"YOSONO UCHINO NAKANO SOTO", 2014 / Ceramic
Sakamoto Yuri （Yokohama / Japan）
[Recommended by Tomoyo Mizuya（Curatorial Team/ Koganecho Bazaar）]
Yuri Sakamoto graduated from Tama Art University in 2005. She received The 8th Annual Taro Okamoto Memorial Award for Contemporary Art in the same year. She has participated in the artist-in-residence program in Koganecho since 2009. She creates artworks based on uncomfortable feelings that she gets from relationships in daily life.
Recommended by Tomoyo Mizuya(Curatorial Team/ Koganecho Bazaar)
Born in 1988 in Tokyo, Japan, and currently based in Tokyo. She finished her Master's in the Industrial Art Course at Metropolitan University of Tokyo. Working as a coordinator of art projects, such as Tadashi Kawamata Tokyo in Progress and CIAN-Center for Interlocal Art Network, she is studying how people get involved in and are influenced by art projects that occur in public space. In 2013, she started to work in Koganecho Area Management Center as a member of the curatorial team.
