Born in 1983 in Tokyo.
In addition to releasing his own recordings and organizing and performing with the Shuta Hasunuma Philharmonic Orchestra both in Japan and abroad, he has collaborated in genres across the performing arts, including film, theater, dance, and musical production. Most recently, he has been applying musical composition techniques to a variety of media to present video, sound, sculpture, and installation works in both solo exhibitions and projects. His most recent 6 CD set albums “windandwindows” (2018), and the theater piece “TIME,” recorded at the Kanagawa Arts Theater (KAAT).
Hasunuma also planned and organized the “Music Today” concert series. In 2014, he went to the United States on a grant from the Asian Cultural Council. A list of selected solo exhibitions includes: “compositions : rhythm” (2016) at the Spiral Garden in Tokyo; “compositions” in 2017 at the Beijing Culture and Art Center in China, as part of a Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs cultural exchange; and his first solo exhibition in the United States, “Compositions” was held at Pioneer Works in New York in 2018.
Now his latest solo exhibition, “Shuta Hasunuma :： 〜 ing” has been held at Shiseido Gallry in Ginza, Tokyo.
-Selected Solo Exhibitions-
2018
~ ing, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo
Compositions, Pioneer Works, New York
2017
compositions, Beijing Culture and Art Center, China
2016
compositions : rhythm, Spiral Garden, Tokyo
2015
compositions : spaces, time and architecture, Aomori Contemporary Art Centre, Aomori
Prescription for Coactivity, 3331 Gallery, Tokyo
2014
unfocussed, NADiff Gallery, Tokyo
soundlike2.5, Happa, Tokyo
2013
soundlike2, Kobe Art Village Center, Hyogo
soundlike, Asahi Art Square, Tokyo
2012
have a go at flying from music part3, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Bloomberg Pavilion Project, Tokyo
-Selected Group Exhibitions-
2016
0℃, Blan Class, Yokohama
2015
Railroad Art Festival vol.5〜alternative train, art area B1, Osaka,
2015
Beppu Contemporary Art Festival “Mixed Bathing World 2015”, Oita
-Recent Publications-
2017
2 Tone, commmons, Japan (CD, digital)
Compositions, Japan (Book)
2016
melodies, Japan (CD, digital)
2014
Times plays- and so do we, as Shuta Hasunuma Philharmonic Orchestra, Japan (CD, digital)
have a go at flying from music (book)
2012
CC OO, UNKNOWNMIX/ HEADZ, Japan (CD, digital)
2010
wannapunch!, WEATHER / HEADZ, Japan (CD, digital)
2009
POP OOGA PLUS, Western Vinyl , U.S.A (CD, digital)
2008
POP OOGA, WEATHER / HEADZ, Japan (CD, digital)
2007
HOORAY, PROGRESSIVE FOrM, Japan (CD, digital)
OK Bamboo, Western Vinyl, U.S.A (CD, digital)
2006
Shuta Hasunuma, Western Vinyl, U.S.A (CD, digital)
-Selected Movie and Theatrical Music-
2017
Judas, Christ with Soy by Mirai Moriyama, Ella Rothschild (Dance)
2016
Three Worlds (Dance)
the documentary film about Fujio Akatsuka, collaboration with U-zhaan (Film)
2015
Judas, Christ with Soy by Mirai Moriyama, Ella Rothschild (Dance)
5windows, Yebis International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions (Film)
Kasanenoirome by Noism2（Dance）
2014
Maku by Yoriko Mizushiri, nominated the best short film of Berlin International Film Festival 2014 (Film)
time travel by Ryota Yagi＋Teita Iwabuchi (Performance)
condition by Teita Iwabuchi (Dance)
2013
New work by Hana sakai＋Yasutake Shimaji (Dance)
2011
5windows (Film)
-Selected Performances-
2017
Sound performace at the exhibition of Paul Sharits “ The doors of perception”, statements, Tokyo
2016
Okazaki Ambient, OKAZAKI LOOPS, ROHM theatre, Kyoto
Melodies, Billboard, Tokyo
Marunouchi Ambient, Art, Media and I, Tokyo, Marunouchi Building, Tokyo
2015
A MUSIC FOR A DYING STAR, Live with Christian Fennesz, Theather 21, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
Hayama Ambient, The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura & Hayama, Kanagawa
MUSIC TODAY in Tokyo, Gallery 916, Tokyo
Roppongi Ambient, Ropponngi Art Night, Roppongi Hills, Tokyo
2014
Time plays -and so do we, Shuta Hasunuma Philharmonic Orchestra tour 2014, Spiral Hall, Tokyo etc..
Composition: New Philharmonic, Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama 2014, KAAT Kanagawa Arts Theatre, Kanagawa
2013
HARAJUKU PERFORMANCE+DOMMUNE 2013, Laforet Museum, Harajuku, Tokyo
Music Today on Fluxus Shuta Hasunuma VS Mieko Shiomi, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Osaka
Shuta Hasunuma Philharmonic Orchestra New Year Concert 2013, Tokyo Opera City Recital Hall, Tokyo
2012
Time, KAAT Kanagawa Arts Theatre, Kanagawa and The National Art Center, Tokyo, Tokyo
What’s wrong with looking at the practice? Shuta Hasunuma Philharmonic Orchestra Open Public Rehearsal, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo
2011
Music Today ASAHI, Asahi Art Square, Tokyo
-Residences-
2017
Stay and work in New York in 2017 as a grantee of POLA Art Foundation
Resided in Beijing in January as a member of East Asian Cultural Exchange Envoy 2016 by The Agency for Cultural Affairs
2014
Resided in New York for six months in 2014 invited by Asian Cultural Council
2013
Resided and worked in Nairobi, Africa for a month
Resided at ei in Shodoshima as a residency program of Setouchi Triennale 2013