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Biography
1961 born in the Mie Prefecture, Japan
1986 Diploma at the University of the Arts, Aichi-ken, Japan
1988 Master of Fine Arts, University of the Arts, Aichi-ken, Japan
1991 - 1999 Studies at the Art Academy Düsseldorf with Prof. Günther Uecker / Prof. Klaus Rinke
1998 Master student with Prof. Klaus Rinke
since 2004 Junior professor at the University of the Arts, Aichi-ken, Japan
2009 - 2010 Japanese government grant for a year of work in London
Solo exhibitions
2018
Colors of the Void , amschatzhaus Gallery, Neuss
2017
Drift in the Air , Galerie am Sammelbach-Speicher, Hildesheim
Play of colors of emptiness , Christian Marx Galerie, Düsseldorf
I will fly , LAD Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
2016
I get you, you get me , Gallery 301, Seoul, South Korea
2015
Primitive man, I can see better , LAD Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
2014
Only to Wake from this Dream , Gallery noivoi, Nagoya, Japan
2010
Surface Reflections , Christian Marx Galerie, Düsseldorf
Research Development Program , The Slade Research Center, London, UK
New work, Slade School of Fine Art, London, Great Britain
2008
Surface Reflections , Kunstverein Bochum e. V., Bochum
Kasuya House Museum, Yokosuka, Japan
2007
DELTA Basel, Switzerland
2006
Kunstverein Museum Schloss Morsbroich eV, Leverkusen
NAF Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
2004
artothek, Cologne
2003
Stephanienstrasse, Dusseldorf
2002
Gallery OMC, Düsseldorf
2001
galerie januar eV (with Bernd Halbherr)
1999
Castello Belvedere, Switzerland
1997
Bauhaus Fischer, Wuppertal
1996
Konrad Mönter Gallery, Meerbusch
1995
Siemens "factory hall", Leipzig
1992
Annelie Brusten Gallery, Wuppertal
1991
Humanite Gallery, Tokyo / Nagoya, Japan
1989
Hinoki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Group exhibitions
2017
Minimalism , Gallery noivoi, Nagoya, Japan
NATURAL COLOR 2017 KSCS , Hangaram Gallery Seoul, Korea
International Sculpture Festa 2017, Seoul, South Korea
2016
GREENY , Gallery ART CENTER, ChungAng University, Seoul, South Korea
2015
Behind the scenes , Christian Marx Galerie, Düsseldorf
2014
It Took a While to find these Things - Part Two , OMC Gallery, CA, USA
2013
Ensemble terrible , Christian Marx Galerie, Düsseldorf
2012
art KARLSRUHE, Christian Marx Gallery, Karlsruhe
2011
I believe I'm Dreaming or Six Attempts to Face and Ignore Reality , OMC Gallery, CA, USA
Buddha's Trail , Ruhrtriennale, Museum Bochum, Bochum
Manny Layer , Teloy Mill, Meerbusch
2010
7th Berlin Art Salon, Christian Marx Gallery, Berlin
Research Development Program, The Slade Research Center, London, UK
2009
Tokorozawa Biennale of Contemporary Art , Saitama, Japan
2008
How I see Germany , OMC Gallery, LA / USA
2007
City_net Asia , Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
2006
Ars Avendi Gallery (CMG), Krefeld
"And it does move," Museum Bochum
2004
Municipal Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
2002
Space objects, Gelsenkirchen art association
2001
TRENDWÄNDE, Kunstraum Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf
Märkisches Scholarship, Städtische Galerie Lüdenscheid, Lüdenscheid
Customs, Alte Zollhalle, Dusseldorf
2000
Rendez-vous, Robert Bosch Hospital, Stuttgart
Arnsberg Art Association
1999
in de ban van de ring , Museum Beginenhof, Belgium
1998
Gallery E.Wahlandt, Stuttgart
Oldenburg Art Association
1997
SALDO , Kunstpalast Düsseldorf
ArToll Laboratory '97 , Landesklinik Kleve
1996
Water, earth, light , Godesheim, Bonn
1995
MADE IN MAURITIUS , Kunstraum, Düsseldorf / Mauritius
49th Bergische Kunstausstellung, German Blade Museum, Solingen
UIT DE KLERE (N) , Galerie Van Laethen and Museum voor Religieuze Kunst, Belgium
1994
Loma Kitsi, Kluuvi Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
Artists' Symposium '94 , Steffisburg Art Collection, Switzerland
Spectacle '94 , Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund
1990
Battle Royal , Nagoya, Japan
Grand Prix, 18th Japan International ART Exhibition, Tokyo / Kyoto, Japan
Grand Prix, 12th Chunichi Exhibition, Nagoya, Japan
1989
Humanite Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
1988
New Sculptors , Seiho Gallery, Tokyo
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