Tsuda Michiko

Born in Kanagawa in 1980. She creates works in a variety of forms̶including installations, video, and performance̶that explore the viewer’s gaze and movement, suggesting the presence of the invisible. Her distinctive body of work is characterized by a mysterious spatial expansiveness and poetic richness. Her major exhibitions include Spektrum Spektrum (GINZA MAISON HERMÈS, 2025), ICC Annual 2023: Shapes of Things (NTT InterCommunication Center[ICC]), The 10th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (QAGOMA, Brisbane, 2021), Arts Towada 10th Anniversary Exhibition Inter+Play: Part I (Towada Art Center, Aomori, 2020), Aichi Triennale 2019: Taming Y/Our Passion (Ito Residence), Roppongi Crossing 2019: Connexions (Mori Art Museum, Tokyo) and art trip vol.03 in number, new world / Shikai no Kazu (Ashiya City Museum of Art and History, Hyogo, 2019). Her solo exhibitions include Trilogue (TARO NASU, 2020) and Observing Forest (Zarya Contemporary Art Center, Vladivostok, 2017). She received her Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts, in 2013, and was an Asian Cultural Council (ACC) grantee in New York in 2019. In 2017, she received the New Face Award at the 20th Japan Media Arts Festival. She received the Tokyo Contemporary Art Award 2022-2024.

Reference Works : Michiko Tsuda, So Far, Not Far, 2023. Image courtesy of the artist and TARO NASU (c) Yuji Oku