Born in Yamanashi, Japan 1979

 

MA Fine Artm Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London 2004

 

Fine Art BA, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London 2003

 

Bradford & Ilkley College of Art and Design, BTEC, Foundation, Bradford 1999

 

Lives and works in London, UK

 

Solo Exhibitions

 

 

 

2007

 

Migration, Houldswoth Gallery, London

 

2006

 

Mindustrial Evolution, Bearspace Gallery, London

 

Group Shows

 

 

 

2010

 

Summershow: Tanabata, Maddox Arts, London

 

Cultural Detritus, Pippy Houldsworth, London

 

2009

 

I-MYU, London

 

Reconstructing the Old House, The Nunnery Gallery, London

 

Virtual Records, YOD Gallery Osaka

 

2008

 

Twenty, Dazed and Confused Gallery, London

 

Echo, Zaimu, Japan
VOCA, Tokyo, UENO Royal Museum, Japan

 

2007

 

Hand in Hand, Japanese Embassy London, curated by Peter Cleak & Simon Fraser, sponsered by Sasakawa Foundation

 

Tech-Mac-Mayacom, Tokyo, Japan

 

New London Kicks, Soho House, New York

 

Creekside I. APT, London, selected by Victoria Miro

 

Creekside II, APT, London, selcetedĀ  by Matthew Collings & Emma Biggs

 

2006

 

Dynamic Entropy, Houldsworth, London

 

Synchro-Tron, Aqffin Gallery, London

 

Curious New Terrain, Nolias gallert, London

 

Tokyo Monamo, 43 South Molten Street

 

10th Planet, Tower Bridge Business Complex, London

 

Chimera, 148 Gallery, London

 

 

2005

 

Agoraphobe, Bearspace Gallery, London

 

What Happens When Everythig is Reduced to Ones and Zeros?, Pearlfisher Gallery, London

 

The Horizon of Expectation, The Empire, London

 

 

Literature

 

 

Time Out Migration Review, London 2007

 

Dazed and Confused, Japan, 2007

 

Time Out, No. 1711, p.27, 2003

 

Elle UK, 2003

 

Awards

 

Shortlisted for Marmite Prize for Painting 2008

 

Shortlisted for Celeste Art Prize, 2007

 

Prizewinner, VOCA, Painting Prize, Tokyo, 2007

 

Collections

 

The Progress Collection, Ohio

 

Rubicon Partners, London

 

The West Collection, Pennsylvania

 

UBS, New York

 

UBS, Los Angeles

 

UBS Bank, UK

 

Imogen and Elpeth Turner Collection, UK

 

Wellington Management, Boston

 

Wellington Management, London

 

The Dai-Ichi Mutual Life Insurance Company, Japan

 

Taguchi Collection, Tokyo