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About Atsuhide Ito

 

 

Education

 

2002-2007  

   

PhD Fine Art (scholarship), University of Brighton, following the  programme  of study with the University  for the Creative Arts at Canterbury, Epsom, Farnham, Maidstone and Rochester.  Supervised by Professor Paul  Butler and Dr Alex Coles.  Examined by  Professor Timon Screech (SOAS, University of London), Joanna Lowry (University of Brighton) and Jonathan Miles (Royal College of Art). 

 

1993-1994  

MA Social Anthropology, SOAS, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

 

1989-1993  

 

BA (Hon. Dist.) Studio Art (Painting), Richmond, The American International University in London

 

1989-1993      

BA (Hon.) Social Sciences (Anthropology/Sociology), Richmond, The American International University in London 

 

 

Current post

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2020 -        Senior Research Fellow in School of Art, Design and Fashion, Solent University, Southampton, England

2019-         Associate Lecturer at LCC, University of the Arts London, England

        

 

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Exhibitions
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2024    

 

Lest We Forget at Nagasaki Peace Museum, Nagasaki, Japan.

 

Fumée, pluie noire et neige sous les tropiques (Plume, Black Rain, and Snow in the Tropics) at the International Symposium of Contemporary Art, musée d’art contemporain de Baie-Saint-Paul, Canada.

 

Disinformation Lexicon in the group exhibition Art for the Better World, Kirkleatham Museum, Redcar, England.

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Disinformation Lexicon for Democracy, Information, and the Cultural Capital of Religion: Sharing Global Best Practice on Press and Election Manipulation at The Society of Antiquaries, London, England.
 

2021
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Fully Awake, at the Holden Gallery, Manchester, England.
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Autumnism, Kösk, Munich, Germany with Angela Fechter and Raphael Brunner, Saskia Espermüller and Wolfgang Stehle
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2019

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Sound of Waves, Poko Japan at Park Hotel, Tokyo, Japan

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Fire In The Swimming Pool, at Pocko Gallery, London, England

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Illusion of Tenderness: From the Painting Collection of Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre.

Daugavpils, Latvia, with Silvija Šmidkena, Diana Rudokiene, Oleh Bezyuk, Iwona Zawadzka.

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2018
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Cache, with Richard Burton, Gethin Evans, Sharon Bevan, at Angus-Hughs, London, England.
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2017   

 

The Museum of Dustology at Being Human, various locations, Southampton, England.

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Literatu Street, Vilnius Academy of Art, Lithuania.

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2015  

 

Antigone's Chalk Dust with Lee Mackinnon and Simon Clark at 10 Days Winchester.

 

The Dust in Venice -To The Graceful Who Gave Me The Permission, IMTen, IMT Gallery, London.

 

Inscription: The Almshouse Tempera Project with Derek Hampson, Deborah Harty,

Peter Suchin at Nottingham Trent University Atrium Exhibition Space.

 

Super-Salon, Curated by Alan Magee, at DOLPH Projects, London.

 

2013

A Postcard to Claire Fontaine, in Postcard From My Studio 2013, ACME Project Space, London.

 

Dust Breathing in Playback,  London

 

Human Hotel, Copenhagen, Denmark.

 

The Moon Museum of Dustology, Copenhagen, Denmark. 

 

2012

Territories, Bromly By Bow Centre, London.

 

Territories, Galerie Windkracht, Holland.

 

"... and after", The Constantine Gallery, University of Teesside with Lesley Hicks.

 

2011

Meat, The Concourse Gallery, Byam Shaw School of Art, London.

 

2010

 

Melt, London.

Plein Air Mark Rothko 2010, the Daugavpils Municipal Museum, Daugavpils, Latvia.

Atsuhide Ito,  Galería Saro León, Spain.

Artworks Open 2010, Barbican Arts Group, London.

 

2009

 

Salon 09, Matt Roberts Gallery, London. 

 

2008    

  

Pas de Deux, Richmond, The American International University in London, England.

Separate Landschaft, Deutscher-Japanischer Wirtschaftkreis (DJW), Düsseldorf, Germany. 

Separate Landschaft, Solo Exhibition in collaboration with Deutscher-Japanische Wirtschaftkreis, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany.

Separate Landscape, James Hockey Gallery, Farnham, Surrey, England.

 

2004      

 

Minus One, collaboration with musicians David Sylvian, Yuka Fujii and 30 international artists, disused Aldwych Underground Station, London, England.

 

2002    

 

Pocko, Magma, London, England.

Pocko, Rocket Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.

 

1999  

   

Into the Light, collaboration with Adam Lowe, Royal Photographic Society, Bath, England.

Floating Islands, collaboration with Noriko Tanaka, Cable Street Gallery, London, England.

 

1998  

 

The Gallery of the Future, Loughborough University, Leicester, England.

 

1997  

   

Ways of Seeing, a group exhibition with Mitsuru Tokutomi and Yuko Okui, Kulturforum,Willich,  Germany.

Finalists, Logos Art Gallery, London, England.

 

1996  

   

(E)x-body, Beach Road Studio, Sydney, Australia.

 

1995    

 

A Value – Distance, Group exhibition of Japanese and Australian artists, Shizuoka Prefecture Museum, Shizuoka, Japan.

Plastic Boundary, Solo Exhibition, Nissenren Gallery, Shizuoka, Japan.

When a Shaman Dreams of a Cyborg, Alternative Arts, London, England.

 

1994    

 

Absolute Vodka, Royal College of Art, London.

 

 

Curatorial Project

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2004

 

Minus One exhibition at Aldwych Underground Station, London.

 

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Public Art Commission

 

2004  

 

Fourteen paintings commissioned by South & East Belfast Health & Social Services Trust.

 

 

Research Commission

 

1996  

 

Anthropological research on the formation of Australian identities prior to Sydney Olympic,commissioned by the department of Design and Performance Art at the University of Western Sydney, Nepean, Australia. The research was a collaborative work with Laurens Tan and Barbara Knorpp 

 

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Public Collections

 

The Arches Centre, South and East Belfast Trust, Belfast

University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, England

Mark Rothko Art Centre, Daugavpils, Latvia

 

 

 

Printmaking

 

1998

 

Printmaker at Permaprint, London, specialised in rare printing process, pigment transfer process.

 

 

 

Publications

 

 

2025   (forthcoming) “Aeropolitics” in Routledge Critical Perspectives on Breath and Breathing

           (eds.) Magdalena Górska and Milica Trakilovic. Routledge.

 

2022.  "Semantics of Cleanliness" in Elena V. Shabiy, Martha J. Crawford and Dmitry Kurochikin (eds.) Energy Justice​.

          Palgrave Macmillan.

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2021   “Translating Slow Violence: The Use of Environmental Data in Art as Un- Forecasting” in Acoustic and Visual Ecology of Damaged Planet,

           Special Issue of AM Journal of Art and Media Studies

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           "Hauntology of the Machinic" in Steven John Tompson (ed.) Machine Law, Ethics, and Morality in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. ICI Global.

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2020   “Afterwords: Assemblage Drawing” in Paul-Francis Tremlett's Towards a New Theory of Religion and Social Change. Bloomsbury.

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2019   "A Concrete Palace and a Haunted Abbey: Fear and Suffering in Atomic Museums," 

          The Journal of Inclusive Museums, Common Ground  Publisher.

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2018   "The Spectral Image: The Brief History of Visualising Radiation”, The Journal of Image, Common Ground Publisher.

         

2016    "Towards a Theory of Cavernous Porosity" in Doreen Bernath and Braden Engel (eds.) Architecture and Culture, Vol. 4, Issue 3, 2016,

           Routledge, Taylor & Francis.

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            “Southampton Solent University” (an interview) in Professional Practice: 20 Questions.

             Q-Art, Sarah Rowles and Jo Allen (eds.).

 

2015    "Instituting Tempera in the State of Precarity" in Derek Hampson and Peter Suchin (eds.) Inscriptions: The Almshouse Tempera Project.

           MossBook Publications.

 

2014    “The Uto-Pianist”, Seisemopoilte: Journal of Art and Politics.

 

2013    “The Promise of Painting: Spectres of the Baroque in Contemporary Painting”,

             in Journal of Visual Arts Practice, Bristol: Intellect.

 

2001    Dear Thank You Yours Sincerely.  London: Pocko Editions.

 

2000    "British Art Scene 1990-2000" in Shizuoka no Bunka Vol. 61.  Shizuoka: Shizuoka Bunka Zaidan.

 

1995    "Body Building Martians in Distance" in A-Value Meets Distance: A-Value VIII 1995.

             Shizuoka: A-Value.

 

1994    "Uncertainty, Image of the Body and the Notion of Embodiment"

            In Omnipresent Waves: A-Value VI 1993/1994.  Shizuoka: A-Value.

 

 

Interviews in Print

 

"The Conversation for Change" By Deborah Mills, Housemans, London.

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2016  "Southampton Solent University" in Jo Allen and Sarah Rowles (eds.) Professional Practice: 20 Questions: Interviews with UK Undergraduate

        Fine Art Staff Exploring How Students are prepared for life after art school.  Q-Art: London.

 

Interviews on Radio

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2024  Interview with Julia Caron at CBC Radio, Quebec City, Canada.

 

2002   Interview at Resonance FM, London, England.  

 

2001   Interview at ABC Radio, Sydney, Australia. 

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Interview Online

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2022 Interview with Tarik Günersel

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Catalogues

 

2015

 

Inscriptions: The Almshouse Tempera Project. MossBook Publications.

 

2009

 

Fringemk 09.

 

2005

 

Integrated Arts Project: The Branbury Centre – Health and Care for South Belfast. Belfast: South & East Belfast Health & Social Services Trust. 

 

1995

 

A-Value Meets Distance: A-Value VIII 1995. Shizuoka: A-Value.

 

 

 

Conference Papers

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2024 

"Disinformation Lexicon" at Democracy, Information, and the Cultural Capital of Religion: Sharing Global Best Practice on Press and Election Manipulation at The Society of Antiquaries, London, England.

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2023

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"Ecopoiesis and Ecovenom", presented in Ecopoetry and Environmental Aesthetics, at Kew Gardens, London and online, organised by London-Based Art Research Centre.

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2020 

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"Plutopians Contra Slow Violence", Anthropology and Geography: Dialogue Past, Present and Future Conference. Royal Anthropological Institute and Royal Geographical Society.

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2018

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“Care in Art Education: Is an Art School a Military Academy”, Art School Today: Who Cares? at University of Wolverhampton.

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2017

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'The Spectral Image and Anti-Image: The Hunter Caught while Shooting" at International University of Venice, Italy.

 

'Atomic Museums: A Comparison between the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum and the Ukrainian National Chernobyl Museum' At Manchester Museum, England.

 

2015   

 

‘Towards A Theory Of Cavernous Porosity’ at the 12th Architectural Humanities Research Association (AHRA) Conference This Thing Called Theory, Leeds Beckett University.

 

‘Attunement’, in Art, Alterity and Attunement, Nottingham Trent University as a part of The Almshouse Tempera Project.

 

‘Is An Art School A Military Academy?’, presented and performed with Louiza Hamidi at The London Graduate School Conference Critical Spaces: Disorienting Topological, Kingston University, London.

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2011 

 

"The Promise of Painting: Spectres of the Baroque in Contemporary Painting" as a part of Tableau Project, Tate Modern.

 

"The Promise of Painting: Spectres of the Baroque in Contemporary Painting" at  Paint Club, Central St Martin’s College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London.

 

2009    

 

"The Ghost of Kasane and the Demand of Justice", Justice in Comparative Perspective at LSE, London School of Economics, University of London.

 

2007    

 

"Beyond Ethnography" at Beyond Text?, Synaesthetic and Sensory Practices in Anthropology, University of Manchester.

 

2005

 

"Ethnography of The Tokaido" at Japan Research Forum, at Birkbeck and SOAS, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

 

 

 

Performances

 

1999  

      

Floating Islands, Cable Street Gallery, London, England.

 

1993  

     

Double Suicide, Richmond, The American International University in London, Kensington.

 

1990        

 

A god meets a dog, Richmond, The American International University in London, Richmond.    

 

1987        

 

Bottomless, Prospera Language Institute, Japan. 

 

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Residency

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2024  Symposium, Musée d’art Contemporain de Baie-Saint-Paul

 

2013   Dust: Between Matter and the Spectral at Human Hotel, Copenhagen.

 

2010   International Plein Air Mark Rothko 2010, Daugavpils, Latvia. 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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