Can Tamura

USA/Japan

Born 1970 in Dover, Delaware, USA. Lives and works in Kanazawa, Japan.
Can Tamura is an artist, filmmaker, and audiovisual anthropologist. He earned his BA in film at Antioch College (USA) and MA in Visual Anthropology, Media and Documentary Practices at the University of Münster (Germany). Working primarily in Japan, Turkey, and Mongolia, he makes experimental documentary films that explore the intersection between ethnographic film and art. Paintings and drawings are often hyperrealist depictions of broken objects or sketches on appropriated materials. Mediums include 16mm film, analog and digital video, analog and digital photography, oil and acrylic paints, sound, and text.

武蔵野美術大学大学院修了。
80年代の活動当初から鉄という素材に魅了され、溶断と溶接を繰り返しながら作品を制作している。
素材本来の硬質感や重量感、彫刻＝塊という概念からも解放され、空間を変容させていく。
“場”を深く観察し、可視、不可視に関わらずそこに存在するものを取り込み、
独自の世界を構築する。
近年は石膏、ガラスなど異素材の作品も発表。
主な受賞歴に、芸術選奨文部大臣新人賞、毎日芸術賞、中原悌二郎賞。

Born 1970 in Dover, Delaware, USA. Lives and works in Kanazawa, Japan.
Can Tamura is an artist, filmmaker, and audiovisual anthropologist. He earned his BA in film at Antioch College (USA) and MA in Visual Anthropology, Media and Documentary Practices at the University of Münster (Germany). Working primarily in Japan, Turkey, and Mongolia, he makes experimental documentary films that explore the intersection between ethnographic film and art. Paintings and drawings are often hyperrealist depictions of broken objects or sketches on appropriated materials. Mediums include 16mm film, analog and digital video, analog and digital photography, oil and acrylic paints, sound, and text.