Final Jury
TERRADA ART AWARD aims to create a new context within contemporary art, as well as within the history of art and culture. To this end, we welcome five final jury members who demonstrate an array of innovative concepts and sensibilities, possess a wealth of knowledge and an international perspective on art and culture, and who have pioneered various new forms of expression and thought.
Takahiro Kaneshima
Associate professor of SCAPe, Kanazawa College of Art
Born in Tokyo in 1977. Conducts practical research on collaboration, production,
and curation in the cultural ecosystem, including contemporaty art and crafts of
East Asia. Involved in art projects, exhibitions, exchange programs, and researches
in East Asia, including Yokohama, Beijing, Taipei, Chengdu, and Kyoto.Served as
Executive Director of "Art Fair Tokyo" (2011-2015), Art Director of "Art Beijing"
(2016-2017), and Program Director of "Art Collaboration Kyoto" (2021). Also serving
as Exhibition Director of "Yanbal Art Festival", an annual art festival held in the
northern area of Okinawa, since 2017.
He received a master’s degree in Media and Governance from Keio University in
2002, and a doctorate in Fine Art from the Graduate School of Arts at Kyoto City
University of Arts in 2023. Ph.D. in Fine Art.
Message for applicants
Artists have made various attempts through their artistic expression as a means of questioning the world in which we live. In this way, we overcame boundaries and walls, however, now many other cracks and imbalances arise due to new divisions and conflicts. With new perspectives, how can we expand and connect the world, which is becoming increasingly introversive? This award is an opportunity to support new talents who are trying to embark for the broader world. Please show us your artistic challenge.
Yukie Kamiya
Art Critic, Independent Curator
Kamiya served Gallery Director, Japan Society, New York, Chief Curator of Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art and Associate Curator of New Museum, New York. She was a co-curator of the 12th Shanghai Biennial (2018-19). Organized exhibitions internationally bridging Asia and other regions on cross-temporal themes, she was honored with the Academic Prize from the Western Art Foundation, Japan (2011). Member of AICA (International Association of Art Critics), she contributed publications extensively including Creamier :Contemporary Art in Culture, Phaidon (2010). Kamiya serves Board of Special Advisor for National Center for Art Research, Tokyo and Advisor of Shigeko Kubota Video Art Foundation, New York.
Message for applicants
Artists have made various attempts through their artistic expression as a means of questioning the world in which we live. In this way, we overcame boundaries and walls, however, now many other cracks and imbalances arise due to new divisions and conflicts. With new perspectives, how can we expand and connect the world, which is becoming increasingly introversive? This award is an opportunity to support new talents who are trying to embark for the broader world. Please show us your artistic challenge.
Yuki Terase
Art Intelligence Global Founding Partner
Yuki Terase began her art career at Sotheby’s in 2011 and was Head of Contemporary Art, Asia, from 2018 to 2021. During her tenure, Terase drove Hong Kong’s bi-annual contemporary art auctions into $100 million+ events and secured market leadership in Asia for seven consecutive seasons. In addition to overseeing record-breaking sales of works by major Asian contemporary artists, Yuki established new benchmarks for Western art in Asia and placed numerous blue-chip works into prominent collections. In 2021, Terase left Sotheby’s to establish the international art advisory firm Art Intelligence Global (“AIG”) alongside fellow Sotheby’s alumni Amy Cappellazzo. Headquartered in both Hong Kong and New York, AIG provides a wide range of services, including private sales and transactions, comprehensive advisory services, as well as specialist services to artists, family offices, and trusts and estates. Terase is a Founding Patron of M+ Museum, Hong Kong, and sits on the Board of Para Site, Hong Kong.
Message for applicants
It is with a great pleasure to witness TERRADA ART AWARD becoming one of the most prominent awards for young artists in Japan. I am also impressed with the activities of the past award winners that are often extending beyond Japan. In many ways, this is an opportunity that can be a turning point in your career. I look forward to receiving your unique narrative, a work that only you can create.
Daito Manabe
Artist, programmer, and composer
Graduated from the Tokyo University of Science (Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Mathematics) and completed the DSP (Dynamic Sensory Programming) Course at the International Academy of Media Arts and Sciences. Launched Rhizomatiks in 2006. Since 2015, Manabe and Motoi Ishibashi have headed Rhizomatiks Research, the department of R+D of their own studio. In 2018, their first domestic solo exhibition was held in Kirishima Open-Air Museum.
Manabe is the recipient of numerous awards for his multidisciplinary contributions to advertising, design, and art. Notable recognitions include the Ars Electronica Distinction Award, Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity Titanium Grand Prix, D&AD Black Pencil, and the Japan Media Arts Festival Grand Prize.
To date, Manabe has worked as a part-time lecturer at the Department of Intermedia Art in the Faculty of Fine Arts at Tokyo University of the Arts, at the Department of Design in the Faculty of Fine Arts at Tokyo University of the Arts, and at the Department of Media Art at Tokyo Polytechnic University. He has been a guest lecturer at a special lecture on "Art as Social Infrastructure," hosted by Specially Appointed Professor Junji Ito at the Public Collaboration Center, Tokyo University of the Arts. In addition to that, he has been a Specially Appointed Professor at The University of the Arts Bremen as well as a specially-appointed professor at the Faculty of the Environment and Information Studies at Keio University. He currently serves on the board of trustees at istyle Art and Sports Foundation.
Message for applicants
As we move from the age of reproduction to the age of creation, and as what was once imagined becomes reality, the role of art is expanding. Given this historical background, I look forward to the appearance of works that foresee the near future, and to encountering works that present a vision of the future of society and culture. I anticipate creativity and innovation from all of you.
Meruro Washida
Director of Towada Art Center, Associate professor of Tokyo University of the Arts
Meruro Washida was born in Kyoto Prefecture in 1973. He received his master’s degree of Art History from the University of Tokyo. He was a curator at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa from 1999 to 2018. He is currently the director of the Towada Art Center in Aomori, Japan. He was the curator of the Japan Pavilion at the 57th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia held in 2017, and was a curator of the Aichi Triennale 2019.
Major projects at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, include "KAZUYO SEJIMA + RYUE NISHIZAWA / SANAA" (2005), "Atelier Bow-Wow, Iki-Iki Project in Kanazawa" (2007), Kanazawa Art Platform 2008", "Jeppe Hein 360," (2011), "SHIMABUKU:NOTO" (2013), “SAKANO Mitsunori: Visible Breath”, (2016).
"Loophole" (2017) at Gallery-MURYOW, "Identity" (2019) at nichido contemporary art, "Inter+Play" (2020-22) at the Towada Art Center.
Message for applicants
Before being an artist, what I want to see as a person is artworks that are affected by the gravity of life-works that I may not be able to understand, but that can convince me that they simply couldn't be anything other than that.
Primary Selection Jury
The primary selection jury will select approximately 50 candidates to proceed to the next round, and then the final jury will make the ultimate choices from among them.
In particular, we welcome the jury with a keen insight into emerging artists.
Ryo Ikeshiro
Artist, musician, researcher, Assistant Professor, School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong
After graduating from Kings College London, he obtained an MPhil from Cambridge University and a PhD from Goldsmiths University of London. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong.
He has exhibited at the M+ Museum of Visual Culture in Hong Kong, Asia Culture Centre in Gwangju, South Korea, and his TeleText art pages have been broadcast on German, Austrian, Swiss and Finnish national TV. He is also a contributor to Sound Art: Sound as a medium of art published by ZKM Karlsruhe/MIT. He is interested in the possibilities of meaning and context presented through sound as well as its materiality in relation to digital audio and audio technologies. His output includes installations and live performances involving audio, video and interactivity.
Message for applicants
In my previous message to applicants two years ago, I noted how we were living in unprecedented times of uncertainty, conflict and climate emergency. The situation somehow appears to be persisting and even deteriorating. So we continue to question ourselves. What is it that shapes us, as beings and as those involved in art and culture? When almost anything can be generated by AI which is becoming increasingly pervasive but leaves many problems unsolved, what can we actually do and what can we express? I look forward to seeing a wide range of portfolios from the applicants.
Shinji Ohmaki
Artist
Shinji Ohmaki’s artistic activity explores the theme and question of ”Existence.” The external world involving the environment and others, the internal world of memory and consciousness; this is an exploration of the body, which lies in between the boundaries of these worlds, aiming to create a bodily experience that captures the ambiguity of how these worlds interact with each other and move according to space and time.
His main solo exhibitions include “Interface of Being” (The National Art Center / Tokyo,2023), “Before and After the Horizon” (Hirosaki Museum of Contemporary Art/Hirosaki, 2023) , “Depth of Light” (A4 Art Museum/Chengdu, 2023) and “Rustle of Existence” (Kuandu Museum / Taipei, 2020). He has additionally participated in global group exhibitions, including the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale and the Yokohama Triennale. In recent years, he further explores performance art, such as “Rain”(Aichi Prefectural Arts Theater/Nagoya, 2023), YOKOHAMA DANCE COLLECTION/Ella Rothschild “Futuristic Space” Stage Art, Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse, Yokohama, 2019), and Louis Vuitton 2016-17 FW PARIS MEN'S COLLECTION, Paris, 2016).
Currently participating in “Lines —Aligning your consciousness with the flow” at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa.
Message for applicants
Following on from the previous, I am in charge of the first round screening.
There are many points to judge, such as whether or not the work is able to overlap artist’s own background, whether or not it is unique, and whether or not you feel that it has the potential to continue creating it in the future.
We hope to see artworks that make us want to see them in person.
Eriko Kimura
Director at Hirosaki Museum of Contemporary Art
Director at Hirosaki Museum of Contemporary Art, Guest Professor at Tama Art University and Kanazawa College of Art since 2024.
Eriko Kimura has been a Deputy Director at Hirosaki Museum of Contemporary Art since 2023, Senior Curator at Yokohama Museum of Art since 2000, and later became Curatorial Head for Yokohama Triennale 2020.
Recently curated exhibitions include: “NINAGAWA Mika with EiM: Where Humanity Meets Nature” Hirosaki Museum of Contemporary Art, 2024; “11 Stories on Distanced Relationships: Contemporary Art from Japan,” Organized by the Japan Foundation, 2021; “Hanran: 20th Century Japanese Photography” National Gallery of Canada, National Institute of Photography, 2019-2020. exhibitions at Yokohama Museum of Art include “Showa Portraits: Tracing the People and History of the Showa Era through Photography“ 2017/later exhibited at Arts Maebashi, 2018; “BODY/PLAY/POLITICS” 2016; “NARA Yoshitomo: a bit like you and me…” 2012 / toured to Aomori Museum of Art, 2013 / Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, 2013.
Message for applicants
What is interesting about TERRADA ART AWARD is that it is an opportunity to experience both the production experience of facing a wide, high ceiling space and producing everything from planning to realization of the exhibition, and the experience of having your artwork seen by many people at once and being accepted by a wide range of audiences due to the high attention the award gets.
I look forward to seeing challenging works that will utilize your own experience and style, while aiming for a further breakthrough.
Ryutaro Takahashi
Psychiatrist, Art Collector
Born in 1946. After graduating from the Toho University Faculty of Medicine, he entered the Department of Neuropsychiatry at Keio University Hospital. Ryutaro was sent to Peru as a medical professional for the Japan International Cooperation Agency, and then spent time working at Tokyo Metropolitan Ebara Hospital before founding Takahashi Clinic in Kamata, Tokyo in 1990. His specialization is in social psychiatry. In addition to being involved in regional mental health care, primarily centering around ambulatory rehabilitation and at-home care, he also focuses on psychological consultations and mental health care for business professionals. He began collecting contemporary art in earnest in 1997, predominantly works by young Japanese artists.
There are now more than 3,500 works in his collection. The Ryutaro Takahashi Collection has been exhibited at 26 venues in Japan and one outside Japan. He appears on "Telephone Life Counseling," a radio program by Nippon Broadcasting Corporation. His most recent book is Contemporary Art Collector (Kodansha's New Library of Knowledge).
Message for applicants
Works that brush the surface of the era are highly praised in the art market. However, I am looking forward to works that will not be consumed in the blink of an eye, but rather that will turn the era inside out.
Yuu Takehisa
Curator, Artistic Director of Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito
Recent curated exhibitions include;
“Artists and the Disaster: Imagining in the 10th Year” (2021), “Publicness of the Art Center” (2019-2020,2023), “Tohru Nakazaki: Fiction Traveler” (2022), “Asada Masashi: Somebody’s Best Album” (2022), “David Shrigley: Lose Your Mind” (2017-2018), “Koki Tanaka: Possibilities for being together. Their praxis.” (2016), “Otomo Yoshihide: Ensembles 2010-Resonance” (2010).In addition to exhibitions, she is also involved in civic collaboration projects and school visit programs. She was one of the directors of the " Water and Land Niigata Art Festival " in 2012.
Message for applicants
TERRADA ART AWARD is open to young and mid-career artists working in diverse fields of expression, and is a valuable opportunity for finalists to create new works with the funds provided for their production, and present them to a large number of audiences. I am looking forward to seeing the plans that are well thought out for this award, which attracted many audiences last time, finding out why you create this work now, and where the uniqueness of your own expression.
Reiko Tsubaki
Curator, the Mori Art Museum
Tsubaki joined the Mori Art Museum in 2002, after she completed a Master degree at the Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies at Kyoto University (Theory of Creative Arts) and a Master degree (Contemporary Art Critic) at the University of Paris I, Pantheon-Sorbonne.
Curated Louise Bourgeois (2024-2025), Our Ecology (2023-2024), Roppongi Crossing 2019 (2019), Leandro Erlich (2017-2018), Art and Universe (2016-2017), Medicine and Art (2010).
She introduced Ho Tzu Nyen, Tala Madni, Camille Henrot, Takata Fuyuhiko, Cyprien Gaillard, Cao Fei and Yamauchi Shota in the small project series. Currently preparing “MAM Research 011: Tokyo Underground 1960s-1970s” and “MAM Screen 021: Gabriel Abrantes. Visiting professor at Seian University of Art and Design (2013-2014), part-time lecturer at Aoyama Gakuin University (2019-2023), as well as writing and giving lectures.
Message for applicants
Art has existed since ancient times and is capable of a truly wide variety of expressions. It is also a medium that has documented numerous natural disasters, pandemics, and wars, etc. It is an interesting time when technologies such as AI are being featured, while at the same time, ideas and methods from before modern civilization are also gaining attention.I would like to see what you truly want to create and express in this era.