Artists
Profile
- Lives in London.
- 2000-02
- MA Sculpture, City & Guilds Art School, London
- 1998-99
- MA Fine Art, Goldsmiths' College, London
- 1992-97
- Tokyo Zokei University
- 1972
- Born in Mito, Japan.
AWARD
- 2008
- Arts Foundation Fellowship
- 2003-04
- Crafts Council Development Award
Selected Solo Exhibitions
- 2017
- Tomoaki Suzuki, Ushaw College Gallery, Durham, UK
- 2016
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Museo de la Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público, Mexico City, Mexico
Centro Roberto Garza Sada (CRGS), Universidad de Monterrey, San Pedro Garza García, Nuevo León, Mexico - 2014
- CAPC Contemporary Art Museum of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
- 2013
- Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
- 2011
- Museo Marino Marini, Florence, Italy
- 2010
- SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, Tokyo, Japan
Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, UK - 2008
- "Friends," Corvi-Mora, London, UK
- 2004
- "Lucy and Simba," Corvi-Mora, London, UK
- 2003
- Leo Koenig Inc., New York, USA
- 2002
- Corvi-Mora, London, UK
- 2001
- Michael Janssen Gallery, Köln, Germany
Selected Group Exhibitions
- 2018
- "Encore un jour banane pour le poisson-rêve," Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
- 2017
- "Summer Exhibition," Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
- 2015
- "Sculpture in the city 2015," London, UK
- 2013
- "Postwar Sculpture: Focus on Material," The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
- 2010
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"BigMinis," CAPC Musée d'art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France
"Jerwood Contemporary Makers," Jerwood Space, London, UK - 2009
- "Le sort probable de l'homme qui avait avalé le fantome," Centre des Monuments Nationaux in partnership with the Festival du Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
- 2008
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"20," Dazed and Confused Gallery, London, UK
"Legende," Centre d’ Art Contemporain, Charamande, France
"Attention to Detail," FLAG Art Foundation, New York (curated by Chuck Close), USA - 2006
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"Personne ne Veut Mourir," Arquebuse, Geneva, Switzerland
"The Youth of Today," Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt (cat), Germany - 2005
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"First We Take Museums," Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki (cat), Finland
"Wunderkammer: The Artificial Kingdom," The Collection, Usher Gallery & City and County Museum, Lincoln, UK - 2004
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"A New Christmas Crib," St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, UK
"If You Go Down To The Woods Today," Rockwell, London, UK
"Now is Good. (ne travaillez jamais)," Northern Gallery for Contemporary Arts, Sunderland, UK - 2003
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"The Square Show," Bloomberg Space, London, UK
"Bad Touch," Keith Talent Gallery, London, UK - 2002
- "The Galleries Show: Contemporary Art in London," The Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
- 2001
- "Jam: Tokyo-London," Barbican Gallery, London, UK ; Tokyo Opera Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
- 2000
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"Juicy," MA Show, Goldsmiths' College, London, UK
"New Contemporaries 2000," Milton Keynes Gallery touring to Cornerhouse, Manchester and Inverleith House, Edinburgh, UK
"The Songs I Like," Galerie Michael Janssen, Cologne, Germany
"Shadow of Glamour," One in the Other, London, UK - 1999
- "Japan Centre: Art Vision," Dinonis Road, London, UK
- 1996
- "Garden," Harajuku P.A.P Factory, Tokyo, Japan
Publications
- 2009
- "Le Nouveau Festival," Centre Pompidou, Paris
- 2008
- Alexis Vaillant, "Legende," Sternberg Press, Berlin
- 2007
- Judith Collins, "Sculpture Today," Phaidon, p.391