Jin Murata – Poet
| 1979 | Born in Mie, Japan. |
| Edcuation | |
| 2004 | MFA, Contemporary Arts, Nagoya University of Arts, Aichi Japan |
| 2002 | BFA, Painting, Nagoya University of Art, Aichi, Japan |
| 1998 | Mie Hisai HighSchool, Art Club, Japan |
| Exhibitions | |
| 2024 | [Our Imaginative Boundaries] FOFA Gallery, Faculty of Fine Arts, Srinakharinwirot University, Bangkok, Thailand |
| 2023 | [Art in the darkness] Komaki Library Gallery Aichi, [Nishiki 2-chome Exhibition of artists related to Chojamachi] KISSA-NANABAN(Cafe No,7) Nagoya [METROPLEX 2022.2122] AR exhibition Serbia Nobisad Art Collective NKN × Dejan Ilic Design × Chojamachi School of ARTS] Chojamachi Cottion building gallery, Nagoya |
| 2019 | [SPOT] Art forum MIE 2019 Yasutaka Hayashi project, Culture Center, Tsu, Mie [ART FARMing] MEN-KAKU Building. Nishiki-2chome. Nagoya |
| 2017 | [The frog song. Beautiful Young Generations] KASUGAI Culture Forum Gallery Aichi, [Japan-Germany International exchange art exhibition ONGAESHI #3 artist exchange ] Künstlerhaus Bremen, Germany, |
| 2016 | [Group works and Collaborations] By “Blue Mayonnaise” with Ryoichi Komatsu. Art Labo Aichi, Nagoya, [Through the Window] KASUGAI Culture Forum Aichi, |
| 2015 | [Japan-Germany International exchange art exhibition ONGAESHI #2 artist exchange] Kukoon, Bremen Germany, |
| 2014 | [Japan-Germany International exchange art exhibition ONGAESHI artist exchange] Working Labo “TSUKURU” Ichinomiya, Aichi [Circuitous Journey] Nagoya City Art Museum |
| 2013 | [Kuchu Art Museum] Nagoya TV Tower |
| 2012 | [Butterfly Hug] Art Lab Aichi [Scenery of silence] Funde Nagoya 2012 Nagoya Citizen Gallery1 Yada |
| 2011 | [KODOMO ART in MIE -Draw a Hart-] Mie Pref Art Museum, [senseki] GALLERY GOHON Nagoya |
| 2010 | [Kiroku no Koku ~Forum Press 10,000 years~] Kasugai Citizens Cultural Foundation 10th Anniversary Exhibition Kasugai Cultural Forum Gallery |
| 2009 | [5th Anniversary Exhibition: Hundred Stories about Love.] 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa Ishikawa, [Only the pencil comes back] Solo exhibition Culture Forum Kasugai Shift Cube Vol.2 Aichi, |
| 2007 | [There is no swamp] Solo exhibition Gallery Art Fetish Nagoya [Words are windows] Solo exhibition Nagoya Citizen Nagoya Citizen Gallery1 Yada |
| 2006 | [site scenes] Bremen Nagoya Art Project Ehemaliges Polizeirevier Bremen, Germany – Aichi, Japan |
| 2005 | [site scenes] Bremen Nagoya Art Project Ehemaliges MISOKURA KANESEI, Aichi, Japan [Winter goes to see his grandfather. ] FamilyMart Toyohashi Maedamachi 1-chome store, Toyohashi, Aichi |
| 2004 | [Ise Kawasaki Art School] Ise Kawasaki, Mie |
| 2003 | [Energetic Extension.] Stone & Water, Anyang, Korea, |
| 2001 | [The Constellating Recollections] with Mr.Ko Yamda Artist Photographer Mount Holyok University MA United States [Labor Press Club] Co-planned and produced with photographer Ko Yamada, Gifu Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art [child fingers] Art Drug Center Year-round project [apoptosis] Solo exhibition Art Drug Center Inuyama, Aichi |
| Lives | |
| Present – 1999 | [Blue Mayonnaise] (collaboration of poetly readings,performance with Mr.Ryoichi Komatsu) |
| 2023 | Participated in a poetry reading: [Sleeping in Peace] Ko Yamada, Keisuke Oki, Jin Murata, Junko Suzuki Takuji Okagawa, Dejan Ilic, Marko Jozic, “Peace, Art, and Music – Events held around Hiroshima’s Peace Memorial Day -” Former Bank of Japan Hiroshima Branch, Hiroshima City [Myu Hanaoka + Masako Kato exhibition『そして、』Opening perfomance.] TOUTEN BOOKSTORE Nagoya |
| 2022 | [Poetry Reading “Night Eyes Man”] Cafe Nanaban, Nagoya [I don’t say R.I.P. Don’t say mourning] Poetry reading at Hasegawa Hitomi’s solo exhibition “Dog eat Dog” Chojamachi Cotton Building 1F Gallery, Nagoya [Cat’s Poetry Lines] cluster, Metaverse Nagoya, FabCafeNagoya, Nagoya |
| 2019 | [ku.-na-mo-to-ra-ko-ka-Do / Snow, Address.] Live performance with Eisuke Ooka. Aoki Warehouse – Daigo Sakurai’s work “From Nowhere”. Kameyama Triennale 2020 Pre-event, Kameyama City, Mie |
| 2015 | [From Poetry in Brazilian Coffee] Kanayama Brazilian Coffee, Nagoya City [AMR Fest] Chojamachi Transit Building, Nagoya City |
| 2010 | [Heartbeat “Kokorone”] Live performance with Takako Tate. Chikusa Cultural Small Theater, Nagoya |
| Others Worshops | |
| Present – 2025 | [Hour Poem] Poetry readings via podcast |
| Present – 2021 | [ART FARMingTV] Projects. Nagoya, |
| Present – 2014 | Poetry class “SIKARA (From Poem)” in Yojo-Han, Nagoya |
| Present – 2012 | [Art Center Yojo-Han] Projects, are (Takuji Okagawa, Jin Murata, Hirotaka Yasuhara, Ko Yamada) |
| 2025 | [Poetry workshop “Demo Poems”] iakk Ito Ayumi Accounting Office, Kasugai, Aichi |
| 2024 | [Poetry Workshop: Demo poems] Slow Art Center, Nagoya [Poetry Workshop: Direct bottle mail] Aichi Open Art Atelier, Nagoya |
| 2023- 2015 | [In the morning when you write poetry, wake up your heart.] [Thursday Poetry ~Poetry homework is a proposition~] Poetry series NHK Nagoya Cultural Center Nagoya City |
| 2023 | [Poetry Workshop “Direct front of the bottle mail.”(Manmae Tobin Tsuushin)] Kiyosu City Haruhi Museum / Related project to the traveling exhibition “Tanikawa Shuntaro Picture Book Department Store Exhibition” |
| 2022 | Published the poetry collection “Night Eyes Man.” |
| 2022 | [Poetry Workshop “Enjoy Getting Lost in the Library Forest”] Kitanagoya City Library |
| 2021 | [Aoi Shiori ZINE Gallery] Participating with the zine “DEMO POEMS”. |
| 2019、18、 | Judge (one of three) for the Western painting category of the Kameyama City Exhibition in Mie Prefecture. |
| 2018 | [Poetry Writing Class: Let’s write a collection of poems from Pictures!] Menard Art Museum, Komaki City [Poetry Writing Workshop: “Enjoy Getting lost in the library forest”] Nagoya City Tsurumai Central Library |
| 2017 | [My Horizon] Poetry and Art Workshop / Anzai Mizumaru Exhibition Inside “Drifting Horizon” at Kiyosu City Haruhi Museum |
| 2016 | Drawing via Dialogue Project] Nagoya University of Arts – University of Brighton, UK [Poetry Fieldwork: Poetry from the Nakagawa Canal III] Nakagawa Canal Rimiko Line Project, Nagoya [Oaichi Naruheso Newspaper] Participated as deputy editor. Aichi Triennale 2016, Aichi [Poetry Sleeping in the Town] “Hometown Kasugai Studies” Research Forum, Kasugai [Okado on August 31st] Published in the fourth issue of the quarterly magazine “Tokyo Koya” |
| 2015 | [Poetry Fieldwork: Poetry from the Nakagawa Canal II] Nakagawa Canal Rimiko Line Project, Nagoya City |
| 2014 | [Poetry Fieldwork: Poems from the Nakagawa Canal] Nakagawa Canal Limi-Coline Project, Nagoya [Workshop “Snap Shot Poetics”] Komaki City Cultural Promotion Division, Art Appreciation Course Co-planned with photographer Ko Yamada. |
| 2013 | [Nishinari Naruheso Newspaper] Participated as deputy editor. Year-round project. Breaker Project Sanno, Osaka City |
| 2012 | [Empty Poetry Box Non-Electricity Version] Poetry workshop. Kisogawa Weather River House Project Kisogawa Sansen Park, Kaizu City, Gifu Prefecture, [Poetry in Tulip Hut] Poetry workshop. Outdoor Music Festival OTONOTANI, Ibi Kogen, Gifu Prefecture, [Featured in Tsu City’s pamphlet “kalas” Issue 17, “Special Feature: How to Create Continuation,” as “How a Poet Continuizes”]. |
| 2011 | [Poetry workshop “Love Letter to Painting”] Komaki City Cultural Promotion Division Painting Appreciation Class [Berliner Naruheso Weltzeitung] Workshop at the Berlin International Design Festival “DMY”. Co-planned and produced with photographer Ko Yamada Tempelhof Airport, Berlin, Germany |
| 2009 | [Nagoya Naruheso Newspaper] Director of the International Young Designers Workshop, Creative Design City Nagoya 2009, Future Scope, co-produced with photographer Ko Yamada. International Design Center, Nagoya |