biography
1958 Born in Nagoya Japan
1981 Graduated from Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Art and Music
1995 Received VOCA Prize. VOCA’95
1996- Worked at Kunstlerhaus Bethanien by a grantof Philip Morris Foundation, in Berlin
1997 Worked at IASPIS in Stockholm
1998 Lives and works in Nagoya

selected solo exhibition
1993 “Self-Montage” Kohji Ogura Gallery (Nagoya)
1994 “Painting” Kohji Ogura Gallery (Nagoya)
1996 “Landscapegoat” Gallery HAM (Nagoya)
1997 “READ-MADE” Gallery HAM (Nagoya)
1997 “Kalte FuBe” Kunstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin)
1997 “Centaur” Gallery HAM (Nagoya)
1999 “CHARLIE in TEXAS” IASPIS Gallery (Stockholm)
1999 “CHARLIE in TEXAS” Gallery HAM (Nagoya)
2001 “INTERIOR- Body Under The Floor” Gallery HAM (Nagoya)
2003 “EBBA” Gallery HAM (Nagoya)
2004 “Golden Hedgehog” Gallery HAM (Nagoya)
2005 “Blue Period” Gallery HAM (Nagoya)
2008 “-BODY-AND/OR MIMICRY” Gallery HAM (Nagoya)

selected group exhibition
1986 “Selected Works from the Frederick R. Weiseman Art Foundation” ICA (Nagoya)
1989 “Selected Works from the Frederick R. Weiseman Art Foundation” Wright Art Gallery.UCLA (Los Angeles)
1989 “A Perspective on Contemporary Art: Color and/or Monochrome” National Museum of Modern Art (Tokyo) / National Museum of Modern Art (Kyoto)
1991- “Zones of Love: Contemporary Art From Japan”
1992 Touko Museum of Contemporary Art (Tokyo) /Art Gallery of Western Australia (Parth) /Art Gallery of South Australia (Adelaide) /Waikato Art Museum (Hamilton.New Zealand) /Dunedin Public Art Gallery (Dunedin.New Zealand) /Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney Australia)
1992 “Three-persons exhibition” Riverside Studios (London)
1993 “Exchange 2″ (Shedhalle.Zurich)
1994 “Position 1994: Nagoya Contemporary Art
Exhibition” Nagoya City Art Museum (Nagoya)
1995 “The Vision Of Contemporary Art (VOCA ’95) : New Artists of Two Dimensions” Ueno Royal Museum (Tokyo)
1995 “Basel Art Fair ’95″ (Switzerland)
1995 “Allegory of Seeing-1995: Painting and Sculpture in Contemporary Japan” Sezon Museum (Tokyo)
1996 “Another Photography: Rethinking the Concept of Photograph” Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography (Tokyo)
1996 “Protean Artist of The Times: Diverse Expressions and Methods” National Museum of Art (Osaka)
1996 ” Images of Women in Japanese Contemporary Art 1930′s-90′s” Shoto Museum of Art (Tokyo)
1997 “Brandenburgische Kunsttage: Partie Nr.5″ (Drewen.Germany)
1998 “Passage: Neue Kunst in Hamburg” Kunsthaus Hamburg (Hamburg.Germany)
1998 “h. Project” (Melbourne)
1998 “Lucia-a-go-go” Lydmar Hotel (Stockholm)
2001 “Tsubaki-kai 2001″ Shiseido Gallery (Tokyo)
2002 “Tsubaki-kai 2002″ Shiseido Gallery (Tokyo)
2002 “Inazawa Present and Future 5″ Inazawa City Oguiss Memorial Art Museum (Inazawa)
2002- “Rest in Space” Kunstnernes Hus (Oslo)
2003 Kunstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin)
2003 “Tsubaki-kai 2003″ Shiseido Gallery (Tokyo)
2004 “Tsubaki-kai 2004″ Shiseido Gallery (Tokyo)
2005 “Tsubaki-kai 2005″ Shiseido Gallery (Tokyo)
2005 “Hands-on-Spirit” Gallery HAM (Nagoya)
2006 “Letters own a book. Part1″ Gallery HAM (Nagoya)
2007 “Portrait Session @ NADiff” NADiff (Tokyo)
2007 “Portrait Session” Hiroshima CIity Museum of Contemporary Art (Hiroshima)
2007 “Vanishing Points : Contemporary Japanese Art” National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi (Delhi) / Project 88 (Mumbai) / Chatterjee Gallery (Mumbai)

selected public collections
National Museum of Art (Osaka. Japan)
National Museum of Modem Art (Tokyo. Japan)
Frederick R. Weiseman Art Foundation (Los Angeles. USA)
The Dai-Ichi Mutual Life Insurance Company (Tokyo. Japan)
Shiseido Art House (Kakegawa. Japan)
Park Hyatt Tokyo (Tokyo. Japan)