1968

Born in Kagoshima, Japan

1991

Graduated from Kyoto City University of Arts & Music, Kyoto (BFA).

1999

Graduated from International Academy of Media-Arts and Sciences (IAMAS), Gifu

Selected Solo Exhibitions

1992

"Collections of love", Voice Gallery, Kyoto, Japan

2000

"Fuyu-no-Umi", CAI (Contemporary Art Institute), Sapporo, Japan
"Muted Space", Voice Gallery, Kyoto, Japan

2001

"Do what you want if you want as you want", Kodama Gallery, Osaka, Japan

2003

"A Lover from Korea", NPO Tanba Manganese Memorial, Kyoto, Japan

2006

"For Yingarna", Gertrude Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne, Australia

2007

"Baby Insa-dong", AD&A gallery, Osaka, Japan

Selected Group Exhibitions

1994

"Wonderful life", Yokohama Galleria, Kanagawa, Japan

1998

"Donai-yanen! (Et Maintenant!)", Ecole nationale superieure des beaux-arts, Paris, France

1999

"SKIN DIVE", Tatsuike primary school, Kyoto, Japan

2001

"Facts of Life: Japanese Comtemporary Art", Hayward Gallery, London, UK
"EXIT", Cretail Maison des Arts, Paris, France

2002

"Continuity and Transgression", The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan

2003

"Kyoto Biennale", Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto, Japan
"50th Venice Biennale" (Arsenale / Viewer's Dictationship), Venice, Italy
"Kyushu-Ryoku", Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan

2004

"Past in Reverse", San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, USA
"Busan Biennale 2004 Contemporary Art Exhibition", Busan, South Korea
"Mediarena", Govett Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
"Roppongi Crossing", Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
"Living Together is Easy", Art Tower Mito, Japan / National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

2005

"Yokohama Triennale 2005", Yokohama, Japan
"Open Nature", ICC InterCommunication Center, Tokyo
"Landscape - The Former Island", Sendai Mediatheque, Miyagi, Japan

2006

"Rapt! 20 Contemporary Artists from Japan", Australia
"Aestetics/Dietetics", GAMEC, Bergamo, Italy

2007

"View of Water: From Monet and Taikan to the Present", Yokohama Museum, Japan
"Out of the Ordinary: New Video from Japan", Getty Center & MOCA, USA
"Message2007: Artists from south Kyushu", Miyazaki, Japan
"Beautiful New World:Contemporary Visual Cultural from Japan", Guangdong Museum of Art, Duangzhou, China

2008

"Self / Other", The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

Selected Performances

1991

"A man with strings", Voice Gallery, Kyoto, Japan

1993

"Jawless man", Sony Art Artist Audition, Tokyo, Japan
"Tele-onalysis", Voice Gallery, Kyoto, Japan

1994

"Le cabarret minimalist", p3, Tokyo, Japan

1996

"The 5th performance festival in Mexico", ExTeresa, Mexico City

1997

"7 virtues", International Academy of Media-Arts and Sciences, Gifu, Japan

1998

"Onyx Dreams", Saydie Bronfman Center, Montreal, Canada
"The Keisan-pun' Band", Nihon Showa Ongaku-mura, Gifu, Japan
"Perfomance in Hiroshima", Comtemporary Museum in Hiroshima, Japan

1999

"K.I.T.", Digital Bauhause, ICC InterCommunication Center, Tokyo, Japan

2002

"Kimura-san", Fierce! festival, IKON Gallery, Birmingham, UK

2005

"Motto Darwin", AI Hall, Hyogo, Japan

2006

"Aromaroa Erogeroe", AI Hall, Hyogo, Japan
"Kimura-san", Queer Zagreb, Croatia

Selected Collaborative Performances

Black ice (directed and choreographed by Jo Kanamori) --- [deco and video production]
Ryutopia Niigata city art theater (premire), performed 8 cities in Japan (2004)

PLAYBOYS (directed by Daniel yeung) --- [performer and collaborator]
Hongkong Arts Festival, Hongkong (2002)

Me/mento 4am "ne" siac (choreographed by Jo Kanamori) --- [video production for live performance]
with NDT2 (Nederlands Dans Theater2), Holland (2001)

Naharin's Virus (choreographed by Ohad Naharin) --- [collaborator]
with BatSheva Dance Company, Israel (2001)

DUMB TYPE (Japan) --- [worked as a performer and a collaborator]
performance "OR" / Maubeuge, France (1997)
performance "S/N" / France, Luxemberg, Germany, Slovenia, Switzerland, Belgium, Spain, New Zealand, Brazil, Australia, Hongkong, Japan, Canada (1993 ~1996)

The right to live & develop (with Noriko Sunayama and Misako Yabuuchi)
by Best Adult, Art Space Mumonkan, Kyoto, Japan (1993)

Make my Kodai-san,tin! (with Kodai Nakahara, Koji Nishimatsu, Noriko Sunayama)
Nagoya city art museum, Aichi, Japan (1992)

Chiiki-san (A music band, with Koji Nishimatsu)
live activities in different parties (1989~1993)

Public Collections

The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto

Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art

The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto

To the Sea　2004

Kagoshima Esperanto　2005

Blackice　2004