Sachiko Kodama Biography:

The Japanese female artist Sachiko Kodama was born in 1970. As a child she spent a lot of time in the southernmost part of Japan. This area is rich in tropical flowers and plants, edged by the sea, and washed with warm rain. Sachiko loved art and literature from an early age, but also had a strong interest in science. After Graduating Physics course in the Faculty of Science at Hokkaido University, In 1993, Sachiko matriculated in the Fine Arts Department at the University of Tsukuba, studying Plastic Art and Mixed Media. Then she completed Master's and Doctoral Program in Art and Design at the University of Tsukuba. She studied Computer and Holography Art in her doctoral research.
In 2000, Sachiko began work on a ferrofluid art project that she named "Protrude, Flow". The dynamic movement of liquids is the theme of this project. Kodama is currently an associate professor at University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo. Her work has been exhibited at Ars Electronica Center /Linz, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Wexner Center for the Arts/Columbus, Skirball Cultural Center /Los Angeles, Science Museum/ Tokyo, The National Art Center/Tokyo.

Awards:

The 5th Media Arts Festival, Agency for Cultural Affairs, Grand Prize (Digital Art Interactive Division)2001
The 16th Digital Content Grand Prix, Digital Content Association of Japan, Art Award, 2001
Japan Information-Culture Society, Art Award 2002

Solo Exhibition:
Sachiko Kodama Exhibition (Gallery Kobayashi, Tokyo) 1996
Sachiko Kodama “Breathing Chaos”(Telic Gallery, Los Angeles) 2004
Dynamic Fluid: Sachiko Kodama’s Magnetic Fluid Art Project (Science Museum, Tokyo) 2005
Sachiko Kodama "Morpho Tower" (Gallery Sakamaki, Tokyo) 2006

Invited Group Exhibitions (Selected)
CHAOS & CHANCE exhibit (Tokyo Electric Power Company's Plus Minus Gallery, Tokyo) 1996
The interaction'01: Dialogue with Expanded Images (Softpia Japan Center, Gifu Prefecture) 2001
program・seed (Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto), 2002
Cibervision'02 (Conde Duque Cultural Centre, Madrid) 2002
Mood River (Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus) 2002
Japan Media Arts Exhibition 2002 ? Fusion of Art, Technology and Entertainment?Organized by China International Culture Association, Japan Media Arts Exhibition 2002 Executive Committee, (Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing) 2002
Reimagination image/media/museum (Fukui Fine Arts Museum / Fukui Prefecture), 2002
Navigator -- Digital Art in the Making.(National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts), 2004
Time/Space, Gravity, and Light (Skirball Cultural Center / Los Angeles), 2004
DAF(Digital Art Festival) Tokyo (Panasonic Center / Tokyo), 2005
Meta Visual - 10 Anniversaire du Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography (Centre des Arts d'Enghien-les-Bains / France), 2005
Device Art Exhibition (Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography / Tokyo), 2006
Electrical Fantasista exhibit (BankART Studio NYK / Yokohama), 2006
Woman's Perspective in New Media (Bitforms Gallery Seoul), 2006
The Power of Expression, Japan (National Art Center/ Tokyo) 2007
Message 2007 (Miyakonojo City Museum of Art/ Miyazaki Prefecture) 2007
Electronic Alive IV (Scarfone Gallery /Florida) 2007

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