1968

Born in Kagoshima, Japan

1991

BFA in Kyoto City University of Arts & Music, Kyoto, Japan

1999

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

[ Artist's Site ]

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2010

"Good House, Nice Body" 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan

"FOCUS 3 Tadasu Takamine: SUPERCAPACITORS", Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa, Japan

2008

"BIG REST – Gardening for the Future 1095㎡", Sendai Mediatheque, Miyagi, Japan

"The SUPERCAPACITOR", ARATANIURANO, Tokyo, Japan

2007

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

2006

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

2005

"Review", Takahashi Collection, Tokyo, Japan

2003

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

2001

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

2000

"Fuyu-no-Umi", CAI (Contemporary Art Institute), Sapporo, Japan

1999

"Muted Space", Voice Gallery, Kyoto, Japan

1992

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

Selected Group Exhibitions

2010

"AICHI TRIENNALE 2010", Nantsudera Kyodo Studio, Naogoya, Aichi, Japan

"TSUNAGARUSHIKUMI - Reaction Chain" Aomori Contemporary Art Centre, Aomori, Japan

"Roppongi Crossing 2010 Can There Be Art?", Mori Museum, Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan

"The Secret of Lafcadio Hearn", Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan

"My Favorites ― Index of a Certain Collection: Selections from the MoMAK Collection", The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan

"Neoteny Japan — From Takahashi Collection", The Museum of Art, Ehime, Japan

2009

"Twist and Shout: Contemporary Art from Japan", Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bankok, Thailand

"I BELIEVE - Japanese Contemporary Art", The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Toyama, Japan

"East Asia Image of Modern Age", Toyoda Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan

"Neoteny Japan — From Takahashi Collection", Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan

"Neoteny Japan — From Takahashi Collection", Akita Museum of Modern Art, Akita, Japan

"The Demon of Comparisons", A project by Electric Palm Tree, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, Holland

2008

"ENSEMBLES", (collaboration with Otomo Yoshihide) Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (YCAM), Yamaguchi, Japan

"Neoteny Japan — From Takahashi Collection", Kirishima Open-Air Museum, Kagoshima, Japan

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

"Four Views of the Collection of the Yokohama Museum of Art", Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan

2007

"Beautiful New World : Contemporary Visual Culture from Japan", Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou , China

"Tomorrow", Kumho Museum, Seoul, Korea

"Espai zer01", Instituto de Cultura de la Ciutat d’Olot, Spain

"Art Lan @Asia: Asian New Art", ZAIM, Yokohama, Japan

"View of Water: From Monet and Taikan to the Present", Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan

"Out of the Ordinary: New Video from Japan", Getty Center & MOCA, USA

"Message2007: Artists from south Kyushu", Miyazaki, Japan

2006

"Rapt! 20 Contemporary Artists from Japan", Australia

"Aestetics/Dietetics", GAMEC, Bergamo, Italy

"12hours Museum", Panasonic Center, Tokyo, Japan

2005

"Yokohama Triennale 2005", Kanagawa, Japan

"Visions of the Body 2005", Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul

"Open Nature", NTT InterCommunication Center (ICC), Tokyo

" Landscape - The Former Island", Sendai Mediatheque, Miyagi, Japan

2004

"Toride Art Project 2004", Ibaraki, Japan

"Past in Reverse", San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, USA

"Busan Biennale 2004 Contemporary Art Exhibition", Busan, Korea

"Me, or me", Borderless Art Gallery NOMA, Shiga, Japan

"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

2003

"Kyoto Biennale", Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto, Japan

"50th Venice Biennale", (Arsenale / Viewer's Dictationship), Venice, Italy

"Kyushu-Ryoku", Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan

"Everyday", Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen, Denmark

2002

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

"AkihabaraTV", Electric Shops in Akihabara, Tokyo, Japan

2001

"Facts of Life: Japanese Contemporary Art", Hayward Gallery, London, UK

"Stay with Art", Hotel T'point, Osaka, Japan

"EXIT", Cretail Maison des Arts, Paris, France

2000

"Confessions of a Voyeur", Istanbul, Turkey

"Figurative Sense", Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto, Japan

1999

"GENDAI", Glen Eira City Gallery, Glen Eira, Australia

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

"Media City", Artcite, Windsor, Canada

1998

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

"Enticing Music", Nihon showa ongaku-mura, Gifu, Japan

1996

"Pilot farm", Gallery Niji, Kyoto, Japan

1994

"Wonderful life", Yokohama Galleria, Kanagawa, Japan

"12 functions", Gallery Maronie, Kyoto, Japan

"The great Art", Lafforet Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan

1993

"YKK", Osaka contemporary art center, Osaka, Japan

Selected Performances

2009

"Melody Cup", AI Hall, Hyogo, Japan

"Beautiful Front Teeth", Kyoto University of Art and Design, Studio 21, Kyoto, Japan

2007

"Life is reversible", AI Hall, Hyogo, Japan

"Onyx Dreams", SuperDelux, Tokyo

2006

"Aromaroa Erogeroe", AI Hall, Hyogo, Japan

"Kimura-san", Queer Zagreb, Croatia

2005

"Motto Darwin", AI Hall, Hyogo, Japan

2002

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

2001

"Kimura-san", Artlink cafe, SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, Tokyo, Japan

1999

"K.I.T.", Digital Bauhause, NTT InterCommunication Center (ICC), Tokyo, 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

"Kimura-san", International Academy of Media-Arts and Sciences (IAMAS), Gifu, Japan

"Real time Chat", International Academy of Media-Arts and Sciences (IAMAS), Gifu, Japan

1997

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

1996

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

"What can I do for you?", Seibu-kodo, Kyoto, Japan

1994

"Le cabarret minimalist", p3, Tokyo, Japan

1993

"Jawless man", Sony Art Artist Audition, Tokyo, Japan

"Tele-onalysis", Voice Gallery, Kyoto, Japan

1991

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

Selected Collaborative Performances

2007

"AI-ON", (choreographed by Misako Terada) /Set design/ Setagaya Theater Tram, Tokyo/ Biwako Hall, Shiga

2004

"Black ice", (choreographed by Jo Kanamori, performed with Noism04) /video and set design/ Ryutopia Niigata city art theater (premire), performed 8 cities in Japan

2002

"Duet 3X", (choreographed by Mui Cheuk-In) /video production/ Sheung Wan Civic Centre Theatre, Hong Kong

"Playboys", (choreographed by Daniel Yeung) / performer and collaborator/ Hong Kong Arts Festival

2001

"Naharin’s Virus", (choreographed by Ohad Naharin, performed with BatSheva Dance Company) /planner/ Israel

"Me/mento 4am ’ne’ siac", (choreographed by Jo Kanamori, performed with Neather land Dance Theater II) /video production/ Holland

1999

"Consilience", (composed by Philippe Bodin) /video production/ Banff Center for the Arts, Canada

1997

"OR", (directed by Dumb Type), Maubeuge, France

1993-1996

"S/N", (directed by Dumb Type), performed in 24 cities in 15 different countries

1994

"pH", (directed by Dumb Type), France, Canada

1993

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

1992

"Make my Kodai-san,tin!", (with Kodai Nakahara, Koji Nishimatsu, Noriko Sunayama)

Nagoya city art museum, Aichi, Japan

1990-1993

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

Public Collections

The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan

Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan

The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan

Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan

21^st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan

"To the Sea", 2004

"Kagoshima Esperanto", 2005

"Blackice", 2004