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  • Yuri Suzuki is a sound artist, designer and electronic musician. His practice explores the realms of sound through designed pieces that examine the relationship between people and their environments - questioning how both music and sound evolve to create personal experiences.

    Suzuki was born in Tokyo in 1980. After studying Industrial Design he worked with Maywa Denki, the Japanese electronic art unit. During this period, Yuri began exploring the relationship between music and technology. In 2005, He moved to London to study Product Design at the Royal College of Art, where he further developed his interest in the crossover between art, design and music, using both analogue and digital technologies to explore this.

    Central to Suzuki's practice is collaboration- he has worked with various musicians including will.i.am and Jeff Mills, as well as commercial clients such as Google, with whom he developed a unique AR Music Kit.

    His work can be seen in several international museum collections, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He has had both solo and group exhibitions at the Tate Britain London, Mudam Luxembourg, MoMA and the Museum of Modern Art Tokyo. In 2016, he received the Designer of the Future award at Design Miami.

    In 2018 Suzuki was appointed a partner at Pentagram, the world’s largest independently owned design studio., where he began working as an artist in the London studio, Suzuki and his team work internationally - pushing the boundaries between art, design, technology and sound, crossing the fields of both low and high technology.

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    Selected Exhibitions

    2019
    Sound Of The Earth Chapter 2
    Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas

    2019
    Welcome Chorus
    Turner Contemporary, Margate

    2019
    Sound In Mind
    Design Museum, London

    2019
    Furniture Music
    Lighthouse, Glasgow

    2019
    Digital Electronium
    Barbican Gallery, London

    2018
    Sonic Playground
    High Museum of Art, Atlanta

    2018
    Furniture Music
    Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston Upon Thames

    2015-2016
    This is for everyone
    Museum of Modern Art New York

    2014
    Digital Revolution
    Barbican Gallery London

    2013-2014
    Jukeboxes in Tate Britain
    Tate Gallery London

    2013
    Garden of Russolo
    Victoria and Albert Museum London

    2013
    Looks Like Music
    Mudam Luxembourg

    2012
    Designers in Residence
    Design Museum London

    2011
    Media Scape
    Nam June Paik Art Center Seoul

    2010
    Cyber Arts Japan
    Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

    Awards

    2016
    Designer of the Future Award
    Design Miami/Swarovski

    2013
    Honorary mention (Sound Art)
    Prix ARS electronica

    2013
    Honorary mention (Interactive Art)
    Prix ARS electronica

    2012
    Finalist PAD Award
    Pavilion of Art and Design

    2012
    Designers in Residence
    Design Museum London

    2009
    Honorary mention (Interactive Art)
    Prix ARS electronica

    Collections

    Design Museum, London

    Museum of Modern Art, New York

    The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago

    The Israel Museum, Jerusalem

    London Transport Museum, London

    Nam June Paik Art Center, Seoul

    Église Saint-Pierre, Firminy