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Ayaka Ura

Born in Kanagawa prefecture in 1992. Graduated from the Department of Painting at Musashino Art University in 2015. Ura’s aim is to create artwork that serves as a device for inverting or blending disparate things. She has created a number of participatory performance pieces that were achieved in collaboration with her audience. Ura is also involved in exhibitions and event planning as one of the vehicles for her work.

Her recent solo exhibitions

-multitask,2023, gFAL (Musashino Art University),Tokyo;

-shell / fossil / left / traces / of / the / fossil / female / form / of / the / body,2022, Kanazawa Art Village,Ishikawa;

-Watashi wa Sore o Dansu no Soshi to Nazukeru (“This I Call the Elements of Dance”), 2019, Hiroshima Art Center, Hiroshima;

-the solo performance Odoru Hakaishi Sono 2/(Chigireta Mimizu) (Tsutsu no you na Karada) (“The Dancing Gravestone Part 2/(The Torn-Apart Earthworm) (The Tube-Shaped Body)”), 2019, blanClass, Kanagawa;

group exhibition

-Aichi triennale 2022,2022,Aichi prefecutual museum of art,Aichi

-(((((,:Kakko-Tojinai,2022,Komagome SOKO ,Tokyo

-Hikikomi-sen/Hosha-sen (“Lead-in Wires/Radiating Lines”), 2019, as well as exhibitions in various metropolitan locations in Saitama, Tokyo, Kanagawa and more.

Ura has been a manager at CSLAB, the independent creative center for students at Tokyo Zokei University since 2019. She is also involved in the co-planning and co-execution of the “female artist meeting” network of women who are involved in art with artist Tsuga Megumi.

うらあやか

1992年神奈川県生まれ。2015年武蔵野美術大学造形学部油絵学科卒業。

主体性や責任の移動に関心をもつ。観客との共同作業で実現した参加型のパフォーマンス作品を多数制作。

また、作品制作の手段の一つとして、展覧会やイベント企画も行っている。

アーティストやデザイナーらとの協働プロジェクトにも多く取り組む。