Born in Tsu City, Mie, Japan. Lives in Cologne and Berlin.
1991–2015 Professor at the Berlin University of the Arts. Since 2014 Professor at the Joshibi University of Art and Design, Kanagawa, Japan.
Selected solo exhibitions: Nach Neuen Meeren, Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland (2019); Nordiska Akvarellmuseet, Skärhamn, Sweden (2019); Our Planet–Earth and Stars, National Art Center, Tokyo (2019); After another world, ShugoArts (2017); ...und plötzlich dreht der Wind, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin (2016); Poetics of Form, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno (Nevada) (2016); All About Girls and Tigers, Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst Cologne (2015); Pioon, The Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Shizuoka (2014); i-migration, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe (2013); Korekara oder die Heiterkeit des fragilen Seins, Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin (2012); Mare e Monti. Kolumba, Cologne (2012); Silver Flame, ShugoArts (2012); Transfiguration, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Mie (2011)
Courtesy ShugoArts


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