Takahiro Suzuki
Education
MFA 2016 Film, Video, Animation, and New Genres, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
BA 2011 Studio Art (Cinematography/Photography), University of Virginia
Awards and Honors
2019 Faculty Development Fund | Brevard College | Brevard, NC
2018 Faculty Development Fund | Brevard College | Brevard, NC
2018 Mary L. Nohl Suitcase Award | Milwaukee, WI
2015 Chancellor’s Award | University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee | Milwaukee, WI
2014 Chancellor’s Award | University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee | Milwaukee, WI
2011 Juror’s Award for Photography | 64 ARTS National Juried Exhibition | Buchanan Center for the Arts | Monmouth, IL
2011 Aunspaugh Fifth Year Fellowship | University of Virginia | Charlottesville, VA
Film Screenings
2023 electric moonlight & the language within the leaves, Revolutions Per Minute, Macau Edition, Ox Warehouse Art Center, Macau
2023 Union Pacific, LiveAV, Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, Milwaukee, WI
2023 The Sound of True Evil, LiveAV, Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, Milwaukee, WI
2023 electric moonlight & the language within the leaves, Antimatter Media Art, Victoria BC, Canada
2023 electric moonlight & the language within the leaves, ULTRAcinema XI, Multiple Cities, Mexico
2023 electric moonlight & the language within the leaves, Revolutions Per Minute, Boston, MA
2023 electric moonlight & the language within the leaves, non-syntax Experimental Image, Tokyo, Japan
2023 electric moonlight & the language within the leaves, non-syntax Experimental Image at EXiS, Seoul, South Korea
2023 Union Pacific, LiveAV presented by Mutualsound, Concepción, Chile
2023 The Sound of True Evil, LiveAV presented by Mutualsound, Concepción, Chile
2023 electric moonlight & the language within the leaves, Odds & Ends Experimental Film Festival, Charlottesville, VA
2023 electric moonlight & the language within the leaves, West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival, Morgantown, WV
2023 SMASH Dance Marathon, Woodland Pattern Poetry Marathon, Milwaukee, WI
2022 life, like water, flows to greater bodies, Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, Milwaukee, WI
2022 life, like water, flows to greater bodies, Woodland Pattern Poetry Marathon, Milwaukee, WI
2021 life, like water, flows to greater bodies, San Diego Underground Film Festival, San Diego, CA
2021 9572, Festival Tous Courts, Aix-en-Provence, FR
2021 9572, Drunken Film Fest, Bradford, UK
2021 life, like water, flows to greater bodies, CROSSROADS presented by the San Francisco Cinematheque, San Francisco, CA
2021 life, like water, flows to greater bodies, Tlanchana Fest, Valle de Bravo, MX
2021 Union Pacific, Estival OODAAQ, Rennes, FR
2021 life, like water, flows to greater bodies, Estival OODAAQ, Rennes, FR
2021 life, like water, flows to greater bodies, Crescent City Film Festival, New Orleans, LA
2021 9572, Big Muddy Film Festival, Carbondale, IL (online)
2021 how to draw a line, Woodland Pattern Poetry Marathon, Milwaukee, WI (online)
2021 Studies in the Folly of Man // The Far Horizon I, Woodland Pattern Poetry Marathon, Milwaukee, WI (online)
2021 Studies in the Folly of Man // The Far Horizon II, Woodland Pattern Poetry Marathon, Milwaukee, WI (online)
2020 Biography of a Newborn Star,This Is Love Curated by Lydia Moyer for Collective Misnomer, Denver, CO (online)
2020 Schrödinger's Cat Part I, Bogotá Experimental Film Festival Archive Virtual Screening during quarantine, Bogotá, Colombia (online)
2018 Schrödinger's Cat Part I, San Diego Underground Film Festival, San Diego, CA
2018 Schrödinger's Cat Part I, CROSSROADS presented by the San Francisco Cinematheque @ the SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
2018 Schrödinger's Cat Part I, Bogotá Experimental Film Festival, Bogotá, Colombia
2018 Schrödinger's Cat Part I, Tlanchana Fest, Metepec, Mexico
2018 infinite horizon, West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival, Morgantown, WV
2017 Beneath the burden We place upon It., West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival, Morgantown, WV
2016 Biography of a Newborn Star, Tahoe Underground Film Festival, Reno, NV
2016 Biography of a Newborn Star, Experiments in Cinema, Albuquerque, NM
2016 That Which Moves The Sun And Stars, Crossroads, San Francisco Cinematheque, San Francisco, CA
2016 Biography of a Newborn Star, Video Show presented by Cineviews & MOXY Studio, Milwaukee, WI
2015 That Which Moves The Sun And Stars, Were the Eye Not Sunlike, ACRE TV, Chicago, IL
2014 Lae//Howland, 9th Montreal Underground Film Festival, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
2014 Lae//Howland, Australian International Experimental Film Festival, Melbourne, Australia
2014 Lae//Howland, West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival, Morgantown, WV
2014 That Which Moves The Sun And Stars, Experiments in Cinema v 9.72, Albuquerque, NM
2014 Lae//Howland, 10th Berlin International Director’s Lounge, Berlin, Germany
2013 Lae//Howland, Richmond Radicals, Richmond, VA
2013 9214, Transmissions, Sri Aurobindo Center for Arts & Communication, New Dehli, India
2013 amitosis, Australian International Experimental Film Festival, Melbourne, Australia
2013 Horizon, Experiments in Cinema, Albuquerque, NM
2013 9214, IMAGES Festival, Toronto, Canada
2013 amitosis, West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival, Morgantown, WV
2013 Horizon, 9th Berlin International Director’s Lounge, Berlin, Germany
2012 Of The Horse We Know Nothing, One Take Film Festival, Zagreb, Croatia
2012 Horizon, One Take Film Festival, Zagreb, Croatia
2012 9214, One Take Film Festival, Zagreb, Croatia
2012 9214, Sonic Circuits Festival of Experimental Music, Washington DC
2012 Reservoir, This is my day, my night, my story, Tama Art University, Tokyo, Japan
2012 9214, Soundscapes, Great Wall of Oakland, Oakland, CA
2012 9214, Crossroads, San Francisco Cinematheque, San Francisco, CA
2012 Horizon, West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival, Morgantown, WV
2012 Of The Horse We Know Nothing, Experiments in Cinema, Albuquerque, NM
2011 Reservoir, SEFF Binghamton, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY
2011 Pinecastle Rd., SEFF Binghamton, Binghamton University, Binghatmton, NY
Exhibitions and Installations
2021 Constant Practice: New Works from MIAD Faculty, Brooks Stevens Gallery, Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, Milwaukee, WI
2019 Mary L. Nohl Suitcase Exhibition, Frederick Layton Gallery, Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, Milwaukee, WI
2018 9214, CROSSROADS presented by the San Francisco Cinematheque @ the SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
2018 infinite horizon, UMW Media Wall, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA, May 2018
2017 infinite horizon, the niche, Charlottesville, VA
2016 Artist in Residence, Welcome to My Guestroom Digital Artist Residency, February 2016
2014 9214, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR
2013 Lae//Howland, Digital Media Gallery, Second Street Gallery, Virginia Film Festival, Charlottesville, VA
2013 Horizon, Directors Lounge Selection, Contemporary Art Ruhr, Zollverein World Heritage Site, Essen, Germany
2012 In Search Of, Aunspaugh Fellowship Exhibition, Ruffin Gallery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
2012 The Scholar’s Lab, Alderman Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
2011 The Niche, Fiske-Kimball Fine Arts Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
2011 Digital Medial Gallery Outdoor Projection, Virginia Film Festival, Charlottesville, VA
2011 Get Out. Go Somewhere, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
2011 64 ARTS National Juried Exhibition, Buchanan Center for the Arts, Monmouth, IL
2011 Past Meets Present VI Alumni Reunion Weekend Show, Ruffin Hall, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
2011 A Temporary, or Final Ceasing, Senior Thesis Exhibition, Ruffin Gallery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
2011 Positive/Negative 26 National Juried Art Exhibit, Slocumb Galleries, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN
Curatorial
2016 - Present aCinema — archive of curated programs available here
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2016 Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, Programming Staff, Milwaukee, WI
2015 To See The Sky With The Naked Eye, Experimental Tuesdays, Union Cinema, Milwaukee, WI
Publications
2020 Studies in the Folly of Man The Far Horizon I + II, L’emerge del possible, online publication
2016 Biography of a Newborn Star, Experiments in Cinema v11.4, DVD, Basement Films, Albuquerque, NM
2014 Horizon, Experiments in Cinema v9.72, DVD, Basement Films, Albuquerque, NM
2013 9214, The Journal of Short Film Volume 29, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
2013 Experiments in Cinema v8.7, DVD, Basement Films, Albuquerque, NM
2013 amitosis, VideoFocus, Stigmart ArtPress, Italy
2012 Art Comes First at SF Cinematheque’s Crossroads Fest, Michael Fox, KQED Arts, San Francisco, CA
2012 Of The Horse We Know Nothing, Experiments in Cinema v7.9, DVD, Basement Films, Albuquerque, NM
2011 Movable Type, The University of Virginia Undergraduate Online Media Studies Journal, Edition 3.0