1973
Born in Kanagawa, Japan    
Lives and works in Tokyo Education    
1995  
Setsu Mode Seminar

Solo Exhibitions    
2008  
"the Songs of Birds", Lammfromm, Tokyo
2007  
Ikejiri Institute of Design, curated by Hideo Nakayasu, Tokyo
Gallery Side 2, Tokyo
2006  
Galeria Horrach Moya, Mallorca, Spain
2005  
"dried apricot", Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
"new paintings", Gallery Side 2, Tokyo
2004  
Galeria Micia, Takamatsu
2003  
"a snapping turtle and moon", Gallery Side 2, Tokyo
2002  
"windfall", Gallery Side 2, Tokyo
2000
  "Snow-Light", Rocket Gallery, Tokyo
"Venus in the Woods", Graphic Station,Tokyo

Group Exhibitions    
2008  
"For of a Kind", Gallery Side 2, Tokyo
"Probably", Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
2007  
"New and Rising Artists 2007", curated by Norimasa Nishimatsu, Pola Museum Annex, Tokyo
"Dreaming Faraway", Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
"A Serious Paradise", curated by Patricia Maloney, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco
"REBOOT:The Jim Barr and Mary Barr Collection", Christchurch Art Gallery, New Zealand
"Surroundings revisited", curated by Per Knutas, Kent State University, Ohio
2006  
"Chaosmos", curated by Koji Kurokawa, Sakura City Art Museum, Sakura, Chiba
"Side by Side", Lammfrom, Tokyo
"Dirty Yoga", curated by Dan Cameron, Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Arts Museum
" posters", Gallery Side 2, Tokyo
2005  
"Honeymoon with Romeo", curated by Holly Coulis, GroeflinMaag, Basel
2004  
"Take Art Collection", Spiral   
Garden, Tokyo
2003  
"WFM", Logos Gallery, Tokyo
2002  
"Shop* Roket", Rocket Gallery, Tokyo
"Yuko Murata, Jun Fujita, Kiyomichi Shibuya, Shinako Sato", Gallery Side 2, Tokyo
2001  
"Private Visions", Speak For Gallery, Tokyo
"Landscapes", TakaIshii Gallery, Tokyo
2000  
"The Choice Prize Exhibition", Creation Gallery G8, Tokyo

Bibliograpy    
2008  
Junko Shimada, HERS, May, p.198
2007  
"nowhere picnic", Ikejiri Institute of Design, curated by Hideo Nakayasu, Tokyo(cat.)
Hiromi Kitazawa, voice's art space, Studio Vice, November, p140-145
POLA New and Rising Artists 2007, Bijyutsu no Mado. July, 103
"Art in my room", ELLEDECO, Aug. p.151
2006  
"Chaosmos", Sakura City Museum, Sakura, Chiba (cat.)
"Dirty Yoga", curated by Dan Cameron, Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Arts Museum(cat.)
"Creator's Favorite Books", Studio Voice, November 2006, vol.37, p.40
"Art", Asahi evening News paper, February 16, 2006, p.7
"Buy Art", In Red, May 2006 No.39, p.139
"Exoisiciones", Bellver, 2006
2005  
"Hitokomagoma",Intoxicate,Tower Records, p.36, December
Our landscapes, Relax, October, p.25,38
Nf
agoya Satoru, review, Flash Art, Summer
"Strange distant world and animals",Bien, vol.33, Jul-Aug, p.16
"Art Lesson"Ryukotsushin, vol.505, July, p124
"Camera-eye", Bijyutsu no Mado, no.262, p.47
"Self-reflecting jouney", Linkaran, vol.12, July, p.11
"Murata Yuko :New Paintings", Studio Voice, p.79, vol.354, June
"drop dead cute", Ivan Vartanian, p.46-59
Recomend, Branche, p.43, May
"Art", Pia, May 19, 2006
2004  
Top page image, Relax,2004/03, p.12-13
2003  
12 month art essey, top page, Tsubasa no Oukoku, ANA Airlines
Shirasaka Yuri, "12 women Artists We Love",Luca,No.3, p.77
2002  
Fujimoto Yasushi, "Tokyo Art ", Ginza, July, p.125
Ishiyama, Osamu, "Self-Bild", Studio Voice, vol.315, Måarch, p.116-117
Kojima, Yayoi, Studio Voice, vol.317, May, p.120-121
Ino, Shin, Switch, vol.20, no.6, June, p165 2001   "Fragments of Landscape", Illustration, July, Genko publishing, Inc.
Design Prex, Exceed press, p.50 2000   "Honey Painting", Studio Voice, vol.297, September, p.45
"Happy Painting", Cho-ou Koron Shin publishing, inc.
"Where Art Exists", Tokyo Jamming, December, p.13 Projects     2007   "2008 calender", Marks Inc., Tokyo, Japan 2005   nowhere to be found, AN note sponsored by Kokuyo, Japan
Invitation/poster image, Fall/Winter collection of et vous, Japan
CD jacket and live concert ad image, Polaris, Japan
Book cover image, Kai Hsegawa, "Haiku for a million people", Kodansha Publishing Inc., Japan