| Keisuke
(Kai) Ozawa (born 1971, Tokyo) lives and works in Tokyo,
holds a BA in French Literature from Meijigakuin University and
an MA in Art History, Goldsmiths College, London University.
Ozawa is currently the Program Director at Arts
Initiative Tokyo (A.I.T.),
a curatorial program based in Tokyo, where he manages their art
educational programme M.A.D. (Making Art Different),
which through 6 different courses - Curation, Curation Intensive,
Audience, Critical Readers and Magazine - introduces a spectrum
of contemporary art and critical thinking through visual representations
to a general public. He is a lecturer for contemporary visual
culture studies at Meisei University, and an Associate Director
with the
Art Fair Tokyo Executive Office. Ozawa also works as a curator
and his curatorial works include several video art screenings
including:
Your
Memorabilia,
In Different
Spaces,
and Paradise
Views as well as installation shows such as a
Shakkei (Slowly Becoming). Many of these projects are
initiated from his
interests in cultural
issues such as representing different modes of culture in the
late modern or post-colonial era.
Kai Ozawa was recommended to apexart's
fellowship program by Aki
Hoashi, Director, ARCUS
Projects,
Tokyo, Japan.
Fellowship talk: Wednesday,
February 23 at 6:30 pm, Kai Ozawa in dialogue
with Yukie
Kamiya (Associate Curator, New Museum, NYC) at apexart.
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