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Junya Yamamine

About

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Curator/ CEO, NYAW inc./ Co-president of Tokyo Art Acceleration

After working as a curator at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa and Contemporary Art Centre, Art Tower Mito, he became the director of ANB Tokyo and established NYAW Inc. Major exhibitions include 'Hello World-for the Post-Human Age' and ' Resistance of Fog Fujiko Nakaya' (Art Tower Mito) and 'The world began without the human race, and it will end without it.' (National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts).

In addition to planning and consulting on culture/art-related projects such as the art festival 'Meet Your Art Festival "NEW SOIL"' organized by avex, Music Loves Art in Summer Sonic and the Agency for Cultural Affairs' Cultural Economy Strategy Promotion Project, he also supervises art programmes and features in magazines and on TV. He is also a writer, lecturer, jury member, etc. He was a 2015 overseas trainee for curators from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) and a part-time lecturer at Waseda University and Tokyo Polytechnic University.