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Miwa Kojima

b. Tokyo, Japan
Lives & works in Montréal, Canada

Miwa Kojima is an interdisciplinary artist, designer, editor and language specialist. 

Contact: info@miwakojima.com

Education:

- BA in 3-D Design at Tama Art University, Tokyo Japan
- PG Diploma in Sculpture at West Surrey College of Art & Design, Farnham, UK
- MA in Sculpture at Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK

Computer skills:

Adobe InDesign 
 Adobe Illustrator
 Adobe Photoshop 
 Adobe Acrobat,
 Microsoft Office Suite

Languages:

Japanese (native);
 English (proficiency); 
French (Intermediate)

Working Experience:

>art<
2015–
Intervals Collective, an art collective comprised of artists and cultural professionals based in Montreal (Canada) intervalscollective.com

2011–2016   
M-KOS, contemporary art online magazine, managing editor, m-kos.net 


2010
Chelsea Future Space, London (UK)
, exhibition coordinator for Naoko Yogo “GRANADA”

2009

Zoo Art Fair, London (UK)
, gallery assistant,  David Risley Gallery (Copenhagen)

2002–2006 

Courier-art, an artists collective based in London (UK) 


2001

Two persons exhibition “Tsunami” at 198 Gallery, London (UK)

1998

Public art for the pub "Green Man”, commissioned by London Artforms, London (UK)

1997

Group exhibition and community art workshop for “Off-centre” at Swiss Cottage Library Gallery, London (UK) during Women in Focus festival   
1996

Art direction for multimedia music performance “Tarot Suite”
 at Purcell Room, South Bank Centre, London (UK)
 

Community art workshop
 for the exhibition "Inside the Visible" at Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (UK)

Group Exhibition “Madame Lillie Quarter Century Show” 
in Stoke Newington, London, (UK)

1995

Group exhibition “Feel Good Factor”
at London Artforms, London (UK)

1994–1996 

Madame Lillie, alternative art space, London (UK)
, co-foundercurator, gallery administrator

1994

Solo Exhibition “New Colours Revisited”
at Madame Lillie, London (UK)

Film screening “As seen at the cinema” 
at Camden Plaza, London (UK)

Group exhibition “Domestics”
at Stoke Newington Library, London (UK)

1992

Group Exhibition “Whitechapel Open”, London (UK)

1991

Group Exhibition “Whitechapel Open”, London (UK)

>design<
2000–present

Freelance graphic designer

>language<
Multilingual DTP specialist
2010–Present

Freelance

1998–2010

World Accent, London (UK)
• Page layout design, formatting, typesetting and graphic editing in various languages in the print and digital media, such as brochures, catalogues, magazines, annual reports, books and Power Point presentation, website etc.

• Prepare IDML file for the MemoQ, translation memory
 


Localization quality assurance tester
2015–2018

Keywords Studios, Montreal (Canada)
• Verify linguistic accuracy in the Japanese version of the in-game text.

• Verify the correct implementation and the contextual consistency of the localized text.

• Identify, isolate, and document bugs in a bug database.

• Translate English bug reports into Japanese.
 Translation/Transcription/Proofreading/Interpreting

Freelance translator (English to Japanese / Japanese to English)
2000–Present

• Specialized field: Arts and Culture; Marketing

• Clients include British Council (translation); British Museum (proofreading); BBC World Service (transcription) etc

• Studied literature and business translations (distant learning) at Fellow Academy (Japan).