Artist
Archive
2014

Allotment short-lists the final nominated artists as an archive.
This archive was initiated to support artists and their artistic practice by showcasing their information.
Hoping to be the platform for the artists’ further development with a desire to showcase to a new audience globally.
It is updated regularly and also added nominee from the Travel Award short-list: Their practice crosses the boundaries
of genre, and the archive is to further understand artists’ work as well as the current art scene in Japan.
* If you would like to contact the artist directly artist, please follow the link below.

Ine IZUMI / 泉イネ
Yasunori KAWAMATSU / 川松康徳
Miyuki KAWAMURA / 河村美雪
Yuko KINOUCHI / 木内祐子
Aisuke KONDO / 近藤愛助
Hiroko KUBO / 久保寛子
Erica MASUYA / 升谷絵里香
Soichiro MIHARA / 三原聡一郎
Masakuni MURAKAMI / 村上将城
Yoshinori NIWA / 丹羽良徳
Eye OHASHI / 大橋愛
Yuya SUZUKI / 鈴木悠哉
Kazuya TAKAGAWA / 高川和也

Ine IZUMI / 泉イネ

1977　Born in Tokyo, Japan
2002　BA in Oil Painting, Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan
Lives and works in Tokyo, Japan

WORKS

1｜ Incomplete Book/ Sister, A Grey Room Installation 2008
2｜ A Corsage-like Landscape/ Incomplete Book/ Sister, Oil on canvas 2008
3｜ Winter Banquet/Incomplete Book/ Sister, 2010 size variable 2010
4｜ ta-Garden; Having Been Divided into the Winter Solstice /the Winter Solstice /After the Winter Solstice, I am the Space of taimatz Installation, size variable 2012
5 ｜And Zone/ Session with dancer and art critic, Megumi Nakamura, Atuko Hirota, Mayumi Yoshida, Miyuki Shimizu, MichioHayashi, Ueno Royal Museum /2012
All photo’s © Ine Izumi

EXHIBITIONS

2014　[solo show] COMPOSITION anonymous/ famous/ longing/ shuddering/ famous/ anonymous, taimatz,Tokyo
2014　[solo show] A Loveletter of Space,CAPSULE, Tokyo
2012　[solo show] ta-Garden; Having Been Divided into the Winter Solstice /the Winter Solstice /After the Winter Solstice, I am the space of taimatz, taimatz, Tokyo
2012　And Zone (Session of Dance, Words and Paintings), Ueno Royal Museum Gallery, Tokyo
2008　[solo show] Book Sisters (incomplete) – Grey Room -, HIGURE 17-15 cas,Tokyo
2007　[solo show] A Certain Gardener – A Moment of Plentitude -, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art,Tokyo (* by the name of Izumi Kon)
2000　MOT Annual 2002 – Fiction? Painting in the Age of the Virtual, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo (* by the name of Izumi Kon)

CONTACT

info(at)allotment.jp
http://inneizumi.blogspot.jp/

Yasunori KAWAMATSU / 川松康徳

1984　Born in GUNMA（JAPAN）
2006　Graduated From Tokyo Polytechnic University, Department Of Desigh
2011　Short Term Exchange Program at Edinburgh College of Art

WORKS

1｜LUMP MILK, Video (1:18/color/silent)/2009
2｜differance, Video installation (11:58/color/sound), Book, Crystal Glass and text, Plaster, Finger Prints, Key Board/2012
3｜me(an), Video installation (9:36/color/silent), Text, Crystal Glass, Pine resin, Stand light/2014 (53 Art Mu-seum/China)
4｜danae/square sphere, Video installation (5:36/color/silent),Crystal Glass, Text, Plaster sphere/ 2014
5｜danae / pulie rouge, Video (5:08/color/silent)/2014
All photo’s © Yasunori KAWAMATSU

EXHIBITIONS

2015　Collection+[Inside & Outside], Arts Maebashi, Gunma/JPN
2015　I’mpossible, SEA LOFT Residency/SCT
2014　D(i/o) RAMA, La Napoule Art Foundation/FRA
2014　Intersections, Patriot Hall Gallery, Edinburgh/SCT
2014　The Expanding Horizon, 53 Art Museum, Guangzhou/CHA
2013　SEOULdabada, Gallery Si:jac, Seoul/KOR
2013　Performance [differance 2013], Taksas, Græsted/DNK
2013　EDINBURGHdabada, Tent Gallery, Edinburgh/SCT
2012　The Play of The Plan’12-’13, Takasaki City Museum of Art, Takasaki .Gunma/JPN

CONTACT

contact(at)kawamatsuyasunori.com
http://www.kawamatsuyasunori.com

Miyuki KAWAMURA / 河村美雪

1975　Born in Hiroshima, Japan.
2001　Research Program at the Center for Contemporary Art, CCA Kitakyushu. Since completion of the program, Kawamura has been collaborating with scientists and other artists, and working on performing arts to continue her work. 1999 BA in Formative Arts, Tokyo Zokei University, Tokyo. 1998 The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (short exchange program)

WORKS

1｜Shapes and Violence Parade Me /2013
2｜Good Timin’/2013
3｜Droppingby Waiting for the Freedom that Disappears Before It Can Be Touched /2010
4｜Like a Myspace/2009
5｜Migrating Book/Interview for the Writer /2014
All photo’s © Miyuki KAWAMURA

EXHIBITIONS

2013 「Shapes and Violence Parade Through Me」　Osan Bridge, Yokohama, Japan
2011 「Swimming the Sound of Ocean,UWANO」 Tsumari Tsunan Ueno village + Art Front Gallery, Niigata, Japan
2009 「Like a Myspace」 Komaba Space at University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
2007 「Garden AGORA 2007」Winter Summit Agora Theater 2007, Tokyo, Japan
2005 「Existing inside Lady H 」Hosomi Museum, Kyoto, Japan
2003 「The party, Already Included」 NPO Osaka Arts Aporia, Osaka, Japan
2001 「Before and After the Mountain 」 Capacete Entertainment, Rio de Janeiro
2000 「here,now. 2000-1997」 Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan

CONTACT

snowmsnowk(at)gmail.com
http://leiruharant.blogspot.jp
http://migratingbooks.strikingly.com
http://vimeo.com/73240102

Yuko KINOUCHI / 木内祐子

1981　Born in Tokushima, Lives and Works in Tokyo, Japan.
2006　BA Tama Art University, Japan
2008　MFA Tama Art University, Japan
2011-2013　Yotsuya Art Studium

WORKS

1｜The Exhibition of Malevich’s Pictures and the Odessa Scene/video, 4min 55sec / 2014
2｜The Exhibition of Malevich’s Pictures and the Odessa Scene/video, 4min 55sec / 2014
3｜Bees fly about; Borderless/video installation, nails, strings, projector/ 2014
4｜Interview with common-sense and eccentric artists/video, 9min 19sec / 2014
5｜The Prescribed World/video, 15min 55sec / 2014
All photo’s © Yuko KINOUCHI

EXHIBITIONS

2014　Bees fly about; Borderless, D’CLINIC studios, Lendava Slovenia
2014　Fumio Nanjo Judge’s Prize at SICF15 Spiral hall, Tokyo
2014　[solo show] The Prescribed World, Gallery Objective Correlative, Tokyo
2013　I was you, you will be me, Akibatamabi21, Tokyo
2013　[solo show] Inside the painting, Outside the window, Gallery Objective Correlative, Tokyo
2012　Branch Cut, Gallery Objective Correlative, Tokyo
2011　[solo show] Shonandai My Gallery, Tokyo
2009　[solo show] Futaba Gallery, Tokyo

CONTACT

yuko.kinouchi(at)gmail.com
http://yukokinouchi.tumblr.com

近藤愛助 / Aisuke KONDO

1980　Born in Shizuoka, Japan. Lives and works in Berlin
2001　B-semi Schooling System of contemporary art
2007　Universität der Künste Berlin at the class of Prof. Leiko Ikemura
2008　Meisterschüler Studium Universität der Künste Berlin at the class of Prof. Leiko Ikemura

WORKS

1｜ About M/M, Video Installation, 13min Loop,2015
2｜ Body | Memory | Spirit: Topaz-1,66×100cm, Archival pigment print,2014
3｜ Body | Memory | Spirit: About M.K.-4,100x66cm, Archival pigment print,2014
4｜ Body | Memory | Spirit: About my great-grandfather–1, 66x100cm, Archival pigment print,2014
5｜ Reconstruction of Memories, Installation View,2015
All photo’s © Eye Ohashi

EXHIBITIONS

2015　A RECORDED WORLD, Neue Galerie Landshut e.V., Landshut, Germany
2015　[solo show] Reconstruction of Memories, CCC Shizuoka, Japan
2014　Distant Observations. Fukushima in Berlin, Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien, Berlin
2013　[solo show] I=Y=0=∞, Tokyo Wonder Site Berlin, Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien, Berlin
2013　body | border | body, Tokyo Wonder Site Berlin, Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien, Berlin
2012　BEHIND THE SCENES: HIDEN WORLDS HEDEN ANSWERS, FRISE Künstlerhaus Hambulg, Hambulg
2011　LOST WORLDS > < MAKING WORLDS, Gallery Murata & Friends, Berlin 2010　Illusion/Reality, Emerson Gallery, Berlin

CONTACT

aisuke5513(at)hotmail.com
http://aisukekondo.com/Home.html

Hiroko KUBO / 久保寛子

1987　Born in Hiroshima, Japan
2009　BFA in Sculpture, Hiroshima City University
2013　MFA in Sculpture, Texas Christian University

WORKS

1｜Portraits of the sea/size variable/clay, steel, Styrofoam/2014
2｜Vinyl Venus/steel, vinyl film for greenhouse/210x1100x360cm/ 2014
3｜Urban Cultivator/Chinese flyers, wood, plaster/60x250x550cm/2014
4｜Contemporary agricultural masks/size variable/tools and materials for agricultural works/2013
5｜Homage to Noguchi’s “Memorial to the dead of Hiroshima”/steel / 400x750x260cm/2012
All photo’s © Hiroko KUBO

EXHIBITIONS

2014　Metaphors of the Sea, Mito-peninsula Art Project, Shodo Island　
2014　Expanding Horizon: An Exhibition of Japanese Contemporary Art, 53 Art Museum, Guangzhou
2013　[solo show] Contemporary Agricultural Masks, Hiroshima Art Center, Hiroshima
2013　Texas Biennial, Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum, San Antonio
2013　The Best – MFA 2013, Red Arrow Contemporary, Dallas
2012　2012 MFA National Competition, First Street Gallery, New York
2011　Haiku-Sculpture: International Exhibition For Art Universities, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei
2011　[solo show] Historical Humans, Izumi Museum of Art, Hiroshima

CONTACT

espergirl(at)hotmail.co.jp
http://hirokokubo.com

Erica MASUYA / 升谷絵里香

1981　Born in Chiba, Japan.
2014　Continuing to work whilst consciously changing surrounding environment by moving her life and work base – including her stay at VERMONT STUDIO CENTER Residence Programme – that enable her to consider approach towards artwork from multiple perspectives.
2012-2013 A year-long resident at Beaux-arts de Paris whilst being registered as a PhD student at the Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo

WORKS

1｜installation view from Art Setouchi Triennale 2013 at Mito Public Hall, Shodoshima, Kagawa, JAPAN Video Installation:“Smoke Bridge”(2012),“The Island Started to Move”(2010)
2｜Installation view from SPVI ,TURNER GALLERY,Video Installation:“Smoke Bridge”(2012)
3｜Installation view from solo exhibition”For the Sake of the Moment!!” at Kodama Gallery, Kyoto(2011) Video Installation: “The Island Started to Move”(2010)
4｜“X Car Wash”（2007）,Video Still
5｜Installation view from solo exhibition”For the Sake of the Moment!!” at Kodama Gallery, Kyoto(2011)Video Installation: “Replacing the Scene by Helicopter”(2011)
All photo’s © Erica MASUYA

EXHIBITIONS

2014　[solo show] Tipping Point, Kodama Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
2013　Setouchi Triennale 2013, Kagawa, Japan
2011　Shiny Holidays Exhibition 2011, The Civilization, Tokyo, Japan
2011　Cinema Lab, Yokohama, Japan
2011　[solo show] For the Sake of the Moment !!, Kodama Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
2011　[solo show] Landscape ⅩⅢ PART I, Pepper’s Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2010　Story of the Island Exhibition” (SHODOSHIMA AIR Art Project)-Setouchi International Art Festival, Kanazawa, Japan
2009 “Conquering Snow Dynamo Art Project”(Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial) Niigata, Japan

CONTACT

ericamasuya(at)gmail.com
http://ericamasuya.sakura.ne.jp
http://www.kodamagallery.com
http://nakanojo-biennale.com/artist/erica-masuya

Soichiro MIHARA / 三原聡一郎

1980　Born in Tokyo, Japan
2004　BA, Tama Art University, information design department.
2006　MA, Institute of Advances Media Art and Science [IAMAS]
2012 – AIR at Taipei (kdMOFA), Berlin (Bethanien/TWS), Perth (SymbioticA/Agency for cultural affair, Japan)

WORKS

1｜The blank to overcome/Air pump, Control circuit, Water, Soap, Glycerin, Electricity/Unformed/2012
2｜Bell/Gaiger muller Tube, Controle circuit, Glass bell, Glass dome/　φ300x500mm/2012
3｜The gleam of life/Sand, Microbe fuel cell, Xenon arc lamp, Stepup circuit, Lens/20x20m/2015
4｜Moids2.* – Acoustic emergence structure/1K of microphones, Microchips, Relays/Variable dimension/(collaborator: Kazuki Saita)/2009
5｜Vexations – Composition in progress/Microphone, Nondirectional loud speaker, Computer/ Variable dimension /(collaborator: Yuko Mohri)/2005
All photo’s © Soichiro MIHARA

EXHIBITIONS

2014　Sapporo International Art Festival 2014 / Arishima house at sapporo art park / Sapporo
2014　FILE2014 / FIESPI / San Paulo
2013　the world filled with blank, solo exhibition / Bethanien / Berlin
2012　OPEN SPACE / NTTICC / Tokyo
2012　SoundArt – sound as medium of art / ZKM / Karlsruhe
2011　Simple Interaction – sound art from japan / Museum of contemporary art / Roskilde
2006　transmediale / akademie de kunst / Berlin
2005　Exploration of Time / YCAM / Yamaguchi

CONTACT

mhrs(at)mhrs.jp
http://mhrs.jp

Masakuni MURAKAMI / 村上将城

Born in 1978 in Gifu and completed MFA in Media Design from Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music in 2011. He attended a class by Heidi Specker at HGB (Hochschule fuer Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig, Germany) in 2008, 2009. Currently works as the Assistant Professor, Department of Visual Media, Nagoya university of Arts and Sciences.

WORKS

1｜“Paradies” from the serie “es anschauen”,200㎜×300㎜/each, Archival ink-jet print/2009
2｜“Chemical worker park” from the serie “es anschauen”,200㎜×300㎜/ each, Archival ink-jet print/2009
3｜“Shinmei shrine | Gifu | Kakamigahara, from the serie “IB”,dimensions vary, Archival ink-jet print/2010
4｜“Shinmei shrine | Gifu | Kakamigahara, from the serie “IB”,dimensions vary, Archival ink-jet print/2010
5｜“IB”, installation view at POETIC SCAPE/2014
All photo’s © Masakuni MURAKAMI

EXHIBITIONS

2014　HAKKA, BankART1929, Kanagawa
2014　Works on paper, Masakuni Murakami + Seth High」, gallery near, Kyoto
2014　Summer Show 2014, POETIC SCAPE, Tokyo
2013　a.p.p.photography Sascha Weidner+Masakuni Murakami, gallery a.p.p.. Kyoto, Kyoto
2012　[solo show] Landschaft, Gakei Gimlet SAAS, Kyoto
2010　[solo show] es anschauen, Shinjyuku, Osaka Nikon Salon, Tokyo/Osaka
2010　[solo show] es anschauen, Kulturhaus, Wolfen, Germany
2009　Masakuni Murakami + Kata Adamek , Panipanama, Leipzig, Germany

CONTACT

info(at)masakunimurakami.com
http://www.masakunimurakami.com

Yoshinori NIWA / 丹羽良徳

1982　Born in Aichi prefecture
2005　BA, Department of Moving images and Performing arts, Tama Art University

WORKS

1 | Transforming Puddle A to Puddle B, Single-channel video, 10’53min
2 | Tossing Socialists in the Air in Romania, Single-channel video（29’09min）, Text on paper,
Photographic print（3000x3000mm）, 2010
3 | Walk in the Opposite Direction of a Demonstration Parade, Single-channel video, 10’01min, 2011
4 | Looking for Vladimir Lenin at Moscow Apartments, Three-channel video (8’40min each), 2012
5 | Proposing to Hold up Karl Marx to the Japanese Communist Party, Two Channel Video Installation (18’02min each), photo print on banner, blackboard, flag, megaphone, 2013
All photo’s © Yoshinori NIWA and 4. Tetuo ITO 5. Mori Art Museum.

EXHIBITIONS

2014　Forces at Works / Jorge B. Vargas Museum and Filipiniana Research Center / Manila, Philippines
2013　Roppoingi Crossing 2013: OUT OF DOUBT / Mori Art Museum / Tokyo
2013　Aichi triennale 2013 / Aichi Arts Center, etc / Nagoya
2012　Identity VIII – curated by Shihoko Iida- / nca | nichido contemporary art / Tokyo
2012　Double Vision: Contemporary Art from Japan / Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia / Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel
2011　“Re-Modernologio” phase2 :Observation and Notation　Aomori Cotemporary Art Center/ Aomori
2010　Utopia of exotic / Pavilion Unicredit / Bucharest, Romania
2010　Solo show / Complex circuit – The poetics of activism / gallery alpha M / Tokyo

CONTACT

niwa(at)niwa-staff.org
http://www.niwa-staff.org

Eye OHASHI / 大橋愛

1974　Born in Kanagawa, Japan
1995　Tokyo College of Photography, Japan
2000　Winner of The Guardian Garden’s 15th Hitotsubo Award
Published : 2003 「Longe Daqui ～Being Apart」 Shinpusha, Tokyo, 2013 「Piece」 FOIL, Tokyo etc.

WORKS

1｜UNCHEINED, Photo Book (A4) /2008
2｜Piece, Photo Book (A4) / 2013
3｜「Zenkyoan」 25.4×30.5cm / 2011
4｜「Village of Iyan」（A2） / 2014
5｜「Things that break and do not break」 Photo Book
All photos © Eye Ohashi

EXHIBITIONS

2013　[solo show] Piece, FOIL Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
2011　Tomorrow Never Knows: Zenkyoan x FOIL Group Show of Contemporary Artists, Zenkyoan Kenninji temple, Kyoto, Japan
2011　FOIL Hpgrp Gallery New York, U.S.A.
2009　10’s Green, Emon Photo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2008　[solo show] UNCHAINED, FOIL Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2004　[solo show] Take me to the world’s end, Art & River Bank, Tokyo, Japan
2004　Maru -circle and sphere-, The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan
2002　[solo show] Longe daqui Art & River Bank, Tokyo, Japan

CONTACT

eyeohashi(at)gmail.com
http://eye-ohashi.com

Yuya SUZUKI / 鈴木悠哉

1983　Born in Fukushima, Japan
2007　BA Printing, Nihon University College of Art. Japan.
2012　Residency at DUENDE DTUSIO / Rotterdam, 2014 Glogau AIR Berlin, SIM Residency/ Reykjavik, 2013 Winner of the Art OSAKA.

WORKS

1｜about the language / installation / size variable / 2014
2｜about the language / installation / size variable / 2014
3｜out of the music / installation / size variable / 2013
4｜out of the music / installation / size variable / 2013
5｜out of the music / installation / size variable / 2013
All photo’s © Yuya SUZUKI

EXHIBITIONS

2014　Sapporo International Art Festival 2014, Sapporo
2014　Becoming Undone, Kleiner Salon, Berlin
2014　12 Layers, Sim Gallery, Reykjavik
2013　Jeune Creation 2013, Rue Sentquatre, Paris
2013　[solo show] Out Of The Music, CAI02, Sapporo
2012　The Last One Before The Break, Duende, Rotterdam
2012　[solo show] Garden And Half Of Them , World And Something, CAI02, Sapporo
2012　Everyday’s Adventure, 500M Museum, Sapporo

CONTACT

yoitomake-(at)hotmail.co.jp
http://yuya-suzuki.tumblr.com

Kazuya TAKAGAWA / 高川和也

1986　Born in Kumamoto, Japan. Lives and works in Tokyo.
2010　Graduated from Tokyo Zokei University, Japan(BFA)
2011　Attended Artist-in-residence program at Seoul Art space Geumcheon, South Korea
2012　Graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan(MFA)

WORKS

1｜ CONSENSUS/Workshop ( video document )/48min 26sec/2014
2｜ Practice for identification/Multi channel video installation ( interview )/12 min 24 sec/2014
3｜ NOW IS THE TIME TO UNITE/Single channel video/1min 45 sec/2013
4｜ Interview with a goddess/Single channel video/6 min 19sec/2012
5｜ Narrative of one object/Single channel video installation/7min 56sec/2012
All photo’s © Kazuya TAKAGAWA

EXHIBITIONS

2014　“Screen” / HIGURE17-15cas / Tokyo, Japan
2014　“Art Factory Project 2014” / culture station seoul 284 / Seoul, South Korea
2012　Solo show “Kazuya Takagawa video show” / 3331 Arts Chiyoda / Tokyo, Japan
2012　“What happened to me yesterday” / AI KOWADA GALLERY / Tokyo, Japan
2011　“BEDAH VIDEO & KOPI SORE” / S-14 / Bangdung, Indonesia
2011　“Reflection of an outsider on outsider“ / Seoul art space Geumcheon / Seoul, South Korea
2011　“AT THIS JUNCTURE“ / 3331 Arts Chiyoda / Tokyo, Japan
2010　“Complex of self knowledge“ / Arivve event space / Tokyo, Japan

CONTACT

takagawa_0115(at)yahoo.co.jp
http://kazuyatakagawa01.businesscatalyst.com

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Ine IZUMI / 泉イネ

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Yasunori KAWAMATSU / 川松康徳

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Miyuki KAWAMURA / 河村美雪

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Yuko KINOUCHI / 木内祐子

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近藤愛助 / Aisuke KONDO

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Hiroko KUBO / 久保寛子

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Erica MASUYA / 升谷絵里香

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Soichiro MIHARA / 三原聡一郎

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Masakuni MURAKAMI / 村上将城

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Yoshinori NIWA / 丹羽良徳

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Eye OHASHI / 大橋愛

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Yuya SUZUKI / 鈴木悠哉

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Kazuya TAKAGAWA / 高川和也

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Artist
Archive
2014