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Eiko Soga works on intangible elements that affect both individual consciousness and social milieu. Within a context of social politics and alternative culture, she investigates spoken word, fiction, and empathy.
An important part of her research and process is to create sensory and geographic descriptions of the world through looking at the interrelationship of people, object, nature, and agency. This results in works in arrayed media such as installation, sound, sculpture and video essay.
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Education
The University of Oxford (MSc Japanese Studies)
The Slade School of Fine Art, UCL (MFA Sculpture)
Chelsea College of Art and Design (BA Fine Art)
Selected Exhibitions and Screenings
2018
As if we could scrape the color of the iris and still see, Curtated by Sonia Fernández Pan, Twin Gallery, Group show, Spain
Validity, Issue 2, The Oxford Artistic and Practice Based Research Platform, UK
2017
Autumn Salmon, CAI-Contemporary Art Institute, Solo show, Japan
You See Me Like a UFO, Curated by Marcelle Joseph, Group show, UK
2016
1 People Screening, Selected by Serra Tansel & Alexis Lagimodière-Grisé, Hosted by AIR Antwerpen, Belgium
London Yellow Mould Deal, Group show, UK
Metamorphosis Fragments IV, Curated by Vilma Luostarinen, UK
2015
KENPOKU Art Hack Day, Japan
Hokkaido research travel/work in progress, Tenjinyama Art Studio, Solo presentation, Japan
Athens Dry Deal, Cantina Social, Group show, Greece
The Girl at The Door: Equality, Gender & Society, UCL, Group show, UK
1-Day Sculpture Park, The UCL Mullard Space Laboratory, Group show, UK
Where we are now, Psychoanalytic research in the 21st century, Freud Museum, Group show, UK
2014
Drifting Derive, Asia House, Group show, UK
Work in Progress, Asia House, Solo show, UK
Despres Desprest, The Earth Sciences Department, UCL, Group show, UK
2013
Future Lasts a Long Time, MFI group, Peckham Artist Moving Image, UK
Stryx and MFI Present: How to build a table, Group show, UK
Watercolours and Works on Paper, Science Museum, Group show, UK
2012
National Open Art Exhibition, UK
Jerwood Drawing Prize 2012, UK
Talks & Workshops
2018
Seas of Japan, University of East Anglia, Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts, Research Workshop, Norwich, UK
2017
Ecologies of Knowledge and Practice, The University of Oxford, UK
Artistic Practice - Working With Displaced and Peripheral Communities, Art Catalyst, UK
Lines in the Landscape, Artists talk, The Sidney Nolan Trust, UK
Site Specific Research and Art Practice, Workshop, Chelsea College of Art and Design, UK
2016
Things That Are Around Us and Things That We Need, Lecture & Workshop Program Organised by Mami Odai, Sapporo Tenjinyama Art Studio
Publications
2017
Ainu Oral Tradition | Via Art Ethnography as Practice-Based Research for Action Research on Articulations of Indigenous Knowledge in Hokkaido by Dr. Jeffry Gayman
Residencies
2017
Lines in the Landscape, The Sidney Nolan Trust, UK
First Words, Akerman Daly, UK
2014
Asia House, Artist in Residence, UK
Awards
Elephant Trust, UK
Nomura Foundation, Japan
The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation, UK
The Foundation for Research and Promotion of Ainu Culture Project Grants, Japan
The Boise Travel Award, UK
The Slade Scholarship, UCL
The Slade School Christmas Card Comission
The Slade Scholarship, UCL
National Open Art Competition,The Amiri Photographic Award
Jerwood Drawing Prize (Shortlist)
MFI Group, Flat Time House, Chelsea Student Award