Education
1984
Graduated from Oil Painting Course, Fine Arts Department, Tokyo National
University of Fine Arts and Music (B.A.)
1986
Completed postgraduate studies at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and
Music (M.A.)
1990
Stayed in New York under a grant from Asian Cultural Council
1990-91
Stayed in Berlin under a grant from Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst
1993
Stayed in Paris under a grant from Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain Lives in Ibaraki

Selected Solo Exhibitions
1983
"Human Stone," Gallery Parergon, Tokyo
1986
"Time," Maki Gallery, Tokyo
Akiyama Gallery, Tokyo
1987
"Es of the Future," Suntory Art: Box Gallery, Tokyo Lunami Gallery, Tokyo
1988
Galleria Vivita, Florence
1989
"Counter History," Gallery Takagi, Nagoya
"Circuit Drawing Installation," Gallery Surge, Tokyo
1990
"Hiroshima Installation," Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima
Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York
"Inter Sect," Gallery Takagi, Nagoya
1991
"Tatsuo Miyajima," Het Kruithuis, Museum for Contemporary Art, `s-
Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
"133651," DAAD Galerie, Berlin
"Projects by Artists Series," National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
"Region," Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya
Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne
"Region 133651," Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London
1992
"133651," Iwaki City Art Museum, Fukushima
"Opposite Circle," Gallery Takagi, Nagoya
1993
"Running Time," Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich
1994
"Model," Gallery Takagi, Nagoya
Galerie Buchmann, Basel
"Hanaburanko yurete," Nasubi Gallery (moving gallery organized by an artist,
Tsuyoshi Ozawa), ART VIVANT, Ikebukuro,Tokyo
1995
"Running Time," Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York
"Running Time－Clear Zero," Queen's House, Greenwich, London
Gallery Takagi, Nagoya
"Drawings and Mirrors," Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London
1996
"Tatsuo Miyajima," Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, Paris
"Tatsuo Miyajima," Galerie Froment & Putman, Paris
Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo
Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago
"Time House," Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Canada
"Big Time," Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas
" Time in Blue," Gallery Takagi, Nagoya
" Time in Blue," Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London
Centre International d'Art Contemporain de Montreal, Montreal
1997
"Big Time," Hayward Gallery, London
"Counter Line," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Galerie Buchmann, Cologne
1998
"Counter Room," Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota, Aichi
"Running Time," Johnson County Community Collage of Art, Kansas City, Kansas
"Floating Time," CCA Kitakyushu Project Gallery, Kitakyushu
1999
Studio Casoli, Milano
"Keep Changing, Connect with Everything, Continue Forever" Abbazia di San
Zeno, Pisa
Studio Casoli, Rome
Galerie Buchmann, Cologne
"Floating Time," Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo
2000
“MEGA DEATH: shout! Shout! Count!” Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo
“Monism/Dualism”, SCAI The Bathhouse, Tokyo
“Counter pieces” Galerie der Stadt Stuttgart, Stuttgart
“Counter Café” Benesse communication Gallery, Tokyo
Totality of Life” Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York
2001
“Changing Time with Changing Self” Galerie Buchmann, Cologne
2002
“Count of Life” Artsonje Museum, Gyeongju / Artsonje Center, Seoul
“White in You” SCAI the Bathhouse, Tokyo
2003
"Counter me on" Buchmann Galerie Koln, Koln, Germany
"Tatsuo Miyajima" Galerie Javier Lopez, Madrid, Spain
2004
"Tatsuo MIyaijma" MACRO, Roma
2005
“Tatsuo Miyajima”, Lisson Gallery, London, 21 Jan – 5 March
2006
‘Tatsuo Miyajima “Fragile”, SCAI The Bathhouse, 3 March – 8 April
2007
‘Tatsuo Miyajima – Fragile World’, Buchmann Galerie, Jan- March
2008
“Solo exhibition, MITO Museum, Japan
“Prospect One”, New Orleans Biennale, 1 November – 18 January
“Tatsuo Miyajima - Time-Train”, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Recklinghausen

Selected Group Exhibitions
1980
"Art Party," Subnard AC Hall, Tokyo
1981
"June Exhibition," Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music Exhibition Space, Tokyo
Kanagawa Prefectural Hall Gallery, Yokohama
1982
"Ueno '82," Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music Exhibition Space
"O Voice," Kenya Gallery, Tokyo
"The New World of Visual Expression," Seibu Department Store, Shibuya, Tokyo
"Peppermint Green," Plan B, Tokyo, September - December, performance
1983
"Performance Week," Kaneko Art G1 Gallery, Tokyo
"Bigs Once More," Plan B, Tokyo
"SCAN Spring Competition," Video Gallery SCAN, Tokyo
"Kikou," Gallery M, Fukui
"Monday, 26 September - Sunday, 2 October 1983 / Kanagawa Prefectural Hall Gallery," Kanagawa Prefectural Hall Gallery, Yokohama
"Fujiyama Geisha," Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music Exhibition
Space, Tokyo / Kyoto City University of Arts Exhibition Space, Kyoto
1984
"Exhibition Kaiba," G-Art Gallery, Tokyo
"Sound Object Exhibition," WAVE Gallery, Tokyo
"Graduation Works Exhibition," Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and
Music, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum, Tokyo
"Exhibition of 8 Artists by 4 Critic," NEWZS, Tokyo
"Fujiyama Geisha," Kyoto City University of Arts Exhibition Space, Kyoto / Tokyo
National University of Fine Arts and Music Exhibition Space, Tokyo / Gallery
Seian, Kyoto, / R-Gallery, Kyoto
"Fujiyama Geisha,"Gallery K, Tokyo
1985
"Exhibition of Towns and Villages," Kurashiki City Exhibition Museum, Kurashiki
"The Hidden Animals in the City," Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Osaka
1986
"Image Machine" G-Art Gallery, Tokyo
1988
"The 8th Hara Annual," Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
"43a La Biennale di Venezia: Aperto '88," Venice
"Lunami Selection '88," Lunami Gallery, Tokyo
"The 7th Heiko Geijyutsu Ten (Parallel Art Exhibition): Shigerumonotachi,"
Curated by Toshiaki Minemura, Tokyo Ogasawara-ryu Kaikan, Tokyo
"Movement and Modern Art," The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Urawa
"East Meets West: Japanese and Italian Art Today," Convention Center Los Angels, Los Angels
1989
"Japan: A New Generation," Silpakorn University Art Gallery, Bangkok
"Prospect '89," Frankfurter Kunstverein / Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
"The Seven Artisits '89," Hanae Mori Building, Tokyo
"Magicien de la terre," Musee National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges
Pompidou, Paris
"What is Contemporary Art?," Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmo, Sweden
"Against Nature: Japanese Art in the Eighties," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art / Akron Art Museum, Ohio / MIT List Visual Arts Center, Boston / Seattle Art Museum / The Contemporary ArtsCenter, Cincinnati / Grey Art Gallery, New York
University / Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston / Institute of Contemporary Arts, Nagoya "The 4th Contemporary Art Festival: Moving Images Now," The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama
"Europalia Japan '89: New Tools New Images," Museum Van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp
"On Kawara, Again and Against: 24 Prominent Works of Japanese Contemporary
Art 1966-1989," Institute of Contemporary Arts, Nagoya
1990
"Reorienting: Looking East," Third Eye Centre, Glasgow Scotland/Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London
"The Game of Manners: Japanese Art in 1990," Contemporary Art Gallery of Art Tower Mito, Mito
"Drawing '90 Original Works Exhibition," Kyo-ni Gallery, Tokyo
"The 8th Biennial of Sydney: The Readymade Boomerang," Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
"The Koln Show" at the 9 galleries in Cologne: Daniel Buchholz / Galerie Gisela
Capitain / Tanja Grunert /Galerie Max Hetzler / Jablonka Galerie / Galerie
Isabella Kacprzak / Esther Schippier / Monika SprutGalerie / Galerie Sophia Ungers, Germany
"International Arts Show," Joensuu Art Museum, Joensuu, Finland
"Artificial Nature," The Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athnes (cat),
"Japanische Kunst der 80er Jahre," Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt / Bonner
Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany / Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna / Bregenzer Festspiele, Bregenz, Austria
"The Disappearance of Distance," Deutsches Postmuseum, Frankfurt
"Rhetorical Image," The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
1991
"Contemporary Arts: The Mind of Japan," The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Japan
"Zones of Love: Contemporary Art from Japan," Toko Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo / Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth / Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide / Waikato Museum of Art and History, Hamilton, New Zealand / Dunedin Public Art Gallery, New Zealand/ Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
"Line in Contemporary Art－Destination of Eyes and Hands," The Museum of
Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
"The 51th Carnegie International," Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh
"Zeitgleich Miyajima・Opalka," Japanisches Kulturinstitut, Cologne
"A Cabinet of Signs: Contemporary Art from Postmodern Art," Tate Gallery Liverpool, Liverpool / Whitechapel Art Gallery, London / Malmo Kunsthalle, Sweden
1992
"Shiga Annual '92: Functions of Language in Contemporary Art," The Museum of
Modern Art, Otsu, Japan
"Art at the Armory: Occupied Territory," The Chicago Avenue Armory by
museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
"Performing Objects," The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
1993
"Azur," Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, Jouy-en-Josas, France
"Special Exhibition of Recycling Through Art," Taejon Expo, Taejon, South Korea
(cat), 7 August , 7 November
"Oita Contemporary Art Exhibition'93, Propose to the Urban Enviroment:
Impractical 2," City of Oita (sake store house, Hoashi family), Oita, Japan
1994
Gallery K, Oslo, Norway, "Of the Human Condition: Hope and Despair at the
End of the Century," Spiral, Tokyo
"Japanese Art After 1945: Scream Against the Sky," Yokohama Museum of Art
"Cosmovision," Kukje Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
"Time / Art," The Museum of Modern Art, Otsu
"Multiples Dimensions," O Museo Temporario, Lisbon
"Gaze," Carre des Arts du Parc Floral de Paris
"Art Against AIDS Japan ," Sogetsu Kaikan, Tokyo
"Jetzteit," Kunsthalle, Vienna
"Art Today 1994," SEZON MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, Karuizawa, Japan
"Cocido y Crudo," Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
1995
"Art Japan Today," Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
"Resurrection of Topos 1," HILLSIDE TERRACE, Daikanyama, Tokyo / OXY
GALLERY, Osaka / Shimin Plaza, Toyama, Japan
"Japanese Culture: The Fifty Postwar Years," Meguro Museum of Art, Japan
"Japan Today," Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark
"Ripple Across the Water '95," Urakami river, Nagasaki / WATARI-UM and Shibuyagawa park, Tokyo
"Ducks Not on a Pond, Ganders Never Laid a Golden Egg," Rochdale Canal, Manchester, England
"4. Uluslararasi Istanbul Bienali－ORIENT / ATION," Istanbul, Turkey
1996
"Tranquility," Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan
"Internet World EXPO 1996," Dai Nippon Printing Co.,LTD. (temporary event
on Internet site)
"Emits Light, Moves, Makes Noises: Non-Static Art in the 20th Century," The
Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama, Japan
"Requiem: Koji Enokura and 33 Artists," Kawaguchi Museum of Contemporary Art, Saitama, Japan
"Urban Evidence," The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland
"Against," Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London
"Video Art Saizensen," Kitakanto Museum of Fine Arts, Gunma, Japan
"Red Gate," Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Gent, Belgium
"Entgrenzung," Galerie Buchmann, Cologne,
"Art Scene 90-96," Contemporary Art Gallery of Art Tower Mito, Mito
"Project for Survival," The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto / The
National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo
1997
"The magic of Number," Staatgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart Histoire de voir,"
Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris, Bordeaux
"Into the Light," Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto
1998
"Hikari-areba," Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan
"The Edge of Awareness," WHO, Geneva/Secretariat Building of United Nations,
New York / SESC de Pompeia, Sao Paulo / WHO, New Delhi
"Gene Worlds," Kunst-und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn
"Over the Everyday," Museum of Shanghai
"1998
Taipei Biennial: Site of Delhi," Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan
"Donai Yanen!," Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, paris
"Is This Art? " Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Sakura / Contemporary Art Gallery of Art Tower Mito, Mito
"Taste and Pursuits: Japanese Art in the 1990s," National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi / Metropolitan Museum of Manila, The Philippines
1999
"Prime," Dundee Contemporary Arts, Scotland
"Melbourne International Biennale, " Melbourne
"48a La Biennale di Venezia: Whither the Arts?, " Venice
"KRONOS&KAIROS," Museum Fridericianum, Kassel
"The 3rd Asia-Pacific Triennale," Queensland Art Gallery, Sydney
“Kunst-Welten im Dialog” Museum Ludwig Köin, Cologne
2000
“Time”, NOB Gallery, Okazaki
“Das fünfte Element- Gelt oder Kunst”, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf
“Piece of Universe / Piece of Time” Nigata City Museum, Nigata
“Game Over”, WATARI-UM, Tokyo
“Yume no Ato Contemporary Art from Japan” Haus am Waldsee, Berlin,
Germany / Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden
“Orbis Terrarum” Museum Plantin-Moretus, Antwerp, Belgium
“Gendai Japanese Contemporary Art-Between the Body and Space” Center for
Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
“Shanghai Biennale” Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2001
“Art in Technological Times” SFMOMA, San Francisco
“Reflection” Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan,
“Black Box” Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Swaziland
“The Standard” Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum, Kagawa, Japan
“Facts of Life” Hayward Gallery, London
“Art for the Sprit” Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Hokkaido, Japan
“Silence of the City” Gwangju City Art Museum, Gwangju, Korea
“The Unfinished Century: Legacies of 20th Century Art” The National Museum
of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
“Twelve Japanese Artist from the Venice Biennale 1952-2001” Art Tower Mito,
Mito
2002
“Attitude 2002” Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan
"Verweile doch…" Stadtische galerie im Lenbachhause und Kunstbau Munchen,
Munchen, Germany
"Emit Time" The histric Clock Tower "Zytglogge", Bern, Switzerland
2003 "Happiness" Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
"Hommes et Robots-De l'utopie a la realite-Fantaisies Cybernetiques" Palais De
Tokyo, Paris, France
2004 "Winter Show" SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, Tokyo
"Mediarena" Govett Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, NewZealand
“Ars Electronica” Linz, Austria
“The 5Th Gwangju Biennale” Gwangju, Korea
Yvon Lambert Gallery, NY
Bryce Wolkowithz Gallery, NY
2007
“Artempo”, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice
IVAM, Valencia – group show
2008
“Prospect.1 New Orleans”, Prospect New Orleans, New Orleans
2009
“Materia Negra”, MAM, Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art, Vienna
“Timecode”, Dundee Contemporary Arts, DCA, Dundee

Selected Collections
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Dannheisser Foundation, New York, U.S.A.
Iwaki City Art Museum, Fukushima, Japan
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Japan
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan
Samsung Cultural Foundation, Seoul, Korea
Australian Museum, New South Wales, Sidney, Australia
FARET Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan
National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
Chiba City Museum, Chiba, Japan
Museum of Cotemporary Art, Chicago, U.S.A.
Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris, France
Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Canada
Tokyo Opera City, Tokyo
The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
Universite de Geneve, Switzerland
Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Tokyo
Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum, Kagawa, Japan
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.A.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, U.S.A.
Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan
Saitama Prefectural University, Saitama, Japan
La Caixa, Barcelona
Staatsgalerie Moderner Kunst , Munich, Germany
Galerie Der Stadt Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Fondazione TESECO per l'Arte, Pisa, Italy
Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Swaziland
Dallas Museum of Art
Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan
Izumi City Plaza, Osaka, Japan
tv Asahi biulding, Tokyo, Japan
Group Home Sala in Florence Village, Akita, Japan

Other Projects
1984
"Time Funeral," record jacket, SMS Records
1992
Project for PARKETT
1993
"Over Economy," acrylic, pencil on bank note \10,000
1994
"Mirror," multiple, Spiral, Tokyo
1995
Portfolio for " 4. Uluslararasi Istanbul Bienali－ORIENT / ATION "
1998
Portfolio for "The Edge of Awareness"
2000
Floating Time - Hospice Project, Sotoasahikawa Hospital, Akita, March
2002
Collaboration with SOPHNET (fashion design brand) 2002A/W Collection. Tokyo, Japan
2002
"1000 Real Life Project - Death Clock" Tokyo, Japan