Takafumi Ide

Lecturer, Instructional Support Technician

Areas of Specialization: Digital Art, Media Art

M.F.A. Stony Brook University
Email: Takafumi.Ide@stonybrook.edu
Office: Staller Center for the Arts #4234
Office Hours: Monday - Friday, 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM by appointment (opens in a new tab)

Takafumi Ide is a media artist who creates installations and sculptures using sound, light, and projection mapping. He teaches and works as an instructional support technician in the Department of Art at Stony Brook University. He earned a B.A. in graphic design from Tama Art University (Tokyo) in 1989 and an M.F.A. in studio art from Stony Brook University in 2007.

Ide has received fellowships and grants, including the Sculpture Space Fellowship and the NYFA SOS Program Grant, and support from foundations in the U.S. and Japan. His work has been shown at Sunroom Project, Glyndor Gallery at Wave Hill, ISE Cultural Foundation, AC Institute, and the Heckscher Museum for the Long Island Biennial. He received an honorable mention at the Tallinn IV Drawing Triennial in 2012. His light and sound sculpture "threshold" was on loan to Stone Quarry Hill Art Park through 2021, and his sound-interactive sculpture "debacle" (2015) was shown at the NYC Electroacoustic Music Festival in 2016. He took part in the Nakanojo Biennale residency in 2017, 2019, 2021 (remote), 2023, and 2025.