Maruyama Junko

Education
1992 University of Ritsumeikan, studied economy and ecology in the Dep. of International Relations, Japan, BA
2002 City University of New York, Hunter College, USA, BFA

Group Exhibition
2009 Roppongi Art Night / Roppongi Hills, /Tokyo, Japan
2009 Kaitaicho 33 / kaitai-cho33, /Tokyo, Japan/ 2008 The Tenth Jokamachi-Takada Flower Road Festival/shigo cho-me office/Niigata, Japan 2008 BankART Life II /Yokohama City Hall /Yokohama, Japan
2008 Kanazawa Art Platform / Tatemachi Street / Ishikawa, Japan
2008 Junko Maruyama Exhibition / Yamanashi Prefectural Museum / Yamanashi, Japan
2008 The House Exhibition / Roppongi house exhibition hall / Tokyo, Japan
2008 Field of Ideas / Form, Perth / Australia
2008 Food and Contemporary Art vol.2,Yokohama Art Norengai / BankART1929/Yokohama, Japan
2007 School Art Museum in Minobu / Prefectural Minobu High School/Yamanashi, Japan
2007 The Ninth Jokamachi-Takada Flower Road Festival / Yuko Seki Design Office/ Niigata, Japan
2007 Explosion / BankART 1929 / Yokohama, Japan 2007 Old-Naka Factory Art Project / Yoshijima Community Center / Hiroshima, Japan
2007 The 22nd Contemporary Art “Kofu Exhibition” / Fujimura Memorial Hall / Yamanashi, Japan
2007 Landmark Project II / BankART 1929 /Yokohama, Japan
2007 Food and Contemporary Art vol.3 / BankART 1929 / Yokohama, Japan Solo exhibition /
2008 Junko Maruyama Exhibition /Yamanashi Prefectural Museum/Yamanashi, Japan
2007 Junko Maruyama Exhibition /Gallery Echo in Yamanashi Prefectural Museum/Yamanashi, Japan
2007 Shin-Minabi Exhibition /Gallery Echo in Yamanashi Prefectural Museum/Yamanashi, Japan
2006 Stylish lounge and all around culture for Valentine / club Buddha/ Nagoya, Japan Others /
2007 Charitable Trust Oki Commemoration Artist Aid Fund Award
2005 Kitanaka Open! Director of open studio event /Kitanaka Brick and Kitanaka White/ Yokohama
2004 Free Art Free , Semi Grandpre/Gallery Gan/Tokyo Program

Proposal During the summer of 2008 Seth Lower received a strange message from someone in Taipei named Lee Ming. With no further introduction, she (or he) told him that s/he knew who he was and that s/he had met him in a dream before he was ever born. S/he described the dream, which had recurred numerous times throughout her/his life, as something like a fever dream, always giving her/him a strange feeling of sadness. In the dream, a cloaked figure saved her/his life from a band of murderers, but only at the expense of his life. As he lay dying in her/his arms, he wrote his name in blood on the palm of her/his hand. It was Seth’s name. How s/he found him after this s/he didn’t say—only that s/he saw one of Seth’s images on the Internet and immediately recognized it. That was all s/he said, and despite subsequent replies, s/he never sent anything further. Working with members of the KdMoFA and Taipei National University of the Arts community, Lower will create a video reconstruction of Lee Ming’s dream and will search for people in Taipei named Lee Ming, creating an investigative project in the process.