Umi Ishihara
b.1993, Tokyo, Japan
Based in London and Tokyo

Upcoming
2024 Nov Engawa Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian (CAM), Lisbon
2024 Oct Home Sweet Home, Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa
2024 Oct Thundergod, Gallery&Restaurant Butaiura
2024 Sept Struggle, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka

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Education
2024 MA Artist’s Film & Moving Image, Goldsmiths University of London, UK
2018 BA Fine Arts (Inter Media Art), Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan

Solo Exhibition
2024 Thundergod, Gallery Restaurant Butaiura, Tokyo
2021 Gravity and Radiance, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo
2017 Mire of Dickhead Demon, TAV Gallery, Tokyo

Selected Group Exhibition
2023 Home Sweet Home, The National Museum of Art, Osaka
2023 Fukuoka Art Award, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka
2022 Coming of Age, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris
2022 National Museum of Women in the Arts Japan, YAU, Tokyo
2021 Digitalis or First-Person Camera, Takuro Someya Contemporary Art, Tokyo
2022 Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo
2019 Bloomberg New Contemporaries, South London Gallery, London
2019 Women Imagininig Rooms: About the Diary of Lady Sarashina, Ichihara Lakeside Museum, Chiba

Selected Screenings
2024 The Pioneer, Centro de Arte Moderna, Lisbon
2022 Gravity and Radiance, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo
2020 Janitor of Lunacy, ICA London, London
2019 Janitor of Lunacy, BFI Southbank, London
2019 The Garden Apartment / The Pioneer, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam
2018 Pains of Forever, The Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
2018 Pains of Forever, CPH:DOX, Copenhagen
2014 Desktop Treasure, Hors Pistes São Paulo, Museum of Image and Sound, São Paulo
2014 Desktop Treasure, Hors Pistes Tokyo Official Selection, Centre Pompidou, Paris

Public Collection
2024 The National Museum of Art, Japan
2023 Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan

Selected Awards and Grants
2024 GQ Global Creativity Awards 2024
2024 The Pola Art Foundation Grants for Overseas Study
2023 Fukuoka Art Award
2022 Art News Japan, 30 Artists
2021 Shiseido Art egg 2021
2019 Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2019
2018 Ezoe Memorial Recruit Foundation Scholarship Student
2018 KUMA Foundation Scholarship Student
2016 Contemporary Art Foundation Teiya Iwabuchi Award

Contact: ummmi.81@gmail.com