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1982   Born in Tokyo

2005          BFA in Oil Painting, Tokyo University of the Arts

2007     MFA in Oil Painting, Tokyo University of the Arts

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2004   "Multilayered emotions"

     MITSUKOSHI CONTEMPORARY GALLERY, Tokyo

       "Magnolia denudata"

        KATSUYA SUSUKI GALLERY, Tokyo

       "EMBRACE" A/D GALLERY, Tokyo

2023   "Silent Tales" Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo

2022   "lNNER TEXTURE"

     MITSUKOSHI CONTEMPORARY GALLERY, Tokyo

2021     "RELATE"  Mizuma & Kips, New York/ USA

          "Flower & Body" A/D GALLERY, Tokyo
          "FLOWER UNCHAINING"

        KATSUYA SUSUKI GALLERY, Tokyo

2017    "House of Creatures"

                   RR-coffee tea beer books, Tokyo

2015    "Wandering the GARDEN"

                   RR-coffee tea beer books-, Tokyo
2014    "GARDEN"

                   SPIRAL GARDEN, Tokyo

2012    "Shinso" GALLERY ecru no mori, Shizuoka
2011     "PHENOMENA" Koshinkan, Tokyo
2010    "Fukan-no-chi (Land of High angle View)"

                  GALLERY ecru no mori, Shizuoka
2009   "Things in a Small Garden" Gallery ADO, Kumamoto
2008   St. Luke’s Gallery, Tokyo
2005   Gallery GO, Tokyo

2003   Gallery + Cafe Garasha, Tokyo

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024    "ZIPANGU - Contemporary artists who

                    ran through the Heisei era"

                   HIROSHIMA MUSEUM OF ART, Hiroshima

        "ZIPANGU - Contemporary artists who

                    ran through the Heisei era"

                   Saga Prefectural Art Museum, Saga

​        "Life With Art Vol.2 ~Colors~"

                   G735 Gallery, Tokyo

        "Art Taipei 2024"

                   Taipei World Trade Center, Taipei 

        "TOKYO GENDAI 2024"

                    PACIFICO YOKOHAMA, Kanagawa

        "Art Basel Hong Kong"

                   Convention & Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong

        "ART FAIR TOKYO 2024"

                    Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo

2023    "Art Miami 2023" One Herald Plaza, FL, Miami/USA

        "Japanese Contemporary Artist

                    Perception & Sensibility"

                   Humarish Club, Macau

        "Tokyo Gendai 2023"

                    PACIFICO YOKOHAMA, Kanagawa

        "Intersection of Monsoons"

                    Tang Contemporary Art​, Hong Kong

        "DnA Shenzhen 2023", Guangdong/ China

        "Taipei Dangdai"

                    Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center, Taipei

​        "ART FAIR TOKYO 2023"

                    Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo

2022     O Art Museum, Tokyo

        "LA ART SHOW"

                    Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles /USA
        "ART FAIR TOKYO 2022"

                    Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo

        "Summer Show" Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo
        "Panem et Circenses Exhibition"

                    Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo
2021        "BOUNDLESS" HWA'S Gallery, Shanghai/ China
       "Perpetual Gaze" Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo

       "Ama Divers & Artists Then & Now"

                   Toba-Sea Folk Museum Gallery

       "ART OSAKA 2021" Osaka City Central Public Hall, Osaka

       "SIGNS OF A NEW CULTURE Vol.2"

                   Artglorieux Gallery of Tokyo, Tokyo
        "Hana, Atarashi /12Flowers"

                   art space kimura ASK?, Tokyo  
2020   "Within Sight" Mizuma & Kips, New York / USA

                  "SUKIKEI / NEW VIEW-

                   Contemporary art in Japan at a time of translation"

                   Nihombashi Mitsukoshi Main store, Tokyo
                   "SUKIKEI / NEW VIEW-

                    Contemporary art in Japan at a time of translation"

                    Fukuoka Mitsukoshi, Fukuoka
                   "SUKIKEI / NEW VIEW-

                    Contemporary art in Japan at a time of translation"

                    Mitsubishi Estate Atrium, Fukuoka
                   "LA ART SHOW"

                    Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles /USA
2019     "A Gentle Gaze" WA’S Gallery, Shanghai/ China
                   "SUKIKEI / NEW VIEW-

                    Contemporary art in Japan at a time of translation"

                    Hankyu Umeda, Osaka
                    "HANA-BI / Yuna Ogino & Hiroko Nakakita

                    hold two-man exhibition" GINZA SIX, Tokyo
                    "Hopes & Dialogues in Rumah Kijang Mizuma"

                    Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo

2018      "Group show" Van Der Plas Gallery, New York / USA
         "Permanent exhibition"

                     EDGE GALLERY, Dhaka/ Bangladesh
         "TOKYO ILLUSION"

                    Taichung Dali Art Center, Taichung, Taiwan
         "18th Asian Art Biennale Bangladesh"

                     National Art Gallery, Dhaka, Bangladesh
2017       "FLOATING" HRD FINE ART, Kyoto
2016      "Conversations" SPIRAL GARDEN, Tokyo

2015      "Conversations" SPIRAL GARDEN, Tokyo
2014      "Female timesⅢ" Bunkamura Box Gallery, Tokyo
2013      "Female timesⅡ" Bunkamura Box Gallery, Toky

2010        "ART GWANGJU 2010"

                    KDJ Convention Center, Gwangju/Korea

2005          "MARUNOUCHI Flows" Marunouchi café, Tokyo

2002          "CAFÉ in Mito"  Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki

Public Collections

2018             National Art Gallery Dhaka, Bangladesh

Artist in residence program

2018             Artist in residence in Rumah Kijang Mizuma,

                     Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Textiles

2021       RE SHU RYU, Tokyo(Minamiaoyama)
2018       RE SHU RYU, Tokyo(Minamiaoyama)
2015       LYSERG, Tokyo(PARCO, Shibuya)ENHANCER, Tokyo
2013       ENHANCER, Tokyo

                  (TOKYO DESIGNERS WEEK Gaienmae)

Books

2022           “PAMEM ET CIRCEMSES”

                     Masahiko Shimada / Kodansha publication
2011             “Alouette remix”

                     Kazuya Fukuda / Kodansha publication
2003     “Inochi no Tetsugakushi”

                     Shigeaki Hinohara / U-REAG publication

Illustration

2020-2021 “Bread and circus"

                       Masahiko Shimada / Tokyo Shimbun,

                       Chunichi  Shimbun,

                       Nishinihon Shimbun, Hokkaido Shimbun

Awards

2013                Golden Prize in Tokyo Designers

                        Week Comany Art Award 2013

Donation

2017                 St. Luke's International Hospital, Tokyo

Mural art

2022       LA CASA DI Tetsuo Ota, Karuizawa, Nagano
2020       Fisherperson Huts, Ijikako(port), Toba, Mie
2018        Restaurant NABE, Harlem, New York, U.S.A.
2018        Mural Art, Bronx, New York, U.S.A.
2015        Mural Art, Katsutamachi, Chiba

Commition work

2022        TORANOMON HILLS RESIDENTIAL TOWER, Tokyo
2015         Forest Terrace Toriizaka, Tokyo

Live Painting

2019-2020   NOVARESE(Wedding chapel), All areas in Japan
2019            Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space, Tokyo

VR

2016        “360°RENOIR” Planning, illustration,

                 The National Art Center, Tokyo

Education

2010-2013        Research/teaching assistant at

                           the Oil Painting Course,

                           Tokyo University of the Arts


2007-2018     Art teacher at private junior high school

                           and high school


2008-         Painting Class (WORKSHOP NOCONOCO)

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