Kamiyama Artist in Residence 2016
Artists are selected for Kamiyama Artist in Residence 2016.
Marijn van Kreij
Maki Shimizu
Jeannine Shinoda
【 KAIR2016 】
period of stay：2016/８/20～11/６
・Open Studio 2016/９/18
・Exhibition 10/23～11/3
【 KAIR2016 Artists】
The multifaceted work of Dutch artist Marijn van Kreij often takes existing imagery, texts and music as a starting point to consider their meaning when utilized in a new, carefully constructed, highly personal setting. Departing from the belief that art is made in reaction to art and in recognition of art, making contact with other artists or musicians forms a crucial part of his practice. This contact may vary from ‘simply’ using a fragment of a Picasso painting – which is then reproduced in paint and repeated over a large sheet of paper – to getting in touch with fellow artists for a joint project. Most recently his series on paper based on Picasso’s late studio pictures have become a catalyst to reflect further upon questions of reclusion and being ‘in the world’, the life of art and art of life. The common denominator within all his endeavours is a search for a dialogical functioning of art. Marijn van Kreij lives and works in Amsterdam. He studied at AKV St. Joost in Breda and was a resident artist at Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam.
Born in Ibaraki Prefecture. Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Tsukuba University (printmaking), and master’s degree from Bielefeld University (graphic design) in Germany. Since 2006, she has been based in Berlin as an artist and illustrator, active in creating art, installations, comics, live events, and more. One element of her life work is to observe, then express moments from daily life in sketches. She is interested in the act of using art as a direct connection to society and the reverberations that can arise from this. Her main theme is the way composition made up of bold and simple lines and color surfaces can create a two-dimensional media that enables people to share deep emotions. With her active and dynamic personality and her work that crosses over walls and boundaries of time and cultural backgrounds, she has gained praise around the world. In recent years, she has gone beyond exhibitions and printed materials, to explore new possibilities in art exchange and art education through lectures and workshops. Currently, she participates in various projects as a freelance artist in a shared atelier in Berlin while also teaching art at elementary schools and lecturing part-time at an art university.
Jeannine Shinoda is an architect and an artist who lives and works in Los Angeles. Using both sculpture and performance, she examines the everyday systems of contemporary life. At the basis of her inquiry, is a desire to explore a personal place of ambivalence and pleasure. In this fertile territory of investigation, she oscillates between the sometimes divergent impulses of immersion and analysis in order to create her work.
Shinoda is the recipient of the Stewardson Keefe LeBrun Travel Award from the Center for Architecture, for which she traveled to East Africa to research on unplanned developments. She received her Bachelor of Architecture from Carnegie Mellon University, her license in architecture from the state of Oregon, and her Master of Fine Art from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
