The Tokyo Midtown Award which marks its sixth year this year, is a design and art competition sponsored by Tokyo Midtown – an area that is filled with design and art works. The competition aims to discover and support designers and artists of the future, and welcomes a broad range of applicants from students to the general public. The judges consist of artists, curators and designers working at the forefront of their various fields.

This year, the five judges of art competition, Toshio SHIMIZU, Kimio TSUCHIYA, Yayoi KOJIMA, Daisuke NAKAYAMA and Kazuhiko HACHIYA have selected six artists from around 300 applicants. Now six finalists are making their art works. These works will be exhibited from October 18th to November 10th 2013 at Tokyo Midtown, at B1 floor.

The name of the six finalists are as follows;

Snack SONO
Yosuke NAKAZATO
Motoka WATANABE
Ichitaro SUZUKI
Wataru YAMAKAMI
Tomoya AKAMINE

For detail, please contact following WEB site (Sorry for only in Japanese);

http://www.tokyo-midtown.com/jp/award/award_news/award/news23.html