Meiro Koizumi

Meiro Koizumi is a video and performance artist working in Yokohama, Japan (born in Gunma, Japan, 1976). He studied at the Chelsea College of Art and Design, London (1999-2002) and the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam (2005-2006), and won 1st prize at Beck’s Futures 2 in London for student film and video (2001). His solo exhibitions and performances have been featured at MoMA, New York (2013); Tate Modern, London (2013); Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam (2012); Art Space, Sydney (2011); and the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (2009). He has participated in numerous group exhibitions, includingArt Scope 2009-2011: Invisible Memories at the Hara Museum, Tokyo (2011); Liverpool Biennial (2010); Media City Seoul (2010); Aichi Triennale, Japan (2010); and Nanjing Triennial, China (2008). His works are included in the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo. His performance as part of the Fusebox Festival is in conjunction with the artist’s video installation at testsite in Austin, TX, opening April 27th, 2014.