BIOGRAPHY
Akihiro Boujoh (Nagasaki, Japan) is a Japanese visual artist who works with sculpture, installation art, and photography. Akihiro lives and works in Utrecht, the Netherlands since after finishing his MFA Fine Art at Wimbledon College of Art in 2016. Rooted in his BA research into Japanese garden philosophy at Kyoto Institute of Technology, he explores the relationship between nature, environment, and man-kind and much of his works are concerned with space and time that is changing their form time by time. His collections of works have been exhibited in London, Amsterdam, Barcelona and the US.
He was awarded Hopper Prize 2020.
EDUCATION
2014-2016 MFA Fine Art, University of the Arts London, Wimbledon College of Art, London, United Kingdom
2010-2014 BA Architecture, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Kyoto, Japan
SELECTED EXHIBITION
2021 On Display, Print&Play, Multiple locations
2020 Visions, The curators X BROAD Magazine, Online
2020 Unleashing Magic, Create! Magazine X PxP contemporary, US/ Online
2020 The Art of Photography, Valid World Hall, Barcelona
2019 G.A.S Redux, Korai project space, Nicosia
2019 SDGs x Art, 5&33 gallery, Amsterdam
2019 Goglobalart, Decks Tokyo Beach, Tokyo
2016 WCA MFA show 2016, WCA, London
2015 INDEX, Crypt Gallery, London
2015 SHIFT, Menier Gallery, London
2015 PARK 15, Cannizzaro Park, London
2015 20:20, The SUART Chelsea space, London
2014 Found in Translation, London Design Festival, London
AWARD
2021 Hopper Prize 2020, Winner, the US
2020 Photography Awards 2020 – March Selection, Italy
2019 The Art of Photography, honorable mentioned, Spain/ Hungary
GRANT
2021 K.F. Hein fonds, the Netherlands
2021 Stichting Oscar Maasman, the Netherlands
2021 Hopper Prize, the US
2020 Fonds Kwadraad, the Netherlands
ARTIST TALK, LECTURE
2021 Midterm advisory board, Columbia University GSAPP, the US
2021 Artist talk, Print & Play, Netherland
PUBLICATION
2021 FOA vol.13, hardcover art book
2021 Insights into Contemporary Art
2020 Create! Magazine, online
2020 Thought Art Magazine, issue one
2020 MURZE magazine, Issue Ten – 2020 Wildlife