Mamoru

Born 1977, Osaka, Japan. Mamoru holds a bachelor’s degree from the Department of Music (jazz piano) at The City University, New York (2001), and a master’s degree from the Master Artistic Research program at The Royal Academy of Arts and The Royal Conservatory, The Hague (2016). He was a trainee under the Overseas Study Program for Upcoming Artists of the Agency for Cultural Affairs in 2015. His recent exhibitions include 10th Yebisu International Festival for Art and Alternative Visions – Mapping the Invisible (Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo, 2018), Time of Others (Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, 2015, and Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, 2016), Sensorium, Media/Art Kitchen (Ayala Museum, Manila, 2013), OVER THE RAINBOW (Fuchu Art Museum, Tokyo, 2013), and Re-Modernologio (Aomori Contemporary Art Centre, Aomori, 2011). Mamoru is represented by Yuka Tsuruno Gallery in Tokyo