WANTED

NorikoYamaguchi

art works

portfolio

Which beautiful operative would you like to be deceived?

Noriko YAMAGUCHI

Artist

1983 Born in Kobe city, Hyogo, Japan

2000 Graduated from Osaka University of Arts Junior College

2005 Graduated from Kyoto University of Art and Design

2007 Completed post Graduate course at Kyoto City University of Arts

Awards

2000

The Research Room Award, Graduation Exhibition at Osaka University of Arts Junior College

2004

Selected for Contemporary Art Contest hosted by Osaka Contemporary Art Center Panel Judge Prize by Eiko Hosoe, 21st century Asia Design Competition hosted by KyotoUniversity of Art and Design

2005

President Prize, Graduation Exhibition at Kyoto University of Art and Design

2008

Selected for Mitsubisi Corporation Art Gate Program Finalist of Sovereign Asian Art Prize

2018 Finalist of Sovereign Asian Art Prize

Solo exhibitions

2003 Birth of Keitai-Girl, Gallery ERIO, Osaka

2004 cowpea, Gallery Raku, Kyoto

2006 OGURARAHIME, Contemporary Art Museum Ise, Mie

2007 Noriko Yamaguchi – PEPPERMINT MOTHER, MEM, Osaka

2008 Peppermint Mother, MIRAI PROJECT, Stockholm, Sweden

2011 Noriko Yamaguchi – Tsuchitarashi, MEM, TokyoTsuchitarashi, Sakshi Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

2013 Nu doll – Stop Motion Animation, Kyoto City University of Arts Gallery @KCUA, Kyoto

2015 Noriko Yamaguchi – Plaque, MEM, Tokyo

2020 Noriko Yamaguchi – A Story Repeated, MEM, Tokyo

2021 Noriko Yamaguchi – WANTED, un petit GARAGE, Tokyo

Group Exhibitions

2003 Artist by Artists, Mori Arts Center, Tokyo

2004 Art as DEAIKEI-site, Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Osaka

Kyoto Art Annual, Kyoto University of Art and Design, Kyoto

2005 Stars from Chaos, Spiral Hall, Tokyo

2006 Bunkamura Art Show, Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo

2007 Kisho Kurokawa – From the Age of the Machine to the Age of Life, The National ArtCenter, Tokyo

Gense-Bijutsuten, Kenninji-Temple, Kyoto

Simulasian: Refiguring “Asia” for the 21st century, ACAF, New York, USA

2009 GEXTOPHOTO International Photography Festival 2009, Gexto, Spain

The Tradition of the New, Sakshi Gallery Taipei, Taiwan

2010 The Tradition of the New, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, India

2011 Becoming Cyborg, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan

Pillow Talk #2, WRO Art Center, Wroclaw, Poland

Pillow Talk #3, Kyoto City University of Arts Gallery @KCUA, Kyoto

2015 7th Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions: See You on the Planet,Tokyo Photographic Art Museum

2017 Kakegawa Chaennale, Room for honored guests in Kakegawa Takenomaru, Shizuoka

2018 OPEN STUDIO 2018, ART FACTORY JONANJIMA, Tokyo

2019 OPEN STUDIO 2019, ART FACTORY JONANJIMA, Tokyo

Rokko Meets Art 2019, Mt. Rokko, Hyogo

Performances

2003 ARTISTS BY ARTISTS, Mori Arts Center, Tokyo

2006 Keitai Girls dancing ParaPara at Unravel, SIGGRAPH / club Roxy, Boston, USA

2008 Keitai Girl Marching at Paris Photo 2008, Carrousel de Louvre, Paris, France

2009 Keitai Girl IMEKURA Show, Gallerie LUCE, Kyoto

2010 Keitai Girl Performance: Hong Kong Wonderland at Art HK 2010, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre

2015 7th Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions: See You on the Planet,Tokyo Photographic Art Museum

Selected Bibliography

Eric Shiner, “Project in the making…Yamaguchi Noriko is under our skin”, Art Asia Pacific, winter issue, 2005

“Beside the Great Wall”, white wall, summer issue, 2006

Takafumi Kobuki,"Reviews", BT Vol.59, BIJUTSU SHUPPAN-SHA, Dec. 2007

Yumi Yamaguchi, “Noriko Yamaguchi”, Warriors of art : a guide to contemporary Japaneseartists, Kodansha International, Feb. 2007

Hiroyuki Kobashi, "Transforming into Cellphone, Parade in Paris", Nikkei Shinbun, Nikkei Inc.Oct. 2008 evening paper

Gloria K. Fiero, Globalism: Information, Communication, and the Digital Revolution, Landmarks in Humanities, McGrow-Hill, 2008, fig. 15.1

Masataka Une, “Japon” Front cover, VU MAG #2, Nov. 2008

Satoru Nagoya, “Review – Noriko Yamaguchi MEM Gallery, Osaka”, FLASH ART #258,Jan.–Feb. 2008

Fabriano Fabbri, Lo zen e il manga. L'arte contemporanea giapponese, Bruno Mondadori, Milano, 2009, p.224, pp.312-315

Software that i can be used

◆3D

Free Form

Design X

Zbrush

Blender

Mesh mixer

Reality Capture

Mesh Lab

Rhino ceros

R3DS Wrap

OPTOCAT

◆Adobe

Fresco

Photo shop

Illustrator

Premia

After effects

Dimention

◆Microsoft

Word

Excel

Power Point

◆Other

Digitizwe V5

◆ 3D technology

3D modeling

Rigging (with IK setting)

UV settings

animation

Data optimization according to extension

Photogrammetry

Ein scan operation

Artec 3D operation

3DGATE WAY operation

Scan data processing technology

CG animation

Physics simulation

◆ Embroidery technology

Brother Digital Embroidery Machine

◆ Paint

Oil paint

Acrylic paint

Watercolor

Silk screen

◆ Animation technology

stop-motion

Video editing

◆ Camera technology

Analog midfield camera

Digital camera

Photo processing technology

I began to start WANTED series as an art project with the theme of honey trap. I draw it by looking at the images from web. They don't know who i am. And also I don't know who they are. But we are best friends.