Naoko Horiuchi
(Curator, Arts Initiative Tokyo) Currently working as a cu- rator, lecturer, and facilitator of Artist in Residence Program at Arts Initiative Tokyo [AIT]. After completing MSc in Contemporary Art and Art Theory at Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) in 2005, worked as an independent curator in Edinburgh. Curated Aiko Miyanaga’s one person exhibition 'Tales dedicated to the dark' (2007 / Sleeper Gallery), and was an assistant curator of ‘Metronome Think Tank Tokyo in collaboration with Documenta 12 magazines’ (2006). At AIT, has curated several art projects and Residency Program exhibitions such as 'Divided Against Ourselves' (2013 / YAMAMOTO GENDAI), 'Home Again' (2012 / Hara Museum of Contemporary Art), and 'Round' (2011 / hiromiyoshii roppongi). She was a guest curator of ARCUS Project in 2013, and co-curator of 'Invisible Energy' (2015 / St Paul St Gallery / New Zealand)