Taro Izumi

Born in 1976, Nara, Japan Lives and works in Tokyo

2002 M.A.(Fine Art) Tama Art University, Japan

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2014 Take Ninagawa, Tokyo

2013 “Check,” Arts Initiative Tokyo [AIT] , Tokyo

“contact→,” HIGURE 15-17 cas, Tokyo

“Dizzy Footing / Eel Getting Close to Numbed Legs,” hiromiyoshii roppongi, Tokyo “The Source of Wrinkles,” Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris

2011 “Taro Izumi,” SPROUT curation, Tokyo

“Brave Yawn,” hiromiyoshii, Tokyo

“Cloud, looks like a spider" NADiff Window Gallery, Tokyo

“Taro Izumi,” Tamagawa Art Gallery, Tamagawa University, Tokyo

2010 “Kneading,” Kanagawa Prefectural Gallery, Yokohama “Manhunt & Sneak Dating,” hiromiyoshii, Tokyo

“Hide in a Whale’s Stomach, Mouse,” Asahi Art Square, Tokyo

2009 “My Attempt to Build a Mountain Ended up with a Hole Wide Open,” NADiff a/p/a/r/t, Tokyo “Helsinki,” Galerie Georges – Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris

2008 “Magician’s Bread, Solar Eclipse,” hiromiyoshii, Tokyo “junglebook,” gallery stump Kamakura, Kanagawa

2007 “Game pedestal (warehouse),” buro013 by hiromiyoshii, Tokyo 2006 “Trolly,” hiromiyoshii, Tokyo

2005 “GENIUS EPISODE 1 & 2,” HIROMI YOSHII FIVE, Tokyo 2003 “Zilent,” Kojimachi Gallery, Tokyo

2002 “Bargain (Fictitious),” Pepper's Loft Gallery, Tokyo

Selected Group Exhibitions

2013

“Paris champ & hors champ,” Galerie des bibliothèques de la Ville de Paris

“Twentieth Anniversary Special MOT Collection: Chronicle 1995 -,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo “Japon,” Contemporary Art Center, Meymac

“PORTRAIT DE 3/4,” Galerie Georges - Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris “OUT OF DOUBT: Roppongi Crossing 2013,” Mori Art Museum, Tokyo “Rokko Meets Art 2013,” Mount Rokko National Park, Hyogo

“HUMOR and LEAP of THOUGHT,” Okazaki City Museum, Aichi

“Dea Syuturumu (The Storm, Der Sturm) - The Storm For Art and Popular Culture,” Nagoya Citizens Gallery Yada, Nagoya 2012 “But Freash,” Tokyo Wandersite Hongo, Tokyo

“VOICE OF IMAGES,” PALAZZP GRASSI - Francois Pinault Foundation, Venice “THE ECHO 2012 BERLIN,” Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien, Projektraum, Berlin

“Real Japanesque: The Unique World of Japanese Contemporary,” The National Museum of Art, Osaka “Humour, parodie et vidéos: créations vidéo du Japon contemporain,” Maison de la Culture du Japon, Paris “Veranda, Tightrope Walking, Compulsive Plot,” curated by Shigeru Ikeda, TALION GALLERY, Tokyo “Marsupials,” curated by Taro Izumi, TALION GALLERY, Tokyo

“Koganei Artfull-Jack! BERMUDA TRIANGLE,” Chateau Koganei, Tokyo

2011 “Omnilogue: Alternating Currents - Japanese Art After March 2011,” Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA), Perth

“YOKOHAMA TRIENNALE 2011: OUR MAGIC HOUR - How Much of the World Can We Know? -,” NYK Waterfront Warehouse (Bank ART Studio NYK), Yokohama

“Invisibleness is Visibleness: International Contemporary Art Collection of a Salaryman – Daisuke Miyatsu,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei

“Silent Narrator: On Plural Stories,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo “JAPANCONGO: Carsten Hollers double-take on Jean Pigozzis collection,”

Centre national d’art contemporain Grenoble, Grenoble, Moscow Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow,

Palazzo Reale di Milano, Milano

“Shifting Surfaces : Experience, Perspectives and Media,” Artsonje Museum, Gyeongju “Violence and Universe,” island, Kashiwa

2010 “Trust: Media City Seoul,” Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul

“MOT Collection: Enter Here – What do you see?,” Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo “City 2.0: The Evolutionary Theory of City on the Web Generation,” EYE OF GYRE, Tokyo “Media Landscape-Zone East,” Contemporary Urban Centre, Liverpool

2009 “Everyday Life, Another Space,” Kanagawa Prefectural Gallery, Yokohama

“TWIST & SHOUT: Contemporary Art form Japan,” Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok “Extra/Ordinary: Video Art from Asia,” University of Kansas, Spencer Museum of Art, Kansas

“POST. O: The Reverse of TOPOS,” Garden City Space of Art, Taipei

“CREAM International Festival for Arts and Media Yokohama 2009,” Nogeyama Animal Park, Yokohama “Summer Museum for All Ages: Art Everyday!!,” Museum of Modern Art, Gunma

“Winter Garden: Exploration of the Micropop Imafination in Contemporary Japanese Art,”

Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo

“Re:Membering, -Next of Japan-,” Gallery LOOP, Seoul

“Waiting for Video: Works from the 1960s to Today,” The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo “UNLIMITED,” A+, Tokyo

2008 “Between Art and Life: Performativity in Japanese Art,” Centre d’Art: Contemporain, Geneve “TOKYO NONSENSE,” Scion Installation L.A., Los Angeles

“THE ECHO,” ZAIM, Yokohama

“Landmark project3: Let’s Cross Route 16←Let’s Go Noge!,” Yokohama

“Food and Contemporary Art 2008,” BankART1929, Yokohama

2007 “Techniques of Storytelling_speaking of unspeakable,” SSamize Space, Alternative space Loop, Seoul “Out of the Ordinary : New Video from Japan,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles “COLLECTOR'S CHOICE : Collection 2,” Daelim Contemporary Art Museum, Seoul

“The Door into Summer - The Age of Micropop,” Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki

2006 “After The Reality,” Daitch Project. New York

“FUKUTAKEHOUSE in Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2006,” Niigata “THEORY OF EVERYTHING: VIDEOART FROM TOKYO,”

Caochangdi Workstation Art Center, Beijing / tank.tv / Location One, New York / New York University 2005 “The World is Mine,” HIROMI YOSHII FIVE, Tokyo

“Gallery Artist Show,” hiromiyoshii, Tokyo

2004 “Field of Dreams,” Project Room / Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo 2001 Gallery Le Deco, Tokyo

Selected Performances

2014 2013

2012

2010

2008

2007

“Jins Art Project,” Jins Kichijyoji, Tokyo

“hubn’t,” [as a member of Orrorin] Art Center Ongoing, Tokyo

“Walking Roof,” [participate as Taro Izumi + Orrorin], Roppongi Art Night, Tokyo “campfire,” blanClass, Kamakura

Sumida River Art Project, Performance with Zakuro Yamaga, Asashi Art Square, Tokyo Azumabashi Dance Crossing, Asashi Art Square, Tokyo

Performance with Zakuro Yamaga, TOYOTA CHOREOGRAPHY AWARD 2008, Tokyo Performance with Zakuro Yamaga, HARAJUKU PERFORMANCE Plus, Laforet Harajuku, Tokyo

Scholarships and Residencies

2014 The Follow Fluxus - After Fluxus Grant, The Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden 2013 The Japan-UK Residency Exchange Programme 2013, Cove Park, UK

Selected Public Collections

Le Fonds départementale d'art contemporain de la Seine-Saint-Denis (FDAC) François Pinault Foundation

Jean Pigozzi Collection

The Japan Foundation

Le Fonds municipal d'art contemporain de la ville de Paris (FMAC) The Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo

Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas