EDUCATION
2017 - 2015 MA Sculpture, Royal College of Art, London
2009 - 2004 MFA Fine Art, Valand Academy of of Art, Gothenburg
EXHIBITIONS
2020 Isolering | Kommunikation, Färgfabriken, Stockholm
2017 Night Market, Adjustment, London (solo)
2017 Anise Gallery, London
2016 Show RCA, London
2013 Disconnect, Front projects, London
2012 Vanishing Point, Galleri Mors Mössa, Gothenburg (solo)
2009 Nana April Jun - Michelle Wu - Sayuri Michima, Galleri Rotor, Gothenburg (solo)
2009 Valand c/o Konstnärshuset, Konstnärshuset, Stockholm
2009 Seven Chapters, Göteborgs Konsthall, Gothenburg
2008 Unknown places in Gothenburg, Göteborgs Stadsmuseum, Gothenburg
2008 Moving Film Festival, Clarion Hotell, Stockholm
2007 Fade / Pan, Galleri Rotor, Gothenburg
NANA APRIL JUN (AUDIO WORK)
www.nanaapriljun.info
2019 Helicotrema 8, Palazzo Grassi, Venice
2017 Helicotrema 6, Palazzo Grassi, Venice
2016 Nana April Jun, RCA, London
2016 Helicotrema @ Worldbreakers, Dro
2014 Flight Through the Hyper Linear Field, Adjustment, London
2011 Théâtre de la Cité Internationale, Paris
2010 Opening for The Radio Dept, Strand, Stockholm
2010 Opening for The Radio Dept, Mejeriet, Lund
2010 Full Pull Festival, Malmö
2010 Göteborg Art Sounds Festival, Gothenburg
2010 Netmage 10, Bologna
2009 Geiger Festivalen, Gothenburg
2009 Göteborgs Konsthall, Gothenburg
PUBLISHED AUDIO WORK
2009 Eleh / Nana April Jun – Observations & Momentum (LP) Touch —>
2008 Nana April Jun – The Ontology of Noise (CD) ToucH
SAYURI MICHIMA (INTERNET WORK) 2014 - 2009
Documentation
SELECTED PRESS
2012 Göteborgsposten (SE), Nöjesguiden (SE)
2011 Nutida Musik (SE)
2010 Nordische Musik (GE), The Wire (UK), Bergens Tidende (NO), Sun Hammer Pounding (US), Touching Extremes (IT)
2009 The Wire (UK), Fact Magazine (UK), Boomkat (UK), The Sound Projector (UK), Pop Matters (US), Prefixmag (US), Sound of Music (SE), NonPop (GE), Orkus (GE), The Gap (GE), Trust (GE), Ae (GE), Ruis (BE), Vital Weekly, Paris Transatlantic (FR), Popnews (FR), Découvrir Absolument (FR), Octopus (FR), Earlabs (NL), Serpent (PL), Blow Up (IT), Go-Mag (ES), Skanu Mezs (LV), S & V (RU), Göteborgsposten (SE)
2008 Dagens Nyheter (SE), Göteborgsposten (SE)
A complete collection of reviews of Nana April Jun - The Ontology of Noise (2009) can be found on the Touch website, here
NANA APRIL JUN AUDIO FEATURED IN FILMS AND DANCE PERFORMANCES
2019 The Education of a Negro (feature film) | Director: Ryan Culver | Country: US | Tracks used: Sun Wind Darkness Eye, Process Philosophy
2015 Kim (feature film) | Director: Tobias Rydin | Country: Sweden | Tracks used: 8.3 Minutes From the Sun, High and Low and Mid Plane Mass
2015 Glitter Fabulous (Dance performance) | Choreographer: James Gardella with Chris Braz | Venue: The Wild Project, New York | Country: US | Tracks used: From The Ontology of Noise
2011 AT (film) | Director and choreographer: Davoud Zare | Country: Iran | Tracks used: The One Substance, Semantic Shift
2010 A Stream of Waiting (Dance performance)| Choreographer: Fortunato Angelini | Venue: Trinity Laban at Bonnie Bird Auditorium, London | Country: UK | Tracks used: From The Ontology of Noise
SAYURI MICHIMA BIBLIOGRAPHY
Research projects / essays
2017 Carolina Lara Kallas – ARQUEOLOGIA DA SELFIE: Análise da tecno-imagem nos ambientes comunicacionais contemporâneo
2015 Carolina Lara Kallas – Facebook: falsa transparência e moldura social. O processo de resistência no perfil da artista Sayuri Michima
2013 Loes van Beuningen – The Surgical Drape series of Sayuri Michima
2013 Loes van Beuningen – The Hypermediate Strategy of Sayuri Michima
2012 Loes van Beuningen – Sayuri Michima – No Size Only Proportions
Books
2014 Marie Meixnerová (Ed.) – #mm Net Art—Internet Art in the Virtual and Physical Space of Its Presentation
Articles
2014 - 2009 vice.com, elpais.com, AQNB.com, tecnoartenews.com, networkcultures.org, bitchmedia.org, amusement.net, hiro.pl, art radar, the creators project
EDITOR
YKKY Magazine I, II & III (International A3 art magazine)
www.ykky.se
GRANTS
2022 Helge Ax:son Johnsons stiftelse
2020 a-n The Artists Information Company and Arts Council England
2019 Helge Ax:son´s stiftelse
2009 Eric Ericssons stiftelse
2009 Bertha Neubergs stiftelse