Chiezo TARO

1962

Born in Tokyo, Japan

1980-84

New York University, Tisch School of the Arts

1984

Organized HACL (Hyper-realistic Art and Concept Laboratory)

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Selected Solo Exhibitions

1992

Shiraishi Contemporary Art Project Room, Tokyo, Japan
Mars Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1993

Sandra Gering Gallery, New York
Dolphin, Gallery Cellar, Nagoya, Japan

1994

Galerie Ribbentrop, Eltville am Rhein, Germany
Kiss Me Twice, Gallery Cellar, Nagoya, Japan
The Edge of Chaos, SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, Tokyo
The Edge of Chaos, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York

1996

Sandra Gering Gallery, New York
Between Life and Death, Ginza Komatsu, Tokyo
Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo

1997

Robot Love, Kirin Art Space Harajuku, Tokyo

1999

Public Ghost: New Paintings 1999, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
Public Ghost: Paintings 1996-1999, Dai-ichi Life Gallery, Tokyo
Sandra Gering Gallery, New York

2000

Kohji Ogura Gallery, Nagoya

2001

ALIEN / ENCOUNTER PROJECT, SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, Tokyo

2002

Open Studio in Fuchu Art Museum, Fuchu Art Museum, Tokyo
Project Amoras "AGE OF MERAL", Shinkyone Art Space, Osaka

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Selected Group Exhibitions

1982

The First Annual Asian American Video Festival, New York

1984

The 7th Video Festival, Tokyo
Tokyo Image Forum, Tokyo
Japan Experience, New York

1985

Japan Avant-garde and Future, Genova, Italy
Pre-Continuum 85, Kawasaki IBM Gallery, Kawasaki, Japan
Continuum 85, RMIT, Melbourne

1991

The Booth Show, Natalie Rivera, New York
Hotel 48hs. (Nov.22-24), Off-Soho Suites, New York
Invisible Body, Curated by Alan Jones, Rempire Gallery, New York
Universe in the Box, Tierrat Gallery, Tokyo

1992

Post Human, Curated by Jeffrey Deitch, FAE Musée d'Art Contemporain, Lausanne [Travelled to : Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea (Torino), Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art (Athens), and Deichtorhallen Hamburg (Hamburg), The Jewish Museum(Israel)]
Summer Becomes Eclectic, Mars Gallery, Tokyo
Floating Gallery vol.1, Tsukishima Waterhouse, Tokyo

1993

Annina Nosei Gallery, New York Sound [9 July-18 September 1993], Museion, Balzano, Italy
Discursive Dress, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, USA
Slittamenti, curated by Christian Leigh, Zitelle, 45th Venezia Biennale, Italy
The Return of the Cadavre Equis, The Drawing Center, New York
Anxious Art, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston
Self Winding, curated by Jeffery Deitch, Nanba City Hall, Osaka
Summer Punch '93, Kim Light Gallery, Los Angeles
Bodyguard, Hohenthal und Bergen, Munich [travelled to Hohenthal und Bergen, Cologne]
Hotel 48 Stunden, Modern Hotel Garni, Dusseldorf, Germany
SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, Opening Exhibition, Tokyo
New Museum Live Auction, New York

1994

The Figure, curated by Sandra Gering, Deutsche Bank Lobby Gallery, New York Arrested Childhood, curated by Bonnie Clearwater, Center for Contemporary Art, North Miami, Florida
Sandra Gering Gallery, New York
Desert of Desire, The Spiral Garden, Tokyo
The Day After Tomorrow, Centro Cultural deBelem, Lisbon Toys / Art / Us, The Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle, New York
Domestic Setting, Los Angeles

1995

Selected Work from the Collection, Tokushima Modern Art Museum,Tokushima, Japan
The Message is the Medium, The Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle, New York
The Outer Layer, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, New Jersey
Age of Anxiety, The Power Plant, Toronto
The 6th Triennial of Small Scale Sculpture, Stuttgart, Germany
Forest of Image, Oguiss Memorial Art Museum, Inazawa, Japan
Osaka Triennial 1995 Sculpture, Mydome Osaka, Japan
SAM Museum, Osaka

1996

Human Figure, O Art Museum, Tokyo
Intangible Childhood, Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Tsu, Mie
Ideal Standard Life, Spiral, Tokyo
TOKYO POP, The Hiratsuka Museum of Art, Hiratsuka, Kanagawa
Ironic Fantasy, The Miyagi Museum of Art, Miyagi, Japan
Romper Room, Thread Waxing Space, New York

1997

Super Body, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
Papier, Hohenthal und Bergen, Munchen, Germany
Heaven, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York

1998

Presumed Innocence, Anderson Gallery, Virginia, and Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati
Exterminated Angel, Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris
VOCA '98, Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo
Art Transpennine 98, Tate Gallery, Liverpool
The Manga Age, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo

1999

Painting for Joy: New Japanese Painting in 1990s, The Japan Foundation Forum, Tokyo
Sampling, Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York

2001

My Reality- Ｃontemporary Art and the Culture of Japanese Animation, The Des Moines Art Center, Iowa [traveling to The Brooklyn Museum, New York / The Contemporary Art Center, Ohio / Tampa Museum of Art, Florida]
Tokyo Pop, The Kansas City Jewish Museum, USA

2002

Organic / Mechanic, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan
Cyclical Art Site-Contemporary Art Exhibition in Oita 2002, Oita Art Museum, Oita, Japan
ATTITUDE 2002, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan
The 1st Fuchu Biennale / Double Reality, Fuchu Art Museum, Tokyo

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Museum

The Tokushima Modern Art Museum
Shimizu Corporation
Osaka Prefecture Government
Fuji Xerox Co. Ltd.
The Japan Foundation
The Dai-ichi Mutual Life Insurance Company
Oita Art Museum