臼井 仁美|Hitomi Usui

臼井仁美 / Hitomi Usui

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臼井仁美 / Hitomi Usui

Born in Tokyo

2002 Graduated from Nihon University Faculty of Bioresource Sciences, Department of Marine Bioresource Science
2008 Graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts
2010 Completed Graduate Program, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts

Major Exhibition History

【Solo Exhibitions】
2023
“Mountains are Storehouses, Town’s Original Trees, Scraped and Chipped Trees” Akita City Cultural Creation Hall
2019
“Trees Living Here, People Passing Through” / Former Hirabayashi Denchu Residence Atelier, Tokyo

【Group Exhibitions】
2024

“TAAP Live Tokyo Artist Accelerator Program” TODA HALL & CONFERENCE TOKYO
2023
“Nagano Prefecture × Tokyo University of the Arts Collaboration Project Azumino AIR Results Exhibition Roundabout” Hotaka Exchange Learning Center
2022
“Ai mi Tagai London/Tokyo 2022” White Conduit Project, London
2021
“One Man at a Lonely Island: Another Form of Lifeʼs Extension” LEVANT ART, Shanghai
“3331 ART FAIR at Tokyo Arts and Space booth” 3331 Art Chiyoda, Tokyo
“DESIGNART TOKYO 2021・RESONANCE MATERIALS Project_Self-Generating Energy” ars gallery
2019
“9th Emerging Artists Exhibition Second Screening Presentation Display” / Kawaguchi City Art Gallery Atria
2018
“Compilation of Actions Residence 2018 Results Exhibition” Tokyo Arts and Space Hongo
2017
“Make Art Political | Make Art Public” HIAP Gallery Augusta, Helsinki, Finland
“HIAP OPEN STUDIOS” HIAP, Helsinki, Finland

Awards and Recognition

2024
Tokyo Artist Accelerator Program (TAAP) Arts Council Tokyo Selection
2021
Akita City Cultural Creation Hall Open Call “SPACE LABO” Selection
2017
Tokyo Arts and Space Bilateral Exchange Program Dispatch to Helsinki (HIAP)

Concept

Primarily using wood as a material, imagining that there was a wood tool age in prehistory, I contemplate what might have occurred and direct my gaze toward folk culture and the relationships between humans and plants embedded in daily life through artistic creation and research.
Creating is a method of understanding others and the non-human, and I create works that express people’s activities, the forms of living beings, and their relationships.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hitomiiusu/
HP: https://hitomi-usui.tumblr.com/

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