Grantee Database

Bridge for the Arts and Education

Country / Region:
• Japan

• 2024
• Theater
• Malaysia to Japan

To conduct a workshop series facilitated by five artists from Malaysia and Japan involving open rehearsals and artist's talks to explore the link between Asian performance and the theme of death and rebirth through philosophy, movement, and sound.

• 2021
• Theater
• Japan to Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand

A music workshop and open forum for artists from Asia coming to Japan to participate in a production of the Mahabharata that will be held as part of the official cultural events for the 2021 Olympic Games in Tokyo.

• 2020
• Theater
• Japan to Asia

A 6-month Organization/Project Grant to support a joint film project around Hiroshi Koike’s Mahabharata Series with participating artists from nine countries across Asia

• 2019
• Theater
• Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Thailand to Indonesia

to support cross-cultural workshops in Jogjakarta for performing artists from Japan and Southeast Asia to create a collaborative interpretation of the Mahabharata

Bontaro Dokuyama

• 2024
• Visual Art
• Japan to United States

To learn about artistic practices in a multinational country, and research the history and cultural transmission of Japanese immigrants in the United States from the Meiji Restoration through World War II and the present.

Souya Handa

• 2024
• Curation
• Japan to United States

To conduct on-site research on the Manhattan Project, providing a multifaceted perspective on his artistic practices on Hiroshima, as well as conduct research on Asian artists in the United States working on postcolonial themes.

Minori Ishikawa

• 2024
• Literature
• Japan to United States

To research literary and artistic practices in the United States and study how minority stories have been told in the country to discover new or alternative storytelling and styles of writing in Japanese.

Murakami Takashi

Country / Region:
• Japan

• 2024
• Visual Art

2024 John D. Rockefeller 3rd Award

• 1994
• Visual Art
• Japan to United States

To participate in the International Studio Program at the Institute of Contemporary Art, MoMA PS1 in New York in 1994-95

Tomoko Seki

• 2024
• Arts Criticism
• Japan to United States

To conduct research on theater in the United States for a comparative study with Europe and Japan to understand the characteristics of Japanese, European, and American plays.

U.S. / Japan Cultural Trade Network, Inc. (CTN)

• 2024
• Art History
• Japan to United States

To invite Peru-born Japanese playwright Yudai Kamisato to San Francisco and develop a participatory play.

Hideki Umezawa

• 2024
• Music
• Japan to United States

To conduct research on sound sculptures, interact with the experimental and electronic music scene in New York, and examine the relationship between people and the environment.

Aki Yahata

• 2024
• Japan to United States

To investigate four themes: road movies, the history and present state of immigrants, image therapy, and hand-eating culture in Native American and immigrant communities.

Yunhui Hong Charpentier

• 2023
• Visual Art
• Japan to Korea

To conduct research on how people have translated Japanese and Korean by focusing on the violence/hospitality of translation, as well as on how "healing" has been socially and culturally represented in South Korea on the theme of "healing colonial violence and its traumas.”

Kan Fukuhara

• 2023
• Theater
• Japan to United States

To conduct research on creations, workshops, lessons, and classes are held at various rehearsal spaces in NYC and the attitude of actors and dancers towards rehearsals.

Yuki Kobayashi

• 2023
• Visual Art
• Japan to China

To conduct research on the Chinese Martial Art “Wing Chun” to develop a long-term project, as well as to exchange with Hong Kong-based performance artists.