Meiro Koizumi

Meiro Koizumi (1976, Gunma, Japan) lives and works in Tokyo. His practice spans video, performance, installation, and works on paper, and centres on the psychological and social structures that shape collective and individual identity, particularly within Japanese culture and its relationship to memory, war, and repressed history. His video installations are often based on performances and constructed scenarios in which characters, played by himself or by others, are placed in situations of increasing tension: what begins harmoniously escalates from the humorous to the painful, exposing the moment when social rules break down. Beyond video, his work encompasses sculpture, refined charcoal and pencil drawings, collages, and experimental forms including VR, with which he explores how new technologies shape our understanding of life, individuality, and identity.

Koizumi attended the International Christian University, Tokyo; Chelsea College of Art and Design, London; and the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam.

Recent solo exhibitions include Museum De Pont, Tilburg (2025); FOG, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam (2019); Rite for a Dream II, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam (2017); Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami (2018); De Hallen, Haarlem (2016); Arts Maebashi, Maebashi (2015); Kadist Art Foundation, Paris (2014); Museum of Modern Art, New York (2013); Centro de Arte de Caja de Burgos (CAB), Burgos (2012); Art Space, Sydney (2011); and Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (2009).

Group exhibitions include Experimenta's 5th International Biennial of Media Art, Melbourne (2014); 8th Shenzhen Sculpture Biennale, Shenzhen (2014); Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo (2014); MSGSU Tophane-i Amire Culture and Arts Center, Istanbul (2013); Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev (2012); Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (2011); Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (2011); Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool (2010); Media City, Seoul (2010); and Shanghai MOCA, Shanghai (2008).