Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology’s Art Encouragement Prize Recipients Announced.

On March 11, the Agency for Cultural Affairs announced the recipients of the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology’s Art Encouragement Prize for the fiscal year 2010. The recipients of the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology’s Art Encouragement Prize were artist ONODERA Yuki (for her exhibition titled ‘Onodera Yuki: Into the Labyrinth of Photography’) and architect KUMA Kengo (for his architectural design ‘Yusuhara Wooden Bridge Museum’) in the Fine Arts category; and game designer MIYAMOTO Shigeru (for his game ‘Super Mario Galaxy 2’) in the Media Art category. The recipients of the Art Encouragement Prize for New Artists were contemporary artist Tabaimo (for her exhibition titled ‘Tabaimo: Danmen’) in the Fine Art category; artist NAKAMURA Masato (for his direction of opening and management of ‘3331 Arts Chiyoda’) in the Development of the Arts category; KuroDalaiJee (aka KURODA Raiji), researcher of post-war Japanese avant-garde art, (for his monograph titled ‘Anarchy of the Body’) in the Criticism category; and multimedia artist KUWAKUBO Ryōta (for his artwork titled ‘The Tenth Sentiment’) in the Media Art category. (Japanese)