1965
Born in Tokyo
1989
Graduated from Oil painting Course,Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
1991
Completed postgraduate studies in Mural Painting Course, Tokyo National Univer sity of Fine Arts and Music
1996-97
Stayed in New York, Granted by the Asian Cultural Council
Selected solo exhibitions
1992
"JIZOING", Gallery Aoi, Osaka
"JIZOING", Gallery Hosomi, Tokyo
1993
"SO-DAN ART", Trance x Trance Vision, Tokyo
1994
"Nasubi & JIZO", Memory's Gallery, Nagoya
1995
"JIZOING", Gallery Aoi, Osaka
1996
"EARLY WORKS OF TSUYOSHI OZAWA", Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo
"EARLY WORKS OF TSUYOSHI OZAWA", Moma Contemporary Art, Fukuoka
1998
"One Man Group Show: Ichitaro Okamoto, Nitaro Okamoto, Santaro Okamoto,
Tsuyoshi Ozawa", Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo
"JIZOING and New Nasubi Gallery", Asian Fine Arts Factory, Berlin
1999
"Museum of Soy Sauce Art Annex", Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo
2000
"Tsuyoshi Ozawa: JIZOING 1987-1999", Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo
2002
“Tsuyoshi Ozawa: Comparatively Recent Works”, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo
2004
“One man Group Show 2: Yontaro Okamoto, Gotaro Okamoto, Rokutaro Okamoto, Tsuyoshi Ozawa”, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo
“Ozawa Tsuyoshi: Answer with Yes and No!”, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
2005
“Tsuyoshi Ozawa, Koropokkuru talk to you”, Yvon Lambert Gallery, Paris
Selected group exhibitions
1993
"fo(u)rtunes", Rontgen Kunst Institut, Tokyo
"THE GINBURART" [outdoor exhibition], Ginza, Tokyo
"photographic narration III", University Art Museum, Tokyo National University of
Fine Arts and Music
1994
"Shinjuku Syonen Art [Shinjuku Boys' Art, outdoor exhibition]", Tokyo
"Showa 40-nen kai in Nasubi Gallery" [group show by the artists born in 1965],
Roppongi WAVE, Tokyo
"Museum City Tenjin" [outdoor exhibition], Fukuoka
1994-95
"Liquid Crystal Futures", The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh; Charlottenborg,
Copenhagen; Spiral Garden, Tokyo; Neue Gesellschaft Bildende Kunst, Berlin, et al.
1995
"Morphe '95" [outdoor exhibition], Tokyo
"Little Aperto NASUBI GALLERY" [outdoor exhibition], Venice
1996
"Atpic Site 'On Camp/Off Base'", Tokyo Big Site
"Resurrecting Memories", Daikanyama Dojunkai Apartment, Tokyo
"Sharaku Interpreted by Japan's Contemporary Artists", The Japan Foundation
Forum, Tokyo [traveling to 40 overseas venues]
"Showa 40-nen kai ten" [group show by the artists born in 1965], Synapse Gallery,
Tokyo
1997
"The 20th Anniversary Benefit Performances", The New Museum of Contemporary
Art, New York
1997-00
"CITIES ON THE MOVE", Secession, Vienna; Musee d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark; Hayward Gallery, London; Bangkok; Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
"The Group 1965: The Voice from Tokyo", Galeria Metropolitana de Barcelona,
Barcelona; ACC Galerie Weimar, Germany
1998
"TAKEO Communication Design 1998 Paper Show", Spiral Garden, Tokyo
"1998 Taipei Biennial site of desire", Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei
"Donaiyanen! Et maintenant! -- La creation contemporaine au Japon", Ecole
nationale super ieure des beaux-arts, Paris
1998-99
"Between the Unknown Straits -- Art Now in Japan and Korea", Meguro Museum of
Art, Tokyo; The National Museum of Art, Osaka; The Korean Culture & Arts Foundation, Seoul
1999
"Modest Radicalism: MOT ANNUAL 1999", Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo,
Tokyo
"The 1st Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale 1999", Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka
"Hack the Future! -- Breaking into Art History ", The Ueno Royal Museum/Toho
Cherry, Tokyo
1999-2000
"GAME OVER", Wtarium, The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
2000 "Vacant Lot", Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi
"Continental Shift", Ludwig Forum fur Internationale Kunst, Aachen, et al.
"Dark Mirrors from Japan", De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam
"Musueum City Fukuoka 2000 [art out]", The former Gokusho elementary school,
Fukuoka
2000-01
"Rendez-vous", Collection Lambert en Avignon
"Playgrounds & Toys for Refugee Children", International Red Cross and Red
Crescent Museum, Geneva
" MY HOME IS YOURS / YOUR HOME IS MINE ", Rodin Gallery, Seoul; Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery
2001
"Tsuyoshi Ozawa & Daisuke Nakayama: CROSS COUNTER", Taro Okamoto
Museum of Art, Kwasaki
"Public Offerings", The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
"IKIRO", Kroller-Muller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands
"Berlin Biennale2", Berlin
"The Gallery: Uncovered", University Gallery, Square 5, University of Essex, UK
"Art Crossing Hiroshima Project", various sites in Hiroshima City
"ART DAY for Kids", Wtarium, The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
"International Triennale of Contemporary Art YOKOHAMA 2001: MEGA-WAVE ?
Toward a New Synthesis", Yokohama
2001-02
"FANTASIA", space imA, Seoul, Korea; East Modern Art Center, Beijing
2002
"ASIANVIVE" Espail d'Art Contemporani de Catello (EACC), Spain
"New Edition! Japanese Art - Other Inheritors of Japanese Tradition", Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art
"Gwangju Biennale 2002 PAUSE", Gwangju, Korea
"Small is OK", Fri-Art, Fribourg, Switzerland
2002-03
"Under Construction -- New Dimensions of Asian Art ", Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery
2003
"How Latitudes Become Forms ? Art in a Global Age ", Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, U.S.A.; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino, Itaria
"50th International Art Exhibition, Dream and Conflicts ? The Dictatorship of the Viewer / Z.O.U. Zone of Urgency ", Venezia
"HOPE: do hope for the future ", Laforet Museum Harajuku, Tokyo
"Choi Jeong Hwa, Surasi Kusolwong and Tsuyoshi Ozawa ", Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo
"Echigo?Tsumari Art Triennial 2003 ", Echigo-Tsumari Region, Niigata
2004
"Japanese Contemporary Art Performance, Akimahen ", Cultural Capital of Europe Lille 2004, France
"The Copy Age From Duchamp through Warhol to Morimura ", The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga
"Swedish Hearts ", Modern Museet Stockholm
"Japanese Contemporary Art Performance, EIJANAIKA! YES FUTURE! LE JAPON POST ⅩⅩ SIECLE ", Collection Lambert en Avignon, Avignon, France
" NIPPON TIME RECYCLED ",Yvon Lambert Gallery, New York "Z.O.U. Zone of Urgency ", Villa Zerbi, Reggio Calabria, Italy "Adaptive Behavior " , The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
"SOL LEWITT: FOTOGRAFIA ", Collection Lambert en Avignon
2005
"40x40x40 project ", Seoul ,Korea
"Art Taipei 2005 ", Taipei, Taiwan
"Aida Makoto, Ozawa Tsuyoshi, Yamaguchi Akira ", Ohara Museum, Okayama
"40x40x40 project", Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima
"Pop! Pop! Pop! ", gana art center, Korea
" CAMP ", Banff Center, Walter Phillips Gallery, Canada
" CAMP ", Contemporary Art Museum London, England
Workshops
1995
"The University of Sodan Art", Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki
1996
"Art Survival", Sakura City Museum of Art, Chiba
Others
1993-95
Produced Nasubi Gallery
1997
Produced New Nasubi Gallery
Public Collections
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
Fukuoka Asian Art Museum
The Japan Foundation
Watarium, The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi
Collection Lambert, Avignon
