Biography

1968Born in Tokyo, Japan
1989-93BFA, Department of Oil Painting, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
1993-95MFA, Department of Oil Painting, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music

Selected Solo Exhibitions

1994One Week, Gallery Lunami, Tokyo, Japan
1996Elemental Effects ’96, Gallery Lunami, Tokyo, Japan
1997The Stairs, Gallery CHIKA, Tokyo, Japan
1998Where have we been wandering about?, TOKI Art Space, Tokyo, Japan
1999Where have we been wandering about?, Gallery 21+You, Tokyo, Japan
2000Footstep, KMoCA Studio, Saitama, Japan
Gallery Room, Paris
2001Gravity, SAISON Art Program Education Grant, SAP Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2004Flying, Kuspace, Vienna
2005Flying, Oculorium Gallery at California Museum of Photography, USA
2007Flying, Galerie Aube, Kyoto, Japan
2008Base Galley, Tokyo, Japan
2012AERIAL, Base Galley, Tokyo, Japan

Selected Group Exhibitions

1993Ryogoku, JR Ryogoku Station, Tokyo, Japan
Two Artist’s Works, Gallery Surge, Tokyo, Japan
1994Manifest ’94, Kansai Yamamoto’s Shop, Tokyo, Japan
Kiryu Saien, Hayasa Fabric Factory, Gunma, Japan
NO COUNT PAPERS, Yokohama Galleria Bellini Hill Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
1995Kiryu Saien Part 2, Hikobe House, Gunma, Japan
Footstep, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Tokyo, Japan
1996Art Festival in Turugi, Kaga-ichinomiya Station, Ishikawa, Japan
Koji Enokura and 14 Artists, Yokohama Galleria Bellini Hill Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
1997Selected for Art-Kobo’s 97, SOKO Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Kiryu Saien Part 4, River Kiryu, Gunma, Japan
1999Laboratory of the Senses, Sakura City Museum of Art, Sakura, Japan
Taiwan / Japan Artist’s Exchange Exhibition, Taiwan
2000Philip Morris Art Award, Japan
Vertigo Room, IT Park Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2002Healing the Environment, Pittsburg Center for the Arts, USA
2003Art Watching Part 2, The Miyagi Museum of Art, Miyagi, Japan
Women’s core play game, Z Platz Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
SHINKUSAS Multiple, Gallery TEZZ, Tokyo, Japan
2005Holiday Show, Exit Art
Open Studio, International studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP)
2007Playroom, Gallery Room, Paris, France
2008Art Chicago, Chicago, USA
BLUEDOT ASIA, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea
2009Art Today 2009, Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Karuizawa, Japan
DOMANI惻ASU-EXHIBITION, The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
2010Frise, Hamburg, Germany
2011Art Today 2009, Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Karuizawa, Japan
Gensler Art Show, San Francisco

Awards / Grants

2000SAISON Art Program Education Grant
2001-02The grant of the Pola Art Foundation Oversea Program for Contemporary Artists
2004-06The grant of the Japanese Government Oversea Program for Contemporary Artists
2007IRCA International Research Center for The Arts

D.A.Consortium Inc., Japan

Fidelity Worldwide Investment, London

SEZON MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, Japan

Fukushima Museum, Japan