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Anna Kato- CV

-Research Associate at Department of Arts Studies and Curatorial Practices, Graduate School of Global Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts
-Independent curator since 2010
-co-founder of contemporary art studies 
-member of OAC (Open Art Consortium)
-Linkdin

◇  Curatorial Experience

11/2010 “Blue” at 0000gallery, Kyoto
01/2012 “The Contract” at Seibu Shibuya Department Store, Tokyo
06/2013 “Curatorial Practice” at Antenna Media, Kyoto


◇Organized Events and Incited Talks

11/2010 “Young art directors' summit” at 0000 gallery
11/2011 at Plus the Art Fair @Tokyo Art Club, conversed with Hiroko Watanabe(One Piece Culb) 
01/2012 The Contract, with sociologist Masayuki Okahara (Keio University)


◇Internship &Work Experience


05/2018-NOW Research Associate at Department of Arts Studies and Curatorial Practices, Graduate School of Global Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts

02/2016-NOW Personal Assistant of Yuko Hasegawa [Work]
-11/2018-01/2019 (for coming exhibition) Curatorial Assistant: “Poetic of Space” at Al Hamriyah Studios, Sharjah, UAE.
-10/2017-03/2018 Research Assistant: “JAPANORAMA. A new vision on art since 1970” at Centre Pompidou Metz, Metz, France.
-03/2017-10/2017 Research Assistant: 7th Moscow International Biennale of Contemporary Art “CloudsForests” at New Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
-03/2017-04/2017 Research/Curatorial Assistant “Japan-Taiwan Cultural Exchange Exhibition Art Collection Exhibition - Sensibility at Ports of Call -” at T-Art Gallery, Tokyo.

06/2017-09/2017 Mercari Europe, London, U.K. (The biggest e-commerce startup based in Japan)  Worked at the marketing team. [INTERN]


◇Publications and Presentations at Academic Conferences

09/2014 Interview Published in Future Starts from Doshisha University, edited by Doshisha Sports Atom, Kyoto: Miyaobi Publishing 11/2016 “The Origin of the Ideal Body Image for Women in Contemporary Japan, -Jean Pierre Damat’s Mannequin”, The 11th International Symposium for Japanese Language Education and Japanese Studies, at The Open University of Hong Kong, China. [Presentation]

03/2017 MA thesis “Reconsidering Richard Hamilton: The Subject of “Perception” in his Early Works (1949-1959)” [Submitted]

09/2017Exploring a New Direction in Contemporary Japanese Art: A Significance of Takashi Murakami’s ‘An Homage to Seiki Kuroda’” at The 5th International Conference at Christian University, Bucharest, Romania. [Presentation]

11/2017 Yuko Hasegawa, Serge Lasvignes and Emma Lavigne, Japanorama : Nouveau regard sur la création contemporaine, Metz: Centre Pompidou-Metz Editions, 2017. [Wrote and edited each artists’ biographies]


◇Education Background
04/2016 - NOW University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Arts and Science, Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies, Culture and Representation
Major: Post-war British / Japanese Arts
Degree: PhD of Humanism (year 2)

04/2014-03/2016 University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Arts and Science
Major: Postwar British Arts Degree: Master of Humanism

09/2013-06/2014 University of Manchester, Art History & Visual Studies, Manchester, U.K.
 (one-year study abroad program)

04/2011-03/2012 Waseda University, School of Culture, Media and Society, Tokyo.
 (one-year domestic exchange program)

04/2010-03/2015 Doshisha University, Aesthetic &Art History, Kyoto.
Major: Contemporary Art Degree: Bachelor of Art History