works
installations
drawings

cv
1975
born in Tokyo
1994–1998
BFA, National University of Art and Music, Tokyo
1998–2002
MFA, National University of Art and Music, Tokyo
2000–2004
University of Fine Arts, Berlin
awards / scholarships
2009
Berlin Senate Work Scholarship
2004–2007
Ministry of Culture Bunka-Cho Scholarship
2001–2003
DAAD Scholarship (Berlin)
2000
Pola Foundation Scholarship
lives and works in Berlin and Tokyo

exhibitions
selected solo exhibitions
2010
Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
2009
Dresden dream with Y.A., Gallery Alexandra Saheb, Berlin
You are welcome!, Künstlerverein Malkasten, Duesseldorf
in that moment: where was she?, rahncontemporary, Zurich
You are welcome!, Künstlerverein Malkasten, Duesseldorf
in that moment: where was she?, rahncontemporary, Zurich
2007
Even if we`re not together, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo (Cat.)
Take me to the edge of heaven, Kunstraum Bethanien, Berlin
Take me to the edge of heaven, Kunstraum Bethanien, Berlin
2006
May I Enter?, Gallery Alexandra Saheb, Berlin
2004
Invisible Birds, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
2003
July to remember the past days more exactly, Closetgallery, Halifax
2002
Hier and Now, Büro Friedrich, Berlin
Normal-life, Spice Museum, Tokyo / Studio J, Osaka / Tzutsuya, Hiroshima / 3rd So-ko, Fukuoka
Gasag-Kunstpreis, 2yk Gallery, Berlin
Normal-life, Spice Museum, Tokyo / Studio J, Osaka / Tzutsuya, Hiroshima / 3rd So-ko, Fukuoka
Gasag-Kunstpreis, 2yk Gallery, Berlin

selected group exhibitions
2010
Selected Artists 2009, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin (Cat.)
L.G.S.N.H.C.M.E.S.M.K.T., rahncontemporary, Zurich
L.G.S.N.H.C.M.E.S.M.K.T., rahncontemporary, Zurich
2009
Stitch by Stitch, Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, Tokyo
unerreichbar ist gerade nah genug, Gallery Alexandra Saheb, Berlin
Fragile – Terres d’empathie, Museé d’Art Moderne, St. Etienne / Accademia d’Ungheria – Palazzo dei Falconieri, Rome / Daejon Museum of Art (Cat.)
Voca 2009, The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo
unerreichbar ist gerade nah genug, Gallery Alexandra Saheb, Berlin
Fragile – Terres d’empathie, Museé d’Art Moderne, St. Etienne / Accademia d’Ungheria – Palazzo dei Falconieri, Rome / Daejon Museum of Art (Cat.)
Voca 2009, The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo
2008
The Echo, Zaim, Yokohama
Apart a Part, Wonder Site, Tokyo
Between Time and Space, Nunnery Gallery, London (Cat.)
Re-Reading the Future – Ästhetik der Ähnlichkeiten, 1st International Triennial of Contemporary Art (ITCA), National Gallery, Prague (Cat.)
Artist File, The National Art Center, Tokyo
Von dem, was dann noch bleibt, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden
Apart a Part, Wonder Site, Tokyo
Between Time and Space, Nunnery Gallery, London (Cat.)
Re-Reading the Future – Ästhetik der Ähnlichkeiten, 1st International Triennial of Contemporary Art (ITCA), National Gallery, Prague (Cat.)
Artist File, The National Art Center, Tokyo
Von dem, was dann noch bleibt, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden
2007
Cycle and Recycle, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya (Cat.)
So nah. So fern, Kulturstiftung Schloss Agathenburg (Cat.)
Thread, Koroška Galerie der bildenden Künste, Slovenj Gradec
So nah. So fern, Kulturstiftung Schloss Agathenburg (Cat.)
Thread, Koroška Galerie der bildenden Künste, Slovenj Gradec
2006
Landscape is the eye of the beholder, Gallery Alexandra Saheb, Berlin
Zones of Contact, 15th Biennial Sydney, National Gallery, Sydney (Cat.)
Zones of Contact, 15th Biennial Sydney, National Gallery, Sydney (Cat.)
2005
Rooming-In, ArtMbassy, Berlin
2004
Unpainted, Villa Grisebach, Berlin
2003
Normal / Normal?, Dirt Gallery, Kansas City
Reading Spaces, Gallery Plastyfikatory, Lubon
Reading Spaces, Gallery Plastyfikatory, Lubon

exhibitions rahncontemporary Zurich
2010
L.G.S.N.H.C.M.E.S.M.K.T. (group show)
22.1. – 20.3.2010
22.1. – 20.3.2010
2009
in that moment: where was she? (solo show)
9.1. – 7.3.2009
9.1. – 7.3.2009

catalogues
Between Time and Space
Exhib. Cat. Nunnery Gallery London, 2008.
ISBN 3-93343-23-9
Exhib. Cat. Nunnery Gallery London, 2008.
ISBN 3-93343-23-9
15 SF*
Cycle and Recycle
Exhib. Cat. Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya 2007.
Exhib. Cat. Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya 2007.
32 SF*
Re-Reading the Future – Ästhetik der Ähnlichkeiten
Exhib. Cat. National Gallery Prague, 2008.
ISBN 978-80-86970-65-3
Exhib. Cat. National Gallery Prague, 2008.
ISBN 978-80-86970-65-3
38 SF*
* Preise exkl. Porto und Verpackung, inkl. MWST /
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All prices excl. postal and shipping fees, incl. VAT

news
FRAGILE. FIELDS OF EMPATHY (group show)
Daejon Museum of Art
396 Mannyeon-don, Seo-gu, KOR-Daejon 302-150
www.dmma.metro.daejeon.kr
until March 21, 2010

press
selected reviews
Artforum International, October 2006
Charles Green, Zones of Contact: 2006 Biennale of Sydney
www.artforum.com
Art Monthly, July – August 2006
Nathalie King, 15th Biennale of Sydney
www.artmonthly.co.uk
Kulturspiegel, October 26, 2007
Ingeborg Wiensowski, Tageskarte Kunst. Im Goldrausch
www.spiegel.de
Kunstforum International, 2008, vol. 189
Peter Funken, Take me to the edge of heaven
www.kunstforum.de








