Marc Johnson & Hitomi Ohki 大木瞳
Marc Johnson
Marc Johnson is an artist, filmmaker and trained architect, who lives and works between Paris, Stockholm and Vancouver. His work has been shown extensively around the world. Important individual exhibitions include The Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti-Shrem Museum of Art, UC Davis, United States (in collaboration with the Kramlich collection); La Maréchalerie, contemporary Art Center, Versailles, France and The Zentrum fur Medienkunst (Werkleitz Gesellschaft e.V.), Halle, Germany.
He has participated in the Sundance Film Festival (2016, 2018), the Biennale of Moscow for Young Art (2017, 2018), The Berlin International Film Festival, Berlinale Shorts (2015), the Yvonne Rainer Project at the Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume (2014) and more than 50 International Film Festival worldwide.
Major group exhibitions include “OLHO“, Museo de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; “constellation•s, new ways of living in the world”, arc en rêve centre d’architecture, Bordeaux, France; “trans(?)duction“, CNEAI= Centre National Edition Art Image, Chatou, France and “ATM tempo I/II/III”, Ginza Maison Hermès Le Forum, Tokyo, Japan.
He received the LVMH Young Artist Award in 2009, was awarded the Best Short Film Award from the Las Palmas International Film Festival de Gran Canaria in 2016, the Cornish Family Prize for Art & Design Publishing from the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne in 2017 and the Best Short Film Award from the 10th Annual Milwaukee Film Festival in 2018.
Marc Johnson is currently a PhD candidate at the Stockholm University of the Arts in Sweden.
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Hitomi Ohki 大木瞳
Japanese soprano Hitomi Ohki started to study piano at the age of 5 and singing at the age of 16. She studied music at Tokyo Gakugei University and graduated in 2008. Afterwards, she moved to Italy and studied vocal technique with Monica Benvenuti in Florence. In 2011 she was selected as contemporary singer of Mito Contest- Masterclass organized by the Maggio Musica Fiorentino Formazione. In 2012 she performed “C.A.N.T.O-Visioni dal Mito” directed by G. Cauteruccio at Teatro Studio Krypton in Florence. In 2012/2013 she was selected as Young Artists project “TU-Teatro Urbano” given by Alta formazione artistica della Regione Toscana and performed “Crash Troades” at Teatro Studio Krypton di Scandicci, Giardino Chiuso di San Gimignano, Teatro dell’Aglio di Piombino. In 2014 she got a degree in singing at the Conservatorio di Muisca L. Cherubini di Firenze where she studied with Leonardo De Lisi. In 2015 she took masterclass with Montserrat Caballé in Spain.