Biography
| 1976 | Born in Nara, Japan |
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| 2000 | B.A (Fine Art) Tama Art University, Japan |
| 2002 | M.A.(Fine Art) Tama Art University, Japan |
Solo Exhibition
| 2002 | "Bargain(Fictitious)", Pepper's Loft Gallery, Tokyo |
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| 2003 | "Zilent", Kojimachi Gallery, Tokyo |
| 2005 | "GENIUS EPISODE 1 & 2", HIROMI YOSHII FIVE, Tokyo |
| 2006 | "Trolly", hiromi yoshii, Tokyo |
| 2007 | "Game pedestal (warehouse)", buro013 by hiromiyoshii, Tokyo |
| 2008 |
“junglebook”, gallery stump Kamakura, Kanagawa “Chimney Sweeper”, artstatement, ART39BASEL, Basel, Switzerland “Magician’s Bread, Solar Eclipse”, hiromiyoshii, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2009 |
“Helsinki”, Galerie Georges – Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris, France “My Attempt to Build a Mountain Ended up with a Hole Wide Open”, NADiff a/p/a/r/t, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2010 |
“Hide in a Whale’s Stomach, Mouse”, Asahi Art Square, Tokyo, Japan “Manhunt & Sneak Dating”, hiromiyoshii, Tokyo, Japan “Kneading”, Kanagawa Prefectural Gallery, Yokohama, Japan |
| 2011 |
"cloud, looks like a spider" NADiff Window Gallery, Tokyo, Japan "Brave Yawn" hiromiyoshii, Tokyo, Japan sprout curation, Tokyo, Japan Tamagawa Art Gallery, Tamagawa University, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2013 |
"The Source of Wrinkles", Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris, France "Check", Arts Initiative Tokyo [AIT] , Tokyo, Japan "contact→", HIGURE 15-17 cas, Tokyo, Japan "Dizzy Footing / Eel Getting Close to Numbed Legs", hiromiyoshii roppongi, Tokyo, Japan CSLAB EXHIBITION Vol.2 Taro Izumi, Tokyo Zokei University CS-Lab, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2014 |
"No Night, Day Neither : Follow Fluxus 2014”, The Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden "The Combine PI, The Liberty PO", Take Ninagawa, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2015 | “Wa Ra Doki Po kai No Jyutu,” Art Center Ongoing, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2017 |
“Pan”, Curated by Jean de Loisy, Palais de Tokyo, Paris “night lie“, Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris "Suddenly a child" 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan “←contact” Take Ninagawa, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2018 |
“My eyes are not in the centre”, White Rainbow, London Art-Theque, Tama Art University, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2019 | “slow starter by self-guidance”, Art & Degine center, Nagoya University of Arts, Nagoya, Japan |
| 2020 |
“MAT Exhibition vol.8: TOMBO”, Minatomachi Potluck Building, Nagoya, Japan “The dawn of Compact Structure”, Take Ninagawa, Tokyo, Japan “ex”, Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland |
Selected Group Exhibition
| 2001 | Gallery Le Deco, Tokyo |
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| 2004 | Field of Dreams, Project Room / Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo |
| 2005 | Gallery Artist Show, hiromi yoshii, Tokyo
The World is Mine, HIROMI YOSHII FIVE, Tokyo |
| 2006 | "THEORY OF EVERYTHING: VIDEOART FROM TOKYO",
Caochangdi Workstation Art Center, Beijing / tank.tv / Location One, New York / New York University “FUKUTAKEHOUSE in Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2006”, Nigata, Japan After The Reality, Daitch Project. New York |
| 2007 | The Door into Summer - The Age of Micropop, Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan
COLLECTOR'S CHOICE : Collection 2, Daelim Contemporary Art Museum, Seoul Out of the Ordinary : New Video from Japan, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Techniques of Storytelling_speaking of unspeakable , SSamize Space,Alternative space Loop,Seoul |
| 2008 | “Food and Contemporary Art 2008”, BankART1929, Yokohama, Japan “Landmark project3: Let’s Cross Route 16←Let’s Go Noge!”, Yokohama, Japan “THE ECHO”, ZAIM, Yokohama, Japan “TOKYO NONSENSE”, SCION Installation, L.A., Los Angeles, USA “Between Art and Life: Performativity in Japanese Art”, Centre d’Art: Contemporain Geneve, Geneve, Switzerland |
| 2009 | “UNLIMITED”, A+, Tokyo, Japan “Waiting for Video: Works from the 1960s to Today”, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan “Re:Membering, -Next of Japan-”, Gallery LOOP, Seoul, Korea “Winter Garden: Exploration of the Micropop Imafination in Contemporary Japanese Art”, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan “Summer Museum for All Ages: Art Everyday!!”, The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Takasaki, Japan “CREAM International Festival for Arts and Media Yokohama 2009”, Nogeyama Animal Park, Yokohama, Japan “POST. O: The Reverse of TOPOS”, Garden City Space of Art, Taipei, Taiwan “Extra/Ordinary: Video Art from Asia”, University of Kansas, Spencer Museum of Art, Kansas, USA “TWIST & SHOUT: Contemporary Art form Japan”, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand “Everyday Life, Another Space”, Kanagawa Prefectural Gallery, Yokohama, Japan |
| 2010 | “MOT Collection: Enter Here – What do you see?”, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan “Azumabashi Dance Crossing”, Asahi Art Square, Tokyo, Japan “Trust: Media City Seoul”, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea “City 2.0: The Evolutionary Theory of City on the Web Generation”, EYE OF GYRE, Tokyo |
| 2011 | Violence and Univerce island, Kashiwa, Japan "Shifting Surfaces : Experience, Perspectives and Media" Artsonje Museum, Gyeongju, Korea "JAPANCONGO: Carsten Hollers double-take on Jean Pigozzis collection" Le Magasin, Centre national d’art contemporain, Grenoble, France / Moscow Centre for Contemporary Art / Palazzo Reale di Milano, Italia "Silent Narrator: On Plural Stories" Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan "Invisibleness is Visibleness: International Contemporary Art Collection of a Salaryman – Daisuke Miyatsu" Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Taipei ”YOKOHAMA TRIENNALE 2011 OUR MAGIC HOUR - How Much of the World Can We Know? -" NYK Waterfront Warehouse (Bank ART Studio NYK), Yokohama, Japan "Omnilogue: Alternating Currents - Japanese Art After March 2011" Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts（PICA）, Australia |
| 2012 | Koganei Artfull-Jack! BERMUDA TRIANGLE Chateau Koganei, Tokyo, Japan "Roppongi Art Night" Roppongi Hills, Tokyo, Japan "Marsupials" curated by Taro Izumi, TALION GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan Veranda, Tightrope Walking, Compulsive Plot curated by Shigeru Ikeda, TALION GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan Humour, parodie et vidéos: créations vidéo du Japon contemporain Maison de la Culture du Japon à Paris, France “Real Japanesque: The Unique World of Japanese Contemporary” The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan “THE ECHO 2012 BERLIN” Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien, Projektraum, Berlin “VOICE OF IMAGES” PALAZZO GRASSI - Francois Pinault Foundation, Venice "But Fresh" TWS Hongo, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2013 |
Dea Syuturumu (The Storm, Der Sturm) - The Storm For Art and Popular Culture, Nagoya Citizens’ Gallery Yada, Aichi, Japan Identity IX, nca | nichido contemporary art, Tokyo, Japan MOT Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo "Why not live for Art? II - 9 collectors reveal their treasures", Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo "Humor and Leap", Okazaki Mindscape Museum, Aichi "Rokko Meets Art 2013", Hyogo Mori Art Museum 10th Anniversary Exhibition "Roppongi Crossing 2013: Out of Doubt", Mori Art Museum, Tokyo "DOUBLE MESSAGE", SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, Tokyo |
| 2014 |
"JAPON", Abbaye St André Centre d'art contemporain Meymac, France "Twentieth Anniversary Special MOT Collection Chronicle 1995-", Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo "Paris, Frame - Out of Frame", Paris bibliothèques, Paris, France "COLLECTION II", The National Museum of Art, Osaka Portrait de 3/4, Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris |
| 2015 |
"Winter Garden: The Exploration of the Micropop Imafination in Contemporary Japanese Art” Curated by Midori Matsui, Muzium & Galeri Tuanku Fauziah, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang / Universiti Malaya Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur / Kaohsiung Cultral Center, Kaohsiung / Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong / 53 ART MUSEUM, Guangzhou / Koala space, Tianjin “HIKARI” by Hikari (Taro Izumi + Takuya Yamashita), Talion Gallery, Tokyo "Paris - Frame & Out of Frame", Galerie de l'Alliance Française,Buenos-Aires, Argentina*(touring exhibition) "In Our Time : Art in Post-Industrial Japan", 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa |
| 2016 |
"Une Forme olympique", Curated by Jean-Marc Huitorel, Campus HEC Executive Education, Espace d’art contemporain HEC, Paris "PARADOXA – JAPANESE ART TODAY", Casa Cavazzini Contemporary Art Museum, Udine, Italy "Paris - Frame & Out of Frame", Recife,Brasil / Joao Pessao, Brasil / Medellin,Colombia / Pereira, Colombia / Manizales, Colombia |
| 2017 |
"Mercedez-Benz Art Scope 2015-17 Wandering to Wonder” Hara Museum, Tokyo
“Winter Garden: The Exploration of the Micropop Imafination in Contemporary Japanese Art” Curated by Midori Matsui, Champasri Art Gallery Mahasarakham University, Mahasarakham / Peruvian North American Cultural Institute, Peru "Contemporary Art From Japan” Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen, Denmark "de Bruit et de mouvements, Videobox Festival" Carreau du Temple, Paris, France “In Focus: Contemporary Japan,” Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota, USA “Japanorama – A new vision on art since 1970,” Centre Pompidou-Metz, France |
| 2018 |
“Visions of Exchange Mercedes-Benz Art Scope Award 2009-2017” Daimler Contemporary Berlin, Germany “Par l'amour du jeu 1998-2018” Magasins Généraux, Paris “Stop and Go” Hara Musem ARC, Gunma |
| 2019 |
Grand Reopening Exhibition “Weavers of Worlds - A Century of Flux in Japanese Modern / Contemporary Art - ” Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo “15th Anniversary Exhibition : Where We Now Stand—In Order to Map the Future［2］” 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa |
| 2020 | “Collection 1 : Transgressing Lines” The National Museum of Art, Osaka |
Public Collection
| The museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo |
| Japan Foundation |
| François Pinault Foundation |
| Jean Pigozzi Collection |
| Spencer Museum of Art, University Of Kansas |
| Collection publique d'art contemporain du Conseil général de la Seine-Saint-Denis (FDAC) |
| Le Fonds municipal d'art contemporain de la ville de Paris (FMAC) |
| Public Collection |
| The National Museum of Art, Osaka |
| JINS |
| M+ |
| Kadist Art Foundation |
| The Dallas Museum of Art |
| 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa |
Other
| 2007 | Performance with Zakuro Yamaga, HARAJUKU PERFORMANCE Plus, Laforet Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan |
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| 2008 | Performance with Zakuro Yamaga, TOYOTA CHOREOGRAPHY AWARD 2003, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2010 | Azumabashi Dance Crossing, Asashi Art Square, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2012 |
campfire, blanClass, Kamakura, Japan Sumida River Art Project, Performance with Zakuro Yamaga, Asashi Art Square, Tokyo, Japan "Marsupials" curated by Taro Izumi, TALION GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan "Veranda, Tightrope Walking, Compulsive Plot" curated by Shigeru Ikeda, TALION GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2013 |
“hubn’t”, ArtCenter Ongoing, Tokyo, Japan [as a member of Orrorin] Roppongi Art Night "Walking Roof" [as Taro Izumi + Orrorin], Tokyo, Japan "The Japan-UK Residency Exchange Programme 2013", Cove Park, UK |
| 2014 | "Jins Art Project" [permanent exhibition] |
| 2016 | "fertile fart at the holy temple "Gurated by Taro Izumi, Toshima Museum, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2019 |
“Now, its time to play” Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo[as a member of Team Hamburg] |
| 2020 |
A/V: Artist Videos at the Drive-in、curated by The Exploratorium, Institute of Contemporary Art San José, KADIST, and San José Museum of Art [screening of the work “Steak House”] (West Wind Capitol Drive-In, San Jose) |