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Born, 1959, Fukuoka, Japan

lives and works in Fukuoka, Japan

also, teaches at Faculty of Art, Hiroshima City University, as an associate professor (2005～）


Education
Yale University, Connecticut, USA
MFA, fellowship in arts (sculpture)

Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan
MFA and BA, fine arts in painting


Prizes and grants
Hiroshima City, Japan (grant for commission work for Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art)
Prize, The Gotoh Memorial Foundation, Japan
Award, Aperto'93, The 45th Venice Biennale, Italy
Fellowship, Asian Cultural Council (International Studio Program at PS1 Museum, N.Y., USA)
Fellowship in Arts, Yale University, School of Art and Architecture, USA

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Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan　 photo

Mitsubishi-Jisho Artium, Fukuoka, Japan　 photo
Cotthem Gallery, Barcelona, Spain


Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan　photo

Haines Gallery, San Francisco, USA more info

University Art Gallery, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, USA

Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, USA
Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK　photo
Beaver College Art Gallery, Philadelphia, USA
Ars Futura Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, Japan　photo
Peter Blum, New York, USA more info

Capp Street Project, San Francisco, USA　photo

Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, USA
The Queens Museum of Art, New York, USA　photo
Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Peter Blum, New York, USA

Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, UK　photo

Ars Futura Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland

Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum-Benesse House, Kagawa, Japan　photo
Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, Japan　photo

Lehman College Art Gallery, New York, USA)　photo
Hosomi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Hillside Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Los Angeles, USA　photo

Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, USA(brochure)
Hillside Gallery, Tokyo, Japan(brochure)

Gallery αM, Tokyo, Japan

Hillside Gallery, Tokyo, Japan　photo

Kanagawa Prefectural Hall, Kanagawa, Japan　photo

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Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia more info

Swarm, Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, America photo
Art Crossing Hiroshima Project 2005 ( Hochschule fur Bildende Kunste Braunschweig, Germany)
Cruising Landscapes, Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan

And or Versus? Adventures in images, Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan
The copy age, Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Japan　photo

Permanent Collection: 50 years of contemporary art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Windstil, Cotthem Gallery, Brussel, Belgium

The 2nd Fukuoka Triennale, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan　photo
Money and Value, an exhibition of the Swill National Bank, curated by Harald Szeemann, Lake Biel, Switzerland　photo
Cultural Crossing, Numak Gallery, Washington DC, USA
inauguration exhibition, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, USA

Tokyo Pop, Kansas City Jewish Museum, Kansas City, USA
Made in Asia?, Duke University Museum of Art, North Carolina, USA
Talking Heads, Cotthem Gallery, Barcelona, Spain

2000 Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA　photo
Vanitas-meditation of life and death in contemporary art-, Virginia Museum of Art, Richmond, USA　photo
Open-Ends-One thing after another-, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Landscape encoded, Tate Modern, London, UK　photo
Kwanju Biennale, Kwanju, Korea　photo
Dark Mirrors of Japan, De Appel, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Plastic Age-Art and Design, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
Diary, Corner House, Manchester, UK (travels to Firstsite, Corchester, UK)
Umedalen Sculptur 2000, Galleri Stefan Anderson, Sweden
Vacant lot, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan
Department Store of Contemporary Art, Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art, Kofu, Japan

Relay Drawings: Eye, Hand, Other, Backnell University Art Gallery, Pennsylvania, USA

Animal, Anima, Animus, Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland (travels to
Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Arnhem, Netherlands
PS1 Museum, New York, USA
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada)　photo
Sehnsucht Helmat, Kunsthalle Tirol, Innsbruck, Austria
Taste and Persuits: Japanese art in the 1990, National Museum of India, New Dehli, India
(travels to Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manila, Philippines)　photo
In the edge (New art from Private Collections in France), Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel

Aspects of land and soil, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
Atlas Mapping, Offenes Kulturhaus Linz (travels to
Kunsthaus Bregenz and Magazin 4, Austria)
Changing spaces, Miami Museum of Art, Miami, USA
L'autre, Biennale de Lyon, Halle Tony Garnier, Lyon, France　photo
Projects, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland

un-frieden, sabotage von wirklichkeiten-discord, sabotage of realities, Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany
Paintings-The Extended Field, Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall and Rooseum, Malmo, Sweden
Universalis, Sao Paulo Biennale, Brazil more info
Islands, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia　photo
Protean Artists of the Time, The National Msueum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Asia-Pacific Triennial, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Conversation at the Castle, Art Festival of Atlanta, Atlanta, USA
Cultural Olympiad, in conjunction with Atlanta Olympic Games, Atlanta, USA
Avant-garde walk in Soho, New York, USA
Eastern Fusion, Hillwood Museum, Long Island University, USA

Fifty Years After, Museum of Modern Art, Tokushima, Japan　photo
6 Triennale Kleinplastik, Sudwest LB Forum, Stuttgart, Germany
Age of Anxiety, Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
Japan Today, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark (travels to
Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway, Waino Aaltoner Museum of Art, Turku, Finland,
Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden, Osterreichisches Museum fur Angewandte Kunst,
Vienna, Austria, and Daichtorhallen, Hamburg)
Minimal Form, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Border Crawl, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Art in Japan Today-1985-1995, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan

Insite'94, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, USA
Asian Art Now, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan　photo
Japanese Art after 1945-Scream against the Sky, Guggenheim Museum Soho, New York (travels to
Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco and Yerba Buena Garden, San Francisco, USA)
Old Glory, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Ohio, USA (travels to
Gallery of Contemporary Art at University of Colorado, and Phoenix Art Museum, USA)
Mito Annual'94, Open System, Art Tower Mito, Ibaragi, Japan　photo
Japanese Art after 1945-Scream against the Sky, Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan
Art Labyrinth, Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan

Trade Routes, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA
Aperto'93, The 45th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy　photo
Exchange 2, Shedhalle, Zurich, Switzerland
Nagoya International Biennale-Artec, Nagoya CityArt Museum, Japan
In Their Own Image, PS1 Museum, New York, USA
Invisible Realities, Yokohama Citizens' Gallery, Kanagawa, Japan

My Sweet Home in Ruins-Urban Envinronment and Art in Japan, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan　photo
By Arrangement, Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France
Museum City Project, Fukuoka, Japan

New York Diary-Almost twenty-five different things, PS1 Museum, New York, USA　photo

Iwakuni Outdoor Art Project '88, Kintai Bridge on Nishiki River, Japan
Critical Art Phrases '88, Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

'87 Kanagawa Art Annual, Kanagawa Prefectural Hall, Japan　photo
Art Document '87, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Japan　photo
Art-move in Okurayama, Okurayama Memorial Hall, Kanagawa　photo

Hamamatsu Open-air Exhibition, Sandhill at Nakatajima, Shizuoka
Underground Art Exhibition in Oya, Oya Stone Mine, Tochigi, Japan　photo

The 17th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Tate Gallery, London, UK more info
Museum of Modern Art,
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, USA
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Ohio, USA
Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Wien, Austria
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
New York Public Library, New York, USA
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Boston, USA
List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, USA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, USA
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Swiss Bank Corporation, Stamford, Connecticut, USA
Bayerische Vereinsbank, Munchen, Germany
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum-Benesse House, Kagawa, Japan
Museum of Art, Kochi, Japan
Hara Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan
Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa, Japan
Fukuoka Asian Museum, Japan
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
The Museum of Modern Art, Tokushima, Japan
The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art, Yamanashi, Japan
Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Japan

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Artist presentation, Kippy’s Kamp, Acadia Summer Art Program, Maine, USA
Artist talk, Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan

Dialogue “Dream of Soaring”, Fukuoka Art Museum, with Kazuhiko Hachiya (artist)and Hiroshi Fuji (artist)
Artist talk, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan
Lecture, Hiroshima City University, Faculty of Art, Japan

Artist Talk. Coal Mine Tagawa Summer Seminar, Fukuoka, Japan

Artist talk, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan
Artist talk, Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco, USA
Lecture, University of Ohio, Athens, USA
Lecture, University of Richmond, Virginia, USA

Dialogue “Inside Studios”, Japan Society, New York, USA, with Naoyoshi Hikosaka (artist) and Reiko Tomii (art historian)

Artist talk, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan

Artist talk, National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden, Netherlands
Artist presentation, Kippy’s Kamp, Acadia Summer Art Program, Maine, USA

Artist talk, Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum, Kagawa, Japan

Artist talk, inverviewed by Lydia Matthews, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, USA

Symposium, ”VJ50/Re-considered”, Peter Blum, New York, USA
　Panelists：James Shenton, Kyoko Inoue, Reiko Tomii, Yukinori Yanagi, moderated by Jane Farver
Lecture, Tokyo Zokei University, Tokyo, Japan

Dialogue with Masashi Ogura (art critic) , Fei Dawei (art critic), Art Vivant, Tokyo, Japan
Symposium “Mito Annual ’94, Art Tower Mito, Ibaragi, Japan,
　Panelists：Hiroshi Kariya, Ritsuko Taho, Cai Guo Qiang and Yukinori Yanagi, moderated by Seiichi Watanabe (curator)
Sympojium, ”National and cultural identity”, Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum, NewYork, USA
Panelists: Lowry Sins, Bert-Winther Tamaki, Lorna Simpson, Yukinori Yanagi, moderated by Bruce Artsshuler

Artist talk, Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan
Artist talk, Yokohama Citizen’s Gallery, Kanagawa, Japan

Lecture, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Tokyo, Japan
Artist talk, Setagaya Art Museum, moderated by Junichi Shioda, Tokyo

Lecture, Lehman College, New York, USA
Lecture, University of California, Santa Barbara, School of Art, California, USA

Lecture “ Wandering Position”, Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan

Artist talk, Yale University, Artist in residence in Norfol, Connecticut, USA

Dialogue with Arata Tani (art critic), Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan

Dialogue with Yuji Akimoto (artist), moderated by Hiroshi Yasuda, So Gallery, Toky

Selected individual exhibitions

Selected group exhibitions

Public Collections

Artist talks, lectures, dialogues and symposiums