b. Ibaraki, Japan
Currently based in New York and Tokyo.

[Biography]
Hanae Utamura is a Japanese interdisciplinary artist and educator based in New York and Tokyo. She is also currently a PhD candidate in electronic arts in Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. 

Her work engages with historical memory, questioning the notion of progress in modernity, ecology and technology.

Utamura’s media include video, performance, installation, and sculpture. She connects human beings and earth, using the physical human body as a conduit. She explores negotiations and conflicts between the human and the non-human, and how all the varieties of the wills of life manifest such as in the field of science. By decentralizing the human perspective, Utamura diversifies historical narratives, and enters the imagination of nature.

She received her Master of Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art and Design, and her Bachelor Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London. Utamura has received support through numerous international residencies and fellowships including Akademie Schloss Solitude (Stuttgart, Germany), Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin), PACT Zollverein (Essen, Germany), Art Omi (Hudson, U.S.), Santa Fe Art Institute Residency, Aomori Contemporary Art Center (Japan), National Museum of Contemporary Art, Changdong Art Studio (Seoul, S.Korea), Seoul Art Space_GEUMCHEON (Seoul, S.Korea), Florence Trust (London, U.K.) and more.
She has been awarded More Art Engaging Artist Fellowship, NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program, Shiseido Art Egg Award, Grant program by the Japanese Ministry of Culture, the Pola Art Foundation, UNESCO-Aschberg Bursary Award, and Axis/Florence Trust Award. And has been exhibited extensively in Asia, Europe and U.S. She was a visiting scholar at New York University in 2019, supported by Japanese Ministry of Culture, Japanese government as a part of Japan - United States Exchange Friendship Program in the Art.

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2004 Graduated from BA Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, University of London
2010 Graduated from MA Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London
2019 Visiting Scholar at New York University
2022- PhD Candidate in interdisciplinary art at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

[Solo Exhibitions / Two-Person Exhibitions]
2023 Broken Earths / Tierras Rotas, op.cit./foundation, Mexico City, Mexico
2022 STRATA, waitingroom gallery, Tokyo, Japan (Two-person show with Naho Kawabe)
2022 Transmutation, Frontispace, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York
2021 'Resonances of DiStances/共鳴する距離感 ', basedonart gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany (Two person show with Shigeko Kubota, Screening with Shelly Silver)
2018 Weather Constellation, Rosenberg Gallery, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York
2018 Holiday at War, Shiseido Art Egg Award Exhibition, Shiseido Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2018 Ontology of Performance: Falls of Niagara, SOMA Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2016 Holiday at War, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
2015 Holiday at War, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany
2014 Across the Grid, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany
2012 Construct: Fountain, Patio Project, WW Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2011 Inverted Horizons, Schwartz Gallery, London, United Kingdom

[Group Exhibitions / Screenings / Performances]
2024
Threads, Albany Center Gallery, Albany, NY (until June 1, 2024)
Seeding Care, ArtPort Kingston, Kingston, NY
Graduate Exhibition, Create Community Studios, Troy, NY
Screening & Performance, Three Phase Center, Stone Ridge, NY
Dear Being, curated by Yola Monakhov Stockton, Last Projects, Los Angeles
2023
West Hall Open Studios, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Screening Dialogue in Asia, Knots for the Arts, Tokyo, Japan (Screening)
IJsselbiënnale, Deventer, The Netherlands
Fringe Arts Bath, Bath, United Kingdom
b priori, Collar Works, Troy, NY
2022
West Hall Open Studios, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
'Water Music', Excavating Niagara by Null point, Artpark / Niagara River, Lewiston, New York
'The Summer Group Show', The Parsonage Gallery, Maine, United States
'SUMMER Nights', Canada gallery, New York, NY
'Open Studio vol.1', ANB Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
'Futures, Narratives, and Networks', More Art, Queens Museum, New York, NY
2021
'Not Words, Not Image / 言葉でもなく、イメージでもなく、', Krautraum, Tokyo, Japan
Phantasmapolis, Asian Art Biennial, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
'Contretemps' Wetlab, New York Virtual Volcano Observatory, Governor’s Island, New York, NY
'Faculty Exhibition' Hartnett Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
'Living Matter', Russian National Museum Association of the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
‘Sommerfest’, Dreams of Solidarity to Fill the Vacuum, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany
‘Pars Pro Toto‘, Peer to Space, Germany
2020
'Feminists in Collective Practice' curated by Back and Forth Collective, TOKAS, Tokyo (Screening)
'ecofeminism(s)' curated by Monika Fabijanska, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York
'Solo Show', UN/CUBE Gallery
'Here, Together!' The Immigrant Artist Biennial (TIAB), Brooklyn Museum, New York, U.S. (Performance)
2019
'Image_between History and Human being’, The Korean Society of Art and Media International Exhibition 2019, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea
'From Here to Eternity-The research of temporality and eternity of contemporary art No.5', B-galleria, Turku, Finland
'Lively in Between', Aomori Contemporary Art Center, Aomori, Japan
'Modest Expressionism #1 Water, Wood, Cloth', J & M Studios #210, New York
'Body in Exile', Geary Contemporary, New York (Screening)
'Overflow' at Gallatin Gallery, New York University, As a part of Museum of Future Fossils
'Multiversant', Chashama, New York, U.S.
'The Blue', Big Orbit Gallery, Buffalo, U.S. (Performance, Solo Installation)
'The Peak / The Blue', Chez Bushwick /Jonah Bokaer Arts Foundation, New York, U.S. (Performance)
2018
'Sweep~Landskip', Kinokino, Stavanger, Norway
2017
'Auguries', Seoul Art Space_GEUMCHEON, Seoul, S. Korea
'From Here to Eternity', OMO artspace, Berlin
'Whenever the Heart Skips a Beat', Mehring Platz, Berlin
'End of Summer open studio', Yale Union contemporary art center, Portland, U.S.
'SWEEP', Immaterial Arts, Forum Factory, Berlin (Performance)
'On Drawing', Performing Arts Festival Berlin, Ausland, Berlin (Performance)
2016
'Almost Void', Kunstraum34, Stuttgart, Germany（Concert in collaboration with Ensemble cross.art)
'Letter from Future Past', Faith & Terror Performance Art Festival, Meinblau, Berlin (Performance)
'L’intru (Invaders)' Lage Egal, Berlin
2015
'AS_pedia Project Vol. 1' Gallery Purple, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
'Kameradschaft Zollverein' Atelier Exceptionnel, PACT Zollverein, Essen, Germany
Impact 15, PACT Zollverein, Essen, Germany (Performance)
Sluice Art Fair 2015, London
'Le Lait Du Miroir', Le 6B, Paris
‘Relational Geographies’, UAL Showroom, London
‘Borderlands’, Month of Performance Art Berlin, MeinBlau, Berlin, Germany
‘From Here to Eternity’, Gallery Purple, Seoul, South Korea
2014
‘Super Romantics’, Daegu Art Factory, Daegu, South Korea
‘Mapping the Space’, Project Space Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany
‘Act – Re Act’, Wimbledon Space, London (Performance)
'From Here to Eternity', Gallery FACTORY, Seoul, South Korea
2013
'Tightrope', Sumarria Lunn Gallery, London
'ASYAAF', Cultural Station 284, Seoul, South Korea
Pyeong Chang Biennale, Pyeong Chang, South Korea
'TOPFLOOR/TOPOS', Dordtyart, Dordrecht, The Netherlands
'Seoul Seoul Seoul', National Art Studio Changdong, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Korea, Seoul
'Here I am', Hole and Corner Media Art Gallery, Gwangju, Korea
2012
'Three Gates' curated by Livia Dubon and Seihee Shon, Hanmi Gallery, London
'Convergence/Divergence', Los Medanos College Gallery, Pittsburg, California
'FT Summer Exhibition 2012', Florence Trust, London
London Art Fair, Business Design Centre, London
'Wish You Were Here 11', A.I.R. Gallery, New York
'Bread & Roses', Motorcade/FlashParade, Bristol Biennial Community Arts Festival, Bristol, U.K.
'Function Room 2', Solché, London
'Winter Open Studios' Florence Trust, London
'ONSITE 2012', CoExist Gallery, Southend, U.K.
2011
'Chain Letter', Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, California
'I am not a good enough feminist', Concrete Utopia, New York
'Divide and Rule', Film and Live Art Festival curated by Roves and Roams, Firestation Centre for Arts & Culture, Windsor, United Kingdom
The One Minutes Awards Night 2011 / category video performances, Eye Film Instituut, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2010
'Showroom' Man Cannot Live by Bread Alone, London
'Chute' Aichi Triennale, Nagoya, Japan
'Re-sign', K-Salon, Berlin (Performance)
'Asian Invasion' NEST, Den Haag, The Netherlands
'SV10: Members’ Show selected by Jennifer Higgie and Rebecca Warren” Studio Voltaire, London

[Awards/Grants/Fellowships]
2023 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute HASS Production Grant
2023 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Teaching Assistant Award
2022 Rensselaer Graduate Fellowship, Troy, New York
2021 MoreArt Engaging Artist Fellowship, New York
2021 Hotpicks, Smack Mellon, New York
2020 i-style Art and Sports Foundation Grant, Japan
2020 Nomura Art Foundation Grant, Japan
2018-2019 Program of Overseas Study for Upcoming Artists, the Agency of Cultural Affairs, Japan (Overseas Research Fellowship)
2019 Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York
2018 Japan - United States Exchange Friendship Program in the Arts
2018 Shiseido Art Egg Award, Tokyo, Japan
2016 CAF Artist Award finalist, Contemporary Art Foundation, Tokyo, Japan
2015 PACT Zollverein Stipendium, Essen, Germany
2015 Pola Art Foundation overseas research Grant for Berlin, Germany
2014 Akademie Schloss Solitude Fellowship (Visual Art), Stuttgart, Germany
2013 Emergency Relief Residency Bursary Award for Santa Fe Art Institute, New Mexico, United States
2013 UNESCO Aschberg Bursaries for Artists Programme
2011-2012 Axis/Florence Trust Award, Florence Trust, London, United Kingdom
2010 MA Stars – Selected MA graduates 2010 selected by Monika Bobinska Awarded by Axis, United Kingdom

[Residencies]
2021 Workspace Residency, Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center, Buffalo, New York
2020 Art Omi Residency, Ghent, New York, U.S.
2019 Aomori Contemporary Art Center, Aomori, Japan
2019 Chez Bushwick - Jonah Bokaer Arts Foundation, New York, U.S.
2018 UrbanGlass, New York, U.S.
2018 Art Omi Residency, Ghent, New York, U.S.
2017 Seoul Art Space_GEUMCHEON, Seoul, S. Korea
2017 The End of Summer Residency, Portland, U.S.
2015-16 Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
2015 PACT Zollverein, Essen, Germany
2014 Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany
2013 Emergency Relief Grant Residency, Santa Fe Art Institute, New Mexico, United States
2013 National Museum of Contemporary Art, Changdong Art Studio, Seoul, S.Korea
2012 HomeBase Build IV Lab, Berlin, Germany
2012 WARP Artist Village, C-min, Genk, Belgium
2011-12 Florence Trust Residency supported by Axis/Florence Trust Bursary, London
2011 Arteles, Hämeenkyrö, Finland
2010 NEST, Den Haag, The Netherlands

[Public Commission]
2021 Palimpsest, Crystal Park, Hudson Valley, New York, commissioned by Crystal Park Foundation

[Selected Talks / Presentations / Conferences]
2023 Artist Lecture, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Yola Monakhov Stockton class, Honolulu, Hawaii
2023 Uncommon Senses IV, Center for Sensory Studies, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada (Conference)
2022 Panel Discussion with Stephanie Dinkins, Mafe Izaguirre, Althea Rao / Film Screening, More Art, Queens Museum, New York
2022 Artist Lecture & Presentation, Civilization, Earth, New Form of Life, Climate Change, Nature, Ecology and beyond, Socially Engaged Art Dialogue Series, Art & Society Research Center, Japan
2021 Artist Talk with Jemila MacEwan, Living threads: Re-finding Lost Kin Amongst the Ruins, WetLab, NYU Gallatin, Governor’s Island, New York
2021 Artist Talk & Workshop, Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center, Buffalo, New York
2020 Artist Respond in the time of Covid, Artist Discussion, Immigrant Artist Biennial hosted by Katya Grohovsky, HC Huynh
2019 Artist Talk, Aomori Contemporary Art Center, Aomori Prefecture, Japan
2019 Performance Workshop, Aomori Contemporary Art Center, Aomori Prefecture, Japan
2019 Artist Talk / Panel discussion with Owen Duffy and Lydia Brawner, Multiversant Exhibition, New York
2019 Guest Lecture, Pratt Institute, New York City, New York
2019 Artist Lecture, New York University Gallatin School, Eugenia Carol Kisin class, New York
2019 Artist Lecture, New York University Gallatin School, Karen Holmberg class, New York
2018 Artis Talk, Shiseido Art Egg, Shiseido Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2016 Artist Talk, Takt Residency, Berlin, Germany
2014 Artist Talk, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany
2013 Presentation, Santa Fe Art Institute, New Mexico, United States
2011 Artis Talk, Jyväskylä Art Museum, Jyväskylä, Finland
2011 Presentation, Satellite Platform, Gallery Rajatila, Tampere, Finland

[Bibliography]
2024 Body Spirit Geology: Women Artists Working with Metaphysical Presence by Alexandra Goldman
2022
Current location as a watershed: Shindo Fuyuka and Utamura Hanae, an essay by Riku Iioka
Image Journal, Issue 113, front cover art work and conversation on toxicity, and the secret lives of deep-sea minerals.
Conversation with Reiko Kinoshita, moderated with Aya Shimoyama, Krautraum, Tokyo, Japan
2021 Asian Art Biennial, Catalogue, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
2020 Lively in Between, Catalogue, Aomori Contemporary Art Center, Aomori, Japan
2020 Confronting History Through Herstory, Art Spiel, ecofeminism(s) at Thomas Erben Gallery by Nina Mdivani, July
2020 What Ecofeminist Artists Learned from Indigenous Cultures, Art in America, by Louis Bury, July
2020 ecofeminism(s), Brooklyn Rail, by Alex A. Jones, July
2020 Coming Full Circle, Arcade Project, ecofeminism(s) at Thomas Erben Gallery by William Corwin
2020 ecofeminism(s), Flash Art, by Linda Weintraub, August
2020. Revisioning inclusive tomorrows through the art of ecofeminism(s), Stir World, by Jones John, September
2018 What is beyond action?, Interview with Bijyutsu Techo magazine, Japan
2017 Whenever the heart skips a beat, The Future isn’t what it used to be, review, curatingthecontemporary
2015 The City’s Skin, Studio Interview, Schloss-Post
2014 Across the Grid, Interview, Schloss-Post
2015 Interview with art4d.asia
2012 Interview with Art Kick
2013 ‘Tightrope at Sumarria Lunn’, review by Rachel Marsden
2014 Super Romantics, Catalogue, Daegu Art Factory, Daegu, South Korea
2010 Aichi Triennale, Catalogue, Nagoya, Japan

[Curation]
2023 iEar Salon curatorial committee member, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
2022 iEar Salon curatorial committee member, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

[Conference]
2024
FEMeeting: Women in Art, Science and Technology, co-hosted by INCUBATOR Art Lab and IOTA Institute, School of Creative Arts at The University of Windsor in Windsor, Ontario, Canada
2023
Uncommon Senses IV: Ecologies, Economies, and Aesthetics, Centre for Sensory Studies, Concordia University, Tiohtià:ke/Montreal, Canada

[Collections]
Private Collection, London, U.K.
Private Collection, Tokyo, Japan
Private Collection, Italy

[Teaching]
2021-2022 Video Art, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York
2021-2022 4D Design, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York
2021-2022 The NYI Global Institute of Cultural, Cognitive and Linguistic Studies (co-taught with Prof. Yola Monakhov Stockton from SUNY Buffalo State College)