Tetsu Umehara

2020.07.14 - 2020.08.04

Tetsu Umehara

Born in 1996, Yokohama, Japan. Artist and musician. Through research and fieldwork on cities and environments, he composes sound and space.

He is interested in architectural urbanism, acoustic sociology, and sound as a notational technique, and occasionally works in theater. He is also developing a cross-genre style of production with video and other media. After living in Dusseldorf, Germany, he graduated from the Faculty of Science and Engineering, Yokohama National University in 2018. He graduated from the Graduate School of Tokyo University of the Arts in 2020.

He has been an artist in residence at BankART AIR 2015, BankART StudioNYK, Yokohama (2015), Venue Configuration Research Assistant at Yokohama Triennale 2017, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama (2017), and also participated in Drifters International’s “Re/ Participation” program. When he was a student at Tokyo University of the Arts, he received the Isoya Yoshida Prize and the Power of Art Award from the university.

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