BIOGRAPHY (Japanese)
born in Shiga, Japan
lives and works in Chiba
2003-2004 Stayed at the International Studio & Curatorial Program(iscp) in New York
under a grant from Agency for Cultural Affairs Government of Japan
1987-1989 Received scholarship from the French Government and studied at Ecole Nationale Superieure
des Beaux-Arts Paris, France
1986 Completed postgraduate studies at Tama Art University (M.A.), Japan
1984 Graduated from the Oil Painting Course at Tama Art University(B.A.), Japan
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2019 Suwa City Museum of Art, Nagano
"Start of the Journey Exhibition", Soh Gallery, Tokyo
2018 "Assemblage 《Jomon》 Tokyo-Bordeaux Projet Ieshibari Home-Binding《Les Maisons en Cordees》
Les Memoire et Tracess", Galerie de la Maison franco-japonaise, Tokyo
2017 "stoppage - Partition as a Point" (Curator: Keiko Takeshita), galerie Omotesando, Tokyo
"Assemblage Jomon", La Maison de Peu, Audenge, France
2016 "Jomon White Houjoki", Kanagawa Prefecturel Lake Sagami-ko Exchange Center Art Gellery, Kanagawa
2015 "Stefan's Boathouse", California, USA
2013 "Double Bind -Catch and Release", Space Cherry Heim, Tokyo
2011 "Cross Bind", SUMIRE Dressmaking Shop, Nagano
"Jomon Double Bind House", Aisho Miura Arts, Tokyo
2007 "Juliet", The Park Residences at the Ritz-Carlton, Tokyo
2006 "Grid of Mirror, Four-colored Painting -Part2", Art Court Gallery, Osaka
"Grid of Mirror, Four-colored Painting -Part1", Nabis Gallery, Tokyo
2005 "Hudson River", Gallery Gan, Tokyo
2004 "4sim, Grid", Chelsea Studio, New York, USA
2002 "Four-ism", Gallery Gan, Tokyo
2001 "Harutaka MATSUMOTO", Nabis Gallery, Tokyo
2000 Nabis Gallery, Tokyo
1999 Nabis Gallery, Tokyo
"Turritopsis ntricula McCRADY" (Curator:Toshiaki Minemura), Gallery Gan, Tokyo
1996 "Sayonara Pharaoh"(Curator:Toshiaki Minemura), Gallery Gan, Tokyo
1995 Nabis Gallery, Tokyo
1992 Nabis Gallery, Tokyo
"INSTINCTIVE VISION", Studio EX Seikatsu Soko, Nagoya, Japan
1991 Nabis Gallery, Tokyo
1990 Nabis Gallery, Tokyo
1989 Maison du Japon, Paris, France
Nabis Gallery, Tokyo
1987 Gallery Lunami, Tokyo
Gallery Cae Salon, Tokyo
Gallery Parergon, Tokyo
"Bon Voyage", Nabis Gallery, Tokyo
1986 "Blue Lion and Red Lion", Gallery Parergon, Tokyo
1985 Gallery Parergon, Tokyo
1984 Gallery Parergon, Tokyo
1983 Studio 4F, Tokyo
Selected Group Exhibitions
2016 "Ottoboke Expo '16", Ottoboke Museume, Nagano
2015 "Kotsubo Alley Exhibition", Minammachi Terrace, Kanagawa
"House Beats", explosion tokyo viewing room, Tokyo
2014 "After Story", NADiff a/p/a/r/t, Tokyo
Nabis Gallery, Tokyo
2013 "Nabeyoko ni Art", Mizuho Bank Nakano Branch, Tokyo
"New Wall", Walls Tokyo, Tokyo
"Unknown History", Underground, Tokyo
"Sanbi Shosha", Yokohama Museum, Kanagawa
2012 "Double Bind Gallery", Gallery 21yo-j, Tokyo
"View", Waseda Scott Hall Gallery, Tokyo
"Unknown Voice", Youkoubo Art Space, Tokyo
2011 "111111", ZOKEI Gallery, Tokyo
"Unknown", Ayumi Gallery, Tokyo
Nabis Gallery, Tokyo
2010 "Cinemas", Musee d'Art Contemporain Du Val-De-Marne (MAC/VAL), Paris, France
"Last Breath", ZAIM, Yokohama, Kanagawa
2009-2010 "No Man's Land", Ambassade de France au Japon, Tokyo
2007-2008 "Japanese Contemporary Painting", PYO Gallery, Beijing, China
2007 "La Chaine", BankART1929 Yokohama, Kanagawa
"Japanese Contemporary Art Festival", Heyri Art Vallery, Heyri, Korea
"Yon-Kichi", Fukagawa, Tokyo
2006 "Jomon - Human Sculpture", Ichikawa City Historical Museum, Chiba
2005 "The Peekskill Project 05", Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York, USA
"AIM 2005", Ichikawa Historical Museum, Tojo Garden, Chiba
Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Hyogo
2004 "Flatfale", Pierogi Gallery, New York, USA
"The Peekskill Project", Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York, USA
iscp Open Studio: International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), New York, USA
2001 "Chiba Art Now '01", Sakura City Museum of Art, Chiba
1999 "Prelude", Gallery la Fenice, Osaka
1998 "Each Artist, Each Moment 1998", Gallery Gan, Tokyo
1997 "VOCA '97", Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo
Kashiwa City Gallery, Chiba
1996 "Cleveland International Biennale", Middlesbrough Gallery, Cleveland, England
"Philip Morris Art Award '96", Aoyama Spiral, Tokyo
1994 "The 13th Parallelism in Art", Ohara Center, Tokyo
1991 "Frontiere de l'image", Espace Irifune, Paris, France
1990 "Painting-Japan", Toko Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
1988 "Artistes de Monde", Galerie Bernanos, Paris, France
1987 "Prints by Japanese Artists", Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo
"Promising Nabis", Nabis Gallery, Tokyo
1986 "The 5th Parallelism in Art", Ohara Center, Tokyo
"Amoraim-U", Gallery Q+1, Tokyo
Gallery NEWS, Tokyo
Gallery Parergon, Tokyo
1985 Kanagawa Prefectural Hall, Kanagawa
"Two-man Exhibition", Tokiwa Gallery, Tokyo
Maki Gallery, Tokyo
"The spot of Expression", Tama Art University, Tokyo
1984 "Colors in the Urban Landscape", Kurashiki City Museum, Okayama
1983 "Hara Festival", Haramura, Nagano
Project
《Ieshibari Home-Binding Project》
2019 052 Suwa Seiryo High School, Kamisuwa, Nagano
051 Nakappara Archeological Park, Chino, Nagano
050 Taro Coffee No. 2, Shimosuwa, Nagano
049 ninjinsan, Shimosuwa, Nagano
048 Anonyme Gallery, Chino, Nagano
047 Workplace Chise, Chino, Nagano
046 Ottoboke Mueum, Matsumoto, Nagano
045 Kanai House, Matsumoto, Nagano
044 SOH@home、Sagamihara、Kanagawa
043 Soh Gallery, Higashi-Koganei, Tokyo
2018 042 Oizumi Daiichi Elemenntary School, Nerima, Tokyo
041 Ashikaga Chember of Commerce and Industry, Ashikaga, Tochigi
040 "Assanblage Jomon Rurettes", la Maison franco-japonaise, Tokyo
2017 039 Yamada House, Kajigaya, Kanagawa
038 gelerie Omotesando, Aoyama, Tokyo
037 La Maison de Peu, Audenge/Bordauex, France
036 Keihoku Elemenntary School, Sagamihara, Kanagawa
035 Kanagawa Prefecturel Lake Sagami-ko Echange Center, Sagamihara, Kanagawa
2016 034, 033, 032, 031 "In Kotsubo Alley Exhibition, Zushi, Kanagawa
030 Azuma House, Ebisu, Tokyo
029 exploshion tokyo, Nishiazabu, Tokyo
028 Yokohama College of Art & Design, Aobadai, Kanagawa
027 Stefan's Boathouse, Inverness, California, USA
2014 026 NADiff, Ebisu, Tokyo
025, 024, 023, 022 "Double Bind 4 Houses in Inamuragasaki /
Yoshikwa House, Abe House, Sumiya House, Nanbu House", Kamakura, Kanagawa
2013 021 Mizuho Bank Branch Nakano, Tokyo
020 Teraji Elementary School, Oogi, Tokyo
019 Sakano House, Kure, Hiroshima
018 Ookubo House, Yokohama, Kanagawa
017 Shell Garden Tomigaya, Tomigaya, Tokyo
016 Cherry Heim, Ikebukuro, Tokyo
015 Municipal Ichikawa Archaeology Museum, Ichikawa, Chiba
2012 014 Gallery 21yo-j, Todoroki, Tokyo
013 Sawada House, Hachimanyama, Tokyo
012 T's Villa, Karuizawa, Nagano
011 Youkoubo Art Space, Zenpukuji, Tokyo
2011 010 Aizawa House, Matsumoto, Nagano
009 Usui House, Matsumoto, Naganon
008 AISHO MIURA ARTS, Akebonobashi, Tokyo
007 Tou Building, Kashiwa, Chiba
2010 006 Sato House, Yokohama, Kanagawa
005 Hoshino House, Kunitachi, Tokyo
004 Apolo House, Kamakura, Kanagawa
003 Isobe House, Kamakura, Kanagawa
002 Sumiya House, Kamakura, Kanagawa
001 Inomata Liquor Shop, Ichikawa, Chiba
2009 000 French Embassy Old Government Building, Hiroo, Tokyo
《Code Color Museum (CCM) Project》
-- Record of CCM --(Install CODE COLOR in the space, and the space is opened as an art space. In other words,
the space becomes the museum)
April, 2013 Bruce Japan Code Color Museum(Bruce Japan CCM), Kashiwa, Chiba
October, 2012 Prefectural Makuhari Parking 2 Code Color Museum (Prefectural Makuhari Parking 2 CCM),
Chiba-city, Chiba
July, 2012 Tsuchiya Code Color Museum(Tsuchiya CCM), Sanmu, Chiba, Japan
December, 2011 Okamoto Memorial Code Color Museum (Okamoto Memorial CCM), Ichikawa, Chiba
-- Record of each CCM --(Planned by Harutaka Matsumoto)
2013 Solo exhibition: Chiaki Kato "come over to my house." at Bruce Japan CCM
Solo exhibition: Hanna Romin "Fregments of the Present" at Okamoto Memorial CCM
2012 Solo exhibition: Nozomi Watanabe "Ground Channel" at Okamoto Memorial CCM
Group exhibition: 24 young artists participated in, "Install art works in the parking lot"
at Prefectural Makuhari Parking 2
Solo exhibition: Yoko Tsuchiya "The Place of Dispatch" at Tsuchiya CCM
Solo exhibition: Reo Sawada "Goldfish Paradise" at Okamoto Memorial CCM
Others
2007 "La Chaine (France Japan Contemporary Arts Exchange)", Planning & Curation with Christian Boltanski,
BankART1929Yokohama, BankART Studio NYK, Kanagawa
2005 "Taku-de-Art (video installation-Kjell Bjorgeengen)", Planning & Curation, Y House, Chiba
Collections
Nasunogahara Museum
Softmachine Museum
Yokohama Museum
Kashiwa City
MTM Collectiona
Maison Franco-Japonaise
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