Represented▼
Agan Harahap
AIDA Makoto
AKAMATSU Nelo
Albert Yonathan Setyawan
AMANO Yoshitaka
AOYAMA Satoru
Ari Bayuaji
Ashley YK Yeo
Budi Agung Kuswara
DU Kun
EGUCHI Ayane
Entang Wiharso
Gilang Fradika
Heri Dono
HORI Kosai
I Made Djirna
IKEDA Manabu
indieguerillas
Iwan Effendi
Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba
KANEKO Tomiyuki
KARIYA Hiroshi
Kemalezedine
Ken + Julia YONETANI
KONDOH Akino
KUMAZAWA Mikiko
MAJIMA Naoko
MATSUKAGE
MIYANAGA Aiko
MIZUNO Rina
MORI Junichi
Namonaki Sanemasa
Nasirun
O JUN
OGINO Yuna
OKADA Hiroko
OKAMOTO Ellie
SHINTSUBO Kenshu
SONE Yutaka
TANADA Koji
TSUTSUI Shinsuke
USAMI Masahiro
Wianta, Made
YAMAGUCHI Ai
YAMAGUCHI Akira
YAMAMOTO Masao
YAMAMOTO Ryuki
AKAMATSU Nelo
In 2015 Akamatsu was awarded the Golden Nica at the international new media arts competition Prix Ars Electronica, held in Austria. As well as installations, his practice engages with a variety of other media including performance, video, sculpture and painting, extracting the rhythms that pulse unnoticed within our daily lives and transforming them into his works.
Born in Tokyo, Japan
Lives and works in Kanagawa
2003 Musashino Art University, BFA in Sculpture
2005 Tokyo National University of the Fine Arts and Music, MFA in Intermedia Art
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Perhaps, art begins with the fireflies
AKAMATSU Nelo + OBA Yuichi
2022
© AKAMATSU Nelo
Chozumaki
2017
water, glass vessels, magnets, plastic, electronic devices, controllers
Photo: AKAMATSU Nelo
© AKAMATSU Nelo
Meteon
2019
glass, acrylic board, stone / sanukite / shell / rice / red bean / soybean, etc.
© AKAMATSU Nelo
Meteon
2019
glass, acrylic board, stone / sanukite / shell / rice / red bean / soybean, etc.
© AKAMATSU Nelo
Meteon
2019
glass, acrylic board, stone / sanukite / shell / rice / red bean / soybean, etc.
© AKAMATSU Nelo
Chozumaki
2017
water, glass vessels, magnets, plastic, electronic devices, controllers
Photo: AKAMATSU Nelo
© AKAMATSU Nelo
Chijikinkutsu
2013
water, glass tumblers, glass jars, sewing needles, copper wires, wood shelves, magnetite, electronic devices, controllers, PC
Photo: AKAMATSU Nelo
© AKAMATSU Nelo
Chijikinkutsu
2013
water, glass tumblers, glass jars, sewing needles, copper wires, wood shelves, magnetite, electronic devices, controllers, PC
2015 "CYBERARTS 2015" OK im OÖ Kulturquartier, Linz, Austria
Photo: AKAMATSU Nelo
© AKAMATSU Nelo
Chijikinkutsu
2013
water, glass tumblers, glass jars, sewing needles, copper wires, wood shelves, magnetite, electronic devices, controllers, PC
2015 "CYBERARTS 2015" OK im OÖ Kulturquartier, Linz, Austria
Photo: AKAMATSU Nelo
© AKAMATSU Nelo
Chijikinkutsu
2013
water, glass tumblers, glass jars, sewing needles, copper wires, magnetite, electronic devices, controllers, PC
2015 "Takamatsu Media Art Festival", Tamamo Park Hiunkaku, Kagawa, Japan
Photo: AKAMATSU Nelo
© AKAMATSU Nelo
Solo Exhibitions
2024
“Polycosmos Everywhere” Mizuma Gallery, Singapore
2022
“Chijikinkutsu” Galerija Nova, Zagreb, Croatia
2019
“Meteon” Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2018
“Chijikinkutsu/Chozumaki” Vima House, Taichung, Taiwan
“Chijikinkutsu/Chozumaki” Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2017
“+29/-5000” Art Trace Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2016
“Chijikinkutsu” Galerija Kapelica, Ljubuljana, Slovenia
2013
“Magnetica Animata” Art Trace Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2012
“Lost in Clouds” Art Trace Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2009
“Paradise in Train Window” Embassy of Italy in Tokyo, Japan
Group Exhibitions
2024
AWT FOCUS “Earth, Wind, and Fire: Visions of the Future from Asia” Okura Museum of Art, Tokyo, JP
“Reflections of Sight, Echoes of Sound” Chuan Shang Xing Hotel, Jingdezhen, China
2023
“Imagine. fantasies, Dreams, Utopias” Saudi Arabia Museum of Contemporary Art (SAMoCA), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
“Typhoons” Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
“BienalSUR” Museo de Arte Hispanoamericano Isaac Fernández Blanco, Buenos Aires, Argentina
“Takamatsu Art Museum Collection Exhibition 1st term 2023” Takamatsu Art Museum, Kagawa, Japan
2022
“BIWAKO Biennale 2022 : ORIGIN” Omihachiman Old Town, Shiga, Japan
“Takamatsu Contemporary Annual vol.11 Fragile Calm Landscape” Takamatsu Art Museum, Kagawa, Japan
2021
“The Invisible Sounds” Museum of Waste, Changsha, China
“Ōrai” Exhibition, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2020
“Interaction: Souls in Synchronicity” Toyama Glass Art Museum, Japan
“BIWAKO Biennale 2020 : Cosmic Dance” SMITH Memorial Hall, Shiga, Japan
“Intermedia Art 2020 Apparation” Chinretsukan Gallery, Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan
“SUKIKEI / New View” Nihombashi Mitsukoshi, Tokyo, Japan
“SUKIKEI / New View” Mitsubishi-Jisho Artium, Mitsukoshi Gallery, Fukuoka, Japan
“MATERIA Opening Exhibition” MATERIA – Centro de Ciencias de Sinaloa, Culiacán, México
2019
“CYFEST-12: ID” The State Hermitage Youth Education Center, St.Petersburg, Russia
“40 Years of Humanizing Technology” Design Society – Sea World Culture and Arts Center, Shenzhen, China
“SUKIKEI / New View” Hankyu Umeda Gallery, Osaka, Japan
“Lux Aeterna (ISEA2019)” Asia Culture Center, Gwangiu, Korea
“magnetic_T” New Media Gallery, New Westminster, Canada
2018
“Hsinchu City Glass Art and Design Festival: LIGHT-DRIVING”, Hsinchu Park WIND livehouse, Hsinchu, Taiwan
“HÖHENRAUSCH 2018: The Other Shore” OK im OÖ Kulturquartier, (OK Center for Contemporary Art), Lintz, Austria
“Abaton” Blueproject Foundation, Barcelona, Spain
2017
“Les Faits du hasard (Biennale Némo)” Le Centquatre-Paris, France
“УЯВНИЙ ПУТІВНИК. ЯПОНІЯ” Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kiev, Ukraine
“Sonica” Govanhil Baths / Lighthouse, Glasgow, Scotland
“¿Como decir nosotxs?” Casa de Electromagnético, Mexico City, Mexico
“Ars Electronica in Berlin” DRIVE. Volkswagen Group Forum, Berlin, Germany
2016
“The Alchemists of Art and Science” Ars Electronica Center, Linz, Austria
“Alchemists of our Time (Ars Electronica Festival 2016)” POSTCITY, Linz, Austria
“Impetus and Movement” Knowledge Capital, Osaka, Japan
“Open Space 2016 | Media Concious” NTT Intercommunication Center, Tokyo, Japan
2015
“Takamatsu Media Art Festival” Tamamo Park Hiunkaku, Kagawa, Japan
“Materia Prima” LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijón, Spain
“CYBERARTS 2015” OK im OÖ Kulturquartier, Linz, Austria
2014
“The 17th Taro Okamoto Award of Contemporary Art Exhibition” Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan
2008
“SaiSei” BankART Studio NYK, Kanagawa, Japan
2007
“RE:MELT” ZAIM, Kanagawa, Japan
2004
“Asia Digital Art Award FUKUOKA”, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan
“Digital Art Festival Tokyo 2004” Panasonic Center Tokyo, Japan
“Me Kara Toku” Tokyo Zokei University Manzù Museum, Japan
“The 7th Taro Okamoto Memorial Award of Contemporary Art Exhibition” Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan
2003
“Green Space2_light/shadow” Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany
Awards, Grants and Residency Program
2023
Prix Ars Electronica 2023, Honorary Mention in AI & Life Art “Perhaps, art begins with the fireflies”
2017
Artist in Residence for the sound and visual arts festival “Sonica” by Cryptic in Glasgow, Scotland
Grant for “Sonica” over Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation and Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation
2015
Prix Ars Electronica 2015, Golden Nica (Grand-Prix) in Digital Musics & Sound Art “Chijikinkutsu”
2014
The 17th Taro Okamoto Award of Contemporary Art, Selected “Magnetica Animata”
2004
Asia Digital Art Award FUKUOKA, Finalists’ Awards in Interactive Arts “The Creation”
The 7th Taro Okamoto Memorial Award of Contemporary Art, Special Prize “Weather in Abyss”
Public Collection
Takamatsu Art Museum, Kagawa, JP
