久村卓 Taku Hisamura

Born in Tokyo in 1977. Graduated from the Department of Sculpture at Tama Art University in 2001. He began presenting his work in 2003, inspired by a lecture at Todo School which he happened to listen to by chance. He is still questioning what art is, through creating works that have functions further than appreciation, such as ‘wearable sculptures’ and ‘sittable readymades’, influenced by thoughts and feelings that oscillate between interest and indifference to art.

Solo Exhibitions
2012 “Existing there without appearing to be” 3331 GALLERY, Tokyo
2016 “Homemade Sculpture” AI KOWADA GALLERY, Tokyo
2020 “Repeat Play” NADiff Window Gallery, Tokyo
2021 “One Point Sculptures” GALLERY ROOM・A, Tokyo
2022 “One Point Sculptures” SOMSOC GALLERY, Tokyo

Group Exhibitions
2009 “Tsuzuki Art Project 2009” Yokohama History Museum, etc. (Yokohama)
2010 “Haunted the Update – Plastic Island” Akiba Tamabi 21 (Tokyo)
2011 “The Lounge” Bvlgari Ginza Tower 8F private lounge (Tokyo)
2011 “Hierher Dorthin” Goethe Institut TOKYO (Tokyo)
2012 “Walk up | and down | form | being formed” NADiff Gallery (Tokyo)
2014 “Slits” NADiff a/p/a/r/t (Tokyo)
2015 “26th UBE Biennale” Ube Tokiwa Museum (Ube)
2016 “Trans Arts Tokyo 2016” Former Tokyo Denki University, etc. (Tokyo)
2017 “BLUE LINES” WEEKENDER by Shinzone (Tokyo)
2018 “Dogo Onsenart 2018” Dogo Onsen and its surroundings (Matsuyama)
2018 “169.8cm” Art Lab Hashimoto (Sagamihara)
2019 “On the Verge of Fiction” Kuandu Museum (Taipei)
2020 “2o2oAppropriation” Sansiao Gallery (Tokyo)
2021 “Tokyo Biennnale 2020/2021” Northeastren area of central Tokyo (Tokyo)
2021 “New Tempo in Tama” Tama city Toyogaoka & Kaidori shopping district (Tokyo)
2021 “Renew-LAB to begin in the future” Art Lab Hashimoto (Sagamihara)
2022 “Organizing Daily Life” Hajimari Art Center (Inawashiro)
2022 “WATOWA ART AWARD 2022 EXHIBITION” WATOWA GALLERY (Tokyo)
2023 “Beam of light in a costume” Old forigners settlement neighbouring boutiques (Kobe)

Art Fairs
2015 “3331 Art Fair 2015” 3331Arts Chiyoda (Tokyo)
2018 “Selected Art Fair 2018 SHU SHU SHU SHOW” Spiral Garden (Tokyo)
2023 “ART CENTRAL 2023” Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (Sansiao Gallery, Hong Kong)
2023 “ART OSAKA 2023” KAGOO (GALLERY KAWAMATSU, Osaka)

In contemporary art, there are things like Duchamp’s ‘Fountain’, supported by institutional elements to be ‘art’, which otherwise may not be considered so, and this is what drives me to create sculptures even now, as someone who could not really make anything sculpture-like.
Art is definitely necessary in this world, but sometimes it is better to not be art. My work, which is intended to move between institutional frameworks, is also a questioning of the value of art, which changes depending on circumstance and subject.

A graduate of Tama Art University, he excels at artwork that selects and reclaims the art and symbols that are hidden in the town and in daily life. Recently, his forte is in lighter and more familiar “handicraft-boy”-like artwork, where he cleverly mixes a change in perception with daily fashion in the series in which he adds embroidery to brand logos and puts them inside a frame, or where he creates a miniature museum out of the stains on a painter’s work pants like a Jackson Pollock piece; his abilities to go between art and practicality, or incorporating both, seen in his earliest works that reclaim things commonly lying around the town that anybody would overlook, have the qualities of a rightful successor of Japanese art, and the power to connect it to contemporary art.

（Mai Miyake）