Tomomi Maruyama

Tomomi Maruyama is a Japan-based artist whose practice moves fluidly across visual art, film, and spatial thinking. Born in Gunma, Japan, she began her creative career in graphic design before expanding into filmmaking, photography, and fine art. Rather than treating these disciplines as separate fields, she approaches them as interconnected methods for examining how meaning emerges through form, arrangement, and time.

Her interest in moving images began during her school years, when she created a stop-motion, single-frame, hand-painted animation on 16mm film. This early experience led her to study at the London Film School in Covent Garden, where she engaged with filmmakers from diverse cultural backgrounds and developed a sensitivity to narrative structures beyond linear storytelling.

Throughout her career, Maruyama has contributed to independent projects across media, including an animated documentary for the BBC. Her art-directed works have screened at international film festivals, while her visual art practice has encompassed drawing, illustration, kirie (paper cut-out art), painting, and installation. Her first solo exhibition in 2003, held at a gallery near Holland Park in London, reflected this cross-disciplinary approach...

MBA – NUCB Business School, Japan
Postgraduate Certificate in Photography – University of Sunderland, U.K.
Diploma in the Art and Technique of Filmmaking – London Film School, U.K.
BA (Hons) in Visual Communication Design – Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan

2023

Superfine! Art Fair, New York & San Francisco, USA
Solo Show, Gallery Yururi, Jiyugaoka, Tokyo, Japan
Solo Show, Yamagoya, Ebisu, Tokyo, Japan
2020

DesignArt Tokyo 2020, Tokyo, Japan
"Art Gallery Sanma Akashiya" TV Program, Japan
2013

TAGBOAT ART FES, Tokyo, Japan
2012

Kyoto Current, Group Exhibition, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan
Art Auction, Takashimaya, Kyoto, Japan
2007

Convo Art, Sheraton Hotel, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Collective Exhibition, Sala Barna, Barcelona, Spain
Frankfurt Buchmesse Art Fair, Frankfurt, Germany
2006

Collective Exhibition, Sala Barna, Barcelona, Spain
Solo Exhibition, Sundayroom Café, Gunma, Japan
Displayed at Edokko Japanese Restaurant, London, U.K.
2005

Inspired Art Fair, London, U.K.
Islington Art & Design Fair, London, U.K.
Candid Art Gallery, London, U.K.
Battersea Contemporary Art Fair, London, U.K.
Urban Art Fair, London, U.K.
Sponsored Exhibition, A&I Exhibition, Design Business Center, London, U.K.
International Group Exhibition, Galerie Charlevoix, Saint Jean De Luz, France
2004

Solo Exhibition, Nine Clarendon Cross Gallery, London, U.K.
Islington Art & Design Fair, London, U.K.
Art Emporium, Diesel House Studio, London, U.K.
Battersea Contemporary Art...