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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.