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1968  Born in Nagasaki Japan
1993  B.A.Department of Musashino Art University
1993-97 Studied under Prof.Riener Kallhardt, Barbara Hamman,Rob Sholte in the
       Department of Free Art,GHK(University of Kassel)
1998  Studied Kunst akademie Düsseldorf Germany,  
           and under Prof.Ilmin Kamp
2001  Kunst akademie Düsseldorf,completed Meisterschuler
2002  Kunst akademie Düsseldorf, attained Diploma
2016~Musashino Art University Visiting Professor
2016  lived in Jogjakarta, Indonesia
 
 
[Prize]

2011  Musashino Art University, Yoshinobu Ashihara Prize
2023  Minister of Culture Award Japan 2023
 
[Residency]
2008  Creator in Residence,Tokyo Wonder Site Aoyama,Tokyo
2009  Art Sonju Center Seoul , Korea
2013  Selasar Sunaryo Art Space , Bandung ,Indonesia
2013  London exchange Residency program,UNV of the Arts London,United Kingdom
2014-15  Agency for Cultural Affairs budding artists overseas training system
2016  residence program Projeto Fidalga, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2023  residensi Seniman indonesia bertutur, Bali Indonesia
 

[Selected Solo Exhibition and Projects]
1996-97  Gallery New World, Düsserdorf, Germany
1999   Shnitt Ausstellungsraum,Köln, Germany
2001   Vila de Bank, Enschede, The Netherlands
2003   Artothek Kölnisches Stadtmuseum,Köln , Germany
2004   Maison Hermès Window Display ,Tokyo
2006   Root Culture Festival ,Marine Animal Story
2007   Kleine See , National Museum of Singapore
2009   Maison Hermès Window Display, Tokyo
2010   Kachidoki View Tower Art Project, Tokyo
2011   Takeshima Yatai Island 2012, Nagasaki Art Project, Nagasaki
2011   Yatai Trip in Ron Herman, Ron Herman Tokyo
2011   IN BETWEEN, Beyond Museum Seoul Korea
2012   Water >I< Wasser , Towada Art Center Aomori
2012   Oirase Arts Cube, Sanyo & Arts Towada project, Aomori
2012   Trip Museum Onomichi, Umi Festa 2012 in Onomichi,, Hiroshima
2012   Sotome Trip Museum 2012,  Nagasaki Art Project , Nagasaki
2013   Zushi Yatai Trip2013, good bye KURITAKA special , Kanagawa
2013   Slope Gallery, Himmel-Oberfläche ,Tokyo 
​2013   THERESHOLD,Selasar Sunaryo Art Space , Bandung ,Indonesia
2013   INVISIBLE, Chelsea College of Art and Design,London UK
2014   REVERSE,Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghi , China
​2015  Deadline,  Art Front Gallery , Daikanyama Tokyo
2015  Maizoukyou/埋蔵経, -the latter of a million year from Melting out-, NADI Gallery Jakarta, Indonesia
2016  Singapore Hermès Window Display Project 2016, Singapore
2017  "CAN NOT SEE DO NOT SEE DO NOT WANT TO SEE PRAY" ark gellary Yogyakarta, Indonesia
2018  "WE HAVE DECIDED NOT TO DIE  yodabeimarco." Düsseldorf , Germany
2019  Cafe Maruna&Bar Toilet. Drawing exhibition,"Idee Zeichnung" Shinjyuku. Tokyo
2019  EU Japan Project 2019, “Cielo capovolto” Matera, Italia
2020 Tiger company, entrance installation, Osaka
2019-20  Genki-ro No.Zero, Nizayama Forest Art Museum, Nyuzen-cho.Toyama
2021  Under museum project 01 GATE 2020 / GENKI-RO OHYA ohya-town utsunomiya, Tochigi
2024  OHYA GENKI-RO No.6 Tochigi-yama ohya-town utsunomiya, Tochigi
2024  Beppu ALTERNATIVESTSATE#3 "Botanic GENKI-RO", Beppu Japan

 
[Selected Group Exhibitions]
1995   Continental Borderland, Royal Chitwan National Park, Nepal
1996   Kunstokologie , Nuremberg, Germany
1997   Achse,X,10 years of Kulturfabrik Salzmann, Kassel Germany
1997-98  Projectgruppe Stoffwechsel, Kassel Germany
1999-2000  Game Over, Stadtische Galerie, Viersen, Germany
2000   Under Water Project,Kunstakademie Düsseldorf Germany
2000   York Independent Art Fair, New York
2002   Encounter Loerakker Galerie,Amusterdam, The Netherlands
2003   Out of the Blue ,Tokyo Wonder Site Hongo,Tokyo
2004   Magik Island, Langer Nacht Project,achen,Germany
2004-05  Adventure at /of the Museum, Hiroshima City Museum , Japan
2006   Klasse Kamp 1974-2006 Kunsthalle Düsseldorf , Germany
2006   Singapore Biennale 2006 Tanglin Camp , Singapore
2006   Hermès Singapore Therd Floor , New Gardens , Singapore
2006   Gardens,, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi Japan
2007   New Nature, The Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth,New Zealand
2007   Thermocline of Art, New Asian Waves, ZKM,Karlsruhe,Germany
2007   Art / 38/ Basel,Switzerland
2008   Aoba Art 2008, Tamaplaza ,Kanagawa ,Japan
2008   Agenda of the Art, ,Whats Game Shall We Play Today? TWS Tokyo
2009   Roppongi Art Night 2009,Roppongi Hills,, Tokyo
2009   Aqua Metropolis Osaka 2009,Nakanoshima Park, et al, Osaka Japan
2009   Platform 2009, KIMUSA , Seoul , Korea
2009   Niigata Water and Land Art festival 2009, Nigata City Art Museum
2010   Exchange Residency Program Debrief Session,TWS hongo, Tokyo
2010   Tokyo Story, Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya ,Tokyo
2010   Sensing Nature, Mori Art Museum , Tokyo
2011   Art Stage Singapore,
2011   Lost & Found , Hong Kong Art Center, Hong Kong
2011   Take Action, Hidetoshi Nakata Revalue Nippon Project, Osaka
2012   Mediations Biennale 2012 Poznam, Poznam Polamd 
2012   Sky Over My Head, Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto, Kumamoto
2013   Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival 2013, Hokkaido
2013   Plant/Plant; Kitakagaya creative center osaka[cco] Osaka 
2013  Tokyo Story 2013" The Artist", Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya, Tokyo
2013  The unknown, Kunsthalle Faust Hannover , Hannover ,Germany
2013  San sebastián Film Festival 2013, Basque ,Spain
2013  sea(south east asia)+triennale 2013, Jakarta ,Indonesia
2014  Project de intercambio Sao Paulo - Tokyo 2014, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2014  ECLIPSE , Pinacoteca Municipal ,Bairro Santa Paula, Brazil
2014  Ichihara Art x Mix 2014 , Ichihara, Chiba 
2014  Dirty Feet ,Cemeti Art Hous ,Yogjakarta 
2014  Tokyo Story 2014,Tlkyo Wonder Site Shibuya, Tokyo
2014  City and Nature , Sapporo International Art Festival 2014, Sapporo, Hokkaido
2014  YOS Yogyakarta Open Studio 2014, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
2014  WonderFruit2014 "island" Pattaya, Thailand
2015  Imaginarium / a Voyage of Big Ideas, "Trees 2015" Singapore Art Museum(SAM) Singapore
2015  Japanese art after Fukushima return of Godzilla,the RMIT Gallery,Melbourne Australia
2015  YOS Yogyakarta Open Studio2015, with Cinema Caravan, Yogyakarta,Indonesia
2015  Six Degrees of Separatation,Galeri Canna, Jakarta, Indonesia
2015  Spectrum , Spiral Garden in Aoyama ," Vortex: a letter from Einstein", Aoyama Tokyo
2016  Domani / The Art of Tomorrow 2015 , el-Mabka, The National Art Center of Tokyo, Tokyo 
2016  Domani Plus / Drawing Lessons in 3331 ARTS CHIYODA Tokyo
2016  Revalue Nippon Project / Hidetoshi nakata's Favorite Japanese KOGEI , Shiodome Museum,Tokyo
2016  Painting Beyond the Picture Plane : Installation and Nihonga / Musashino Art University Museum,Tokyo
2016  Art Jog 9 / UNIVERSAL INFLUENCE, WE HAVE DECIDED NOT TO DIE, Yogyakarta,Indonesia
2016  Tennozu-canal summer Fes by Cinema Caravan 2016 / Tennozu. Tokyo
2016  RAID_8 (Redyndant Attey of Independent Disks) / GELERIA RAQUEL ARNAUD, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2016  SAITAMA KITAMACHI PROJECT & CARt Camp & Caravan to Osaka chishima, Osaka
2017  Hiroshi Koike Bridge Project 2017 / stage art from Takashi Kuribayashi with Awagami Factory, Tokyo
2017  Japan Alps International Art Festival 2017,Daiichi Kurobe Dam, Omachi Nagano
2017  "seeds of Memory" japanese artist in Yogyakarta , Yogyakarta Indonesia
2017  " Wald aus Wald 2017" "Sunflower"  JAPAN- Spirits of Nature , Nordiska Akvarellmuseet , Sweden
2017  " Sunflower" Zushi Art Fesrival 2017, Zushi City Hall, Kanagawa
2018  ZUSHI FILM FESTIVAL 2018/Indonesia day, Indonesia Yatai trip 2018 , Zushi
2018  SIAF seizan international art festival, Maizoukyo 2018 Seizan, Fukushima 
2018  SEISON ENFANCE, Palais de Tokyo, "Entrances" Paris ,France
2018  LEBENSWEGE, Rob Scholte Klasse / Kasseler Kunstverein by Fridericianum. Kassel, Germany
2018  Beyond Wonder/ Perspectives of Utopia, Nagoya Art UNI Art & Design Center, Nagoya
2019  Setouchi Art Triennale 2019, "Tree of Ibuki" Ibuki-Island , Kagawa
2019  Art Bali 2019, CAN NOT SEE DO NOT SEE DO NOT WANT TO SEE PRAY, Bali ,Indonesia
2020  DOMANI2020, Landscapes in Our Age: Scarred and Reborn. The National Art Center, Tokyo
2021  Resonances of Distance/Road to Documenta15, boa / Takashi Kribayashi & Rai Shizuno. Düsseldorf ,Germany

2021  Under museum project 01 gate 2020 / 

2022  Meet your Art / Ebisu Garden Place , Genki-ro No.3 MINOMUSHI, Ebisu Tokyo

2022  documenta fifteen / "out of the mosquito net " with cinema caravan, kassel Germany

2022  Tokyo Midtown Yaesu / "Mountain range", Yaesu Tokyo

2023  Roppongi Art Night 2023/ Roppongi  Tokyo

2023  Fan Week 2023 Fukuoka 

2024  Beppu 100Anniversary GENKIRO-TRIP2024/ Beppu Oita

2024.  Indonesia Bertutur 2024, ”GARDEN Klakat Bali” Bali, Indonesia

2024  Aomori Gokan Art Festival 2024 / Aomori GENKI-RO Trip 2024, Aomori,hachinohe,Towada,Hirosaki.Aomori

 
 
 
 

[Selected Space Design/Installation]
GHK Kassel Kunsthochschule , Kassel , Germany​
​Towada Art Center, Aomori , Japan
Kachidoki View Tower,Tokyo,Japan
Ibuki Island, Tree of Ibuki  Japan
Tokyo Midtown Yaesu, Tokyo Japan
ALTERNATIVESTSATE#3 Botanic GENKI-RO, Beppu Japan
 
 
 
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