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Natsumi Sakai
Email: sakainatsumi713@gmail.com

Natsumi Sakai works with text, performance, sculpture, and installation. Her interest centers around ideas of disarticulation, the personal fantasy of being, and the tension between non-communication and communication.

EDUCATION
MASTER FINE ARTS Utrecht School of the Arts, Utrecht, the Netherlands — 2022-2024
BACHELOR FINE ARTS Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, the Netherlands — 2018-2022

EXHIBITIONS
‘DEAR SHAPES IN SPACE IV’(GROUP) Neck of the Woods Gallery, Rotterdam, the Netherlands — 2023
‘F.I.R.E.’(GROUP PERFORMANCE) Schoorlse Kunsten (schok), Schoorl, the Netherlands — 2023
‘TEMPORARY CASCO_TAKE_OVER MINI EXHIBITION’(GROUP) Casco Art Institute, Utrecht, the Netherlands — 2022
‘TAAL (CONCEPT) IN BEELD’(GROUP) Projektrumite Westend, the Hague, the Netherlands — 2022
‘GRADUATION SHOW‘ (GROUP) KABK, the Hague, the Netherlands — 2022
‘AS IS WHERE IS‘ (GROUP) Verheeskade 321, the Hague, the Netherlands — 2021
‘WELCOME TO THE SUMMER’(GROUP) RÝMD, Reykjavík, Iceland — 2021
‘EXHIBITION RESEARCH LAB 2020: AS REAL AS YOU WANT’(GROUP) online exhibition (https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/826140/880341/376) — 2020
‘TWO POINT FIVE PERCENT’(GROUP PERFORMANCE) Nieuwe Vide Artspace, Haarlem, the Netherlands — 2019

PROJECTS
BAREFOOT COLLECTIVE(GROUP) ONLINE JOURNAL (https://barefootcollective.net/) — 2022 (ongoing)
MINDFUL SILLINESS(GROUP) Workshop for BA students — 2023

PUBLICATIONS
“NOTATIONS” Barefoot Journal Issue #1 Opacity (https://barefootcollective.net/Journal-1) — 2023
“STORY OF A PERSON WHO WANTS TO BE A STONE AND OTHERS” Page Not Found, the Hague, the Netherlands — 2023

WORK EXPERIENCE
INTERNSHIP AT “THE FACTORY” ART EXHIBITION Hótel Djúpavík and art curator Emilie Dalum, Djúpavík, Iceland — 2021