Born
in Osaka, Japan
EDUCATION
B.F.A., Kyoto City University of Arts - Painting (Fresco)
Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna, Italy
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008
DE RERUM NATURA: on the nature of things, Shigeko
Bork MU Project, Washington,
DC, USA
THREE WINDOWS: sun, moon, star, Ippaku-tei Teahouse, Embassy
of Japan, Washington,
DC, USA
global tree project: SEEDING, Arlington
Arts Center, VA, USA
Porvoo Taidetehdas/Artfactory, Porvoo, Finland
global tree project: SLEEPING TREE, Greater Reston Arts Center, VA,
USA
2004
THE DIVERGENT GAZE OF ANGELS, Pro Artibus Foundation, Ekenäs/Helsinki,
Finland
2003
PALACE OF THE WINDS, Embassy of Japan, New Delhi, India
2002
BLUE GOLD, Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland
1999
AQUA, Associazione culturale GRAFIO, Prato, Italy
AQUA: yorishiro, Ex Fienile, Castel S. Pietro Terme - Bologna, Italy
AQUA: stepping-stones, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea VILLA CROCE, Genoa, Italy (Asiart)
1998
AËR, Cubic Gallery, Osaka, Japan
1997
AËR, Galleria Graffio, Bologna, Italy
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008
FLUIDITY - asian american artists, Montpelier Arts Center,
MD, USA
2007
BIG IN JAPAN, Shigeko Bork MU Project/Transformer, Washington, DC, USA
2006
FRESH PAINT: process and possibility - painting invitational, Arlington Arts Center, VA, USA
Targetti Light Art Collection, MUAR, Moscow, Russia
2005
KYOTO ART WALK - conserved space and contemporary art, Kyoto, Japan
MEHR LICHT, MAK, Wien, Austria
2004
S.O.B.2, A.O.C.F.58, Rome, Italy
2003
Targetti Light Art Collection, Chelsea Art Museum, N.Y. / Armani-Teatro di Tadao Ando,
Milan
OPEN HOUSE, Sanskriti Foundation, New Delhi, India
2002
Targetti Light Art Collection, Centre of Contemporary Art Ujazdowki Castle,
Warszawa, Poland / Arte Giani, Frankfurt, Germany / Arte Fiera, Bologna,
Italy / Maerzz Glerie, Leipzig, Germany / Light+Building, Frankfurt / Galleria Marella,
Milan / Via Borgognona, Rome / Arte Fiera, Bologna (2001-2000)
2001
work-in-progress - "Round Thoughts", ArteAlta -
Castelmola, Sicily, Italy
2000
Pépinières Européennes pour Jeunes Artistes, Roches Point Lighthouse, Cork, Ireland
Die Blaue Begeisterung - 34 junge italienische künstler, Kunsthaus Tacheles, Berlin,
Germany
ALTRI LUOGHI, ex dormitorio delle FFSS, Bologna, Italy
ARTE VISIVE 3 - occhio in ascolto, Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, Italy
1999
ASIART - Asian Contemporary Art, Palazzo Ducale / Cisterne di S. Maria di Castello, Genoa,
Italy
FRINGE Festival, Stazione Leopolda, Florence, Italy
1997
ASIART - Asian Contemporary Art - L'incontro con l'Occidente, Palazzina S. Desiderio,
Porto Antico, Genoa, Italy
EARTHWORKS
2003
global tree project: SECRET GARDEN, Sanskriti
Foundatiom, New Delhi, India
global tree project: GIFT, Navdanya's
Bija Vidyapeeth (Vandana Shiva), Dehradun, India
2000
global tree project: AQUA-omphalos,
Roches Tower, Cork, Ireland
1997
AQUA: paesaggi impermanenti, Galleria Graffio - Courtyard, Bologna, Italy
SELECTED VIDEOS
2003
UNTITLED / DVD / 4 min. 43 sec. - loop (mute)
2002-01
AQUA: Landscape Voices - Left + Right / 2 DVDs / 7 + 7 min. - loop (mute)
AQUA: Landscape Voices / 4 DVDs / 60 + 10 + 40 + 60 sec. - loop
AQUA: Omphalos / DVD / 6 min. 47 sec.
CURATION
2005
KYOTO ART WALK - conserved space and contemporary art -
artists: Wolfgang Laib, Tommi Grönlund & Petteri Nisunen, Hans Christian Berg, Monika
Kulicka, Evelina Domnitch & Dmitry Gelfand, Yuko Shiraishi, Shinji Turner-Yamamoto
GRANTS / AWARDS
2008-07
Porvoo Air ry/rf - Taidetehdas/Artfactory, Porvoo, Finland
Arlington Commission for the Arts, VA, USA
Humanities Project, VA, USA
Cill Rialaig Project, Kerry, Ireland
2004
Cill Rialaig Project, Kerry, Ireland
Pro Artibus Foundation, Ekenäs, Finland
2003-02
Fundación Valparaíso, Almería, Spain
UNESCO-ASCHBERG Bursaries for Artists, Sanskriti Foundation, New Delhi, India
2001
ARTEALTA, Castelmola, Italy
2000
Pépinières Européennes pour Jeunes Artistes, Roches Point Lighthouse, Cork, Ireland
International Targetti Light Art Prize; awarded the 1st prize
1992
Scholarship from the Italian Government - Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna, Italy
FORUM / LECTURES / WORKSHOP
2008-07
global tree project: SEEDING, Barrett Elementary School / Arlington Arts Center, VA, USA
2005
Kyoto City University of Arts, Kyoto, Japan
2004
Institute of Technology, Sligo, Ireland
Västra Nylands Folkhögskola, Karis, Finland
2001
European Forum for Emerging Creation, Les Subsistances, Lyon, France
COLLECTIONS / COMMISSIONS
DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, USA
LUIGI PECCI Contemporary Art Museum, Prato, Italy
Sanskriti Foundation, New Delhi, India
Castel San Pietro Terme, Bologna, Italy
Targetti Light Art Collection, Florence, Italy
White Light, Targetti Sankey, Florence, Italy
ArteAlta, Castelmola, Italy
Pro Artibus Foundation, Ekenäs, Finland |