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Artist
Aoyagi Natsumi
Born in Tokyo in 1990, Aoyagi lives and works in Tokyo.
She completed a master’s degree program in New Media at the Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts in 2016.
As a contemporary artist who works with visual media, Aoyagi presents project-based thematic works grounded in fieldwork and research. She explores the possibilities of time-based media as a methodology for expressing her own experiences, using observation, documentation, narrative, and poetry as footholds. Her collection of poetry, Sodatsu no wo Yameru [Done Being Nurtured] (thoasa, 2022), won the 28th Nakahara Chuya Prize. She is one of the leaders of the “kohonya honkbooks” practitioner art collective. In 2022 she was nominated for the 7th edition of Women to Watch at the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA Japan Committee).
Photo: Wada Shintaro
Major exhibitions
- 2024
- ICC Annual 2024: Faraway, so close, NTT InterCommunication Center (ICC), Tokyo
- 2023
- 28th Chuya Nakahara Prize Special Exhibition: Sodatsu no wo Yameru (Done Being Nurtured), Nakahara Chuya Memorial Museum, Yamaguchi (solo exhibition)
- 2022
- Aoyagi Natsumi: Logbook of a Sea Goddess, Towada Art Center, Aomori (solo exhibition)
New Worlds, exhibition presented by NMWA Japan Committee, Kodensha Space, Tokyo - 2021
- New ways to grow, Artists envision a post-Covid world, organized by the Post Covid-19 Arts Fund Executive Committee, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo
- 2020
- TWO PRIVATE ROOMS – A Circle of Reading, Aoyagi Natsumi + Sato Tomoko, theca, Tokyo
- 2018
- Today’s Art Space Network, Daegu Art Factory, Daegu (Korea)
The Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo - 2016
- emergencies! 029 AOYAGI Natsumi “Incubation Diary 2011, 2014–2016,” NTT InterCommunication Center (ICC), Tokyo (solo exhibition)
Fuji Diary, NADiff Gallery, Tokyo (solo exhibition)
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Land Registry, Aoyagi Natsumi + Hosoi Miyu, NTT InterCommunication Center (ICC), 2024
Photo: Kioku Keizo -
Logbook of a Sea Goddess, Aoyagi Natsumi, Towada Art Center and other nearby venues, 2022
Photo: Oyamada Kuniya