Megumi Matsubara
Megumi Matsubara (born 1977) is a contemporary artist, as well as an architect. She lives and works in Fès (Morocco) and Tokyo (Japan).[1]
Biography[edit]
- 1977 Born in Tokyo, Japan[2]
- 2001 THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO, SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, JAPAN [B.Arch]
- 2002- Co-founder of Architecture studio "ASSISTANT"
- 2003 THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO, GRADUATE SCHOOL OF INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES, JAPAN [M.Arts&Sci]
- 2004 THE BARTLETT SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON, UK [M.Arch, under Peter Cook]
Career[edit]
Megumi Matsubara creates spaces that weave together various media including text, sculpture, photography, and phenomenon of light to achieve an exquisite balance between presence and absence. Her solo shows include The Blind Dream (2014, Douiria Mouassine Museum, Marrakech, Morocco) and A proposal for a textbook to learn Braille, English, and other languages (2015, Fonderia Artistica Battaglia Milano, Italy) and her work has been exhibited at Arts Towada 10th Anniversary Exhibition: Inter+Play Season 1 (2020-21, Towada Art Center, Aomori)[3], 21st DOMANI (2019, National Art Center, Tokyo))[4], Poétique du geste (2018, La Graineterie – centre d’art de la ville de Houilles, France), Aichi Triennale 2016 (2016, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya)[5], and Marrakech Biennale 6 (2016, Palais El Badii, Marrakech, Morocco). Matsubara has also presented architectural works together with ASSISTANT, the interdisciplinary architecture firm co-founded with Hiroi Ariyama in 2002. These works include House of 33 Years (2013, Nara)[6], Korogaru Pavilion (2016, YCAM, Yamaguchi)[7], and It is a Garden (2016, Nagano)[8]
External links[edit]
- Artist’s Website megumimatsubara.com
- Architecture Studio’s Website withassistant.net
- Megumi Matsubara at Beyond the Lines: Japanese Artist by The Japan Foundation
References[edit]
This article "Megumi Matsubara" is from Wikipedia. The list of its authors can be seen in its historical and/or the page Edithistory:Megumi Matsubara. Articles copied from Draft Namespace on Wikipedia could be seen on the Draft Namespace of Wikipedia and not main one.
