
Lives and works in Tokyo, Japan
Background
2006-2008 Lived and worked in Berlin, Germany
2009-2010 Lived and worked in Paris, France
Education
2006-2007 School of Art and Design Berlin Weissensee, Guest student
2006 M.F.A., Oil Painting, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
2003 B.F.A., Oil Painting, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
Solo Exhibition
2015 "She who dies with the most shoes wins"(A.STYLE/Jiang art gallery,Hong Kong)
2014 "Beautiful Stranger" (POLA MUSEUM ANNEX)
2013 “lost virginity,” G-tokyo 2013 / imura art gallery booth, Tokyo Midtown Hall, Tokyo
2012 “sometimes we can’t choose where we die,” imura art gallery, Kyoto
2011 “After Image of the Red Shoes,” imura art gallery, Tokyo
2005 “Behind the Skirt,” Gallery Honjoh, Tokyo
2004 Gallery ES, Tokyo
Group Exhibition (selected)
2015 "China-ASEAN Biennale" (Nanning/China)
2014 "Nostalgia and Fantasy" Imagination and Its Origins in Contemporary Art
(The National Museum of Art,Osaka )
Takamatsu Contemporary Art Annual vol.4 "Regarding the Reality"
(Takamatsu City Museum of Art/Takamatsu)
2013 "Yamato Dynamics" (Mizuma Gallery Singapore,Singapore)
"DOMANI:the Art of Tomorrow 2013 Exhibition" (National Art Center,Tokyo)
2012 "Pola Museum Annex Annual Exhibition 2012"(Pola Museum Annex,Tokyo)
- 2009 the 1st Tokorozawa Biennial of Contemporary Art "Siding Rail Road 2009" (Tokorozawa/Japan)
- 2008 "Arte Fiera Art First 2008" (Art fair in Bologne/Itary)
- "Shell Art Prize 2007"(Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art/Kyoto)
- "Asia Top Galley Hotel Artfair 2008"(Hotel New Otani/Tokyo)
- 2007 "Evidence of Self-Portrait"(Chinretsukan/Tokyo)
"Speclum mundi" (Galerie Davide Gallo,Berlin)
- 2006 "VOCA ~the Vision Of Contemporary Art" (Uenonomori Museum,Tokyo)
- 2005 αM Project "Secret girls up and down" (art space ASK?, Tokyo)
- 2004 "Sensitive Skin"(Gallery Art Point, Tokyo)
- 2000 "Perspective to the Man" (Shimotakaido Gallery Art SOKO, Tokyo)
Residence
2006 Artist in Residence Krems,TOP24 (Krems,Austria)
Scholarship & Grant
- 2014 Grant from Contemporary Art Foundation
- 2009-2010 Grant from Yoshino Gypsum Art Foundation
- 2007-2008 Scholarship 2007-2008 by POLA Art Foundation Fellowship to study in Germany
- 2006-2007 Fellowship to study in Germany under the Japanese Government
- Overseas Study Programme for Artist
- 2006 Scholarship from Lower Austria Government
- 2004 The 19th Holbein Scholarship
- Award
- 2013 Koji Kinutani Prize
- 2007 Sovereign European Art Prize 2007 (London)
- 2006 "VOCA ~the Vision Of Contemporary Art" (Uenonomori Museum,Tokyo)
- 2004 Tokyo Wonder Wall 2004 Competition (Tokyo)
Shell Art Award 2004 exhibition (Tokyo), Special Prize from the Jury
- 2003 Size Zero Painting Exhibition?Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo?
Mr.O Memorial Prize
Tokyo Wonder Wall 2003 Competition (Tokyo) - Public Collection
- the National Museum of Art,Osaka
POLA INC.
TAKAHASHI COLLECTION - Commission Work
- 2014 POLA RED B.A Grand Image
2012 POLA GINZA(Tokyo) - Workshop
- 2008 "Red Shoes Session vol.1"(Berlin,Germany)
2005 "SUKOKI 2005 here&now" (Sukoki,Poland)