MURAKAMI Hanako

Profile

After receiving her Bachelor of Literature from the University of Tokyo, she received her MA from the Tokyo University of the Arts, Department of New Media. She continued her studies for a year in Belgium with a government scholarship. With a grant from the Pola Art Foundation, she then moved to France, where she joined Le Fresnoy National Studio of Contemporary Art. She currently lives and works in Paris. Her major solo exhibitions includes "ANTICAMERA(OF THE EYE)", Taka Ishii Gallery(2016); "The Capital Room: Beyond Three Dimensional Logical Pictures: Hanako Murakami", Gallery αM, Tokyo (2015). Her major group exhibitions are, "Panorama 17", Le Fresnoy, Studio National d'Art Contemporain (2015); "Practice of Everyday Life", Aomori Contemporary Art Centre (2011); "Tokyo Story", Tokyo Wonder Site (2010); and "Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale", Niigata (2009).

About works / performance

《Invention》
2015, 33x27cm, print on paper, endless copies
courtesy of Taka Ishii Gallery

《The Perfect》
2015, 1.2x0.9m, Lambda print mounted on aluminium
courtesy of Taka Ishii Gallery

《Apparition of a Cloud》
2013, 18x16cm, daguerreotype
courtesy of Taka Ishii Gallery

《El Fin del Mundo no Llego》
2013,70x50cm, woodblock print on paper(installation view)
courtesy of Taka Ishii Gallery

《ANTICAMERA(OF THE EYE)》
2015, 175x123cm, silver print by enlarger (detail)
courtesy of Taka Ishii Gallery

《Self-Portrait after St.Veronica》
2015, 400mmx400mm, facial oil blotting paper
courtesy of Taka Ishii Gallery