[Artist Statement]

Jun Homma’s work explores the relationship between visible and invisible elements that shape our perception of the world. Growing up in a suburban area near Tokyo during a period of rapid urban development, he witnessed landscapes constantly changing and leaving behind traces of memory and absence. These experiences became the starting point for his artistic practice.
Homma understands the world as composed of both visible forms and invisible structures—time, memory, historical forces, and social conditions that cannot be directly represented but strongly shape reality. Through sculpture, installation, and photo-based works, he creates situations in which these invisible elements become perceptible.
Since the late 1990s, Homma has developed a number of interconnected series that investigate these themes from different perspectives. In works such as Uncertain Stories, everyday objects and fragments from different temporal and cultural contexts are combined within sculptural structures, allowing multiple layers of time to intersect. In the ongoing series Now and Things (Time Line ), images of landscapes and ordinary objects gradually disappear or transform, suggesting the unstable relationship between present experience, memory, and historical narrative.
Across these series, Homma’s practice examines how invisible forces—time, history, and perception—shape the images and meanings that emerge in our everyday surroundings.

Jun Homma

Born in 1967, Tokyo, Japan
1990 Graduated from Tama Art University’s Department of Three-Dimensional Design (BA)
1990–1992 Research Student, Department of Sculpture, Tama Art University
2019 Fellow of Overseas Study Program for Artists, Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan / Berlin, Germany

[Grants and Awards]
2019 Grant, the Overseas Study Program for Artists, Agency for Cultural Affairs,
Government of Japan 2019 – GlogauAIR / Berlin, Germany
2015 First Prize, Seiko University Public Art Competition – Seiko University / Tainan City, Taiwan
2011 First Prize, Ilan University Public Art Competition – Ilan University / Ilan City, Taiwan
2000 First Prize, Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2000 Project Competition

[Artist in Residence]
2025 International Residency Program / No. 97 West District International Art Community / Quanzhou, China
2024 A4 Residency Program / A4 Art Center / Chengdu, China
2019 MAMMA Project / Sejong Art Center / Sejong, Korea
2019 GlogauAIR / Berlin, Germany
2018 Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology (Interim Program)/ Bangalore, India / Fellow of Japan Foundation
2012 FLYOVER/ YOKOHAMA MANILA / 98B Collaboratory / Manila, Philippines / Fellow of Pola Art Foundation, Japan Foundation

[Solo Exhibitions]
2025 Time and Box – No. 97 West District International Art Community/ Quanzhou, China
2023 Now and Things / eitoeiko / Tokyo
2021 I saw a landscape / bononkyoto + KYOTOGRAPHIE KG+ / Kyoto
2020 I saw a landscape / void+/ Tokyo
2019 Landscape Erosion / GlogauAIR Showcase / Berlin, Germany
2018 Portrait of Erosion / Rangoli Metro Art Center/ Bangalore, India
2015 Unnamed Country / TRAUMARIS/SPACE/ Tokyo
2010 Breeze / Window / Yokohama Government Office/ Yokohama, Kanagawa
2009 And the Rivers Flow / Koganecho Area Management Center/ Yokohama, Kanagawa
2007 Breeze / 4 Flags / Gallery Caption/ Gifu
2006 Breeze / Statement / Gallery Caption/ Gifu
2005 Horizon – Gallery Gen/ Tokyo
2004 Around – La Galerie des NAKAMURA/ Tokyo
2003 Focusing on a New Generation in Tokyo 2003 – Gallery Gen/ Tokyo
2001 Window Installation – Desperado/ Tokyo
2001 Chattering – Gallery Gen/ Tokyo
1999 Pass – Gallery Gen/ Tokyo
1998 There – Gallery Gen/ Tokyo
1997 Rope – Gallery Gen/ Tokyo
1996 Pin – Gallery Gen, ZA MOKA FOUNDATION/ Tokyo
1993 Diary – Yokohama Galleria/ Kanagawa

[Selected Group Exhibitions]
2024 Community Memories / No. 97 District /Quanzhou, China
RE CREATE/ CPI/ Chengdu, China
Kogane-cho Bazaar 2024 / Yokohama, Kanagawa
[VOID+STOCK] Exhibition, Part 2 / void+/ Tokyo
2022 Extreme Cold Art Festival 2022 / Teshikaga-cho, Hokkaido
2021 Cherry Blossom Party / eitoeiko / Tokyo
Extreme Cold Art Festival 2021 / Teshikaga-cho/ Hokkaido
2020 Seeing through the Invisible / Tennozu Central Tower Art Hall/ Tokyo
Extreme Cold Art Festival 2020 / Teshikaga-cho/ Hokkaido
2019 Chennai Photo Biennale / Chennai, India
Extreme Cold Art Festival 2019 / Teshikaga-cho/ Hokkaido
2018 Teshikaga Gokkan Art Festival / Teshikaga-cho/ Hokkaido
2017 Air Real – Kawaguchi Civic Art Gallery Ateria / Saitama
Young Art Nagaoka / Nagaoka/ Niigata
2016 Teshikaga Gokkan Art Festival / Teshikaga-cho/ Hokkaido
2014 Echigo-tsumari Snow Art Festival / Echigo-Tsumari/ Niigata
2013 Setouchi Triennial 2013/ Kagawa, Okayama
2012 Echigo-tsumari Art Triennial 2012 / Echigo-Tsumari/ Niigata
2011 AOBA+ART / Yokohama, Kanagawa
Kogane-cho Bazaar 2011/ Yokohama, Kanagawa
2010 Echigo-tsumari Snow Art Festival / Echigo-Tsumari/ Niigata
2009 Echigo-tsumari Art Triennial 2009 / Echigo-Tsumari/ Niigata
SUITO Osaka 2009/ Osaka
TAMAVIVANT 09 – Tama Art University/ Tokyo
2008 AOBA+ART/ Yokohama, Kanagawa
Kogane-cho Bazaar/ Yokohama, Kanagawa
2007 Happy Hours – Zaim underground/ Yokohama, Kanagawa
2006 Echigo-tsumari Art Triennial 2006 ‒ Echigo-Tsumari/ Niigata
2004 A MUSE LAND 2004 – Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art/ Hokkaido
2003 Echigo-tsumari Art Triennial 2003 ‒ Echigo-Tsumari/ Niigata
2001 Aoba Triennial 2001 – Aoba-ku/ Yokohama, Kanagawa
2000 Echigo-tsumari Art Triennial 2000 ‒ Echigo-Tsumari/ Niigata
1999 Japan Art Scholarship / Spiral Hall / Tokyo
1996 Morphe ‘96 – Aoyama, Tokyo
1995 Miyazawa Kenji Kaigakan / Mitsukoshi Museum/ Tokyo
1992 Encountering the others / Kassel, Hann. Münden, Germany