Mami Sakama deconstructs and reconstructs photographs and videos using the technique of collage.
In addition to art, she is also ambitiously involved in other genres such as costume and performance.
She has been based in Yokohama since 2010, and is an "Artist Resident" at BankARTstudioNYK.
She has held exhibitions and workshops at alternative spaces and She was awarded the Special Prize of the 15th Taro Okamoto Award for Contemporary Art, and was selected for the So-en Award (Fashion).
She has also presented her works at art festivals and art events for community activities.
From 2012 to 2015, she worked on the theme of "collage extended to the body.
She changed the form of the collage from two-dimensional to three-dimensional and developed it into a costume work.
In April 2013, she presented a costume made of paper collage at the 87th So-en Prize Fashion Show.
In 2014, she held a solo exhibition and dance performance at Gallery Fu.
For the dance performance, Erika Masumizu, a contemporary dancer, wore the work and choreographed it.
In 2015, she collaborated with a spatial design artist to extend her collages into space.
Since 2015, she has again condensed her collages into two-dimensional works.
In 2018, she collaborated with a company on a text collage piece "BEAUTY?" (at Bashamichi Station platform on the Minato Mirai Line).
In 2019 and 2020, she will present "STILL LIFE / Impression, Bedroom" (at Aoyama Spiral Hall), a spatial composition work of collage using particles in the shape of impressionist dots.
Mami Sakama continues to evolve with each presentation.
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Birthplace
Born in Fuji City at the foot of Mt Fuji.
Education
2007 Master of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts
Exhibition
2020 "STILL LIFE / Impression, Bedroom"(exhibited at SICF21,Tokyo,Japan)
2019 "COLLAGE , UNCOLLAGE" (exhibited at SICF20,Tokyo,Japan)
2018 "Outgrowing landscape / night people" (gallery fu, Yokohama City, Japan)
2018 "BEAUTY?" (platform at Bashamichi Station on the Minato Mirai Line, Yokohama City, Japan)
2017 "shedding of skin" exhibited at FUTURE CULTIVATORS PROGRAM 2017 (Kyoto and Tokyo)
2017 "White Cell / White and White Collage" (BankARTstudio NYK, Yokohama City, Japan)
2015 "Fog"(BankARTstudio NYK, Yokohama City, Japan)
2014 "comet" (gallery fu, Yokohama City, Japan)
2013 "Himalayas: White and White Collage" (87th Soen Prize, Endo Memorial Hall, Tokyo, Japan)
2012 "Eat, vomit" (Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, Kawasaki City, Japan)
2010 "Father,Bolero,Mother"(BankARTstudio NYK, Yokohama City, Japan)
Awards
2013 The 87th So-en Award finalist (Paper costume)
2012 The 15th Taro Okamoto Award for Contemporary Art, Special Prize (Paper installation)
Web
www.mamisakama.com
