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. Her exhibited work comes in the form of installations using paintings, drawings, ceramics, text, video and photography.
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.
She was awarded 2022 Higashikawa International Photo Festival, Special Photographer Award (Hokkaido, Japan) and VOCA 2023 Award Encouragement Prize (Tokyo, Japan).
Her publications include photo book  “After an Apple Falls From the Tree, There is a Sound” (torch press, Tokyo, 2016), art book "I Hear, Says the Wind" (Ecrit, Tokyo, 2022).
Her latest exhibitions include solo shows "On a Windy Path" POST (Tokyo, 2024), "Days With the Wind” Takamatsu Artist-In-Residence (Megijima Island, Takamatsu, Japan, 2021); group shows “Does the Future Sleep Here?――Revisiting the museum’s response to contemporary art after 65 years” the National Museum of Western Art (Tokyo, 2024), “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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