Kento Terada
Born in 1991 in Okinawa Prefecture. They is interested in the politics of life, where people's actions and thoughts are determined by norms related to "gender" and "birth" created by society. As a practice of the idea that "the personal is political" born from radical feminism, they primarily engage in creating works centered around performance and photography.
Currently, they serve as a Technical Instructor at the Inter media art Department of the Faculty of Fine Arts at Tokyo University of the Arts and as a part-time lecturer responsible for photography courses at Kyoto University of the Arts, Communication Education Department.
Education:
2024: Completed coursework for the Doctoral Program in Urban Innovation, Graduate School of Urban Innovation, Yokohama National University.
2019: Master's degree from the Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts.
2017: Bachelor's degree from the Department of Fine Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts and Craft, Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts.
Solo Exhibitions:
May 2022: "Buying Cake for My Imaginary Wife and Daughter" at BankART Under35 2022, Bank ART Kaiko (Yokohama, Kanagawa).
November 2021: "Living with my imaginary wife and daughter" at Geidai Shokudo Showcase (Toride, Ibaraki).
September 2019: "NEW SHELTER?" at Ginza Okuno Building 306 Project (Ginza).
April 2015: "Touching the Closet" at Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts Attached Art Museum (Naha, Okinawa).
Group Exhibitions:
October 2023: T3 PHOTO FESTIVAL TOKYO 2023, "If Attitude Becomes <Photography>" at Tokyo Building Yaezubiru (Yaesu, Nihonbashi, Kyobashi).
August 2023: IWAKAN Magazine 6th EXHIBITION, "Male System" at C7C gallery and shop (Nagoya, Aichi).
August 2023: "Okinawa Paintings" at Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts Attached Art Museum (Naha, Okinawa).
June 2023: "In this body of mine" at MassART×SoWa (Boston, USA).
May 2023: IWAKAN Magazine 6th EXHIBITION, "Male System" at gallery-1 (Shinjuku, Tokyo).
October 2022: 3331 ART FAIR 2022 at 3331 arts chiyoda (Yushima, Tokyo).
February 2022: Tokyo Geidai Art Festival 2022, Online Exhibition.
November 2021: "Profiles of Ryukyu - Departure from the Depicted 'Self'" at Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum (Naha, Okinawa).
September 2021: "The Making of 'Landscape'" at Meguro Civic Gallery (Meguro, Tokyo).
April 2021: "Practicing to Win Human Smell" at Alt_Medium (Takadanobaba).
October 2020: "Trans-Portrait" at Roonee247finearts (Nihonbashi).
September 2020: "Okinawa is Me - Connecting and Linking" at Ibaraki Prefectural Tsukuba Museum of Art (Ibaraki).
June 2020: "Japan's [Possible] Future" at SOUYA HANDA GALLERY PROJECT (Koiwa).
January 2019: 63rd Tokyo University of the Arts Graduation and Completion Exhibition (Ueno).
December 2018: "THEY SHOOTS FILMS" at rainroot .LAB (Nagoya).
July 2018: WIP Exhibition 2018 at Tokyo University of the Arts Toride Campus (Ibaraki).
June 2018: BARRAK INDEPENDENTS - Barrack Independence, "Creating to Survive" at BARRAK (Naha).
February 2018: Monochrome Photo Exhibition at Yu Gallery (Ginza).
November 2017: "Progress Exhibition - 2017" at Tokyo University of the Arts Ueno Campus University Hall Exhibition Room (Ueno).
October 2017: Atlas Exhibition at Tokyo University of the Arts Toride Campus (Ibaraki).
November 2015: "When It Becomes Zero" - Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts + Takarazuka University Exchange Exhibition at Geisai 2015 (Naha).
November 2014: Kento Terada × Miwa Sakai Two-Person Exhibition at Geisai 2014 (Naha).
December 2013: To Exhibition at Gallery Space PinoO (Naha).
Residency:
May 2023: KIAC (Kinosaki International Arts Center) - Creation Camp by three artists reflecting on gender and sexuality.
Awards:
December 2023: Tokyo Geidai Art Festival 2022 Excellence Award.
May 2023: PICTH GRANT Grant Recipient.
October 2022: 3331 ART FAIR 2022 Collector's Prize (Lin Xiaofu Award).
May 2022: BankART Under 35 2022 Selected.
February 2022: Tokyo Geidai Art Festival 2022 Selection.
August 2014: Workshop PhotoNesia Photography School Portfolio Review Judge's Award (selected by Morieiki).
Publications:
BRUTUS, August 15, 2023: "Art Pieces of the New Generation Active in Okinawa" (by Chikako Yamashiro).
Asahi Shimbun, June 21, 2023: "To Bury What Salarymen Carry - For Burying the Existing 'Masculinity'" (by Aphrida O. Blath).
IWAKAN Magazine Volume 06: "Interpreting Attire and Body from the Works of Kento Terada and Sota Kojima" (by Mika Kobayashi).
Okinawa Times, June 3, 2022: "Kento Terada, originally from the prefecture, holds the first solo exhibition in Kanto."
Artscape Review, June 1, 2022: "Kento Terada 'Buying Cake for My Imaginary Wife and Daughter'" (by Kenta Yamazaki).
IMA vol.36, 2021 Autumn/Winter: "Present of I (Me) - Gender and Young Japanese Photographers" (by Akira Takahashi).
Okinawa Times, May 7, 2021: "Terada, a native of the prefecture, exhibits in a group exhibition in Tokyo - Questions about the 'Ideal Family Image' and the Notion of 'Normal.'"
Bijutsu Techo, February 2021 Issue: "Newcomer Artists Shaping the 2020s - 100" (by Haruka Iharada).
Ryukyu Shimpo, October 10, 2015: "Understanding the Diversity of Gender - University students form the circle 'nuge Okinawa.'"
Projects:
November 2023: "Conditions of Artists - Thinking about the Labor Conditions of Art Workers" at Nahabunka Geijutsugekijo Nahart.
March 2016: ACT UP! Screening and Talk at Sakata Kiyoko Studio.
June 2014: Dig↓Dig↓Personal Exhibition at Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts Attached Art Museum.
Thesis and Essays:
September 2023: Book Review of "Sleeping Trees" by Sayaka Uehara, Okinawa Times.
August 2021: "Poetics of 'Childlikeness'" in Monthly Art Collectors, August 2021 Issue.
December 2018: "Everyday Photography as Queer Practice - Regarding 'Seeing' and 'Looking,' 'Disturbing'" (Explanation of the Graduation Project for the Master's Program in Advanced Artistic Expression at Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School of Fine Arts).
July 2017: "Suspended Viewers/Actors Hanging in the Air" (Regarding the solo exhibition "AINICLE" by Ryuichi Ono).
March 2017: "Wolfgang Tillmans Theory - On the 'Private' Gaze toward Contemporary Times and Installation" (Graduation thesis for the Department of Fine Arts, Art Major, Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts Faculty of Fine Arts and Craft, 2017).
April 2016: "To Avoid Unintentionally Hurting Someone" in Quarterly SEXUALITY No.75, "Creating the Practice of 'Peace and Sexual Rights' Learned from Okinawa" (Eideru Publishing).
March 2015: "Imprisoned Men - Representation of Male Characters in 'Sailor Moon'" in Research Report of the Shojo Manga Representation Study Group.
Academic Presentations:
May 2023: Presentation on the Photographic Image in "Nekko" at the 25th Annual Meeting of the Japan-Taiwan Society.
March 2021: "Family Photography as Queer Practice" at the 6th Annual Meeting of the Japan Image Society Photography Research Group.
Grants:
February 2023: Gion Arts and Sports Promotion Foundation Gion Arts and Sports Promotion Scholarship Student.
November 2022: Japan Culture Arts Foundation Japan Culture Arts Scholarship Student.
August 2021: Tokyo Arts Council "Startup Grant" [Landscape Creation Project].
April 2021: Okinawa Prefecture International Exchange and Human Resource Development Foundation Scholarship Student (continuing from 2021).
January 2021: Tokyo Arts Council Tokyo Arts and Culture Creation and Dissemination Grant [One-Year Grant Program] Recipient.
February 2020: National Culture and Arts Foundation of Taiwan Recipient.
December 2019: Tokyo Geidai I LOVE YOU Project 2020 Recipient.
April 2013: Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts Art Promotion Foundation Beneficiary Scholarship Student (continuing until 2017).
Judging:
February 2023: R.E.Award 2023 Judge.
Lectures, Talks, Lectures:
October 2023: T3 PHOTO FESTIVAL TOKYO Main Exhibition "If Attitude Becomes <Photograph>" Relay Talk with Joana Benainas (Elsa & Johanna) × Kento Terada × Mika Kobayashi.
May 2023: Artist Talk by Kento Terada and Hana Wada at Kinosaki International Arts Center's Creation Camp.
December 2022: "Play and Transformation" - Kento Terada (Artist) × Toyo Hiko Kudo (Artist) at Profiles of Ryukyu - Departure from the Depicted "Self" Related Event Online Discussion.
June 2021: "Is 'Family Photography' Perfect?" - Yutaka Kubo × Kento Terada at the "Practicing to Win Human Smell" Related Event.
November 2017: LGBT Study Tour in NY 2017 Report Meeting.
March 2016: Rainbow Lecture "LGBT in School" at Naha Women's Center.
January 2016: Nuge × HIV Human Rights Network × JOCA Okinawa World School Extra Edition "LGBT Lecture - To Avoid Unintentionally Hurting Someone" at Shuri High School.
December 2015 to March 2017: Lectures at high schools and vocational schools in Okinawa Prefecture.