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Mayumi Hosokura

  • Installation view from solo exhibition “The Eye Draws“, 2021, Takuro Someya Contemporary Art, Tokyo. Photo by Shu Nakagawa.

  • Installation view from solo exhibition “The Eye Draws“, 2021, Takuro Someya Contemporary Art, Tokyo. Photo by Shu Nakagawa.

  • Installation view from solo exhibition “The Eye Draws“, 2021, Takuro Someya Contemporary Art, Tokyo. Photo by Shu Nakagawa.

  • Installation view from solo exhibition “The Eye Draws“, 2021, Takuro Someya Contemporary Art, Tokyo. Photo by Shu Nakagawa.

  • “green hair,” from the series Jubilee, 2015, Type-C print.

  • Installation view from group exhibition “Things So Faint But Real: Contemporary Japanese Photography vol. 15“, 2018, The Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo. Photo by Keizo Kioku.

  • Installation view from solo exhibition “NEW SKIN“, 2019, mumei, Tokyo. Photo by Mayumi Hosokura.

  • “Jack (Y),” from the series Jubilee, 2015, Type-C print.

  • Installation view from group exhibition “Things So Faint But Real: Contemporary Japanese Photography vol. 15“, 2018, The Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo. Photo by Keizo Kioku.

  • Installation view from solo exhibition “NEW SKIN“, 2019, mumei, Tokyo. Photo by Mayumi Hosokura.

  • “NEW SKIN #9-9,” 2019, Archival ink jet print.

  • “NEW SKIN #35-3,” 2019, Archival ink jet print.

  • “NEW SKIN #37-1,” 2019, Archival ink jet print.

  • “alum/river,” from the series Transparency is the new mystery, 2012, Gelatin silver print, H 60 x W 45cm.

  • “fox,” from the series Transparency is the new mystery, 2012, Gelatin silver print, H 60 x W 45cm

Profile
Mayumi Hosokura Lives in Tokyo and Kyoto.
Mayumi Hosokura’s haptically visual photography and video works address the shifting boundaries between body and sexuality, human and artificial, and organic and inorganic materials. She studied literature at the University of Ritsumeikan and photography at the Nihon University College of Art.
Major solo exhibitions include Sen to Me, Takuro Someya Contemporary Art, Tokyo (2021), NEW SKIN, Mumei, Tokyo (2019), Jubilee, nomad nomad, Hong Kong (2017), Cyalium, G/P gallery, Tokyo (2016), CRYSTAL LOVE STARLIGHT, G/P gallery, Tokyo (2014), and Transparency is the new mystery, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei (2012).
Major group exhibitions include Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2023 Technology?, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo (2023), Post-Human Narratives—In the Name of Scientific Witchery, Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences, Hong Kong (2022), KYOTOGRAPHIE 2022, HOSOO GALLERY, Kyoto (2022), Digitalis or First-Person Camera | Umi Ishihara, Maiko Endo, Yokna Hasegawa, Mayumi Hosokura, Takuro Someya Contemporary Art, Tokyo (2021), The Body Electric, National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (2020), Things So Faint But Real: Contemporary Japanese Photography vol. 15, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo (2018), Close to the Edge: New Photography from Japan, Miyako Yoshinage, New York (2016), Tokyo International Photography Festival, Art Factory Jonanjima, Tokyo (2015), and Reflected – Works from the Foam Collection, Foam Amsterdam, Amsterdam (2014).
Hosokura has published numerous photobooks, including WALKING, DIVING, artbeat publishers (2022), FASHON EYE KYOTO by MAYUMI HOSOKURA, LOUIS VUITTON (2021), NEW SKIN, MACK, 2022, Jubilee, artbeat publishers (2017), transparency is the new mystery, MACK (2016), FASHION EYE KYOTO by Mayumi Hosokura, LOUIS VUITTON (2021). Her work belongs to the public collection at Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, among others.

Awards

Solo Exhibitions
2023 walking, diving, Takuro Someya Contemporary Art, Tokyo
2022 I can (not) hear you powered by EDION, Kyoto Kawaramachi Garden 8F, Kyoto
CELL(s), Sony Park Mini, Tokyo
2021 The Eye Draws, Takuro Someya Contemporary Art, Tokyo
2019 NEW SKIN, mumei, Tokyo
2017 JJuubbiilleeee, G/P gallery, Tokyo
JUBILEE, nomad nomad studio, Hong Kong
2016 CYALIUM, G/P gallery, Tokyo
2014 CRYSTAL LOVE STARLIGHT, G/P gallery, Tokyo
Transparency is the new mystery, POST, Tokyo
2013 Floaters, G/P gallery, Tokyo
2012 Transparency is the new mystery, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei
KAZAN, Spiral Hall, Tokyo
2011 KAZAN, G/P gallery, Tokyo

Group Exhibition
2023 The Yebisu lnternational Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2023 "technology?", Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo
2022 50 seconds,Soda, Kyoto
Shuhei Ise, Enrico Isamu Oyama, Mayumi Hosokura, Rafaël Rozendaal, Takuro Someya Contemporary Art, Tokyo
後人類敘事——以科學巫術之名　Post-Human Narratives—In the Name of Scientific Witchery, Hong Kong Museum of Medical Science,Hong Kong
2021 Post-Human Narratives−The Co-existing Land, Unit 12, Cattle Depot Artist Village, Hong Kong
Digitalis or First-Person Camera | Umi Ishihara, Maiko Endo, Yokna Hasegawa, Mayumi Hosokura, Takuro Someya Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Anneke Hymmen & Kumi Hiroi, Tokuko Ushioda, Mari Katayama, Maiko Haruki, Mayumi Hosokura, and Your Perspectives, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo
2020 TOKYO PHOTOGRAPHY RESEARCH Exhibition, Roppongi Tsutaya BOOK GALLERY, Tokyo
The Body Electric, National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
ENCOUNTERS, ANB Tokyo, Tokyo
2018 Things So Faint But Real: Contemporary Japanese Photography vol. 15, The Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo
Tsuka: An Exhibition of Contemporary Japanese Photography, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
Corpus Lux, The Triennial of Photography Hamburg, Westwerk, Hamburg
2017 Calling/ re-calling, Kyoto University of Art and Design, Kyoto
Homage to the Human Body, Galleri Grundstof, Aarhus
RAP MUSEUM, Ichihara lakeside museum, Chiba
2016 Jimei × Arles International Photo Festival, Xiamen
MACK chez colette, colette, Paris
Shikijo: Eroticism in Japanese Photography, Blindspot Gallery, HongKong
Close to the Edge: New Photography from Japan, Miyako Yoshinage, New York
MACK CONCEPT TOKYO, IMA gallery, Tokyo
2015 Jimei × Arles International Photo Festival, Xiamen Horticulture Expo Garden, Xiamen
Tokyo International Photography Festival, Art Factory Jonanjima, Tokyo
2014 Reflected – Works from the Foam Collection, Foam Amsterdam, Amsterdam
G/P Collection Ⅱ, G/P＋g3/ gallery, Tokyo
2013 Space Cadet Actual Exhibition #2, Turner Gallery, Tokyo
2012 Space Cadet Actual Exhibition #1, Turner Gallery, Tokyo
oodee presents POV FEMALE TOKYO, CALM & PUNK GALLERY, Tokyo
Natures, Gallery LWS, Paris
2011 untitled / image, Cultivate, Tokyo
THE PHOTO / BOOKS HUB TOKYO, Omotesando Hills, Tokyo
Mizu no Oto – Sound of Water, FOTOGRAFIA, Festival Internazionale di Roma, Rome
Talent 2011, Foam Amsterdam, Amsterdam
2010 Yokohama Photo Festival, Yokohama Akarenga Soko, Yokohama
NEW / ANOTHER FASHION PHOTOGRAPHY, Tokyo Wonder Site Hongo, Tokyo
The EXPOSED #5, CASO, Osaka
2009 Tokyo portfolio review, Tokyo Wonder Site Hongo, Tokyo
The EXPOSED #4, CASO, Osaka
The EXPOSED #3.5, ART ZONE, Kyoto
2007 The EXPOSED #2, CASO, Osaka/Punctum,Tokyo
Secret phantom, magic room?, Tokyo
2005 RECRUIT Hitotsubo award #25, Guardian Garden, Tokyo
2004 RECRUIT Hitotsubo award #23, Guardian Garden, Tokyo

Publication
2022 WALKING, DIVING, artbeat publishers supported by FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp
2021 Fashion Eye Kyoto, Louis Vuitton
2020 New Skin, MACK
2017 Kawasaki Photographs, Cyzo
2017 Jubilee, artbeat publishers
2016 Transparency is the new mystery, MACK
2014 floaters, waterfall
2014 Crystal Love Starlight, TYCOON BOOKS
2012 Transparency is the new mystery, self-published
2012 Unknown Signals, oodee
2012 KAZAN, artbeat publishers

Collection

Others
Art Fairs
2022 Art Collaboration Kyoto, Kyoto International Conference Center Event Hall, Kyoto
2012-17 UNSEEN PHOTO FAIR AMSTERDAM, Amsterdam
2013-14 Paris Photo, Paris

Profile

Mayumi Hosokura Lives in Tokyo and Kyoto.
Mayumi Hosokura’s haptically visual photography and video works address the shifting boundaries between body and sexuality, human and artificial, and organic and inorganic materials. She studied literature at the University of Ritsumeikan and photography at the Nihon University College of Art.
Major solo exhibitions include Sen to Me, Takuro Someya Contemporary Art, Tokyo (2021), NEW SKIN, Mumei, Tokyo (2019), Jubilee, nomad nomad, Hong Kong (2017), Cyalium, G/P gallery, Tokyo (2016), CRYSTAL LOVE STARLIGHT, G/P gallery, Tokyo (2014), and Transparency is the new mystery, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei (2012).
Major group exhibitions include Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2023 Technology?, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo (2023), Post-Human Narratives—In the Name of Scientific Witchery, Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences, Hong Kong (2022), KYOTOGRAPHIE 2022, HOSOO GALLERY, Kyoto (2022), Digitalis or First-Person Camera | Umi Ishihara, Maiko Endo, Yokna Hasegawa, Mayumi Hosokura, Takuro Someya Contemporary Art, Tokyo (2021), The Body Electric, National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (2020), Things So Faint But Real: Contemporary Japanese Photography vol. 15, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo (2018), Close to the Edge: New Photography from Japan, Miyako Yoshinage, New York (2016), Tokyo International Photography Festival, Art Factory Jonanjima, Tokyo (2015), and Reflected – Works from the Foam Collection, Foam Amsterdam, Amsterdam (2014).
Hosokura has published numerous photobooks, including WALKING, DIVING, artbeat publishers (2022), FASHON EYE KYOTO by MAYUMI HOSOKURA, LOUIS VUITTON (2021), NEW SKIN, MACK, 2022, Jubilee, artbeat publishers (2017), transparency is the new mystery, MACK (2016), FASHION EYE KYOTO by Mayumi Hosokura, LOUIS VUITTON (2021). Her work belongs to the public collection at Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, among others.

Awards

Solo Exhibitions

2023 walking, diving, Takuro Someya Contemporary Art, Tokyo
2022 I can (not) hear you powered by EDION, Kyoto Kawaramachi Garden 8F, Kyoto
CELL(s), Sony Park Mini, Tokyo
2021 The Eye Draws, Takuro Someya Contemporary Art, Tokyo
2019 NEW SKIN, mumei, Tokyo
2017 JJuubbiilleeee, G/P gallery, Tokyo
JUBILEE, nomad nomad studio, Hong Kong
2016 CYALIUM, G/P gallery, Tokyo
2014 CRYSTAL LOVE STARLIGHT, G/P gallery, Tokyo
Transparency is the new mystery, POST, Tokyo
2013 Floaters, G/P gallery, Tokyo
2012 Transparency is the new mystery, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei
KAZAN, Spiral Hall, Tokyo
2011 KAZAN, G/P gallery, Tokyo

Group Exhibition

2023 The Yebisu lnternational Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2023 "technology?", Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo
2022 50 seconds,Soda, Kyoto
Shuhei Ise, Enrico Isamu Oyama, Mayumi Hosokura, Rafaël Rozendaal, Takuro Someya Contemporary Art, Tokyo
後人類敘事——以科學巫術之名　Post-Human Narratives—In the Name of Scientific Witchery, Hong Kong Museum of Medical Science,Hong Kong
2021 Post-Human Narratives−The Co-existing Land, Unit 12, Cattle Depot Artist Village, Hong Kong
Digitalis or First-Person Camera | Umi Ishihara, Maiko Endo, Yokna Hasegawa, Mayumi Hosokura, Takuro Someya Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Anneke Hymmen & Kumi Hiroi, Tokuko Ushioda, Mari Katayama, Maiko Haruki, Mayumi Hosokura, and Your Perspectives, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo
2020 TOKYO PHOTOGRAPHY RESEARCH Exhibition, Roppongi Tsutaya BOOK GALLERY, Tokyo
The Body Electric, National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
ENCOUNTERS, ANB Tokyo, Tokyo
2018 Things So Faint But Real: Contemporary Japanese Photography vol. 15, The Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo
Tsuka: An Exhibition of Contemporary Japanese Photography, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
Corpus Lux, The Triennial of Photography Hamburg, Westwerk, Hamburg
2017 Calling/ re-calling, Kyoto University of Art and Design, Kyoto
Homage to the Human Body, Galleri Grundstof, Aarhus
RAP MUSEUM, Ichihara lakeside museum, Chiba
2016 Jimei × Arles International Photo Festival, Xiamen
MACK chez colette, colette, Paris
Shikijo: Eroticism in Japanese Photography, Blindspot Gallery, HongKong
Close to the Edge: New Photography from Japan, Miyako Yoshinage, New York
MACK CONCEPT TOKYO, IMA gallery, Tokyo
2015 Jimei × Arles International Photo Festival, Xiamen Horticulture Expo Garden, Xiamen
Tokyo International Photography Festival, Art Factory Jonanjima, Tokyo
2014 Reflected – Works from the Foam Collection, Foam Amsterdam, Amsterdam
G/P Collection Ⅱ, G/P＋g3/ gallery, Tokyo
2013 Space Cadet Actual Exhibition #2, Turner Gallery, Tokyo
2012 Space Cadet Actual Exhibition #1, Turner Gallery, Tokyo
oodee presents POV FEMALE TOKYO, CALM & PUNK GALLERY, Tokyo
Natures, Gallery LWS, Paris
2011 untitled / image, Cultivate, Tokyo
THE PHOTO / BOOKS HUB TOKYO, Omotesando Hills, Tokyo
Mizu no Oto – Sound of Water, FOTOGRAFIA, Festival Internazionale di Roma, Rome
Talent 2011, Foam Amsterdam, Amsterdam
2010 Yokohama Photo Festival, Yokohama Akarenga Soko, Yokohama
NEW / ANOTHER FASHION PHOTOGRAPHY, Tokyo Wonder Site Hongo, Tokyo
The EXPOSED #5, CASO, Osaka
2009 Tokyo portfolio review, Tokyo Wonder Site Hongo, Tokyo
The EXPOSED #4, CASO, Osaka
The EXPOSED #3.5, ART ZONE, Kyoto
2007 The EXPOSED #2, CASO, Osaka/Punctum,Tokyo
Secret phantom, magic room?, Tokyo
2005 RECRUIT Hitotsubo award #25, Guardian Garden, Tokyo
2004 RECRUIT Hitotsubo award #23, Guardian Garden, Tokyo

Publication

2022 WALKING, DIVING, artbeat publishers supported by FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp
2021 Fashion Eye Kyoto, Louis Vuitton
2020 New Skin, MACK
2017 Kawasaki Photographs, Cyzo
2017 Jubilee, artbeat publishers
2016 Transparency is the new mystery, MACK
2014 floaters, waterfall
2014 Crystal Love Starlight, TYCOON BOOKS
2012 Transparency is the new mystery, self-published
2012 Unknown Signals, oodee
2012 KAZAN, artbeat publishers

Collection

Others

Art Fairs
2022 Art Collaboration Kyoto, Kyoto International Conference Center Event Hall, Kyoto
2012-17 UNSEEN PHOTO FAIR AMSTERDAM, Amsterdam
2013-14 Paris Photo, Paris
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