Mayumi Okabayashi/ JP *1973 impresses the viewer by seemingly organic behaviour of the image surface. In her allegoric drawings foreground and background alternate in exchange of function. With the consequence of colour she condenses her lines and draws the spectator’s attention to particular concentrations and movements of her work. Like a meditation a flux is made of several points. A space is opened apparently without a beginning or end.

Education

2004	Final diploma from the Duesseldorf Academy of Fine Arts/DE
2003	Awarded masters degree "Meisterschuelerin" after studying in the masterclass of Prof. Klaus Rinke
1997	Studies at the Duesseldorf Academy of Fine Arts/DE, class of Prof. Alfonso Hueppi
1995	Graduated from Kyoto Seika University/JP (Faculty of Art)

Awards, grants and residencies

2010	Artist in Residence, Etaneno/NA
2007	Artist in Residence, Etaneno/NA
2006	Scholarship Young Academy, Academy of Fine Art, Berlin/DE
2005	Audience Award, Kunstmuseum Baden, Solingen/DE
2001	Kubo, Nominated for Art Award, Herne/DE
2000	Travel scholarship from the Dusseldorf Academy of Fine Art/DE

Selected solo and group exhibitions

2010	THE LOUNGE BULGARI, Tokyo/JP VERO LINZMEIER GALERIE e.K., Berlin/DE Haus der Modernen Kunst, Staufen/DE We are the islands, Kunstraum Bethanien, Berlin/DE Cities in flux, WHITECONCEPTS, Berlin/DE No Mans Land, The Embassy of France in Japan, Tokyo/JP
2009	Enliven- In Between Realities and Fiction, Animamix Biennial, Today Art Museum, Beijing/CN ZENSORS, Bencab Museum, Benguet/PHI Space Matrix 01, WHITECONCEPTS, Berlin/DE Se-Jong Center, Seoul/KR
2008	Sydney Festival, Sydney/AUS Aquamediale 4, Luebben/DE
2007	Heilig 1, Duesseldorf/DE Between places, Academy of Art, Berlin/DE
2006	Open studio, Academy of Art, Berlin/DE
2005	59.Bergische Kunstausstellung, Kunstmuseum Baden, Solingen/DE 59.Bergische Kunstausstellung, Muncipal Gallery, Remscheid/DE Large Art Exhibition, Duesseldorf/DE
2004	Foundation Kreissparkasse, Esslingen/DE
2003	Ex...it!´03, Broellin/DE Muncipal Gallery, Kaarst/DE
2002	Unter der Linde, Leverkusen/DE

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