Sachiko Kazama

1972. born in Tokyo, Japan
Lives and works in Tokyo, Japan

1996 graduated from Department pf Print Making, Musashino Art School


●Profile
Exploring "present" and "past" of Japan, Kazama Sachiko engraves unique investigations into Japanese history on her woodblock prints. With abundant color expressions between black and white, her works display the ambiguity in human emotions, social situations, or memories and records of the past. Demonstrating graduations within dichotomies like black/white or bad/good, Kazama critically portraits indeterminacy of the history with a sense of humor. Kazama was awarded Okazaki Kyoko prize at PARCO GOMES Manga Grand-Prix as her debut in 1993, and most recently she won the excellent prize at Okamoto Taro Memorial Contemporary Art Awards in 2006.



● solo show
2007　"MANTETSUJIN VS PRISON SU GAMO" Mujin-to Production, Tokyo　
　　 　 "Sachiko Kazama" Mujin-to Production, Tokyo
2005　"criterium64：KAZAMA Sachiko" Contemporary Art Center, ArtTower Mito, Ibaraki
　　 　 "Canary and Geiger counter" Makii Masaru Fine Arts, Tokyo
2003　"Night, Futon and a Napalm bomb" Ningyo-cyo Exhibit SpaceVISION'S, Tokyo
　　 　 "Macoloniald" Makii Masaru Fine Arts, Tokyo
2000　Gallery TE, Tokyo
1999　"Focusing on a New Generation in Japan '99 : Paradise" GalleryYamaguchi, Tokyo
1998　Gallery Yamaguchi, Tokyo

● selected group show
2008　"Tokyo Nonsense"SION Installation L.A,,Los Angels
　　　　"Humorous Woodblock Prints and Their Gentle Smiles" Fuchu Art museum, Tokyo
2007　The Japan Art Academy, Tokyo
2006　"The 10th Exhibition of the Taro Okamoto Award for ContemporaryArt" Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, Kawasaki, Kanagawa
2004　"ART JAM" Gallery Yamaguchi, Tokyo
2003　"Shiori-Ten" Ai Gallery, Tokyo
　　 　 "Harutonari 4 : Animal Heart" Gallery Yamaguchi, Tokyo
2002　"bit 6/7 Kazama Sachiko & Kaneda Shoichi" Tokyo Gallery,Tokyo
2001　"SAP ART-ING Tokyo 2001 : Space, Time and Body Lived" TheFormer Ushigome-Haramachi Elementary School of Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo
　　 　 "VOCA 2001" The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo
1994　"Parco Urban Art #3" SHIBUYA PARCO, Tokyo


●Award
2006 The 9th Taro Okamoto Award for Contemporary Art (TARO Award)