Born 1983, Tokyo. Ph.D. (Fine Art) Live and work in Tokyo.
Goro Murayama (1983-) is an artist who, based on his education in painting, engages with the question “How does the world emerge?” in contemporary life science by expanding it to an artistic practice that involves the body and actions. He began his career with works that apply oil paints on organically woven linen which, along his body of work in a variety of media, including cellular automaton drawings, and cut up and recombined images and video, incorporate life-like processes and patterns, such as evolution, learning, and self-organization, by setting in place recursive rules to produce a work. Murayama has taken computer simulations, which occupy an important place in the epistemology of modern science, as a central motif, and developed it into a method of “poiesis” accompanied by materiality. In recent years, he has turned his attention to Al-based (face and gait) biometrics technology and has created works that illuminate the nature of human perception in reverse as it were, through systems that allow machines to detect humans. His latest work involves a massive data creation project that explores the relationship between generative AI and human drawing. In recent works, collaborations with scientists have become an important element too.

Education:
As of 2024, Visiting associate professor at the University of Tokyo and a part-time lecturer at Musashino Art University and Tohoku University of Art & Design.
2018-2021 Tokyo University of the Arts, Oil Painting, Lecturer (part-time). Toyo University, International philosophy research center, visiting researcher. 2018-2020, Musashino Art University, Oil Painting, Lecturer (part-time). 2015-17, University of Vienna, Global World/ Intercultural Philosophy, visiting researcher. 2015, Tokyo University of the Arts, Ph.D., Oil Painting. 2010-2011, University of the Arts London, Chelsea College of the Arts and Design, MA fine arts course(Exchange). 2008 Tokyo University of the Arts, B.F.A., Oil Painting.
Solo Shows:
“Data Baroque” Takuro Someya Contemporary Art (Tokyo)[2024], “Paintings – Plurality” The POOL (Hiroshima)[2021], “Painting Folding” Takuro Someya Contemporary Art (Tokyo) [2020], ”The museum of plastic nation” AISHONANZUKA(Hong Kong)[2018]. “Emergence of Order” Daiwa Foundation Japan House(London)[2018]. “Disenchanting the Image in Order to Sit down and Look” G/P gallery, Tokyo[2017]. “Simulational Poiesis” Spektakel, Vienna[2016]. “resolutional perspective” Gallery Blanka(Nagoya) & HIGURE 17-15 cas(Tokyo)[2015]. “Fantasy in prison” Koganei Art Spot Chateau2F, Tokyo[2015]. “the Coupling of second-order” HAGISO, Tokyo[2013]. “Stratosphere vol.6, Tracing the ‘Self’, Goro MURAYAMA” curated by Masayuki Tanaka, gallery αM, Tokyo[2011]. Shiseido art egg vol.4 “The re-enchantment of painting system” Shiseido gallery, Tokyo[2010].

Selected Group Shows:
“Remembrance beyond images” Tokyo Photographic Art Museum(Tokyo) [2024], “Go for Kogei 2023” (Toyama)[2022], “ICC Annual 2022: Life / Likeness” NTT Inter communication center (Tokyo)[2022], “FUJI TEXTILE WEEK 2022” (Fujiyoshida) [2022], “Setouchi Triennale 2022” Ogijima, Kagawa[2022], “Drawing – Plurality <Symbol, Organism, Machine>” Parco Museum Tokyo (Shibuya) [2022], ”L’homme qui marche　Verkörperung des Sperrigen” Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany [2019]. “The Extended Mind” Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland [2019]. “Aichi Triennale 2019” Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art [2019]. “Setouchi Triennale 2019” Ogijima, Kagawa [2019]. “21st “DOMANI: The Art of Tomorrow” Exhibition” National Art Center Tokyo [2019]. Art organization “CANCER” [THE MECHANISM OF RESEMBLING] EUKARYOTE, Tokyo[2018]. “Living signs -contemporary portraits-” Koganei Art Spot Chateau 2F, Tokyo[2017]. “The Pandora’s box: Finding the Wondrous in the Geidai Collection” The University of the Arts Tokyo Museum, Tokyo[2017]. “Tokyo University of the Arts, Doctoral Program Final Exhibition” The University Art Museum, Tokyo[2014]. ”VOCA2013 -the vision of contemporary art” The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo[2013]. “TRICK-DIMENSION” Curated by DAISUKE OHBA, TOLOT: heuristic SHINONOME, Tokyo[2013]. “Generating Visuals – Inspiring Circuits” Takuro Someya Contemporary Art Kashiwa, Chiba[2013]. “art award tokyo marunouchi 2012” Gyoko-dori Underground gallery, Tokyo[2012]. <stand alone & world> vol.3 “-phenomenology of the self-” art gallery X, Tokyo[2012]. ”TRANS COMPLEX – The painting in the Age of Information Technology” Kyoto Art Centre / AISHO MIURA ARTS, Tokyo[2011]. “MOT Collection / MOT, Field of Dreams” Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan[2009].

Awards:
Ueno artschoolfellow prize, Tokyo University of the Arts[2012]. The winner of “The DRAFT of Exhibition”, Kyoto Art Centre[2011]. Shiseido art egg prize, Shiseido gallery[2010]. Mr. O commemoration prize,Tokyo University of the Arts[2009]. Keiichiro Kume Scholarship,Tokyo University of the Arts[2006].

Grant:
2015-17　the program of Overseas Study for Upcoming Artists sponsored by the Agency for Cultural Affairs, the Japanese government.
Collection:
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan. Takahashi Collection. Hirose Collection. MONTBLANC. Tokai Tokyo Securities Co., Ltd. The Okura Tokyo. Kunsthalle Bielef