Photo: Heidi Voet
Born 1964, Tokyo, Japan.
The artist lives and works in Brussels, Belgium and Shanghai, China.
Graduated from Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design in Los Angeles, California in 1990.
Received masters from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California in 1993.
The artist develops paintings utilizing traditional Taiwanese textile patterns, most known for flowers, to match the uniqueness of each space and building.He is one of the most occupied contemporary artists in the world. He plans to exhibit a large-scale piece and a work with a new method that bares more closely to people's lives in Beppu.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008
Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China
IT Park, Taipei, Taiwan
2007
Nogueras Blanchard, Barcelona, Spain
O.K.Centrum, Linz, Austria
2006
Eslite Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2005
Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Nogueras Blanchard, Barcelona, Spain
2004
Eslite Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA, USA
Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA
PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY, USA
2003
Palais de Tokyo, Site de Creation Contemporaine-Paris, France
Galerie Urs Meile, Luzern,Switzerland
Moroso Showroom, Milan, Italy
2002
Palais de Tokyo, Site de Creation Contemporaine, Paris, France
Stroom, The Hague, Netherlands
Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008
MOBILE ART-for Chanel, Hong Kong, Tokyo, New York
SUPER FENGSHUI, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
ARTIFICIAL NATURE, MOCA, Shanghai, China
HOME, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
2007
SCHAURAUSCH, O.K.Centrum, Linz, Austria
SPACE FOR YOUR FUTURE, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan
2006
NOTRE HISTOIRE, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
SURPLUS VALUE, Tang Contemporary Art Center, Beijing, China
NEW SPACE, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev, Ukraine
2005
BEYOND, The Second Guangzhou Triennial, Guangzhou, China
EXPERIENCE DE LA DUREE, Lyon Biennial, Lyon, France
THE ELEGANCE OF SILENCE, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2004
ODYSSEY-Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China
2003
FlOWER POWER/LILLE 2004, Palais des Beaux Art, Lille, France
CROSSED, CCCB, Barcelona, Spain
ART UNLIMITED, Basel Art Fair, Switzerland
NMAC Foundation, Cadiz, Spain
SUBVERSION AND POETRY, Culturgest-Lisbon, Portugal
2002
URGENT PAINTING, Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
GWANGJU BIENNIAL, Gwangju Biennial Hall-Gwangju, Korea
HOW BIG IS THE WORLD?, O.K.Centrum, Linz, Austria
ASIAN ART TRIENNIAL, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK
2001
49TH BIENNIAL OF VENICE, Taiwan Pavilion, Venice, Italy
ISTANBUL BIENNIAL, Istanbul, Turkey
CASINO 2001, SMAK, Gent, Belgium
Public Commissions
2008
TOWADA ART CENTER, Towada, Japan
KYUSYU UNIVERSITY, Fukuoka, Japan
BLIND WALL PROJECT, City of Ghent, Belgium
2007
L'ECOLE DES CIGALES, Beausoleil, France
ROGALAND SCHOOL OF ART, Stavanger, Norway
2006
KUNSTLINIE, Almere, The Netherlands
2004
21st CENTURY MUSUEM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, Kanazawa, Japan
