Tamami IINUMA was born in Tokyo, works in Paris and in Tokyo.

After 6 years of residency in Leipzig Germany, Tamami Iinuma currently works at Cite Internationale des Art in Paris for her doctoral theory at Tokyo National University of Arts. It focuses on the correlation between urban architecture and artist book, based on Modulor by Le Corbusier. Also she makes multiple art pieces over the fields of architectural photography, editorial design and bookmaking.

Chronology

2013 - Doctoral Program at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
2011 - Pola Art Foundation (Grants for Overseas Study by Young Artists)
2008 - 2010 Guest Student at Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig
2008 - Master of Arts at Tama Art University
2006 - Bachelor of Arts at Musashino Art University

Publications

2016 - House of Architecture (POST)

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2016 - Listen to the architecture singing (Daikanyama Tsutaya, Tokyo)
2016 - Listen to the architecture singing (Rohm Theatre, Kyoto)
2016 - WHEN PHOTOGRAPHY BECOMES PRINT (motto, Berlin)
2016 - The Third Architecture - a Book, a Maison and a Forest (POST, Tokyo)
2015 - From Le Corbusier to Maekawa (Nikon Salon, Osaka)
2015 - From Le Corbusier to Maekawa (Nikon Salon, Tokyo)
2015 - Vitrines Exhibition #002 PASSAGE / Colonne (Cite Internationale des Arts Paris)
2015 - Vitrines Exhibition #001 PASSAGE / Agence de Voyage (Cite Internationale des Arts Paris)

Selected Group Exhibitions

2016 - 3+3 (Spanish Embassy in Japan, Tokyo)
2016 - IMA Gallery Collection (IMA Gallery, Tokyo)
2016 - YOKO ONO LUMIÈRE DE L'AUBE (Musee d’Art Contemporarin, Lyon)
2015 - Lyon Biennale / PASSAGE (Capitainerie, Lyon)
2015 - WERKSCHAU 2015 (WERKSCHAU / Spinnerei, Leipzig)
2015 - STEP OUT ! The New Japanese Photographers (IMA gallery, Tokyo)
2015 - The New Visions (Pola Museum Annex, Tokyo)
2014 - VvK9 / Coincidental Perception (Kunst Arzt gallery, Kyoto)
2014 - THE EXPOSED #7 (G/P+g3 gallery, Tokyo)
2013 - SPACE CADET Actual Exhibition #2 (Turner Gallery, Tokyo)
2012 - European Cultural Capital, Guimarães noc noc (Museum Alberto Sampaio Extention, Guimarães)
2012 - The 5th International Fotobook Festival (Le Bal, Paris)
2011 - conditioned air (AKIBA TAMABI 21, Tokyo)
2010 - Rundgang (Academy of Visual Arts, Leipzig)
2009 - Japan Media Art Festival 2008 (The National Art Center Tokyo)
2008 - Tama Art University Graduation Show 2007 (BankArt1929, Yokohama)
2006 - Musashino Art University Graduation Exhibition (Musashino Art University, Tokyo)

Books from Tamami IINUMA