born 1973, Kyoto, Japan

Lives and works in Nara and Kyoto

 

 

Education

1998 MA in Painting, Kyoto City University of Arts, Japan

1996 Study at Fashion & Textiles course, Royal College of Art, London, UK

          BA in Painting, Kyoto City University of Arts, Japan

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Solo Exhibitions

2023 "Tsukuridasu Niwa" (Garden Creation) Nara Prefecture Historical and Artistic Culture Complex, Nara, Japan

2021 "SAKUTEI HIRAKU (Open the door of Garden making)" Kyoto Art Center, Japan

2019 'Garden Making' Art-U room, Tokyo, Japan

2015 ‘SO-RA-KA-RA-KI-TA-RU’ Gallery Yuragi, Kyoto and Art-U room, Tokyo, Japan

2013 ‘Let outside indoor vol.2’ Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto, Japan

​          ‘SAKUTEI (Garden making)’ Imura Art Gallery, Kyoto, Japan

2011 ‘Explore for the origin’ INAX Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2010 ‘Forest’ Imura Art Gallery, Kyoto, Japan

​          ‘Let outside indoor’ Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto, Japan

2009 ‘The collection of FLOATING ILLUSION’ PSG Art Gallery, Silpakorn University, Bangkok and Library of Japan Foundation, Bangkok, Thailand

2007 ‘Flower Pink Star’ Imura Art Gallery, Kyoto, Japan

2005 ‘NO FRAME’ Chiang Mai University Art Gallery, Chiang Mai, Thailand

2004 ‘ra-fu (nude dessin)’ Gallery TAF, Kyoto, Japan

2003 ‘Drawings and Paintings’ Gallery TAF, Kyoto, Japan 

2002 ‘project N_10’ Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2000 ‘Four Seasons’ SANBIDO Gallery, Kyoto, Japan

1999 Gallery SOWAKA, Kyoto, Japan

1998 ‘Hanabusa Yu Exhibit - Dramatic Picture’, INAX Gallery 2, Tokyo, Japan

1996 R.C.A. Lower Gulbenkian Gallery, London, UK

​          galerie 16, Kyoto, Japan

 

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2013 ‘Yamato Dynamics’ Gillman Barracks, Singapore

2012 ‘Art Across Asia - Renewed Encounters Asian Artists Exchange 2012’ Victoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata, India

2011 ‘Asian Artists Exchange 2011 - To be launched in Kyoto’ @KCUA, Kyoto, Japan

​          ‘SOSHUN - early spring’ Pola Museum Annex, Tokyo

2008-2009 ‘KRUNTHEP 226’ Bangkok Art and Culture Center, Bangkok, Thailand

2005 ‘One by One’ (project by Fine Art Faculty, Chiang Mai University) Chiang Mai Art and Culture Center, Chiang Mai, Thailand

2004 ‘Saji+Yoji’ Tokyo, Japan

​          ‘under traial’ CASO, Osaka, Japan

2003 ‘amusement palm’ Gallery TAF, Kyoto, Japan 

​          ‘Detruire for the next stage’ Galleria CHIMERA, Tokyo, Japan

​          ‘VOCA - The Vision of Contemporary Art 2003‘The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan

​          ‘Selected Art Exhibition of new artists in Kyoto’ The Museum of Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan

2001 ‘Itazu Litho-Grafik 2001’ Museum Haus Kasuya, Kanagawa, Japan

2000 ‘INCUBATION 00’ Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto, Japan

1999 ‘conversion table’ Nagoya City Archives, Nagoya, Japan

1998 ‘SAKURASAKURA LIVE’ (collaborated with Yui Ishiyama and Yuji Nishihara) SAKURA festival at Takasegawa river, Kyoto, Japan

1996 ‘Message from Geidai, in Search of Senses’ (Project by the Art Dept. of Kyoto City University of Arts) Shijo Gallery, Kyoto, Japan

 

 

Awards

2011 Kyoto City Artistic New Comer Awar

2009 Granted by Pola Art Foundation

2007 Kyoto City Special Bounty Program for Art and Culture

1996 The 10th HOLBEIN Scholarship

 

 

Other Activities

2007-2009 Artist in Residence at Silpakorn University in Bangkok, Thailand

2004-2005 Research stay in Chiang Mai and around Thailand under the Japanese Government Overseas Study Program for Artists

2002-2005 Tutor at painting class in Kyoto City University of Arts

2002-(on going) Tutor (color theory) at Kyoto University of Art and Design