Junya Yamamine

CEO, NYAW Inc. / Visiting Professor, Tokyo University of the Arts

After working at the Japan Media Arts Festival Secretariat, worked as a curator at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, and Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito. In 2022, he established NYAW Inc. which provides planning and consulting services for culture/art related projects. Major exhibitions include “Yebisu Film Festival (4th-7th),” “Hello World: Towards the Post-Human Era” (Art Tower Mito) and “The world began without the human race and it will end without it” (National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts). He is also involved in the Meet Your Art Festival 2023&2024 art exhibition, the “Playground Become Dark Slowly” public art project in Hibiya Park, and the “Ladder Project” artist development project. He has supervised art projects for magazines and television, written, lectured, served on juries, and been dispatched overseas by international organizations. In addition, he has started individual research from 2024 on impact evaluation related to social common capital including culture, and a journey to rediscover the attractiveness of regions.
He is an advisor to the Office of the Director of the National Center for Art Research and an individual member of CIMAM.