1968 Born in Tokyo
Currently lives and works in Berlin and Tokyo
Special lecturer at Tama Art University, Department of Sculpture
Education
2002-2003 Scholarship by Pola Art Foundation, Berlin
2000-2002 Art university Berlin-kunst hochschule Berlin -weissensee hochschule guest student
2000-2001 Scholarship for one year in Berlin of the Overseas Study Programme for Artists of Japanese Government’s agency for Cultural Affairs
1992 Masters Degree in Painting at Tama Art University, Tokyo
Solo Exhibitions
2010 Wada Fine Arts, Tokyo Japan
2009 Wada Fine Arts, Tokyo Japan
DNA Gallery, Berlin Germany
2008 Y++, Beijing CHINA
Wada Fine Arts, Tokyo Japan
2007 Wada Fine Arts , Tokyo Japan
DNA Gallery, Berlin GERMANY
2005 GALLERY ISEYOSHI/Wada Fine Arts, Tokyo Japan
2004 DNA Gallery, Berlin GERMANY
Galleria Grafica, Tokyo Japan
1992-2002 Many other Exhibitions (Tokyo/Japan)
Projects and Group Exhibitions
2010 Signs of Memory, MOCA Taipei, TAIWAN
2009 Curitiba Biennial, Curitiba BRAZIL
Havana Biennial, Cuba
Lifestyle Neo Japanesque, Yi&C Home Collection, Taipei TAIWAN
2008 The 4th Fuchu Biennale, Fuchu Art Museum Akasaka Art Flower 08 ”Signs of Memory" at Old Akasaka Library, Tokyo
Aoba Art Project, Kanagawa, Japan
Signs of Memory 2008 in Sao Paulo、SESC, Sao Paulo
Intercultural Dialogs, Natal, Brazil
The 40th Anniversary of the Japanese Government Overseas Study Program for Artists provided by the Agency for Cultural Affairs Journey - Encounters and Dialogues with Foreign Cultures
2007 das abc der Bilder, Perganon muserm, Berlin GERMANY etc...
Projects
2006 Singapore Biennale 2006 CITY HALL / HDB / International Monetary Fund 2006, SINGAPORE
ECHIGO-TSUMARI ART TRIENNIAL, Niigata Japan
Kunst Sommer DB/Wiesbaden central station and Wassertums, Wiesbaden GERMANY
Sign Kunstverein Wiesbaden ? NKV, Wiesbaden GERMANY
2005 HYUNDAI×TAKAFUMI HARA Art collaboration soul, Seoul KOREA
ECHIGO-TSUMARI ART TRIENNIAL 10days Work shop Small Massage Noren 130 of sheet in Tokamachi city, Niigata Japan
2004 Signs of Memory project 『Projekt im Hafenviertel』 heute hier,morgen dort...., Ausstellungshalle,in Munster Munster GERMANY
Signs of Memory project Arisima Shopping arcade windows, Niigata Japan
All about....Berlin2 White Box in Munich, Munich GERMANY
Projektausstellung, DNA Gallery, Berlin GERMANY
Signs of Memory project Auguststreet, Berlin GERMANY
2002-2003 SPACE.TIME.ARCHITECTURE “Cake House Project1/2/ 3” Aschermittwoch Arx Art Gallery, Berlin GERMANY
2002 Signs of Memory Project 51 pages of a pocket book of Yokozumi Uragawara village public art of 1500 designed panels,Niigata Japan
2001 Signs of Memory Project Yokozumi Uragawara village with 888 windows, Niigata Japan
Dank an Berlin 2”(“Thanks to Berlin 2”): Torstr.111 with 36 windows, Berlin GERMANY
Dank an Berlin 1”(“Thanks to Berlin 1”): 5 windows for Professor Inge Mahn, Berlin GERMANY
2000 Communication Box, Niigata Japan
Chair of School Project, Niigata Japan
1998 Art now 98, Sakura Museum, Chiba Japan
Awards
1993 grand prize, 93 Art Box
1992 jury's special award, The 11th Izu Art Festival Exhibition
1992 honorable mention, The 7th Tama Syu-saku Art Exhibition
Public
national road 253, Uragawara Symbol Tower, Niigata Japan
Communication Box, Niigata Japan
Yokozumi Symbol Tower, Niigata Japan
permanent installation 11 sculptures in Uragawara Park, Niigata Japan
