About

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Born in Tokyo in 1979. Graduated from the Department of Photography, Osaka University of Arts, in 2002, and joined Roppongi Studio in Tokyo that April. From April 2003 he worked for a year as a teaching assistant in the university’s Department of Photography, and moved to Berlin in 2004, where he lives and works.

His work makes extensive use of strobes, digital imaging and layered multiple exposures, combined with influences from Western and East Asian painting.

In 2006 he kept a studio for a year at Kunsthaus Tacheles in Berlin. His work has been shown internationally, including solo exhibitions in Berlin and Sofia and group exhibitions in China and Poland.

Exhibitions

• 2000Solo exhibition — Guild Gallery, Osaka
• 2000Student group exhibition — Busan, South Korea
• 2003Group exhibition (Sakuhinten) — Osaka University of Arts
• 2005GEISAI Medalists Exhibition — Tokyo
• 2005Solo exhibition, Galerie Ste — Sofia, Bulgaria
• 2005Solo exhibition “too cool to die” — Kunstladen Polymar, Berlin
• 2006GEISAI — live painting — Tokyo
• 2006Represented by ROCKET, Tokyo (2006–2007); featured in the book “ROCKET”
• 2007Tacheles Werkschau 2006 — group exhibition — Kunsthaus Tacheles, Berlin
• 2008Tacheles Werkschau 08 — group exhibition — Kunsthaus Tacheles, Berlin
• 2008“Contrary View” — three-person exhibition — Galerie Waschhaus, Berlin
• 2008Group exhibition — former brewery, Neukölln, Berlin
• 2008“Kunst im Turm” — group exhibition — Berlin
• 2009Kunstturm 2009 — group exhibition — Berlin
• 2010Art Triennale “Hunt for This Century’s Leonardo da Vinci” — open call, selected for exhibition — Osaka University of Arts
• 2018lAbyRinTh — group exhibition — Słubice, Poland
• 2018Pingyao International Photography Festival (PIP 2018) — group exhibition of Japanese photographers — Pingyao, China
• 2023Festiwal lAbiRynT — group exhibition — Słubice, Poland
• 2024New Art – lAbiRynT, “Q” — group exhibition — Słubice, Poland

Press

• 2005“GEISAI Medalists” (book) — featured with a personal page
• 2005Bulgaria — two live TV programmes, a two-hour live radio programme and a newspaper feature, on the solo exhibition at Galerie Ste, Sofia
• 2006smart (Takarajimasha) — featured in Takashi Murakami’s artist column
• 2023Festiwal lAbiRynT 2023 catalogue (Słubice / Frankfurt (Oder)) — “Layered Landscapes” (Cherry Blossoms, Plum Blossoms, Trees in the Snow)

Awards

• 2001Geijutsu Dojo Grand Prix, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (predecessor of GEISAI) — Bronze Prize (jury incl. Takashi Murakami, Yoshitomo Nara, Moyoco Anno)
• 2002GEISAI-1 — Yasushi Fujimoto Award (art director of VOGUE JAPAN, Casa BRUTUS and others)
• 20101_WALL Photography — shortlisted (second-round presentation)
• 2011PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris — Silver (Professional / Advertising / Food)
• 2011PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris — People’s Choice, 2nd place (Professional / Advertising / Food)