About the Artist:
Kahori Kamiya was born in Nagoya, Japan in 1980 and moved to New York, where she received her MFA in fine art from the School of Visual Arts. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in New York, Los Angeles, Ukraine (Kiev), Russia (Moscow and St. Petersburg), Thailand (Chiang Mai), and Japan (Tokyo and Saitama) and will be screened in Houston and Canada (Montreal) in 2010.
Her videos, installations, and sculptures focus on the global taboos, cultural myths, and idiosyncrasies of current events/ideas using various images from world news, social phenomena, and the Internet. Also, rooted in her personal experience as a Japanese woman, all her works consistently investigate the dynamics of gender both spiritually and physically.
In 2009, she was the recipient of an award for the Russian Art-Week International Competition of Contemporary Arts. In 2010, Kamiya was a winner of Top 40 of the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art in LA. Also, her video was selected by Phong Bui and will be shown at SoHo 20 chelsea Gallery this July. Kahori currently lives and works in New York.
Resume:
Born in Nagoya, Japan
Live and Work in NewYork
Education
2009 MFA in Fine Art, School of Visual Arts, New York
2005 MFA in sculpture, The Nihon University Graduate School of Art, Tokyo
2003 BFA in sculpture, The Nihon University of Art, Tokyo
Solo Exhibitions
2004 The Real Fighter, Gallery J2, Tokyo, Japan
2003 Show Up! Exhibit Live, Tokyo, Japan
2002 Wonderflower vol.2, A&D Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2002 Wonderflower vol.1, Yanaka Foundation Gallery, Tokyo
Selected Group Exhibitions/ Projects
2010 (upcoming) 15th Annual International Exhibition, curated by Phong Bui, SoHo 20 chelsea Gallery, New York, NY
2010 (upcoming) Extremely Shorts 13th Annual Film Festival, curated by Donald Harrison, Aurora Picture Show, Houston, TX
2010 (upcoming) Campfire, curated by Eva Lansberry, Winkel & Balktick, Warehouse, Brooklyn, NY
2010 Transitions, curated by Bina Sarkar Ellias, The Pen and Brush, New York, NY
2010 Top 40, curated by Reginald Woolery and Rex Bruce, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, LA
2010 (as a performer) This Fable Is Intended For You: A Work-Energy Principle by MK Guth World Financial Center, New York, NY
2009 Ukrainian Art Week International Exhibition of Contemporary Arts, curated by Next Art Foundation, Kiev, Ukraine
2009 Super Heroes / Super Villains Art Show, curated by Laura Spector, Look At This Gallery, Thailand
2009 Russian Art Week 6th International Exhibition & Competition of Contemporary Arts, curated by Fedor Filkov, Moscow Museum of National Graphic Maliy Golovin pereulok, Moscow and St.Petersburg, Russia
2009 A New Currency, curated by Dan Cameron, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY 2009 ISE Cultural Foundation Art Exhibition, New York, NY
2009 A New Currency, curated by Dan Cameron, 55 Delency, New York, NY
2009 Hetertopia, Curated by Summer Guthery, Nicholas Weist, and Lumi Tan, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY
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2008 Publicly Personal, Westside Gallery, New York, NY
2005 Completion Works Exhibition 2005, The Nihon University Art Gallery, Tokyo
2005 Completion Exhibition of Five Art Universities, Tokyo State Museum, Tokyo
2004 11th Juried Turugashima Art Festival, The Turugashima Art Center, Saitama
2004 20th Juried Contemporary Sculpture's History Exhibition, curated by The Kitano Foundation, The Nihon University Art Gallery, Tokyo
2003 Sculpture Exhibition 2003, The Nihon University Art Gallery, Tokyo
2003 Five Art Universities Graduation Exhibition, Tokyo State Museum, Tokyo
2002 18th Sculpture Scholarship Award Exhibision, curated by The Kitano Foundation, The Nihon University Art Gallery, Tokyo
Awards
2010 ArtSlant, #3 Showcase competition, mixed-media category
2010 LACDA 2010 "TOP 40" International Juried Competition
2009 Russian Art Week-International Competition of Contemporary Arts, 3rd place
2005 Noriyoshi Sawamoto Art Award
2003 18th Sculpture Scholarship Award by The Kitano Foundation
Bibliography/Catalog
2009 Staley, William. Starved Magazine A New Currency Starved Magazine, Spring.
2009 Levy, Beth Alison. SVA Open Studio, Art Slat New York, Spring.
2005 Juried Master Course Graduation Works and Thesis Paper, The Nihon University Publication
2004 20th Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition Catalog, The Kitano Foundation
Public Collections
2006 Fuji Sengen Shrine; The Statue of God, Aichi, Japan
2002 Nichidai Fujisawa High School; Feverish Flower, Kanagawa, Japan
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