Natsumi Sugiyama is an artist whose practice asks
how environments are experienced, remembered and transformed,
through installation, moving image and drawing.
環境はどのように経験され、
記憶され、変容していくのか。
マルチメディアによる研究と制作の実践
- 2026Content Structure: Language App for Childrenapp content, visual content, workshop composition
- 2025Portraits of (Places)mixed media object, exhibition
- 2025Multimedia Illustrationmobile app content, visual production
- 2025–2026Visual Identity for a Podcasteditorial graphic
- 2025Information Graphics: FintechInfographic, Content Operations
- 2025–2026Multilingual Content Localisation SupportContent Operations
- 2024Why (& Where) Do I Need to Draw?editorial design, technical coaching, booklet
- 2023Educational Content: Haikumobile app content, visual production
- 2023Educational Content: Kanjimobile app content, visual production
- 2022Recollections of Beyondinstallation, video
- 2022–2024Educational Content: Philosophymobile app, drawing, video
- 2021–2024Mobile App: UX and Art Directionmobile app, video
- 2021Website Graphicswebsite design
- 2020In-Between Places and Humanstext, field research
- 2019Scenery of De/Museumizationinstallation, exhibition
- 2019Exhibition Graphics for a Group Exhibitionwebsite, exhibition, installation
- 2018–2019IMAGINARY BAUHAUS MUSEUM
- 2017Field Notes of Topophiliatext, field research
- 2017StadtGestaltunginstallation
- 2017Pigment Floor Drawinginstallation, exhibition
- 2017Missing Sculpturebook design, bilingual layout
- 2017Un/Sounds of Buchenwaldbooklet design
- 2017–2021Untitledfield research, participant observation
- 2016Sceneriesfield research, photography
- 2016Phenomena, and Symbols of Persuasionmixed media object, drawing, exhibition
- 2016A Dot on a Line, Replaced and Continuingdrawing, photography
- 2015Unerased Remindersinstallation, drawing, exhibition
- 2015Landscapes Narrativesfieldwork, field research, exhibition
- 2015YOU SAY ART I SAY WHATbooklet design, editorial design
- 2015There is an Exhibition in Prison. It is Called CRACK.booklet design, editorial design
- 2015Logo Design for an Art Projectlogo design
- 2014Roppongi, Paralleleddrawing, interview
- 2014About Another's Toposdrawing, field research
- 2014Notation of Topos Phase. 0publication, zine
- 2013About My Toposinstallation, drawing, field research, exhibition
- 2013–2014Hands-on Art Workshop for a Kindergartenworkshop
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Selected exhibitions
Sources
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)
杉山夏実(すぎやま・なつみ) 現代美術家。環境がどのように経験され、越えられ、変容されるかを主題に、越境する移動、周縁化された存在、記録されにくい語りを手がかりとした実践を行う。編集的手法を通し、インスタレーション、映像、ドローイングなどの形式で発表する。2013年から2020年にかけては、フィールドワークを通じた場所の語りを中心に制作した。現在は、越境のなかで混ざり合い、組み替えられていく語りへと焦点を移している。
東京生まれ、ベルリン拠点(2026年時点)
ポーラ美術振興財団 在外研修員(2017年)
- 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
- 2020
- 東京藝術大学大学院 美術研究科 博士後期課程
- 2017
- ワイマール・バウハウス大学(パブリックアートと新芸術戦略)修士課程修了
- 2013
- 東京藝術大学大学院 美術研究科 デザイン専攻 修士課程修了
- 多摩美術大学 環境デザイン学科 卒業