Art Award Tokyo Marunouchi 2021
We visited Art Award Tokyo Marunouchi (hereafter AATM).
The exhibition was staged across three venues in the Marunouchi area.
AATM is a contemporary art exhibition dedicated to discovering and nurturing young artists. Its curators visit graduation exhibitions at leading art universities, art colleges, and graduate schools across Japan, and from among the nominated works uncovered there, a further selection is put on display. It is closely watched each year as an award that recognizes outstanding emerging artists.
At the very first edition in 2007, the Grand Prize went to Haruka Kojin, and in 2009 it was awarded to Wah (Kenji Minamigawa + Hirofumi Masui) — members who later became part of me — an award that also broadcast their video appearances within the exhibition space.
The 2021 edition marked the milestone 15th edition, presenting works across three venues: the Marunouchi Building, Marunouchi OAZO, and the newly opened (July of this year) TOKYO TORCH Park.
Marunouchi Building 1F Marucube
Meiching Romana Tanimura (Tohoku University of Art and Design, Graduate School)
Akari Tsuji (Tohoku University of Art and Design)
Yuho Matsuoka (Kyoto University of the Arts, Graduate School)
Misuzu Ikeda (Tohoku University of Art and Design)
Koji Kato (Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School)
Rikako Inoue (Musashino Art University)
Kenichi Kato (Tokyo University of the Arts)
Saki Uchida (Tokyo University of the Arts)
Hinako Shinkai (Kyoto University of the Arts)
Naofumi Yoshida (Aichi University of the Arts)
Sayaka Takeda (Kyoto City University of Arts, Graduate School)
Koga Miura (Kyoto University of the Arts, Graduate School)
Marunouchi Building 3F Corridor
Ayano Naka (Tohoku University of Art and Design, Graduate School)
Mayuko Ichikawa (Tama Art University)
Kaoru Taguchi (Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School)
Nanami Inoue (Kyoto University of the Arts, Graduate School)
Hinako Miyabayashi (Tama Art University)
Marunouchi OAZO
Ryunosuke Okazaki (Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School)
Yamato Kawasumi (Aichi University of the Arts, Graduate School)
Yudai Murata (Kanazawa College of Art, Graduate School)
Tomomi Taoka (Musashino Art University, Graduate School)
Mayo Narushima (Musashino Art University)
John Chaffa (Musashino Art University)
TOKYO TORCH Park
The newly added venue, TOKYO TORCH Park.
Hisanori Namiki (Aichi University of the Arts, Graduate School)
Hana Sato (Musashino Art University)
Shuji Inoue (Tokyo University of the Arts)
