Hideki Umezawa
1986   Born in Gunma, Japan
2023 - 2024   Paris, France
2025   New York, USA


Awards & Grants
2024   Asian Cultural Council, New York Fellowship, Japan
        Scandinavia-Japan Sasakawa Foundation, Exchanges between Japan and the Nordic Countries, Japan
2022   Kumagai Masatoshi Culture Foundation, Grants Program for Contemporary Artists, Japan
2021   Pola Art Foundation, Grants in Support of Art-Related International Exchange, Japan
        Arts Council Tokyo, International Project Support, Japan
2020   Pola Art Foundation, Grants for Overseas Study by Young Artists, Japan
2019   Tokyo Frontline Photo Award 2018, Grand Prize, Japan
2017   Prix Russolo 2017, Finalist
2015   Luc Ferrari - PRESQUE RIEN Prize, France
        CCMC 2015, ACSM116 Prize awarded by Régis Renouard Larivière, Japan

Collection
2023   Echoes from Clouds | KADIST Foundation, Paris, France

Education
2019   MFA, Intermedia Art, Tokyo University of the Arts

Residency Programs
2025   Asian Cultural Council | New York, USA
2024   Elektronmusikstudion EMS | Stockholm, Sweden
        INA-GRM | Paris, France
2023   Aomori Contemporary Art Centre | Aomori, Japan
2022   Beppu Project | Beppu, Japan
2021   Lake Haruna Artist Residence | Gunma, Japan
2019   Elektronmusikstudion EMS | Stockholm, Sweden
2016   Arts Maebashi | Gunma, Japan

Selected Exhibitions
2024
DANCING WITH ALL: The Ecology of Empathy | 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
2023
Codes of Marginality | Villino del Balzo, Italy
SUPERSENSIBLE | Digital Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
Energies in the Rural | Aomori Contemporary Art Centre, Aomori, Japan
Tuning for Sanctuaries | Sony Park mini, Tokyo, Japan
la chambre cocon | Cité internationale des arts, Paris, France
Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2023 | Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2022
Sense Island | Sarushima, Yokohama, Japan
Echoes from Clouds | People, Tokyo, Japan
Mist from Artificial Lake | NADiff Window Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
TOKYO PHOTOGRAPHIC RESEARCH | Yurakucho Building, Tokyo, Japan
2021
Thailand Biennale Korat 2021 | Korat, Thailand
Open Space 2021 New Flatland | NTT InterCommunication Center, Tokyo, Japan
Back Tokyo Forth | Tokyo International Cruise Terminal, Tokyo, Japan
2020
Audiosphere | Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
Trans-Objects | EBM(T), Online, Japan
2019
0℃ | NTT InterCommunication Center, Tokyo, Japan
The Drowned World Anchor | Spiral Hall, Tokyo, Japan
2018
Unexpected Encounter | Arts Maebashi, Gunma, Japan
FUKAMI -UNE PLONGÉE DANS L'ESTHÉTIQUE JAPONAISE | Hôtel Salomon de Rothschild, Paris, France
2017
Seeing Through the Garden | Sanshu Izutsu House, Kagawa, Japan
2016
0℃ | blanClass, Kanagawa, Japan
The Sixth Cognition | ASK? art space kimura, Tokyo, Japan
2015
Digital Humanize, The University Art Museum | Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan

Selected Performances, Concert
2024
Présences électronique 2024 | INA-GRM, Paris, France
MIMINOIMI | Polaris, Tokyo, Japan
2023
Liminaria Micro Festival | Villino del Balzo, Italy
Festival Futura | Crest, France
Marosi Festival | Stromboli Island, Italy
2022
Music and Video Today | Ochiai Soup, Tokyo, Japan
Akagi SUN do | Akagi Shrine, Gunma, Japan
2021
Sounds and Space in Affection | BankART KAIKO, Kanagawa, Japan
Born Creative Festival | Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre, Tokyo, Japan
2020
Music for Environment | Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan
0℃ | Inter-CommunicationCenter, Tokyo, Japan
2019
Lively in-between | Aomori Contemporary Art Centre, Aomori, Japan
Ftarri Festival 2019 | BUoY, Tokyo, Japan
re/ports | Komagome SOKO, Tokyo, Japan
Le Jardin Convivial | Kyoto Botanical Gardens, Kyoto, Japan
Mikage Romance 2019 | The Garden Place Soshuen, Hyogo, Japan
2018
NEWTOWN 2018 by CINRA | Digital Hollywood University, Tokyo, Japan
Unexpected Encounter | Arts Maebashi, Gunma, Japan
0℃ | PARADISE AIR, Chiba, Japan
2017
Banc d'Essai 2017 | Ina-GRM, France
聽說有表演第十五場 | Ting Shuo Hear Say, Tainan, Taiwan
Ilha Formosa | 濕地 venue, Taipei, Taiwan
FB PRLTT TR JPN | gift_lab, Tokyo, Japan
SUPER OPEN STUDIO 2017 | Art Lab Hashimoto, Tokyo, Japan
2016
Global-Local: Body-Place-Object | SuperDeluxe, Tokyo, Japan
Kuala Lumpur–Kyoto–Tokyo | Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto, Japan
nord tracks | Aomori Contemporary Art Centre, Aomori, Japan
World Listening Day | Kiyosumi Shirakawa, Japan
2015
Banc d'Essai 2015 | Ina-GRM, France
mü-nest showcase | Live Fact, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
awayokuba concrete | Live House groove, Okinawa, Japan

Selected Publications
2022
Echoes from Clouds | Cassette, hōlm, Japan
2021
Music for Installation Works | CD & Book, hōlm, Japan
New Clear Answer | Book, mumei, Japan
2020
Two Views of Amami Ōshima | LP & Cassette, Edições CN, Belgium
BANC D’ESSAI 2011-2019 | 2CD Compilation, INA GRM, France
Reflection and Some Surfaces | Book, artbeat publishers, Japan
Critical Garden | CD, Ftarri, Japan
Mads Emil Nielsen - Framework 2 | 10”Vinyl x 2, arbitrary, Denmark
POST/PHOTOGRAPHY | Book, artbeat publishers, Japan
2019
invisible man/magazine #6 | Zine, artbeat publishers, Japan
re/ports | CD, Ftarri, Japan
2017
Prix Russolo 2016-2017 | 2CD Compilation, Studio Forum, Russia
Prix Presque Rien Prize | 3CD Compilation, Association Presque Rien, France
2013
Portrait Re:Sketch | CD, PROGRESSIVE FOrM, Japan
2012
Suidô-Kan | CD, mOAR, US

Selected Sound Design
2023
Nile Koetting - Downtime Salon 23-24 | Galerie Wedding, Germany
SHISEIDO - Hanatsubaki Ambient | Japan
2022
Nile Koetting - Downtime Salon | Space In Between, Germany
Circular City Marunouchi | Good Design Marunouchi, Tokyo, Japan
2019
Seiha Kurosawa - DUE | Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Vincent Ruijters - Breathing IN/EX-terior & Dynamics of Mass Connectivity | Tokyo, Japan