Expert in Organized Chaos

Marina Amada partners with artists to expand their footprints and activities in Japan, France and Hawaii by representing them, coordinating productions, finding collaborative projects, dealing and exhibiting their works of art regularly at gallery spaces, public places and art fairs.  

Marina Amada serves as a guest curator at museums, art festivals, galleries and institutions to research, select, write, and mediate for art exhibitions/art interventions.

Most recently, she curated for the 30th anniversary exhibition for Villa Kujyoyama “SYNCHRNICITY” (2022 Kyoto Art Center) solo show “Fill in the Blanks” for Obara Kazuma (2021 KYOTOGRAPHIE / Nijo-jo castle) artistic intervention “NÔUS” with 64 artists during the national lockdown in France (2020 multiple locations, Nice), “Story of a Bridge Between Two Worlds” by Marie Liesse (2020 KYOTOGRAPHIE, Kyoto), a group show dedicated to the medical healthcare workers "Big Hug Transformation" (2019 Galerie 5, Paris), “What a Wonderful World” by Weronika Gesicka (2019 KYOTOGRAPHIE, Kyoto/ Agnès b. Galerie, Tokyo), “Seuils de Visibilité by George Brecht, Yona Friedman, Christian Marclay and others” (2016, CNEAI=, Chatou) and “Paysages de Portraits by Makiko Tanaka” (2018, Marina Amada Art Projects Space, Paris) as well as coordinated the production of the “PAN by Taro Izumi” (2017, Palais de Tokyo.)  She also served as the chief operating officer for the 7th edition of KYOTOGRAPHIE, the biggest international photography festival in the world by size.  She is on the board of “Artist for a Day,” a project which conducted over 30 art workshops with the emerging artists in Tohoku regions of Japan in the aftermath of the Great East Japan Earthquake since 2011.