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Solo and Two Person Shows & Events
2013 “Blooming Bubbles”, B-gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2009 “ON gallery in Rheinfall”, Galerie rein art, Rheinfall, Switzerland
“Surround Round”, B-gallery, Tokyo, Japan
“Something Seethrough”, Turandot with Hirano Kotoken, Tokyo, Japan
2008 “Vending Machine by ON gallery & Artist Talk”, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
2006 “ON Museum @ Times Square”, New York. Supported by Manhattan Community Arts Fund
2005 “Dress the Dress”, Motoazabu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
“Dress the Dress”, xanadu, New York, New York
2004 “Ultra-L”, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2000 “Rounding Rounding”, Sakima Museum, Okinawa, Japan
1999 “Dedicating Flower”, Old Shimousaya Factory, Chiba, Japan
“FLOWER gallery”, Gareria Grafica, Tokyo, Japan
1998 “ON Exhibition”, Gallery Baobabu, Tokyo, Japan
Group Shows
2012 “3 Persons Show”, Illuminated Metropolis, New York, New York
“Young Art Taipei” via B-gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
“2:46 and thereafter” Pepco’s Edison Place Gallery, Washington DC
2011 “Asia Unspecific”, Five Myles, Brooklyn, New York
“Delicate Matters”, Praxis New York, New York, New York
“AHAF: Asia Top Gallery Hotel Art Fair” via B-gallery, Hong Kong, China
2010 “TEAF: Taehwa-river Eco Art Festival”, Ulsan, Korea
“AHAF: Asia Top Gallery Hotel Art Fair” via B-gallery, Seoul, Korea
“Transformazium”, Fountain Art Fair, New York New York
3 Persons Show, “O -mawaru- ”, Art Next Gallery, New York, New York
2009 “Sustainable Art Project”, Former Sakamoto Elementary School, Tokyo, Japan
“A Midsummer’s Dream”, by danDANS, Chinzan-so, Tokyo, Japan
“International Incheon Biennale”, Incheon Art Platform, Incheon, Korea
2008 “China Korea Japan Contemporary Art”, Academy of Arts, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
“Sustainable Art Project”, Former Iwasaki Residence, Tokyo, Japan
“Dubai-Cairo-Athens”, Artower, Athens, Greece
“D.U.M.B.O. Art Festival”, juried by D.U.M.B.O. Art Center, Brooklyn, New York
“Unreal City”, Gallery Satori, New York, New York
“The House Exhibition”, by danDANS, Former Model House in Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan
2007 “Making A Home”, Japan Society, New York, New York/td>
“Jamaica Flux 2007”, Jamaica Center for the Arts and Learning, Queens, New York
“Sustainable Art Project”, Ueno Station, Tokyo, Japan
“The Realty Show”, 2×13 gallery, New York, New York
2006 “Beyond Measure”, TECO: Taipei Cultural Center, New York, New York
“D.U.M.B.O. Art Festival”, juried by D.U.M.B.O. Art Center, Brooklyn, New York
“Fiction @ Love”, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
“Scope New York art fair”, via Jack the Pelican Presents, New York, New York
“Red Beans and Rice”, Eleanor D. Wilson Museum, Roanoke, Virginia
“Fiction Love”, Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, Shanghai, China
2005 “Gravity News”, NewYorkRioTokyo, Berlin, Germany
“Red Beans and Rice”, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, Georgia
“D.U.M.B.O. Art Festival”, juried by D.U.M.B.O. Art Center, Brooklyn, New York
“Hors Cadrage”, ISE Cultural Foundation, New York, New York
2004 “Tokyo-Chicago-New York”, Chinretsu-kan Museum of Tokyo Univ. of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan
“Fiction Love”, Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Taipei
“1:100”, DCKT Contemporary, New York, New York
“Vector”, CAB Museum The Centro de Arte Caja de Burgos, Burgos, Spain
2003 “ICH LIEBE ALLES*”, PP’s MuMu at Kunsthaus Dresden, Germany
“De-clothing Society”, Gallery 456, New York, New York
“Tsumari Gei”, Echigo Tsumari Art Triennial, Niigata, Japan
“Artenavas”, Las Navas del Marqués, Spain
“The Mythical Nation”, Artspace, New Haven, Connecticut
2002 “Autoritratto”, Sesto Senso, Bologna, Italy
“Extra virgin”, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, New York
1999 “Peanuts”, Old Shimousaya Factory, Chiba, Japan. Sponsored by Toyota Car Corp, Pulzus, etc
1998 “JPS Winners Exhibition”, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum, Kyoto Museum, Aichi Museum, Fukuoka Museum, Japan
Education
2002 MFA, School of VISUAL Arts, New York, New York
1995 BFA, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japa
Awards and Honors
2007 Jamaica Flux 2007, Jamaica Center for the Arts and Learning, Queens, New York
2005 Manhattan Community Arts Fund, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, New York, New York
2000 Nancy Bertlefen O’Malley Endowed Scholarship, Long Island University, New York
Collections
2008 “Flower, experiment 2”, Emaar, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2004 “Coffin for the Living”, CAB Museum The Centro de Arte Caja de Burgos, Burgos, Spain
1998 “Voice of Stone”, Sakima Museum, Okinawa, Japan
Commissions
2011 “Blooming Cumulus”, Praxis New York, New York, New York
2010 “Rising Bloom_Jaunt around the Wall”, Chiba Washington Hotel, Chiba, Japan
“Blooming Bonds”, TEAF: Taehwa-river Eco Art Festival”, Ulsan, Korea
2009 “Flower Cloud”, Tokyo University of the Arts & Ueno Town Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
“One United Image Beyond Boundaries”, International Incheon Woman Artist’s Biennale, Korea
2008 “FLOWER Illumination”, Leo Kuelbs Collection, Brooklyn, New York
“Flowery Vegetable”, Tokyo University of the Arts & Ueno Town Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2007 “FLOWER gallery”, Japan Society, New York, New York
“Flower Floor”, Tokyo University of the Arts & Ueno Town Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2006 “Flower Gallery”, TECO: Taipei Cultural Center, New York, New York
2005 “Flower Gallery”, ISE Cultural Foundation, New York, New York
2004 “Cyberwomb”, Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
“Cyberwomb”, CAB Museum: The Centro de Arte Caja de Burgos, Burgos, Spain
2000 “Rounding & Rounding”, Toyota Car Corporation and Tomoken Corporation, Okinawa, Japan
“Flowery Curry Box”, Mumin Restaurant, Tokyo, Japan
1999 “Dedicating Flower”, Shimousaya Store and Holbein, Chiba, Japan
1998 “Peanuts”, Toyota Car Corporation and Pulzus Corporation, Chiba, Japan
“Asian Flower, spreading mildness”, Restaurant Mumin, Tokyo, Japan
Artist Talk
2009 Mitaka Art Space, Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan
Tibet Tibet, Shimokitazawa, Tokyo, Japan
B-gallery, Mejiro, Tokyo, Japan
2008 Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
2005 7. stock, Dresden, Germany
ISE Cultural Foundation, New York, New York
Screening (Video Documentations)
2005 “Filmprogramm”, Berliner Kunstsalons, Berlin, Germany
2002 ”New Jersey State Film Festival”, Cape May Stage, Cape May, New Jersey
Bibliography
2012 Brooklyn Independent TV, BRIC Arts Media, Caught in the Act, April 25th, Brooklyn, New York
The Washington Post, Editor’s Pick, March 23rd, Washington DC
2011 The Japan Times, NY based artists hold fundraiser, April 13th, Tokyo, Japan
The Mainichi Daily News, Arts & Entertainment, April 12th, Tokyo, Japan
2010 The Korea Times, Taehwa River Art Fest to return in October, September 24th, Korea
World Journal newspaper, 3 Persons Show of “O”, March 17th, New York, New York
2009 Tokyo Art Beat, People’s Faces Light Up, by James Jack, October 28th, Tokyo, Japan
Schaffhauser, Kioske, Collagen, Performances, by Peter Pfister, September 17th, Switzerland
The Japan Times, A dream venue for new artists, by Lucy Birmingham, August 21st, Tokyo
The Korea Times, Spotlight on Woman Artists, by Cathy Garcia, July 30th, Korea
2007 Asahi Newspaper, Culture by Sanzo Tanaka, Dec 18th, Tokyo, Japan
NHK BS, New York story, December, Japan
New York Times, ART REVIEW, MAKING A HOME by Karen Rosenberg, Nov 9th, New York
AZURE, The Art of Home Making by Catherine Osborne, November, New York
New York Magazine, Art Candy by Rachel Wolff, October 11th, New York
New York Times, Art in Review by Martha Schwendener, September 21st, New York
2006 Art Asia Pacific, Red Bean & Rice Show, March, New York
2005 Sports & Street, Artist ON/Megumi Akiyoshi, July, Italy
Art Asia Pacific, Hors Cadrage, March, New York
Gallery guide, Solo Exhibitions, February, New York
2004 El Mundo, “CULTURA: INNOVACION”, January 31, Spain
ABC, “AGENDA CULTURAL”, January 24, Spain
2003 NY ARTS magazine, “NRG: It’s good to be back”, November, New York
New York Times, ART REVIEW; The Asia Within Us, July 27th, Connecticut
El Mundo, Arte: Agitacion Rural, July 18th, Spain
Catalogues
2010 TEAF: Taehwa-river Eco Art Festival, Ulsan, Korea
Sustainable Art Project, Tokyo University of the Arts & Ueno Town Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2009 Sustainable Art Project, Tokyo University of the Arts & Ueno Town Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Envision of Diaspora by Alexandra Chang, ISBN: 9789881752239, Timezone 8 & NY Univ.
Jamaica Flux 2007, ISBN: 0-9762853-6-3 Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, New York
A Midsummer’s Dream by danDANS, Tokyo, Japan
International Incheon Woman Artist’s Biennale, Incheon, Korea
2008 Sustainable Art Project, Tokyo University of the Arts & Ueno Town Museum, Tokyo, Japan
The House Exhibition, by danDANS, Tokyo, Japan
2007 Making a Home, ISBN: 9780300126341, Yale University Press, October 08, New York
2006 Fiction @ Love, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
Beyond Measure, ISBN-13: 978-0-9669997-0-9, Metropolitan Arts Centre, New York
Fiction@Love, ISBN: MOCA Shanghai 7807034491, Shanghai, China
2004 Fiction Love, ISBN 957 28957-7-X, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan
Vector Este-Oeste, ISBN 84-87152-93-7, Centro de Arte Caja de Burgos, Burgos, Spain
Tokyo-Chicago-New York, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan
2003 JPS Winners Exhibition, Japan Photographers Society, Tokyo, Japan