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Yurika Sunada b. 1989 in Tokyo, Japan

It is a long-standing fascination with the intricate mechanisms of human perception that actuates the weaving together of movement, light and sound into the multifaceted installations that compose my work. Ever since I can remember, I have had a curiosity for form and obsessed with its precision. But in this pursuit of perfection, I simultaneously committed myself to continuous and irrefutable failure.

These early toils laid the foundation for the kinetic sculptures I produce today. They had fortuitously fostered a curiosity for the imperfect, my untrustworthy perceptive senses in particular. It is in an attempt to better understand, and finally acknowledge these shortcomings, that most of my sculptures lend shape and movement to the myriad of trifling matters that comprise a daily life. My work situates itself amidst their contradictory gaps - between perfection and acceptance, memory and forgetfulness, perception and misconception. And although they are meticulously cultivated on these introspective ruminations, my ambition is not only to grant an audience the access to my qualia, but to invite a reimagining of one’s own.

Education

2023-                   

2008 - 2012 

B.F.A. in Scenography, Department of Scenography, Space, Fashion, Interior and Environment Design, Musashino Art University

M.F.A. in Intermedia Art, Tokyo University of the Arts

Solo Exhibitions

2020         

ambivalent, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany

2019        

TOKAS-emerging: engram, Tokyo, Japan

Group Exhibitions

2021

Interspace, ART PROJECT TAKASAKI 2021, Gunma, Japan

2018         

Intersection, Gallery 58, Tokyo, Japan

Group Exhibitions 

(Yurika Sunada and Hikari Hirakida (b. 1988) form ritmico)

2016       

The Research Associate  Exhibition 2016,

Musashino Art University Museum & Library, Tokyo, Japan

2015        

TOKYO artcrossing BERLIN,

Haus Schwarzenberg neurotitan, Berlin Germany

2014

The Research Associate  Exhibition 2015,

Musashino Art University Museum & Library, Tokyo, Japan

JART4TH, WAH Center, New York, USA

The Research Associate  Exhibition 2014,

Musashino Art University Museum & Library, Tokyo, Japan

SICF 14, Aoyama Spiral, Tokyo, Japan

2013

The Research Associate  Exhibition 2013,

Musashino Art University Museum & Library, Tokyo, Japan

2012

artcross project 2012 winter exhibition / Creative snow GINZATokyo, Japan

2019-2020

POLA Art Foundation Residencies

Grants & Awards

2018

Aesthetica Art Prize 2018 Longlist, United Kingdom

2012        

Received the incentive award of Final Graduation Project Exhibition graduation from Musashino Art University

2019-2020

Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany, POLA Art Foundation

AIR

2018

GlogauAIR, Berlin, Germany

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