born 1975, Osaka, Japan

Lives and works in Osaka

Artist’s Site

http://www.geocities.jp/intomato/

Education

2001 BA Fine Arts, Middlesex University, UK

Solo Exhibitions

2007 ‘Vomit’ Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Osaka, Japan

        ‘Wave’ Dawn Center, Osaka, Japan

        ‘Outo’ Centre des Arts Enghien-les-Bains, France

2006 ‘My Real Name’ The Third Gallery Atya, Osaka, Japan

        ‘The Dark Hours of the Forest in the Red Room’ G-wings Gallery, Kanazawa, Japan

2005 ‘Dune/Trip’ PH Gallery, New York, USA

2004 ‘Soap Opera’ Art-U room, Tokyo, Japan

2003 ‘Underneath the Twinkling Stars’ Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna, Austria

2002 ‘Dream Island’ CAS, Osaka, Japan

Selected Group Exhibitions

2010 Duo Exhibition (with Svenja Maass) Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg, Germany

2009 ‘One day, I meet...’ (with Takuma Uematsu) hpgrp GALLERY Tokyo and NADiff a/p/a/r/t, Tokyo

2005 ‘Open Submission’, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan

　　　‘Mirage in Summer’, Gunma Museum of Art, Tatebayashi, Japan

2004 ‘Osaka Art Caleidoscope - Osaka04’ CASO, Osaka, Japan

　　　‘Art Court Frontier’ Artcourt Gallery, Osaka, Japan

　　　‘Pilot Plant’ Contemporary Art Factory, Tokyo / CASO, Osaka, Japan

　　　‘Bunkamura Art show 2004: Landing’ Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

　　　‘Open Studio’ ARCUS, Ibaraki, Japan

2003 ‘Enter Human’ CCA Kitakyusyu, Fukuoka, Japan

　　　‘Komorebi’ Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan

2002 Kobe Art Annual ‘Millefille’ Kobe Art Village Center, Hyogo, Japan

2001 ‘The National Review of Live Art’ The Arches, Glasgow, UK

2000 ‘Show Reel’ Gallery291, London, UK

　　　‘East End Collaboration 2000’ Queen Mary and Westfield College, London, UK

　　　‘Bang’ Standpoint Gallery, London, UK

　　　‘The 3d Festival of Experimental Art and Performance’ Manezh Central Exhibition Hall, St. Petersburg, Russia

1998 ‘Dairy’ Quicksilver Gallery, London, UK（Toured to Paris and Brussels）

Awards

2006 Award winner, Image Forum Festival 2006, Japan

2002 Winner, The 5th ADSP (Art Documents Support Program) by Shiseido, Japan

1999 Winner, Ray Finnis Award 1999, UK

Artist in Residence

2008-2009 Kunstler zu Gast in Harburg, Germany

2006-2007 Centre des Arts Enghien-les-Bains, France (The 17th ART-EX Artist-in-Residence Program),

2004 ARCUS PROJECT, Ibaraki, Japan

Other Activities

2006 Video for ‘fluXS’ (Jean Gaudin), theater db, Osaka

2004 Theatrical Design for the concert ‘Le Cabinet Doré’ (Laurent Teycheney and others), Tokyo FM Hall, Tokyo