Artists
Koretsune Sakura
- Born 1986 in Hiroshima, Japan. Based in Hiroshima, Japan.
Koretsune Sakura obtained a BFA in painting (magna cum laude) from University of Alaska Fairbanks, also studying native arts and sculpture. In 2017, she received a master’s degree from Tohoku University of Art and Design in Yamagata. Whale-human relationships and the folklore of oceans inspire Koretsune’s works. Koretsune writes and embroiders to express her journeys and imaginations based on research and fieldwork. She continuously publishes a booklet series, “Ordinary Whales.” Koretsune worked as a researcher at the Center for Northeast Asian Studies of Tohoku University from 2018 to 2020. From 2022 to 2023, she was a guest researcher in the Whales of Power research project at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages of the University of Oslo as a trainee under the Program of Overseas Study for Upcoming Artists organized by Japan’s Agency for Cultural Affairs.
- Selected exhibitions
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- 2024
- currents / undercurrents: Bringing together the endless flow, Aomori Contemporary Art Centre (Japan)
- 2023
- Whales of Power, HumSam-biblioteket, University of Oslo (Norway)
- 2022
- VOCA 2022: The Visions of Contemporary Art, Ueno Royal Museum (Tokyo, Japan)
- 2022
- NITTAN ART FILE 4: Memory of Land, Tomakomai City Museum (Hokkaido, Japan)
- 2021
- Restorations of Narrative, Sendai Mediatheque (Miyagi, Japan)
- “Unraveling the Whale, Weaving the Whale” 2021
- Photo: KOIWA Tsutomu
- Courtesy of Sendai Mediatheque.