Mari Katayama

Books and works by Mari Katayama, Japanese multimedia artist working across photography, hand-sewn sculpture, textile, and installation.

  • Major publications: Synthesis and GIFT
  • Recognised with the Higashikawa Award (2019) and Kimura Ihei Award (2020)
  • Exhibited at Tate Modern, the 58th Venice Biennale, and Maison Européenne de la Photographie
  • Practice centred on self-portraiture, body as living sculpture, and identity
  • Artist publications available at Lokator100

Mari Katayama – Art, Photography & Books

Mari Katayama is a Japanese multimedia artist whose practice brings together photography, self-portraiture, hand-sewn objects, and sculptural forms. This collection gathers books and works by Katayama available at Lokator100. Her work treats the body not as a fixed image but as a mutable social and material form — a site through which questions of identity, perception, and construction are staged.

About the artist

Katayama was born in 1987 in Saitama and raised in Gunma. She studied at Gunma Prefectural Women's University before completing her MFA at Tokyo University of the Arts in 2012. Her work has been presented at Tate Modern, the 58th Venice Biennale, and the Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP Paris). She received the Higashikawa Award in 2019 and the Kimura Ihei Award in 2020.

Themes, materials, and visual language

Katayama's practice is built around the body as both subject and material. Photography functions less as documentation than as a constructed stage — each image is the result of deliberate arrangement, fabricated objects, and the artist's own presence as a sculptural element. The recurring use of hand-sewn forms and textile work places her within a tradition of object-making that intersects with, but is not reducible to, contemporary photography.

  • Self-portrait as construction
  • Body and object
  • Hand-sewn forms and soft sculpture
  • Photography as stage and arrangement
  • Identity, perception, and social projection
  • Materiality, repetition, and transformation

Books and publications

Katayama's two major book publications are Synthesis - Mari Katayama and GIFT. Both are considered primary entry points into her published work. Synthesis consolidates her photographic and sculptural practice in book form; GIFT extends that scope further. Descriptions and availability for individual titles are listed within this collection.

Within the Lokator100 catalogue

This collection sits within Lokator100's broader selection of carefully chosen photobooks and artist publications. Katayama's work connects to the shop's ongoing focus on image-makers who operate at the intersection of photography and other disciplines. Related titles can be found in the Photography collection, which includes further artist books and publications from publishers such as MACK Books.

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