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
Centro Roberto Garza Sada (CRGS), Universidad de Monterrey, San Pedro Garza García, Nuevo León, México - 2014
- CAPC Contemporary Art Museum of Bordeaux, Bordeaux
- 2013
- Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
- 2011
- Museo Marino Marini, Florence
- 2010
- SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, Tokyo
Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, UK - 2008
- "Friends", Corvi-Mora, London
- 2004
- "Lucy and Simba", Corvi-Mora, London
- 2003
- Leo Koenig Inc., New York
- 2002
- Corvi-Mora, London
- 2001
- Michael Janssen Gallery, Köln
Selected Group Exhibitions
- 2018
- "Encore un jour banane pour le poisson-rêve", Palais de Tokyo, Paris
- 2017
- "Summer Exhibition", Royal Academy of Arts, London
- 2015
- "Sculpture in the city 2015", London
- 2013
- "Postwar Sculpture: Focus on Material", The National Museum of Art, Osaka
- 2010
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"BigMinis", CAPC Musée d'art Contemporain, Bordeaux
"Jerwood Contemporary Makers", Jerwood Space, London - 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
- 2008
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"20", Dazed and Confused Gallery, London
"Legende", Centre d’ Art Contemporain, Charamande, France
"Attention to Detail", FLAG Art Foundation, New York (curated by Chuck Close) - 2006
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"Personne ne Veut Mourir", Arquebuse, Geneva
"The Youth of Today", Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt (cat) - 2005
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"First We Take Museums", Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki (cat)
"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
"If You Go Down To The Woods Today", Rockwell, London
"Now is Good. (ne travaillez jamais)", Northern Gallery for Contemporary Arts, Sunderland - 2003
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"The Square Show", Bloomberg Space, London
"Bad Touch", Keith Talent Gallery, London - 2002
- "The Galleries Show: Contemporary Art in London", The Royal Academy of Arts, London
- 2001
- "Jam: Tokyo-London", Barbican Gallery, London; Tokyo Opera Art Gallery, Tokyo
- 2000
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"Juicy", MA Show, Goldsmiths' College, London
"New Contemporaries 2000", Milton Keynes Gallery touring to Cornerhouse, Manchester and Inverleith House, Edinburgh
"The Songs I Like", Galerie Michael Janssen, Cologne
"Shadow of Glamour", One in the Other, London - 1999
- "Japan Centre: Art Vision", Dinonis Road, London
- 1996
- "Garden", Harajuku P.A.P Factory, Tokyo
Publications
- 2009
- "Le Nouveau Festival", Centre Pompidou, Paris
- 2008
- Alexis Vaillant, "Legende", Sternberg Press, Berlin
- 2007
- Judith Collins, "Sculpture Today", Phaidon, p.391