Meiro Koizumi
(born in Gunma, Japan, 1976) and works in Yokohama, Japan. He studied at the International Christian
University, Tokyo (1996-1999), Chelsea College of
Art and Design, London (1999-2002), and Rijksakademie van beeldend kunsten, Amsterdam (2005-2006). He won the 1st prize at Beck's Future 2
- student's film and video award in London (2001). His previous solo exhibitions
include “Defect in Vision” at Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam (2012),
“Broken Hero, Beautiful Afternoon” at Art Space, Sydney (2011), MAM Project
009 at Mori Museum, Tokyo (2009). He participated in numerous group
shows such as, “Invisible Memories” at Hara Museum, Tokyo (2011), Liverpool
Biennial (2010), Media City Seoul (2010), Aichi Triennale, Japan (2010),
and
Nanjin Triennale, China (2008). His works are included in the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo. He is schedule to have a solo
presentation at the Projects Series in MoMA, New York in Jan. 2013.
Selected Solo Exhibition
2013 (Future)
Project Series 99: Meiro Koizumi, Museum of
Modern Art, New York (forthcoming)
2012
Stories of a Beautiful Country, Centro de
Arte de Caja de burgos(CAB), Burgos, Spain
Defect in Vision, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam
Human Opera, San Art, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam
2011
Broken Hero, Beautiful Afternoon, Artspace,
Sydney
2010
Total Ecstasy, Annet Gelink Gallery,
Amsterdam
The Love Supreme, Gallery Raku, Kyoto Zokei
University, Kyoto, Japan
2009
The Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Open
Satellite, Bellevue, WA, USA
My Voice Would Reach You - A survey of the
first ten years, 2000-2009, Hedreen
Gallery, Seattle, WA, USA
MAM Project 009: Meiro Koizumi, Mori Art
Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2008
Alex Hubbard and Meiro Koizumi, Nicole
Klagsbrun Gallery, New York
2007
XXX:Trilogy, Dicksmith Gallery, London
2006
Meiro Koizumi, Annet Gelink Gallery/The
Bakery, Amsterdam
2005
Meiro Koizumi, Mary Mary, Glasgow
Meiro Koizumi, Galeria Luisa Strina, Sao
Paulo
2004
Powerlessly Hardcore, The Dicksmith
Gallery, London
Selected Group Exhibition
2012
Future Generation Art Prize, Pinchuk Art
Center, Kief (upcoming)
Experimenta Speaks to me, 5th International
Biennale of Media Art, Melbourn (upcoming)
Identity IV, Nichido Contemporary, Tokyo
Project Liquido, Fundacion Alumnos 47,
Mexico City
Emotional Blackmail, Kitchener-Waterloo Art
Gallery, Canada
Tokyo Story, Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo,
Journey to the West, Japan Foudnation,
Lalit Kalat Academy, New Delhi
2011
Impersonate, Miro Foundation in Mallorca,
Spain (performance)
OK Video Festival, Jakarta, Indonesia
After Humanism, Gallery LOOP, Seoul, Korea
Emotional Blackmail, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Canada
Invisible Memories, Hara Museum, Tokyo
Super 8, Christopher Grimes Gallery, LA
Silent Narrator, Museum of Contemporary Art
Tokyo, Tokyo
Unknown Sight, Maebashi Museum Pre-event,
Gunma, Japan
2010
Liverpool Biennial 2010, FACT, Liverpool
Media City Seoul 2010, Seoul, Korea
Yellow Gate, Sangrok Gallery of Gwangju
Museum of Art, Gwangju, Korea
Last Words 2 , 4A Center for Asian
Contemporary Art, Sydney
Aichi Triennale, Aichi, Japan
Resonance, Suntory Museum, Osaka, Japan
2009
A Blow to Everyday, Osage Gallery, Hong
Kong, curated by Yuko Hasegawa
Japan Video Window, Galerija Duplex,
Sarajevo, Bosnia
Re:Membering, Alternative Space Loop, Seoul
Bivouac, Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia,
US
2008
Life Stories, Gallery TPW, Toronto, Canada
Artificial Nature, Shanghai MOCA, Shanghai,
China
3rd Nanjing Triennial “Reflective Asia”, Nanjing
Museum, China
Brotherhood of Subterranea, Kunstbanker,
Nurnberg, Germany
Ben Laroua/Didiar Pascal –Rehab! with Meiro
Koizumi and Christian Jankowski, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, Amsterdam
2007
It is not a question of knowing whether
this interests you but rather of whether you yourself could become more
interesting under new conditions of cultural creation, (two person show) Frye
Art Museum, Seattle
Art summer university, (four days art event
with talks and screenings), Tate Modern, London
Tussle in Shorthand, Punch Gallery,
Seattle, USA
2006
War and Nature, Virgile de Voldere Gallery,
New York
Work, Kunstfort, Vijfhuizen, The
Netherlands
Sexy Politics, Alpha M project 2005 / vol8,
Art Space Kimura ASK?, Tokyo
Hiscox Art Award, Arti et Amicitiae,
Amsterdam
2005
Hotspots, Essl Collection, Vienna
videoDictionary, La Casa Encendida, Madrid
Relocated Identities/ Part I –
Overexposure, Public Space with a Roof, Amsterdam
2004
Episode, Cheong-Ju Art Center Gallery,
Korea
No Pre / No Con, Galeria Moriarty, Madrid
Mediarena, Govett Brewster Art Gallery, New
Zealand
Out the Window, Japan Foundation Forum
(Tokyo), Project Space Zip (Seoul)
2003
Please Don't Make Me Cry, Emily Tsingou
Gallery, London
2002
New Contemporaries 2002, Barbican Centre（London）
2001
Beck's Futures 2 - Student Film and Video
Award, ICA, London
Education
2005-2006 Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1999 -2002
London Institute Chelsea College of Art and Design - BA Fine Art, London
1995-1999 International Christian University, BA Liberal Arts, Tokyo
Japan
Grants and Awards
2005
Japanese Government Overseas Study Programme for Artists, Agency for
Cultural Affairs (Bunka-cho)
2001
Beck's Futures 2, Student Film and Video Award – 1st Prize
Residencies
2012
San Art, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam
2010
Art Scope, Daimler Foundation in Japan, Berlin
2009
Open Satellite, Bellevue, WA, USA
2003
Arcus Project, Ibaraki, Japan (Artist-in-residence)
Bibliography
- Monographs -
“ Meiro Koizumi”, Centro de Arte de Caja de
burgos(CAB), - to be published in June.
“Meiro Koizumi”, Open Satellite
Publications, Bellevue WA, 2010
including “Why Kindness has its limit” by Jen Grave, “Taking it in the
Eye” by Robin Held, “What do Strawberries, Hotdogs, and The American Dream
have in Common? Bacon.” by Yoko Ott
“MAM PROJECT 009: Meiro Koizumi”, Mori Art
Museum, Tokyo, 2009
including “Prologues to the Human Opera” by Kenichi Kondo and “How to dismantle
a Human Bomb – Image of Bliss in the Theatre of Cruelty” by Vesna Madzoski
- Critical texts -
“Critic’s Picks”, by Hans den Hartog ,Jager
Artforum.com, 2012
“The Set-up: Performative performance in
ten uneasy stages” by Reuben Keehan, Column 8, Artsapce, sydney, 2011
“Emotinal Blackmail” by Chen Tamir,
catalogue for the exhibition, 2011
Critic’s Choice”, by Ruben Keehan,
Artforum.com, 2009
Is Emotion Real or Fake”, Noi Sawaragi、Bijutsu Techo, BT No.930, 2009
“Nanijing Triennial”, by France Pepper, Art
in America, Dec 2008
“Alex Hubbard & Meiro Koizumi” New York
Times, Roberta Smith, February 1, 2008
“Meiro Koizumi”, Isla Leaver-Yap, Map
Magazine, issue 5, Glasgow