1970
Born in Kyoto Prefecture
1994
Completed the Graduate course in sculpture at Kyoto City University of Fine Art
1993~
Participated in Solar Power Lab, art project with a solar car
1999
Participated in the HAAS Project-Harnessing the Sun: A journey Across America by Solar Car
Solo Exhibition
2001
KOKUFUMOBIL: Virtual Past→Future, Vacant lot of Maebashi Fire Defense Agency building
2005 KOKUFUMOBIL, ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka
2007
Premonition–KOKUFUMOBIL-Kokufu Osamu, Space B, Department of Fine Art of Oaka Seijo University
2008
Osamu Kokufu: move to moving, Matsumoto City Museum of Art, Nagano
Osamu Kokufu/ KOKUFUMOBIL, ART SPACE NIJI, Kyoto
(‘94,‘06)
2009
ACG eyes 3 : Osamu Kokufu -ROBO Whale-, ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka
Group Exhibition
1991
tabula rasa, Kyoto City Shijo Gallery
1994
PREVIEW, Gallery PREVIEW, Kyoto?'93
1996
Pilot Farm, ART SPACEć»NIJI, Kyoto
1997
conversion table, Nagoya Municipal Administration Museum
('93,'95)
1998
INSECTOPIA, Nagoya Municipal Administration Museum
Keep moving: Journey of Spirit, Aichi Arts Center, Nagoya
1999
Keep moving: Journey of Spirit, Gallery SOKAWA, Kyoto
2000
Art Contact, Nagoya Citizen’s Gallery Viewpoint of Galleries 2000, Osaka Contemporary Art Center
2001
The 16th National Festival GUNMA 2001
2002
W.F.O.A.P., Rokko Island, Kobe ('96,'97,'00)
2003
Art Court Frontier, ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka
2004
MOVIL”VJ car”, Kyoto Art Center
New Letters from Kyoto 2004, Katsura Campus of Kyoto University
2005
art-life vol.4 - Paradise Time - Shinji Ohmaki × Osamu Kokufu, Spiral, Tokyo
2006
Toride Art Project 2006, Ibaraki
2007
Selected Artists in Kyoto -2007 New Wave-, The Museum of Kyoto
the other side of KYOTO ART MAP 2007, Kyoto Art Center
The Vehicles of the future, ROBOTHINK, Robot Museum in Nagoya, Aichi
2008
Osaka Art Kaleidoscope 2008, Osaka City, Osaka
ARTS×TECHNOLOGY, Machi juu Art in Kitakyushu 2008, Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka
Chiriki: Art imagenation in KOBE, Hyogo
RIC Art Capsule, Rokko Island, Kobe ('03-'07)
2009
Eco & Art, July 4 - Sep. 23, Gunma Museum of Art, Tatebayashi
KOBE Biennale 2009, Oct. 3 - Nov. 23, Kobe, Hyogo