Tokyo
After working for the publishing house Rockin’on, in 1995 Nakajima established Nakajima Design. Since 1999 he has participated in a collective called “code” with Ryuichi Sakamoto, Shigeo Goto, and Norika Sora. Nakajima produces a variety of advertising and package designs as well as photo books and book bindings. He is also active as art director of the magazine “CUT.” His works have received first place prizes (Gold Award) at the New York Art Directors Club five times and he has been conferred second place (Silver Award) seven times. Nakajima has been bestowed numerous awards by the Tokyo Art Directors Club. He is also a member of AGI, New York Art Directors Club, Tokyo Art Directors Club, Tokyo Type Director's Club. His art is exhibited numerous times and in the collections of more thencs ten museums and
university collections outside of Japan.
Editor / Creative Director / Kyoto University of Art and Design Professor. Involved in editing many art and photography books. Founder and serving director of G/P gallery, which specializes in photography and graphics. Scheduled to exhibit works in Paris Photo 2009. Recent books notably include The Future of Design (Pie Books), ART RADICALISM (collaboration with Noboru Tsubaki, Mitsumura Suiko
Shoin Publishing
Co.)
Born in 1962 in Akagiyama, Gunma Prefecture.
President of Art Office Shiobara as well as art advisor of Nichido Contemporary Art. Familiar with the international art market, Shiobara is an art dealer who provides business advice on art collections and transactions. After serving as representative of Nichido Gallery in New York, he has participated, as art adviser, in the administration of TAGBOAT since its establishment. In recent years Shiobara has been widely active, becoming the first art museum radio personality at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo and
serving as a competition judge.
Born in Tokyo. Studied Western art history in Aoyama Gakuin
University’s College of Literature, Department of History. Yamashita Established DD WAVE in 1990, where he now serves as president. In 1997, DD WAVE launched +81 magazine, at which Yamashita has been active as publisher and creative director. In 2001 +81 was awarded the NY ADC Merit Prize. Twelve years have passed since the magazine’s launch as a global, creative publication, which is now circulated
in about twenty foreign countries.
New York
Davıd Elliott is a curator and writer concerned primarily with
modern and contemporary art based in Berlin and Sydney. As well as curating a large number of exhibitions of contemporary art, from 1976 to 1996 he was Director of the Museum of Modern Art in Oxford, England, Director of Moderna Museet in Stockholm (1996-2001), founding Director of the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo (2001-2006) and, during 2007, the first Director of the Istanbul Museum of Modern Art. He is presently the Artistic Director of the Biennale of Sydney 2010.
Sarah Suzuki is the Assistant Curator of Prints and Illustrated Books
at The Museum of Modern Art. She has collaborated on numerous other exhibitions including Eye on Europe: Prints, Books & Multiples/1960 to Now in 2006, and organized exhibitions of work by Gert & Uwe Tobias in 2008 and Song Dong in 2009. She is currently organizing a solo exhibition of the work of Yin Xiuzhen for 2010.
Curator of New York's Asia Society Museum. Studied art history
at Columbia University. Co-founded PoNJA (Post-1945 Japanese Art Discussion Group) in 2003. Has been actively connecting researchers and artists of Japanese contemporary art online, which now has over 150 members. In 2006 curated "Free Fish: Art of Yuken Teruya" in addition to many other exhibitions she produced.
After graduating from Harvard Business School, and a career on
Wall Street, she earned MA at Columbia University in history and art history. She has been a partner in charge of Asia at Graphis Inc. since 2006. Ms. Shinn is a turstee of the Freer & Sackler Galleries of Smithsonian Instituion, and the Japan Society, New York.
She lives in NYC.
