Shinya Watanabe
Curator of Spiky Art
E-Mail: info@shinyawatanabe.net
Homepage: http://www.shinyawatanabe.net
Education
2002-2004 Master of Visual
Art Administration, New York University
2000-2004 Had been travelled 32 countries all over the world
2000-2001 Winner of One Year Exchange Program Award, School of Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
1998-2002 Bachelor of Economics, Senshu University, Tokyo (Recipient of a full scholarship)
Practical Experience
2005- Gallery Manager of Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, TriBeCa, New York
2003-4 Assistant to RoseLee Goldberg at Performa - Organized lecture tour and studio visits in Japan
2003- Curator, Spiky Art - Curated six exhibitions including Action Paintings at PS1
2001-3 Internship at Brooklyn Museum of Art, Contemporary Art Department, Arcosanti in Arizona, Bernard Buffet Museum, Japan
Curated Exhibitions
2006 Curated “Salad Days” at Artist Space, New York. June 2006 - August 2006
2006 Co-curated “Action Painting Battle! Ushio Shinohara vs. Ryoga Katsuma” at Ethan Cohen Fine Arts with Ethan Cohen
2005 “Another Expo - Beyond the Nation-State” at Gallery Level1, Gallery Soap, Former 130 Bank Gallery in Kitakyushu, Japan (June 2005) White Box, Chelsea, New York (August 2005)
2005 Curate the Exhibition "Le Petit Prince - Young Male Artists" at AG Gallery Brooklyn
2004 Exhibit the idea of artexhibition "Another Expo" as a part of
the exhibition “Connecting the Dots” at LeRoy
Neiman Gallery, Columbia University (Curator: David Dempewolf)
2004 Curated Rei Inoue Drawing Project ”Vote for Peace” at New York University (Curator)
Publications
2007 Catalogue Text on Miwa Koizumi’s Performance for “Making a Home” at Japan Society
2007 Catalogue Text “Wish for Centricity?An Act of Art-Making of Pamela Rosenkranz and the Dismantling of Identity” for “Portrait Session,” Hiroshima-City Contemporary Art Museum
2006 Interview with Shinya Watanabe "Tribeca’s street-fighting artists" by Rachel Youens, Downtown Express, NY. May 19-25 Issue, 2006
2006 Interview with Shinya Watanabe "Freedom from Beijing's hold" by Deborah Brewster,
Financial Times, USA. April 07, 2006
2006 Essay "Cogito ergo Europe - New European Identity and Its Limitations" for Dejan Kaludjerovic, Citta d'Arte, Italy
2005 Authored and produced “Another Expo” Catalogue
2005 "Interview with RoseLee Goldberg: Performance as History" Kyoto Art & Design University Press “Butai-Geijyutu”
2004 “Two or Three things I know about Kimura-San” Magazine LR
2004 “Expo and the Nation-State: For the exhibition “Another Expo - Beyond the Nation-State” Architecture Magazine “10+1”
2004 "Interview with Marina Abramovic: Think about the native country former Yugoslavia and her friend Susan Sontag" Kyoto Art & Design University Press “Butai-Geijyutu”
2004 Translate the catalogue of The
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
2004 Thesis "The
Influence of the Nation-State on Art - The Case of the Former Yugoslavian Countries"
Lecture
New York University Graduate School, Columbia University Graduate School. Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo, University of Tokyo, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto University of Fine Art and Music, Kyoto Seika University, Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Location One and others.
Translations
2007 Translate the article for "Portrait Session" Catalogue held at Hiroshima City Contemporary Art Museum (Including the text by Inuhiko Yomota)
2006 Translated the article "Suspensions" by Henry Martin for Ay-O Exhibition Catalogue of Fukui Art Museum, Japan
2004 Translated the catalogue of The 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
2004 Translated the poetry of Laurie Anderson for Aichi Expo
Award
2007 Japan Foundation Award (Lecture on Peace Constitution Article 9 at Asia Society)
2005 CEC Art Link Independent Prize Award, Nomura International Foundation Award, Asahi Newspaper Cultural Foundation Award (Another Expo - Beyond the Nation-States)
Languages, License
Japanese: Native, English: Fluent, German: Proficient. License of Curator, Japan
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