Kyoko Ebata
b. Tokyo. Studied in Geneva, Oxford and London for high schools and university
Education
BA Art and Art History, Goldsmiths’ College, University of London
Prize/Award
2010 Aichi Triennale 2010 Curatorial Exhibition Competition (selected by Mami Kataoka)
2007 Tokyo Wonder Wall
2005 New Public Competition, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art
2002 Young Video Artist Initiative, Mori Art Museum (selected by David Elliott)
Solo Show
2022
The Desert Moon, monade contemporary, Kyoto
2018
Kyoko Ebata: The Perfect Day to Fly. Gallery Hashimoto, Tokyo
Washing Hinomaru in Hong Kong, XENOplastic, HK
2017
method for the surveyor, XENOplastic, HK
2015
The Game Keeper’s Jam Cellar (Mixed Berry), BIYONG POINT, Akita University of Arts (Yuka Keino)
2014
Washing Hinomaru, House of Ebata, Tokyo
2009
The Game-Keeper’s Jam Cellar, SSamzie Market Honde, Seoul
2008
The Game-Keeper’s Jam Cellar, Café Thank, Takashimadaira Revival Project, Tokyo
Emerging 105 Kyoko Ebata: The Game-Keeper’s Jam Cellar, Tokyo Wonder Site Hongo (cat.)
2002
The Usual Passages, THINK ZONE (Mori Art Museum), Tokyo (David Elliott)
Group Show
2024
The 14th MAEBASHI MEDIA FESTIVAL 2024 plus https://maebashimediafestival.jp/2024program/
Fireworks or Bombing?, Kyoko Ebata and REKREATIF, monade contemporary (Guest Talk: Zoe Yeh, Director of Hong-gah Museum)
2023
Salt, House of Ebata
2022
ALTER|N|ATIVE, IG Bildende Kunst Wien IG Bildende Kunst Wien
Green, House of Ebata
2021
7,610-kilometer Distance: Finally, We’ve Met One Another!, PSG Art Gallery, Silapakorn University, Bangkok (Toeingam Guptabutra) https://grant-fellowship-db.jfac.jp/ja/grant/cc1935/
2020
Volcana Brainstorm, Yokohama Triennial 2020
2019
VOLCANA BRAINSTORM, Koganecho Bazaar, Kanagawa
Do You Love Me?, NICA, Tokyo
2018
To Our Neighbour, House of Ebata, Tokyo
2017
Beyond Orientation- Eight Views, Korea House of Culture, Vienna (cat.)
2016
Steidl Book Award Japan
2015
KAMIKOANI Project, Akita (Yuka Keino)
2014
Anna, Mettlework, Singapore
Amerika: idea / fantasy / dream / myth / image, Camberwell Space, Camberwell College of Art, London
2013
Korekkiri Ennale, Koganei Art Spot Chateau 2 F/Nukui-yu, Tokyo (cat.)
Gardening, Garden Project #2, London
How We Dance in the Wind, Garden Project #1, House of Ebata, Tokyo
2010
Aichi Triennale 2010 Curatorial Exhibition Competition (cat.) (Mami Kataoka)
The First Mediterranean Biennial of Contemporary Art, Haifa (cat.)
DOUBLE VISION, Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya
2009
MaxArtFest 2009 – Zagreb, Croatia 2009
Light life, video screening, AGITPUNKT, Seoul
The 10th Open Studio, Ssamzie Space, Seoul (cat.)
2008
To-Lo video screening, The Stephen Lawrence Gallery, London
2007
Tokyo Wonder Wall, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
2006
Culture of Fear, ACC GALERIE WEIMAR
Culture of Fear, Halle 14, Leipzig
2005
New Public Competition Show, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art
REPLAY: MEDIARENA ON SCREEN at FACT (Foundation for Art & Creative Technology), Liverpool
2004
MEDIARENA: contemporary art from Japan, the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Zealand (cat.)
Island art film & video festival April 2004, Prenelle Gallery, London
2003
In Different Spaces, Wanakio 2003, Sakurazaka Planta, Okinawa
25 hrs –International Video Art Show, El Raval Sports Pavillion, Barcelona
In Different Spaces, Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo
Yong Video Artists Initiatives, Nippon Connection 2003, Frankfurt
Junge Video-Kunst aus Japan – Eine Ausstellung in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Mori Arts Center, Tokyo, the East Asian Museum, Berlin
2001
Open Studio, Open Studio Nope, Tokyo
2000
Open Weekend, Open Studio Nope, Tokyo
1998
Group video show, Mix, Tokyo
Curation/ Project Space
2023
Salt, House of Ebata
2022
Receiving residents from Myanmar
2020
Green, House of Ebata, Tokyo
2019
Anxiety Plus, hikikomisen-hoshasen satellite, House of Ebata (Guest Talk: Daisuke Awata)
2018
To our Neighbour, with Eva Kietzmann, House of Ebata
2014
Anna (co-curated with Alasdair Duncan), Mettlework, Singapore
Washing Hinomaru at home, House of Ebata
2013
Garden Project #1: How we Dance in the Wind, (co-curated with Alasdair), House of Ebata, Tokyo
Residencies/Workshops/Fellowships/lectures
2022
ALTER|N|ATIVE, IG Bildende Kunst Wien IG Bildende Kunst Wien
Art Activity A, Joshibi University of Art and Design
2021
Leading workshop for East Timor photographers ‘REKREATIF’; Nu’udar Ema: How do you cope with being a human?, Silpakorn University, Royal Photographic Society of Thailand, The Japan Foundation Asia Center https://grant-fellowship-db.jfac.jp/ja/grant/cc1935/
2020
SqW:Lab 2020, International Research Fellowship, Mumbai
2015
Kamikoani Project, Akita
Koganecho Area Management Center, Yokohama
2009
SSamzie Space, Bilateral Exchange Residency Program of Tokyo Wonder Site, Seoul
2005
The 11th International Studio Program, the ACC Galerie and the City of Weimar
Grants
2021
The Japan Foundation Asia Center; Leading workshop for East Timor photographers ‘REKREATIF’; Nu’udar Ema: How do you cope with being a human?, Silpakorn University, Royal Photographic Society of Thailand,
2010
YOSHINO GYPSUM CO., LTD., The First Mediterranean Biennial of Contemporary Art, Haifa
2006
The Japan Foundation EXHIBITIONS ABROAD SUPPORT PROGRAM for Fiscal 2006, Culture of Fear, ACC Weimar
Lecturers
2023-
Mentor for Tokyo Artist Accelerator Program of Arts Council Tokyo https://taap.art/
2018-
Soukei School of Art and Design,
Publicity
2024 Kazuhisa Kuwahara, Washing Japanese Flag/ Washing Japan, Kinyobi Weekly
2021 Yvonne Bohwongprasert, An eye for the details, Bangkok Post
2020 Almut Rink On Orientation (cat.)
2016- Chie Konishi, Tsuyoshi Ito, Satoshi Koganezawa, Ryo Sawayama, Emergency
2013 Satoshi Koganezawa, Korekkiri Ennale Catalogue P.4-5
2011Goro Morimoto, Exhibition Review, NIPPON CAMERA PHOTOGRAPHY ANNUAL 2011
2009 Hiroshi Maetani, Mainichi News Paper, Jan 12 2009
2005
Ueber eine Kulture der Angust, TLZ, 12 August
Maerchenhafte Orte guescht!, RathausKurier Amtsblatt der Stadt Weimar
David Elliott, Interesting Japan and Japanese Contemporary Artists Selected by David Elliott of Mori Museum, Art Top Issue 202. Geijyutsu Shinbunsha, March
2004
Gregory Burke, Roger McDonald, Replay: Mediarena On Screen, Tomoko Kuroiwa, On Fragmented Absence, MEDIARENA: contemporary art from Japan (cat.)
2003
David Elliott, “Good Bye Kitty, Hello…What?”, Vogue Nippon, May 2003