Nobuharu Suzuki / Head of Committee

Yokohama City University International College of Arts and Science lecturer, Yokohama City Creative City advisor. Born in Osaka prefecture. Graduated from Tokyo University with a Master's degree in urban engineering. Specialized in city planning. Research assistant at Tokyo University Graduate School of Engineering, and gained current teaching position after lecturing at Kanto Gakuin University Faculty of civil engineering. Encouragement Prize awarded by the City Planning Institute of Japan. Main publications include A Dictionary of Keywords for Urban Development, second edition (collaboration, Gakugei Shuppansha, 2002), Plannning the City Landscape (collaboration, Gakugei Shuppansha, 2003), Japanese Cityscapes 3 (contributor, Heibonsha 2004), Arakawa Downstream Magazine, (contributor, Sankaido 2005).

Shingo Yamano / Director

Based in Fukuoka since the 1970s. While active as an artist, he is also president of the IAF Art Research laboratory, organizes study groups, and curates exhibitions. In 1990, he founded the Museum City Project that aims to develop art exhibitions in and around the city of Fukuoka. Since then, using the theme ‘art and city’, he has been involved in a large number of projects, workshops and other events. From 2004 to 2007, he was project manager for the Fukuoka City Foundation for Arts and Cultural Promotion (Gallery Artlier). He was also the curator of the Yokohama Triennale 2005.

Taro Amano / Curator

Yokohama Museum of Art curatorial education group leader (chief curator). Until now he has organized numerous exhibitions and has contributed essays to the catalogues of the following, Japanese Art after 1945: Scream against the Sky (94), Louise Bourgeois (97), Yoshitomo Nara (01), Black Out: An Exhibition of Contemporary Japanese Photography (organized by the Japan Foundation) (02), and Non-Sect Radical: Contemporary Photography III (04). He was also the curator of the Yokohama Triennale 2005.