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Kentaro Okumura (b. 1999) is an artist based between London and Tokyo.
His practice spans various media and techniques, employing an Investigative Aesthetic to explore and problematize themes such as cartography, territorialization, translation, and technicity.
His recent interest is in the disclosure of the nature of science and art subverted by what Heidegger calls Gestell, and the visualisation of the power dynamic constructed by the act of mapping.
With the help of Yuk Hui’s Cosmotechnics, he pursuits the reconstruction of the organic solidarity between cosmology, science and technology, framing recursivity and computability in a novel dimension.
Education
2023 – 2025
2021
2018 – 2022
MA Art and Science, Central Saint Martins
University of the Arts London, United Kingdom
BA Fine Art, exchange programme (spring semester)
Lasalle College of Art, Singapore
BA Fine Art, Oil Painting
Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan
Awards
&
Scholarships
2025
2023 – 2025
2021 – 2022
2021
2021
2020
MA Art and Science Alumni Award
Ezoe Memorial Recruit Foundation Scholarship, Arts Division
Kuma Foundation Scholarship
Ueno-Geiyu Award, Tokyo University of the Arts
Miyawaka International Triennale, Fukuoka
Ataka Award, Tokyo University of the Arts
Selected
Group
Exhibitions
2025
2025
2024
2023
2022
2022
2022
2021
2019
“Return, Observe”, Kudan-Sakaue KS Bldg., Tokyo
“Central Saint Martins Post-Graduate Show”, Central Saint Martins King’s Cross, London
“See it, Say it, Unsorted”, UAL Postgraduate Interim Show, London
“Inter-Sphere”, self-curated with Daichi Igarashi, biscuit gallery, Tokyo
“Matsusaka Culture Street”, Matsusaka, Mie
“Artist Fair Kyoto 2022”, Kyoto
“Graduation Works Exhibition”, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo
“Chrysalis, Desiring Bodies”, Alliance Française de Singapour, Singapore
“Not Only Device”, TUA Art Media Centre, Tokyo
Corporate
Projects
2024
Office Entrance Video Project in DENSO Tokyo (2024, Shintora-Yasuda Bldg., Tokyo, in cooperation with YAU: Yurakucho Art Urbanism)