Selected Commissions
Personal Practice
About
Shakuru Shin Tajiri is a Dutch-Japanese-American composer and visual artist based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

shaktajiri@gmail.com
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I Have Changed, But So Have You (2025)
I Have Changed, But So Have You is a generative haiku composed of more than fifty haiku that I wrote between 2024-2025.

De Lucht (est. 2025)De Lucht, Dutch for ‘the sky’, is an Amsterdam based duo that creates raw and textural soul music.

9066 (2024)
9066 is a video collage that examines how history is rewritten and reinterpreted over time. The title refers to Executive Order 9066, which led to the forced incarceration of Japanese Americans in concentration camps during World War II.
a haiku of home (2023)

a haiku of home is a spatial audio & multi-channel video installation that was part of the exhibition Shinkichi Tajiri: The Restless Wanderer at Bonnefanten, Maastricht. The installation consists of a 17-minute soundscape and two films.


Photography
2017 - 2025
Prints & Paintings
2021 - 2025


Film Score
Rea Tajiri
Wisdom Gone Wild
Feature Documentary (US)
Total run time: 84:00
2022

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Film Score
Yinan Wang
Decoupling 脱钩
Feature Documentary (US)
Total run time: 64:43
2024

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Curatorial Work, Writing & Research
Shinkichi Tajiri
The Restless Wanderer
Group Exhibition & Catalogue
Bonnefanten, Maastricht, NL
2023

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Film Score
Chen-Yi Wu
Separation 隔離手記
Feature Documentary (US)
Total run time: 56:00
2024

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Direction, Music Production
De Duizend
Onderwater
Music Video
2022

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Art Direction, Cover Art Design
City Park
Vondelpark EP
Nine and a Half Records
2024

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