1969

Born in Shimane, Japan

1992

Graduated from the Department of Oil painting, Musashino Art University

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2010

"SOUL UNION", ARATANIURANO, Tokyo, Japan

2008

"The Riverhead", The Ueno Royal Museum Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2007

"Dear Humans", ARATANIURANO, Tokyo

"MOKU", Takahashi Collection, Tokyo

2006

Murata & Friends, Berlin

2005

"HADAKA NO HITO", SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, Tokyo

Galleria Astuni, Pietrasanta, Italy

2004

"αM PROJECT Vol.5", ASK? art space kimura, Tokyo

Murata & Friends, Berlin

2003

Ai Gallery, Tokyo

"Drawings 1996-2003", 23GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan

2002

Galleria Chimera, Tokyo, Japan

2001

"Criterium46", Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan

Murata & Friends, Berlin

"Focusing on a New Generation in Japan", Ai Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2000

Ai Gallery, Tokyo

23GALLERY, Tokyo

1999

IBM-KAWASAKI City Gallery, Kanagawa, Japan

1996

GALLERY LE DECO, Tokyo (’97, ’98), Japan

1995

Ai Gallery, Tokyo

Selected Group Exhibitions

2010

"Living With Art - Contemporary Art from Japan and Taiwan", Yi&C.Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan

"neoteny japan - From TAKAHASHI Collection", The Museum of Art Ehime, Ehime, Japan

"New Kore Shizuoka - New and Previous Collections and Art Closely Connected to Shizuoka", Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Shizuoka, Japan

"Garden of Painting / Japanese Art of the 00s", The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan

2009

“neoteny japan - From TAKAHASHI Collection” Akita Museum of Modern Art, Akita, Japan

“Selection from the Hara Museum Collection” Hara Museum Arc, Gunma, Japan

"neoteny japan – From TAKAHASHI Collection", Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Niigata, Japan

"neoteny japan – From TAKAHASHI Collection", Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan

"Dorodoro, Doron – The Uncanny World in Folk and Contemporary Art in Asia", Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan

"Long Season", Michael Ku Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

"TOYOTA ART COLLECTION 2008", Kuragaike Art Salon, Kuragaike Commemorative Hall, Aichi, Japan

2008

"neoteny japan – From TAKAHASHI Collection", Museum of Contemporary Art, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

"FORWARDS 08 –Daimler Awards for Contemporary Art from Germany, Japan, South Africa and the USA", Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany

"Kankai Pavilion Opening Exhibition – Beyond Time, Beyond Space", (supervised by Arata ISOZAKI), Hara Museum ARC, Gunma, Japan

"neoteny japan – From TAKAHASHI Collection", Kirishima Open-Air Museum, Kagoshima, Japan

"Art Scope 2007/2008 – Faces of Existence", Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan

"Selection from the Hara Museum's Permanent Collection", Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan

2007

"MOT Annual 2007 – From a World as Large as Life", Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo

"Painting as Forest : Artist as Thinker", Okazaki Mindscape Museum, Aichi, Japan

Venice Biennale 52nd International Art Exhibition "Think with the Senses – Feel with the Mind. Art in the Present Tense", Italian Pavilion at Giardini, Venezia, Italy

2006

"GLOBAL PLAYERS-Deutsche und japanische Kunst der Gegenwart", Ludwig Forum Aachen, Germany

"The Child", Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan

2005

"Izumi KATO, Junya SATO, Yuken TERUYA", Galerie 14-1, Stuttgart

"Little Boy, Japan Society", New York, USA

"GLOBAL PLAYERS-Deutsche und japanische Kunst der Gegenwart", BankART 1929, Yokohama, Japan

2004

Galleria Astuni, Pietrasanta, Italy

"Body", Galerie Robert Dress, Hannover, Germany

"lonely planet", Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan

"Pro Tsubo", Neue Galerie Landshut, Germany

2002

"The 1^st Magical Art Exhibition", Magic Room, PROJECT ROOM, Tokyo

"ZONE – Clairvoyants in this threatening age", Fuchu Art Museum, Tokyo

"VOCA 2002", Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo

"Pro-Tsubo, Zeitgenassische junge Kunst aus Japan", Theodor-Zink-Museum, Kaiserslautern, Germany

2000

"Four Emerging Artists", Theatres des SENS, Tokyo, Japan

1997

"Bi' and 'Jutsu' ", Ai Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Public Collection

Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan

Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan

Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan

Okazaki Mindscape Museum, Aichi, Japan

Franks Suss Collection

Pigozzi Collection

"Untitled", 2006, Oil on canvas, 227 x 181.8 cm, Photo by Keizo Kioku

"Untitled", 2007, Oil on canvas, 194 x 162 cm, Photo by Keizo Kioku

"The Riverhead", exhibition view, Ueno Royal Museum Gallery, 2008