Elena Tutatchikova

Elena Tutatchikova

Born in Moscow, Russia, in 1984. Currently lives in Kyoto, Japan.

Tutatchikova focuses her interest on the connection between the imagination, walking, and storytelling. With the help of local residents and through her own experience, she approaches different lands as resources of poetry, history, imagination and thought. Her exhibited work comes in the form of installations using video, photography, ceramics, drawings and text.
After studying classical music and Japanese literature in Moscow, Tutatchikova moved to Japan in 2012, where she finished her master’s and doctor’s degrees in Fine Art at the Tokyo University of the Arts.
Her latest exhibitions include solo shows "Days With the Wind” (Takamatsu Artist-In-Residence, Megijima Island, Takamatsu, Japan, 2021),  “The Path Across the Peninsula” (held at venues in the Shiretoko peninsula, Hokkaido, Japan, 2018),  “On Teto’s Trail” (Gallery Trax, Yamanashi, Japan 2017); group shows “Art and New Ecology” The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts (Tokyo, Japan), “Flower of Life” 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum (Shizuoka, Japan), "FACES" (SCAI PIRAMIDE, Tokyo, Japan, 2021) and "Land and Beyond" (POLA Museum Annex, Tokyo, Japan, 2021).

Education

2020 D.F.A., Tokyo University of the Arts, Department of Intermedia Art
2013-15  M.F.A., Tokyo University of the Arts, Department of Intermedia Art
2012  Research Student, Tokyo University of the Arts, Department of Intermedia Art
2005-2011  Russian State University for the Humanities (Moscow), Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies
1992-2003  Central Music School of the Moscow State Conservatory

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