo, 2021).

Koichi Mitsuoka

My grandfather gave me a name so that all the letters were symmetrical, and my mother came up with the reading. (There was also the possibility that he would end up not being able to do it.) He wanted to make a PV for Hikaru Utada, and with that in mind, he set his sights on art school, entered the only architecture department he was accepted into, and now, due to various circumstances, he calls himself an artist. I want to create something just like Akiko Yano sings or Ranjatai does manzai. What kind of person was the first person to make Jomon pottery?
Completed the Department of Oil Painting at Tokyo University of the Arts in 2016. His awards include the Gunma Youth Biennale Encouragement Award (2015), the Toyota Cultural Newcomer Award (2020), the New Cosmos of Photography Excellence Award (2021), and the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art Planning Doko x Desa (2021). , Recent solo exhibitions include "Butchigiri no Zette 120%" (Guardian Garden, Tokyo, 2023) and "Blow of Soul" (SACS, Tokyo, 2023).
http://mitsuoka.info

Name Myoji

Graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts in 2019, majoring in oil painting.
Taking inspiration from her own experiences to date, she creates works with themes surrounding women's bodies, sexuality, identity, and their consumption.
Major exhibitions include “ATAMI ART GRANT2023” (Atami, 2023), “SICF23 Exhibition Category Grand Prix Solo Exhibition Babel and Utopia” (Spiral, 2023), “CAF Award 2022” (Daikanyama Hillside Forum, 2022), “Rokko Meet Art Walk 2022” (Mt. Rokko, 2022), etc.
https://myojinamae.com

Taichi Moriyama

Born in Tokyo in 1988. I mainly create earthwork-like works in natural environments and installations using natural objects.
In addition to natural materials such as stones and wood, the materials they handle include plastic found on the coast and concrete pieces found in the city. In recent years, he has also created two-dimensional and three-dimensional works using these materials. He is also active as a member of the artist unit "Namazu". Major exhibitions include “Seeing the Forest for the Trees” (Kana Kawanishi gallery, Tokyo, 2021), “Seeing the Forest for the Trees” (DEN5, Tokyo, 2017), and “Sonkei Jisui” (BLOCK HOUSE , Tokyo, 2016).
https://www.instagram.com/moriyama_taichi/

Shu Yonezawa / Shu Yonezawa

Born in Tokyo. Artist, animator. I work on the physicality of characters in current digital animation, the physicality and emotions of the minds and emotions of living things in real space, and the atmosphere of the space in which these animations live.
Major works/solo exhibitions include “Happy Birth” (PARCO museum Tokyo, 2023), “Newly Born Friends” (BLOCK HOUSE, 2023), “Anonymous Limb” (Tokyo arts and space Hongo [OPEN SITE7], 2022) , “Anima of Extinction” (Odaka Bookbinding Industrial Site [Planet Zamza], 2022), “Theatrical Version: Obake no B′” (NTT ICC, 2022).
http://snowcontemporary.com/exhibition/current.html