Biography

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

Selected Solo Exhibitions

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

Selected Group Exhibitions

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

Awards / Grants

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

D.A.Consortium Inc., Japan

Fidelity Worldwide Investment, London

SEZON MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, Japan

Fukushima Museum, Japan