Natsumi Sugiyama

© Natsumi Sugiyama / 杉山夏実

Natsumi Sugiyama is an artist whose practice asks
how environments are experienced, remembered and transformed,
through installation, moving image and drawing.

Archive

Medium
Method
  1. 2026Content Structure: Language App for Childrenapp content, visual content, workshop composition
  2. 2025Portraits of (Places)mixed media object, exhibition
  3. 2025Multimedia Illustrationmobile app content, visual production
  4. 2025–2026Visual Identity for a Podcasteditorial graphic
  5. 2025Information Graphics: FintechInfographic, Content Operations
  6. 2025–2026Multilingual Content Localisation SupportContent Operations
  7. 2024Why (& Where) Do I Need to Draw?editorial design, technical coaching, booklet
  8. 2023Educational Content: Haikumobile app content, visual production
  9. 2023Educational Content: Kanjimobile app content, visual production
  10. 2022Recollections of Beyondinstallation, video
  11. 2022–2024Educational Content: Philosophymobile app, drawing, video
  12. 2021–2024Mobile App: UX and Art Directionmobile app, video
  13. 2021Website Graphicswebsite design
  14. 2020In-Between Places and Humanstext, field research
  15. 2019Scenery of De/Museumizationinstallation, exhibition
  16. 2019Exhibition Graphics for a Group Exhibitionwebsite, exhibition, installation
  17. 2018–2019IMAGINARY BAUHAUS MUSEUM
  18. 2017Field Notes of Topophiliatext, field research
  19. 2017StadtGestaltunginstallation
  20. 2017Pigment Floor Drawinginstallation, exhibition
  21. 2017Missing Sculpturebook design, bilingual layout
  22. 2017Un/Sounds of Buchenwaldbooklet design
  23. 2017–2021Untitledfield research, participant observation
  24. 2016Sceneriesfield research, photography
  25. 2016Phenomena, and Symbols of Persuasionmixed media object, drawing, exhibition
  26. 2016A Dot on a Line, Replaced and Continuingdrawing, photography
  27. 2015Unerased Remindersinstallation, drawing, exhibition
  28. 2015Landscapes Narrativesfieldwork, field research, exhibition
  29. 2015YOU SAY ART I SAY WHATbooklet design, editorial design
  30. 2015There is an Exhibition in Prison. It is Called CRACK.booklet design, editorial design
  31. 2015Logo Design for an Art Projectlogo design
  32. 2014Roppongi, Paralleleddrawing, interview
  33. 2014About Another's Toposdrawing, field research
  34. 2014Notation of Topos Phase. 0publication, zine
  35. 2013About My Toposinstallation, drawing, field research, exhibition
  36. 2013–2014Hands-on Art Workshop for a Kindergartenworkshop

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Index

Selected exhibitions

    About

    Natsumi Sugiyama is an artist whose practice examines how environments are experienced, crossed and transformed, drawing on movement across borders, marginalised presences and under-recorded narratives. Working through editorial methods, she presents her work as installation, moving image and drawing. Between 2013 and 2020 her work centred on narratives of place, developed through fieldwork; it now turns to narratives in flux, recomposed across borders.

    Born in Tokyo, based in Berlin (as of 2026)
    POLA Art Foundation Overseas Research Grant (2017)

    2020
    PhD, practice-based, Tokyo University of the Arts
    2017
    MFA, Public Art and New Artistic Strategies, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
    2013
    MA, Design, Tokyo University of the Arts
    BA, Environmental Design, Tama Art University

    Studio

    Her design practice is carried out as nat/yama.

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