Sachiko Kazama

By using abundant color expressions between black and white, Kazama engraves social and political satire and nonsensical human acts sometimes comically and sometimes delicately on her woodcut print with a delightful sense of humor. Through enormous research on history, past and present events intersect and create a fictional story in her work.

Artist Blog (Japanese only)

Works

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1972 Born in Tokyo, Japan
1996 Department of Printmaking, Musashino Art School
Lives and works in Tokyo, Japan

Selected solo show

2023
“New Matsushima”
MUJIN-TO Production,
Tokyo, Japan
2021
“Dyslympian 2021”
MUJIN-TO Production,
Tokyo, Japan
“Tokyo Contemporary Art Award 2019-2021 Kazama Sachiko ‘Magic Mountain'”
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo,
Tokyo, Japan
2020
“Cement Cemetery”
MUJIN-TO Production,
Tokyo, Japan
2019
“Sachiko Kazama Concrete Suite”
Kurobe City Art Museum,
Toyama, Japan
“Plans for TOKYO 2019 vol.2 Sachiko KAZAMA: BABEL”
gallery αM,
Tokyo, Japan
2018
“Empire of the Omen”
NADiff a/p/a/r/t,
Tokyo, Japan
“Dyslympia2680”
Maruki Gallery For The Hiroshima Panels,
Saitama, Japan
2016
“Open Studio Program 69 KAZAMA Sachiko: Unflagging Us”
Fuchu Art Museum,
Tokyo, Japan
“Blitz!! School of Luddite”
MUJIN-TO Production,
Tokyo, Japan
2012
“BOTSURAKU THIRD FIRE”
MUJIN-TO Production,
Tokyo, Japan

Selected group show

2024
“The 24th Biennale of Sydney”
Art Gallery of New South Wales,
Sydney, Australia
2023
“WORLD CLASSROOM: Contemporary Art through School Subjects”
Mori Art Museum,
Tokyo, Japan
2022
“Reborn-Art Festival 2021-22 — Altruism and Fluidity —”
Ishinomaki,
Miyagi, Japan
2021
“FEMINISMS”
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa,
Ishikawa, Japan
2020
“NISSAN ART AWARD 2020 Finalists Exhibition”
NISSAN PAVILION,
Kanagawa, Japan
“Collection: The Aesthetics of Contemporary Japan”
The National Museum of Art,
Osaka, Japan
2019
“Co/Inspiration in Catastrophes”
Museum of Contemporary Art,
Taipei, Taiwan
“Japan Unlimited”
frei_raum Q21 exhibition space/MuseumsQuartier Wien,
Vienna, Austria
“Where We Now Stand—In Order to Map the Future [1]”
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa,
Ishikawa, Japan
“The 33rd Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts”
International Centre of Graphic Arts,
Ljubljana, Slovenia
“Weavers of Worlds - A Century of Flux in Japanese Modern / Contemporary Art -”
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo,
Tokyo, Japan
2017
“The Long Story”
Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art,
Brisbane, Australia
“Yokohama Triennale- Islands, Constellations & Galapagos”
Yokohama Museum of Art,
Kanagawa, Japan
“Twenty Year’s of the TARO Award”
Taro Okamoto Memorial Museum,
Tokyo, Japan
2016
“Azamino Contemporary vol.7 (Not a trace of doubt in my mind)”
Yokohama Civic Art Gallery Azamino,
Kanagawa, Japan
“11th Gwangju Biennale: The Eighth Climate (What Does Art Do?)”
Gwangju Biennale Hall,
Gwangju, South Korea
2015
“18th DOMANI: The Art of Tomorrow”
The National Art Center,
Tokyo, Japan
“2015 Asian Art Biennial: Artist Making Movement”
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts,
Taichung, Taiwan

Public collection

Agency for Cultural Affairs,
Japan
Mori Art Museum,
Japan
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo,
Japan
Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art,
Australia
Rennie Collection,
Canada
Takahashi Collection,
Japan
Takamatsu Art Museum,
Japan
The Museum of Modern Art, New York,
USA
The National Museum of Art, Osaka,
Japan
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo,
Japan
Yokohama Museum of Art,
Japan
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