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Educations
2003 Musashino Art University, BFA in Sculpture
2005 Tokyo National University of the Fine Arts and Music, MFA in Intermedia Art
 
Solo Exhibitions
2024 "Polycosmos Everywhere", Mizuma Gallery, Singapore
2022 "Chijikinkutsu", Galerija Nova, Zagreb, Croatia
2019 "Meteon", Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2018 "Chijikinkutsu/Chozumaki", Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  "Chijikinkutsu/Chozumaki", Vima House, Taichung, Taiwan
2017 "+29/-5000", Art Trace Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2016 "Chijikinkutsu", Galerija Kapelica, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2013 "Magnetica Animata", Art Trace Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2012 "Lost in Clouds", Art Trace Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2009 "Paradise in Train Window", Embassy of Italy in Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
 
Group Exhibitions
2024 "EARTH WIND AND FIRE: VISIONS OF FUTURE FROM ASIA / ART WEEK TOKYO FOCUS",
  Okura Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
  "Reflection of Sight, Echoes of Sound", Chuan Shang Xing Hotel, Jingdezhen, China
2023 "Imagine. Fantasies, Dreams, Utopias", Saudi Arabia Museum of Contemporary Art
   (SAMoCA), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
  "Typhoons", Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  "BienalSUR", Museo de Arte Hispanoamericano Isaac Fernández Blanco, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  "Takamatsu Art Museum Collection Exhibition 1st term 2023", Takamatsu Art Museum,
  Kagawa, Japan
2022 "BIWAKO BIENNALE 2022", Machiya Club/Kaneyoshi Villa, Shiga, Japan
  "Takamatsu Contemporary Art Annual vol.11", Takamatsu Art Museum, Kagawa, Japan
2021 "The Invisible Sounds", Museum of Waste, Changsha, China
  "O-rai" Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2020 "Interaction: Souls in Synchronicity", Toyama Glass Art Museum, Toyama, Japan
  "BIWAKO BIENNALE 2020", Smith Memorial Hall, Shiga, Japan
  "Intermedia Art 2020 Apparation", Tokyo University of the Arts Museum Chinretsukan
- Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  "SUKIKEI / New View", Nihombashi Mitsukoshi, Tokyo, Japan
  "SUKIKEI / New View", Artium / Mitsukoshi Gallery, Fukuoka, Japan
  "MATERIA Opening Exhibition", MATERIA - Centro de Ciencias de Sinaloa,
Culiacán, México
2019 "CYFEST-12: ID", The State Hermitage Youth Education Center,
  St.Petersburg, Russia
  "40 Years of Humanizing Technology", Design Society
- Sea World Culture and Arts Center, Shenzhen, China
  "SUKIKEI / New View", Hankyu Umeda Gallery, Osaka, Japan
  "Lux Aeterna (ISEA2019)", Asia Culture Center, Gwangiu, Korea
  "magnetic_T", New Media Gallery, New Westminster, Canada
2018 "2018 Hsinchu City Glass Art and Design Festival: LIGHT-DRIVING",
  Hsinchu Park WINDlivehouse, Hsinchu, Taiwan
  "HÖHENRAUSCH 2018: The Other Shore", OK im OÖ Kulturquartier,
(OK Center for Contemporary Art), Lintz, Austria
  "Abaton", Blueproject Foundation, Barcelona, Spain
2017 "Les Faits du hasard (Biennale Némo)", Le Centquatre-Paris, Paris, France
  "УЯВНИЙ ПУТІВНИК. ЯПОНІЯ", Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kiev, Ukraine
  "Sonica", Govanhil Baths / Lighthouse, Glasgow, Scotland
  "¿Como decir nosotxs?", Casa de Electromagnético, Mexico City, Mexico
  "Ars Electronica in Berlin", DRIVE. Volkswagen Group Forum, Berlin, Germany
2016 "The Alchemists of Art and Science", Ars Electronica Center, Linz, Austria
  "Alchemists of our Time (Ars Electronica Festival 2016)", POSTCITY, Linz, Austria
  "IMPETUS AND MOVEMENT", KNOWLEDGE CAPITAL, Osaka, Japan
  "Open Space 2016 | Media Concious", NTT Intercommunication Center, Tokyo, Japan
2015 "Takamatsu Media Art Festival", Tamamo Park Hiunkaku, Takamatsu, Japan
  "Materia Prima", LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijón, Spain
  "CYBERARTS 2015", OK im OÖ Kulturquartier, Linz, Austria
2014 "The 17th Taro Okamoto Award of Contemporary Art Exhibition",
  Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, Kawasaki, Japan
2008 "SaiSei", BankART Studio NYK, Yokohama, Japan
2007 "RE:MELT", ZAIM, Yokohama, Japan
2004 "The 7th Taro Okamoto Memorial Award of Contemporary Art Exhibition", 
  Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, Kawasaki, Japan
  "Me Kara Toku", Tokyo Zokei University Manzù Museum, Tokyo, Japan
  "Digital Art Festival Tokyo 2004", Panasonic Center Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
  "Asia Digital Art Award FUKUOKA", Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
2003 "Green Space2_light/shadow ", Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Weimar, Germany
   
Awards, Grants and Residency Program  
2023 Prix Ars Electronica 2023, "Perhaps, art begins with the fireflies", Honorary Mention in AI & Life Art
2017 Artist in Residence for for the sound and visual arts festival "Sonica" by Cryptic in Glasgow, Scotland
  Grant for "Sonica" over Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation and Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation
2015 Prix Ars Electronica 2015, "Chijikinkutsu", Golden Nica in Digital Musics & Sound Art
2014 The 17th Taro Okamoto Award of Contemporary Art, Selected
2004 The 7th Taro Okamoto Memorial Award of Contemporary Art, Special Prize
  Asia Digital Art Award, Finalists' Awards
   
Collection  
2023 "Chozumaki", Takamatsu Art Museum, Kagawa, Japan
2017 "Chiji-ki", Takahashi Ryutaro Collection, Tokyo, Japan


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