小宮 知久KOMIYA Chiku
Media Artist, Composer
kokokko , 2025
Photo: TAKAHASHI Kenji Photo courtesy of Tokyo Arts and Space
VOX-AUTOPOIESIS V -Mutual- , 2019
The Extreme Points of the Echoes , 2022
A collaborative work with histrian Tomotake Kinoshita
Photo: Ten Goto
And then O-ren Knew ‘twas a Song , 2024
Photo: Otsuka Keita
Pilgrims’ Tongues without Bodies , 2025
Upcoming
- Residence
- New York
- Stay Period
Project ThemeResearch, presentation, and production of new work on the instability of voices and songs emerging in a multilingual city
Chiku Komiya will conduct research on multilingualism and endangered languages in New York through visits to institutions and fieldwork, seeking clues for a new project on how songs arise within multilingual environments.
He is also planning presentations and outdoor performances related to his ongoing art project, KOE Language Song Project, which centers on songs in a self-constructed language and has been developed since 2024.
In addition, he will hold a duo exhibition, “The Cave of Tongues”, with New York-based artist Nana Shimomura. In this exhibition, they will bring together linguistic media such as voice and writing, creating a space of linguistic instability within the city of New York.
Profile
Media artist and composer.
He explores new musical forms by destabilising conventional relationships between voice, language, and musical notation within contemporary media environments, focusing on voice as shaped by multilingual conditions and synthetic technologies.
Working with songs in a self-developed synthetic language, looping relationships between artificial and human voices, and generative forms of notation, he develops works across a wide range of formats, from score-based compositions to media performances and installations.
- Name
- KOMIYA Chiku
- Birth Year
- 1993
- Website
Education
- 2018 M.A., Music and Composition, Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan
- 2016 B.A., Music and Composition, Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan
Selected Solo Exhibitions
- 2024 “Waiting for you to sing” Toinen Kerros, Helsinki, Finland
- 2024 “Apparition of Voice,” monade contemporary, Kyoto, Japan
- 2024 ”Let me sing a strange song,” Retramp Gallery, Berlin, Germany
- 2022 “SEIRÊNES” honkbooks, Tokyo, Japan
Selected Group Exhibitions
- 2025 TOKAS Creator-in-Residence 2025 Exhibition “Lingua Franca,” TOKAS, Tokyo, Japan
- 2025 “Yamanashi Media Art Award,” GASBON METABOLISM, Yamanashi, Japan
- 2024 “Nous nous convulsions –Hommage to the surrealist Ghérasim Luca, 30 years after his disappearance–“, Matreselva, Paris, France
- 2024 “HIAP Open Studios”, HIAP Studio, Helsinki, Finland
- 2021 “The 24th Japan Media Arts Festival,” Miraikan – The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, 7F Studio, Tokyo, Japan
Awards
- 2025 Yamanashi Media Art Award 2024-25 Finalist
- 2021 The New Face Award of 24th Japan Media Arts Festival
- 2018 The Second Prize in the 87th Annual Music Competition of Japan, Composition Division
Residencies
- 2025 KUMANONISUMU! 2025, Mie, Japan
- 2024 HIAP(Helsinki International Artist Programme) under the TOKAS Exchange Residency Programme, Helsinki, Finland
Grants &Fellowships
- 2025 The Project to Support Emerging Media Arts Creators (The Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan)
- 2023 The Startup Grant, Arts Council Tokyo
- 2022 The Startup Grant, Arts Council Tokyo
Publications & Press
- 2024 Tagesspiegel (14.3.2024)
- 2018 VOX-AUTOPOIESIS (Musical score, thoasa)
Talks & Lectures
- 2025 “Artist Talk,” The Finnish Institute in Japan, Tokyo
- 2020 “Symposium, Music from Japan,” The Japan Foundation, New York
- 2018 “Max Summer School in GEIDAI 2018,” Tokyo University of the Arts