Meiro Koizumi explores the relationships between the state/community and the individual, and between the human body and emotions, through experimental videos and performances that interweave reality and fiction.
His solo exhibitions include Dreamscapegoafuck at MUJIN-TO Production (2019), Battlelands at Perez Art Museum Miami (2018), Portrait of a Failed Silence, MUAC, Mexico City (2015), Trapped Voice Would Dream of Silence, Arts Maebashi, Maebashi, Japan (2015), and Project Series 99: Meiro Koizumi at Museum of Modern Art, New York (2013).
Recent group shows include Artes Mundi 9, National MUseum Cardiff (2021), Aichi Triennale (2019), Leaving Echo Chember, Sharjah Biennale 14 (2018), Proregress, 12th Shanghai Biennale (2018), The 9th Asia Pacific Triennale, Brisbane (2018), Reenacting History, National Museum of Modern and Conteporary Art Gwacheon, Korea (2017), The Grand Balcony, La Biennale Montréal, Montréal, Canada (2016), Jakarta Biennale, Jakarta, Indonesia (2015), and Roppongi Crossing, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (2013).
His experimental VR Theater piece Prometheus Bound, which was premiered at Aichi Triennale 2019, won the Grand Prize in the 24th Art Division of the Japan Media Arts Festival. In 2021, he won Artes Mundi Prize (Cardiff, UK). His installation works are included in numerous public collections worldwide.
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