Junya Yamamine

Junya Yamamine is a curator and CEO at NYAW inc, as well as Co-President of Tokyo Art Acceleration. After working as a curator at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, at 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, and at Contemporary Art Centre | Art Tower Mito, he became the director of ANB Tokyo. Previous curatorial projects include “Hello World –– for the Post-Human Age,” “Resistance of Fog –– Fujiko Nakaya,” and “The World Began Without the Human Race and It Will End Without It.” In addition to planning and consulting on art-related projects such as Meet Your Art Festival, Music Loves Art in Summer Sonic, and the Agency for Cultural Affairs’ Cultural Economy Strategy Promotion Project, he also supervises art programs, featuring in magazines and on television. He is also a writer, jury member, and, in 2015, served as an overseas trainee for curators from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology. He is a part-time lecturer at Waseda University and at Tokyo Polytechnic University.