UJINO Muneteru

Profile

born in 1964.
B.A. in craft at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in 1988.

He has been making sound sculptures and performing with them from 1990s. Recently, he started a music band project The Rorators, consisted of ordinary household appliances including blenders, hairdryers and power tools, which were designed to create a brighter future for the physical world in the 21st century. 

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2014 UJINO & THE ROTATORS' MACHINE THEATER "INERTIA" Asahi Art Square, Tokyo
2013 "Be a good boy" Yamamoto Gendai, Tokyo
2012 "DUET" PSM, Berlin, Germany
2011 "TRANSCRIBED" Yamamoto Gendai, Tokyo
2009 "Ujino and the Rotators" Hayward Project Space, London, U.K.
2008 "Crossband" PSM, Berlin
2007 "The Rotators-Robertson and Phillips" Western Front, Vancouver
2006 "Ujino and the Rotators" Bankart Studio NYK, Kanagawa

Selected Group Exhibitions

2013 "Pop/Life" the Hakone Open-Air Museum, Kanagawa
2012 "15th ASIAN ART BIENNALE BANGLADESH" Dakha, Bangladesh
2012 "1st KIEV INTERNATIONAL BIENNALE OF MODERN ART" Art Arsenal, Kiev, Ukraine
2011 "NJP SUMMER FESTIVAL 21 ROOMS" Nam June Paik Art Center, Yongin, Korea
2010 "THE RECORD - Contemporary Art and Vinyl" Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, USA
2010 "Roppongi Crossing 2010: Can There Be Art?" Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
2009 "EXPosition of Mythology-Electronic Technology" Nam June Paik Art Center, Yongin, Korea
2008 "Trend of Contemporary Art" Gyeongnam Art Museum, Changwon, Korea
2008 "KITA!!: Japanese Artists Meet Indonesia" Selasar Sunaryo Art Space, Bandung, Indonesia
2008 "Re-imagining Asia" House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany
2007 "Beautiful New World: Contemporary Visual Culture from Japan" Long March, Beijing, and the
Guandong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
2007 "THERMOCLINE OF ART -NEW ASIAN WAVES-" ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
2006 "15th Biennale of Sydney" Sydney, Australia
2005 "ARS ELECTRONICA FESTIVAL 2005", Linz, Austria
2004 "OFFICINA ASIA" Galleria d' Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy
2003 "The 6th Taro Okamoto Memorial Award for Contemporary Art" Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, Kawasaki
2003 "VIRGIN ROAD" Ssamzie Space, Seoul, Korea
2001-02 "Jam: London-Tokyo" Barbican Gallery, London, U.K.
1999 "COLLABORATION ART"(Gorgerous) Fukushima Museum of Art, Fukushima

About works / performance

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Sherbet Dab Swivel, 2009
Copyright (c)2009 Ujino Muneteru, All rights reserved.
photo: Jon Cartwright