IWAI Shigeaki

Teaching Staff (Multidisciplinary Arts)

Title	Professor Trustee
Research Fields	Installation art / Art projects / Multiculturalism and art
Education	1989 Master’s (Fine Arts [Mural Painting]), Tokyo University of the Arts 1987 Bachelor’s (Fine Arts [Oil Painting]), Tokyo University of the Arts
Selected Professional Experience	2023-Present Trustee, Akita University of Art 2021-2022 Vice President, Akita University of Art 2013-Present Professor, Akita University of Art 2005-Present Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Musical Creativity and the Environment, Tokyo University of the Arts
Recent Activities	<Single author book> 2013 Robo no kohan: Ozu Yasujiro no jidai to gendai [Patches of Light on the Roadside: Yasujiro Ozu Then and Now]. P3 art and environment   <Selected exhibitions / Artwork submissions> 2020 ARTS & ROUTES: The journey to trace the boundaries (special exhibition). Akita Museum of Modern Art, Yokote City, Akita 2016 Anata ni tsunagaru [Connecting to you]. Niigata City Art Museum 2015 Jinko-gensho, ato [Depopulation, art]. NHK Akita Broadcasting building   <Planning and direction> 2021 Immigration Museum Tokyo online museum 2017-Present Director, Journey to be continued (documentary film). Immigration Museum Tokyo 2014-Present Fascinating encounters (2014); The form of encounters (2015); Everyday happenings (2015); Experiencing different cultures through art bath house elegy, humane pull-car, and vanishing view of Showa era. Senju – the town where Kent Dahl had walked around (2016) (group exhibitions). Immigration Museum Tokyo 2010-2013 Newcomer’s view (group exhibitions). Immigration Museum Tokyo
Courses Taught	History of Modern Painting Contemporary Art Seminar (Multidisciplinary Arts) Multidisciplinary Arts Seminar A, B, C Graduation Project (Multidisciplinary Arts) (Graduate School of Transdisciplinary Arts) Transdisciplinary Arts Theory Applied Transdisciplinary Arts Theory A Transdisciplinary Arts Seminar Transdisciplinary Arts Practicum A Guided Research I, II (Master’s Program) Transdisciplinary Arts Research Methods Transdisciplinary Arts Research: Expression I, II Guided Research I, II, III (Doctoral Program)

 

Example Works
100 hummings	Mimi to mimi no aida (Uepekere ni yoru tamashii no ibasho) [Between the ears (Where the uepeker say the soul resides)]	Kiku Sadud Ruk

Further details (in Japanese) can be found at the following link: IWAI Shigeaki (Japanese Page)