About Artist
Sachiko Kodama
Sachiko Kodama links emergence phenomena with plastic art to create mixed media works that explore the relationship between forms/motion and vision/light.
Since 2000, Kodama has been working on a ferrofluid art project that she named “Protrude, Flow”. The expressions in her ferrofluid sculptures exist in the generation of organic forms and movement using ferrofluid, to present growing forms, contraction, rhythm, composition of curved surface and light, and emerging subtle/dynamic textures. The contradictory nature of ferrofluid (hard/soft, beautiful/ugly, growth/atrophy, attraction/repulsion, and rise against gravity/fall due to gravity) can communicate similar contradictory concepts and ideas in living organisms.
In parallel with her ferrofluid art project, Kodama has been creating works that use various media. She has presented interactive works in ”Bouncing Star Ball Project,” in which people interact with images projected in space by moving their bodies while using a ball.
In recent years, based on the principle of indirect light, she has presented kinetic light artworks “Lattice Window Series,” in which image of colored light changes slowly as if it melts into a lattice.
Kodama’s works, which are visually dynamic and sometimes subtly change without being noticed, are exhibited in galleries, museums, and public spaces in Japan and overseas.
Born in Japan in 1970. Lives and works in Tokyo.
1993 B.S. Hokkaido University (Division of Physics.).
1995 M.A. University of Tsukuba (master’s program in Art and Design)
2000 Completed doctoral program in Art, received Ph.D. from the University of Tsukuba.
Artist/Associate Professor at the University of Electro-Communications.
[Awards]
- 2009~2010
- Selected as a recipient of the scholarship of Program of Overseas Study for Upcoming Artists by Agency of Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan (New York)
- 2006
- Accepted for SIGGRAPH 2006 Art Gallery (Boston)
- 2005
- Accepted for VIDEOEX 2005 International Experimental Film & Video Festival
- 2005
- Accepted for the Ninth Annual MadCat Women’s International Film Festival
- 2002
- Awarded Grand Prize of Digital Art (Interactive Art) Division at the 5th Media Art Festival, Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japan
- 2002
- Japan Information-Culturology Society, Art Award
- 2002
- Digital Content Grand Prix 2001 Grand Prize in Art
- 2001
- Accepted for SIGGRAPH 2001 Art Gallery (Los Angeles)
- 1997
- Accepted for International Biennale in Nagoya – ARTEC’97
- 1995
- Accepted for International Biennale in Nagoya – ARTEC’95
- 1994
- Accepted for Fukui International Youth Media Art Festival
[Solo Exhibitions]
[Group Exhibitions]
- 2023
- Alife 2023 (The 2023 Conference on Artificial Life): Art Exhibition “Unconscious Relationship”, Hokkaido University, 2023.
Tsukuba Media Art Festival 2023, Tsukuba Museum of Art Ibaraki, 2023.
Utsutsu: A Liminalism of Japanese Contemporary Art after 2010s’, Pellas Gallery (Boston), 2023.
A Quarter-Century of Japan Media Arts Festival, Warehouse TERRADA(Tokyo), 2023. - 2022
- Small Reboots by Japanese Artists, Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina(Novi Sad, Serbia), 2022.
- 2021
- Chofu Media Art Lab: Vision in Motion 2021, Chofu City Cultural Hall Tazukuri (Tokyo)
VISION GATE Exhibition, Haneda/Narita Airport(Tokyo,Chiba)
New Taketori Monogatari, Ogose Brewery (Saitama)
The World of Kenichi Nemoto, Tsukuba Bunkagou (Ibaraki)
Panasonic Creative Museum AkeruE Permanent Exhibition (Tokyo) - 2020
- Japan Media Arts Festival in Otaru,Canal Plaza (Otaru)
Pharmakon Chain Reaction, Atelier Mitsushima(Kyoto)
Made in Fuchu : Twenty Years of Open Studio Programs, Fuchu Art Museum (Tokyo) - 2017
- ArtFitura Rome: Digital Creature, Ex Dogana (Rome)
Nuit Blanche KYOTO 2017, Seikado (Kyoto)
Japan Media Arts Festival in Ishigaki Island，Ishigaki Civic Hall (Okinawa)
Imaginary Guide: Japan, Mystetskyi Arsenal (Kyiv) - 2016
- Japan Media Arts Festival 20th Anniversary Exhibition – Power to Change, 3331 Arts Chiyoda (Tokyo)
Tazukuri Art Festival, Chofushi Cultural Hall Tazukuri (Tokyo) - 2014
- Boundless Fantasy: Multimedia Art from East Asia, Charles B. Wang Center, The State University of New York at Stony Brook (NY)
Ankoku, Galerie-da end (Paris) - 2013
- Turbulences II, Villa Empain (Brussels)
“We are in complete control” exhibition, the 3:e Våningen (Göteborg)
Lille 3000, Natures Artificielles, Gare Saint Sauveur (Lille)
Aomori Earth 2013 – Brave New World – Re-Enchanting Utopia, Aomori Museum of Art (Aomori)
Magical Art Museum Exhibition – Miyazaki Prefectural Art Museum (Miyazaki), Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto (Kumamoto), The Ueno Royal Museum (Tokyo), 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (Ishikawa), Okayama City Museum (Okayama)
Design Shanghai 2013, Power Station of Art (Shanghai)
Japan Media Arts Festival in Yamanashi，Yamanashi Prefectural Library (Yamanashi) - 2012
- MEDIA GEIJUTSU Flow & Bright, GYRE (Tokyo)
Teddy Lo, Sachiko Kodama, Ryota Kuwakubo, Transmurtation exhibition, Highline Loft (New York)
Art Rock Festival, Pavillon des Arts Numériques, Musée de Saint-Brieuc (Saint-Brieuc, Farnce)
Turbulence, Espaces Louis Vuitton (Paris)
Sachiko Kodama ‘Breathing Chaos’ video and photo exhibit, Hester Chan Fine Art (London)
Mugendai Art Exhibition, Hamada Children’s Museum of Art (Tottori)
Magical Art Museum Exhibition – Yumeminato Tower (Tottori), Matsuzakaya Art Museum (Aichi) - 2011
- Art Futura XXI, Alhóndiga Bilbao (Bilbao)
Left to my own devices, INSPACE (Scotland)
Magical Art Museum Exhibition – Morioka Civic Cultural Hall (Iwate), Takehara Museum (Hiroshima)
Close Your Eyes and Tell Me What You See，Göteborgs konstmuseum (Sweden), Vartiovuoren tähtitorni (Finland)
Breathing Chaos, Sasebo City Museum Shimanose Art Center (Sasebo) - 2010
- Ars Electronica – 30 years for Art and Media Technology, The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (Tokyo)
Silicon dreams. Art, Science & Technology in the European Union, Tabakelera (San Sebastián)
Poetry of Motion, Ars Electronica at Automobil Forum Unter den Linden (Berlin)
Magical Art Museum Exhibition, Oita Art Museum (Oita)
Japan Media Arts Festival in Istanbul, Pera Museum (Istanbul)
Japan Media Arts Festival Travelling Exhibition in Sapporo, Sapporo Art Park (Hokkaido)
‘Device art collection’ exhibit (a group exhibition with device art project members) started, Miraikan (Tokyo)
‘Big In Japan’ Exhibit (Australia) - 2009
- Summer vacation for me and art, Ichihara Lakeside Museum (Chiba)
Device Art Exhibition, Ars Electronica Center (Linz)
Device_art 3.009 Exhibit, Kontejner (Zagreb)
Art Future 2009, Auditorio IMAGINA (Barcelona) - 2008
- Sculpture in Motion: Art Choreographed by Nature, Atlanta Botanical Garden (GA)
Machines & Souls, Arte Digital y Nuevos Medios, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte, Reina Sofía, MNCARS (Madrid)
Andy Moses, Sachiko Kodama, Ewerdt Hilgemann, Samuel Freeman Gallery (Santa Monica)
SIGGRAPH ASIA 2008, Art Gallery – Curated Show, Suntec Singapore International Convention & Exhibition Centre (Singapore)
Permanent exhibition, National Science Technology Museum (Taiwan) - 2007
- Contemporary Artists of South Kyushu – Message 2007, Miyakonojo City Museum of Art (Miyazaki)
The Power of Expression, JAPAN, The National Art Center (Tokyo)
Electronic Alive IV, Scarfone Gallery, University of Tampa (Florida)
Japan Media Arts Festival 2007 in Shanghai, Shanghai Sculpture space (Shanghai)
Haptic Literacture – Intersection of text/media art, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum (Tokyo)
Ubiquitous Media, Asian Transformations Exhibit, The University of Tokyo (Tokyo)
WIRED NextFest，Los Angeles Convention Center (Los Angeles) - 2006
- Japan Media Arts Festival , Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography (Tokyo)
Electrical Fantasista, BankART Studio NYK (Kanagawa)
Woman’s Perspective in New Media, Bitforms Gallery Seoul (Seoul)
SIGGRAPH 2006, Art Gallery “N-Space” Exhibition (Los Angeles) - 2005
- Meta visual : 10e anniversaire du Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Centre des Arts d’Enghien-les-Bains (Enghien-les-Bains, France)
Digital Art Festival Tokyo 2005, Panasonic Center (Tokyo)
VIDEOEX 2005 International Experimental Film & Video Festival (Switzerland)
The Ninth Annual MadCat Women’s International Film Festival (San Francisco) - 2004
- Navigator: Digital Art in the Making, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (Taichung)
Time/Space, Gravity, and Light, Skirball Cultural Center (Los Angels) - 2002
- Reimagination image/media/museum, Fukui Fine Arts Museum (Fukui)
Japan Media Arts Exhibition 2002, CAFA(Central Academy of Fine Arts) Art Museum (Beijing)
Mood River， Wexner Center for the Arts (Ohio)
Cibervision’02， Conde Duque Cultural Centre (Madrid)
Japan Media Arts Festival Award-winning art exhibition, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography (Tokyo)
[Art Fairs, etc. (selected)]
- 2015
- Art Paris Art Fair 2015, Galerie-da end (Paris)
- 2011
- Chanel J12 watch events(Paris, Tokyo, New York)
- 2010
- The Armory Show 2010, Piers 92 & 94 (New York)
[Commission / Museum Works]
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- Ars Electronica Center (Linz, Austria)
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- Wonder Museum (Okinawa, Japan)
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- National Science Technology Museum (Kaohsiung, Taiwan)
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- Panasonic Center Tokyo Creative Museum AkeruE (Tokyo, Japan)
[Collections]
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- Miyakonojo City Museum of Art (Japan)
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- Boghossian Foundation (Belgium)
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- ArtFutura (Spain)
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- 3:e Våningen (Sweden)
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- M.A.D. Gallery (Switzerland)
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- Leeum (South Korea)
- Collections by individual collectors and companies from Japan, South Korea, Singapore, China, Australia, Switzerland, Belgium, France and the United States.
