[ARATANIURANO]

Go Watanabe


Japanese / English

1975
Born in Hyogo, Japan
2000
BA Fine Art, Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music
2002
MA Fine Art, Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2012
"portraits” ARATANIURANO, Tokyo, Japan
"faces” 1223 GENDAIKAIGA – Contemporary Art Collection, Tokyo, Japan
2011
"lightedge – faceII", ARATANIURANO, Tokyo, Japan
2010
"Discovering Contemporary Art 6 Go Watanabe Shiroi Hanashi Kuroi Hanashi"
2007
"’face’", ARATANIURANO, Tokyo, Japan
2004
"Go Watanabe solo exhibition", muzz program space, Kyoto, Japan
1999
"her existence is just...", art space dot, Nagoya, Japan

Selected Group Exhibitions

2012
"Anonymous Life", NTT InterCommunication Center (ICC), Tokyo
"Parallel Japanese Worlds" A4 Contemporary Arts Center, Chengdu, China
"Artist in Wonderland 2012 KUANDU BIENNALE", Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
"Carpe Diem Seize the day", Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan
"COSMIC TRAVELERS Toward the Unknown", Espace Louis Vuitton, Tokyo
2011
"ask the wine", muzz program space, Kyoto, Japan
"Invisibleness is Visibleness: International Contemporary Art Collection of a Salaryman-- Daisuke Miyatsu", MOCA TAIPEI, Taipei, Taiwan
"Art in an Office - from Impressionism, Modern Japanese Art to Contemporary Art", Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi
2010
"VIDEO RELAY 2010", muzz program space, Kyoto, Japan
2009
"Mountains and Valleys", ARATANIURANO, Tokyo, Japan
"In the Little Playground – Hitsuda Nobuya and his surrounding students", Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
"Big in Japan", Contemporary Art Center (CAC), Vilnius, Lithuania
"Long Season", Michael Ku Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2008
"The Echo", Yokohama ZAIM annex 3rd and 4th floor, Kanagawa, Japan
"Art and Ecology – Ecosophy in Practice I", EYE OF GYRE, Tokyo, Japan
2007
"Have you Eaten Yet ? – 2007 Asian Art Biennial", National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan
"Beautiful New World : Contemporary Visual Culture from Japan", Long March,
Beijing; Guangdong Museum of Art, Duangzhou, China
"incubation07", Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto, Japan
"INVISIBLE VISION", HAN JI YUN Contemporary Space, Beijing, China
2006
"Dual Realities - The 4th Seoul International Media Art Biennale", Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2005
"Secret Girls up and down", ASK?, Tokyo, Japan
"very very human", Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota, Japan
2002
"ar/mori/es show2", mori yu gallery, Kyoto, Japan
1999
"cosmic flavor", art space dot, Nagoya, Japan
1997
"ROLLING LIBRARY", Midori Public Library, Nagoya, Japan

Public Collections

National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan
Toyota Motor Corporation, Toyota, Japan
Louis Vuitton, Paris, France

"face ("portrait") -8", 2006, digital print, translucent film, light box, h.135 x w.123 x d.20 cm

"The Tower of Books", 2010, 29 min 07 sec, Full HD animation

"lightedge", 2009, 21 min 36 sec, Full HD animation