Fumihiko Sumitomo
Curator of contemporary art with solid experience of museum, international exhibitions, and alternative spaces. My research fields extend from post-war Japanese art, art in Asia and media art. Director of Arts Maebashi from 2013-2021. A founding member of Arts Initiative Tokyo (AIT).
【Teaching and Supervising Experience】
Teaching curatorial studies at Graduate School of Arts, Tokyo University of Arts since its launch in 2015. Supervising three PhD Thesis and twelve M.A. thesis.
Guest Lecturer in Kanazawa College of Art, Musashino Art University, University of Tokyo, Tama Art University, Central Academy of Fine Arts China and more, since 2002.
【Curated Exhibitions】
Co-curated “Post Nature”(2022) in Ulsan Art Museum, Korea.
“Listening: Resonant Worlds” (2020), “The Ecology of Expression - Remaking Our Relations with the World” (2019), “Foodscape: We are what we eat (2016) in Arts Maebashi.
“Demacation Akira Takayama/Meiro Koizumi”(2015) in Maison Hermès Le Forum.
Co-curated Aichi Triennale 2013, Media City Seoul 2010, Beautiful New World: Contemporary Visual Culture from Japan (2007) in “798” Dashanzi Art District / Guangdong Museum of Art.
Tadashi Kawamata: Walkway (2008) in Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo(MOT).
Art Meets Media: Adventure in Perception (2005) and Possible Futures: Japanese Postwar Art and Technology (2005) in NTT InterCommunication Center (ICC).
Out the Window: Contemporary Arts from Korea, China and Japan (2004) in Japan Foundation, Tokyo.
【Employment】
Arts Maebashi (July 2010-March 2021)
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (MOT)(July 2006 – December 2008)
NTT InterCommunication Center (ICC) (March 2004 – May 2006)
21 Century Museum of Contemporary Art Kanazawa (June 2000 – February 2004)
Spiral /Wacoal Art Center (July 1995 – December 1997)
【Education】
University of Tokyo (1997-1999)
M.A., Culture and Representation
University of Tokyo (1990-1994)
B.A., Art History
【Publications】
Besides contributing many essays for the exhibition catalog, I also write regularly for newspaper, journals and web magazines.
Other publications I contributed are:
The Role of Art in the 21st Century (Tokyo: Mirai-sha 2006), How to become curator (Film Art, 2009)
Co-editor of "From Postwar to Postmodern, Art in Japan 1945-1989: Primary Documents" (Museum of Modern Art New York/ Duke University Press, 2012).
【Conference and Presentations】
Association for Studies of Culture and Representation conference, 2005
“Sauvage modernity: reconsideration of post-war Japanese art”, National Museum of Art Osaka, 2005
“On Post-war Japanese Art”, Museum of Modern Art, 2008
Asian Art Award, National Museum of Korea, 2010
“Negotiation of Contemporary Japanese culture”, Association for Studies of Culture and Representation conference,2010
Asian Art Biennale, National Museum of Taiwan, 2011
“Future of Asian Museum”, Gakushuin Women’s University, 2014
“Socially Engaged Art in Japan- Questions for Contemporary Policy and Practice”, Washington University, 2015
Museum Summit for 21st Century, Kanagawa International Exchange Foundation, 2016
“Disability and Art”, University of Tokyo Center for Philosophy, 2016
“Art Practice and Human Rights”, Kyoto Seika University, 2019
“Culture/Crust/Transformation: emerging world and arts to come”, International Association for Art Critic Japan, 2020
“Floating Generation 1989-2019”, Festival de l’histoire de l’art, 2021
【Proefssional Associations】
Association for Studies of Culture and Representation
CIMAM, International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art
