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  • “umbra”, 2011, variable size, PC,3D projector,3D glasses, Collaborated with Tomohiro Okita

  • “Horror Pillar”, 2009

  • “Unknown Planet #01″, 2011, 1800 mm dia., Lacquer on wood panel

  • Left: Unknown Schliere #01, 2011, Lacquer on canvas, H280 x W220 mm Right: Unknown Schliere #02, 2011, Lacquer on canvas, H220 x W280 mm

  • “Lucent Phantom-b #01″, 2011, H25.4 × W36.6cm, C-print

  • “the corona” installation view at TSCA(Kashiwa), photo by Tomas Svab, 2008, 250×180×80 cm, LED, motor, mixed media

  • “the corona-white”, 2008, LED,moter,mixed media, 410×410×120mm  

  • “Katsina -beast-”, 2011, H2050 x W2400 x D2500 mm, FRP, Wood, Bulb, Acrylic board, Linen fiber and others

Profile

2004 B.F.A. in Sculpture, Kyoto City University of Arts
1980 Born in Osaka, Japan

Awards

2010 The 13th Exhibiton of Taro Okamoto Award for Contemporary Art

Solo Exhibitions

2017 Passage, Takuro Someya Contemporary Art , Tokyo
2016 Mirror, tools, boundary, Art Space Niji, Kyoto, Japan
2013 La Vouivre, ISBA Besançon
Who am I ?, Art Space Niji, Kyoto, Japan
2011 umbra, Takuro Someya Contemporary Art, Tokyo
2010 Bricoleur’s dishes, Art Space Niji, Kyoto, Japan
Sculptures and Paintings, Takuro Someya Contemporary Art, Tokyo
2008 Holy and Common, Takuro Someya Contemporary Art, Chiba, Japan
THE CORONA, Art Space Niji, Kyoto, Japan
Garden Study, gallery maronie, Kyoto, Japan
2007 Cosmos Service Home, Art Space Niji, Kyoto, Japan

Group Exhibition

2023 Circulation Holes, Kitayama Hole Center, Kyoto
2022 DEVIATING VOICES - Faculty Show Of The Department Of Fine And Applied Art, Kyoto University of the Arts Galerie Aube, Kyoto
2018 Exercise for Death 2, Midnight Museum, Kyoto
2016 Aomori EARTH 2016:Roots and Routes, Aomori Museum Of Art, Aomori
Ryuta Iida, Motomasa Suzuki, Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi, Yoshitaka Yazu | Group Exhibition, Takuro Someya Contemporary Art、Tokyo
2015 Narrative of Narrative, Art of Art, CUBE Shibuya Hikarie, Kanagawa, Tokyo
2014 Selected Artists in Kyoto The way of PARASOPHIA, The Museum of Kyoto 4th floor, Kyoto
2013 KYOTO ARTISTS MEETING 2013, AntennaMedia, Kyoto, Japan
TSCA Rough Consensus, HOTEL ANTEROOM KYOTO, Kyoto, Japan
2012 KYô, Institut Supérieur des Beaux-Arts de Besançon / Franche-Comté, France
BIWAKO BIENNALE 2012, OmiHachiman City, Shiga, Japan
The Cosmos as Metaphor, HOTEL ANTEROOM KYOTO and Taka Ishii Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
2011 Osaka Canvas Project, Osaka, Japan
gallerism 2011 TNE FINAL, Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Osaka, Japan
The form of Co-Creation: the reality in the Digital Fabrication Era, Kyoto City University of Arts Art Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
2010 The 13th Exhibition of Taro Okamoto Award for Contemporary Art, Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan
Kyogei Transmit Program #1 "Kyo-Sei," Kyoto City University of Arts Art Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
Biwako Biennale, OmiHachiman City, Shiga, Japan
2009 Wakuwaku JOBAN-KASHIWA Project, Cinema Sunshine, Chiba, Japan
In a landscape, Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto, Japan
Yazu Yoshitaka × Yamashita Kouhei "YORUYAMA -night watching-" Antenna AAS, Kyoto, Japan
2008 Curator's Eye 2008, Gallery Maronie, Kyoto, Japan

Publication

Collection

    Hilton Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
PREMIST Kyoto Gojo, Kyoto, Japan
Hotel Felice Akasaka, Tokyo, Japan

Others

2015 "KYOTO ART HOSTEL kumagusuku" open
Selected Solo Exhibitions as Byproducts Market
2026 Art Circulation Center by Byproducts Market: When One Door Closes, Another Door Opens , University Gallery Terra-S, Kyoto, Japan
Kyoto Seika
2025 Byproducts Marketʼs Gotenyama Osaka Art School: The Classroom at the End of the World , Hirakata City
Gotenyama Lifelong Learning Art Center, Osaka, Japan
UMA / UFO Research Project Exhibition , Kyoto University of the Arts Geijutsukan, Kyoto, Japan
2023 Byproducts Store Exhibition: The Byproduct Encyclopedia , Ogimachi Museum Cube, Osaka, Japan
2022 Byproducts Marketʼs Mass , kumagusuku, Kyoto, Japan
When one door shuts, another opens., NEWoMan YOKOHAMA, Kanagawa, Japan
2021 Japan Art Circulation Center by Byproducts Market , Kyoto City University of Arts Art Gallery @KCUA, Kyoto, Japan
2020 sono aida #Yurakucho: Byproducts Market Yurakucho Store , Kokusai Building, Tokyo, Japan
Selected Group Exhibitions as Byproducts Market
2026 Re birth - Stories Woven by Kyoto , Nihombashi Takashimaya S.C., Tokyo, Japan
2025 Kameoka Fog Art Festival : Castle Ruins Art Exhibition 2025 , Kyoto, Japan
Opening the Gaps , Kyoto City University of Arts Art Gallery @KCUA, Kyoto, Japan
Rebirth - Stories Woven by Kyoto , Kyoto Takashimaya S.C., Kyoto, Japan
Skeptically Curious: Multiple Approaches to the Transformation of Value , Mizuho Bank Kyoto Branch,
Kyoto, Japan
2024 ATAMI ART GRANT 2024: Beyond ATAMI , Atami Ginza Shopping Street, Shizuoka, Japan
Absolute Chairs , The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama; Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Saitama and Aichi,Japan
Takashimaya × Kyoto City University of Arts: NEW VINTAGE , Kyoto Takashimaya S.C., Kyoto, Japan
2023 ATAMI ART GRANT 2023: Voyage ATAMI , Atami Ginza Shopping Street, Shizuoka, Japan
MIND TRAIL Oku y amato: A Museum in the Heart , various locations in Yoshino Town, Nara, Japan
Kunitachi Art Center Open Production Program "GEI SHOW HALL 2023 ", Kunitachi Civic Art Small Hall,
Tokyo, Japan
Circulation Holes , Kitayama Hall Center, Kyoto, Japan
Kyoto City University of Arts Alumni Art Auction 2023 "Hand On" , Kyoto City University of Arts Art Gallery
@KCUA, Kyoto, Japan
2022 art bit - Contemporary Art & Indie Game Culture - #2 , HOTEL ANTEROOM KYOTO, Kyoto, Japan
Deviating Voices Faculty Show of the Department of Fine and Applied Arts , Kyoto University of the Arts,
Galerie Aube, Kyoto, Japan
2021 Yori, Michi, Scramble: A Fair to Warm The Heart , Sakurajo Bridge, Okazaki, Aichi, Japan
Meeting, Connecting, Mending by the River , Takasegawa / Shiki AIR, Kyoto, Japan
Kameoka Fog Art Festival 2022 "Fog Art Museum: Practices for Continuing to Draw Lines", Kameoka City
Museum of Culture, Kyoto, Japan
2020 Upcycle Week, NU chayamachi, Osaka, Japan
2019 Ya m baru Art Festival 2019 ‒ 2020: Yambaru Golden Forest , Former Shioya Elementary School, Ogimi Village,Okinawa, Japan
Selected Solo Exhibitions as Antenna
2006 Advent of Jappy , Takuro Someya Contemporary Art, Chiba, Japan
Selected Exhibitions as Antenna
2006 Toride Art Project 2006 , Former Togashira Sewage Treatment Plant, Ibaraki, Japan
RESFEST 10 , Laforet Museum Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan
The Boehm TradeCenter , Germany
Video Festival in Pusan , Pusan Metropolitan Art Museum and the Alternative Gallery Bandee, Busan, SouthKorea
L'image movement Sarajevo- Kyoto , Galerija 10m², Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
2nd Contemporary Art Competition Prizewinners Exhibition: Antenna × Kenji Yanobe, Let's Meet in a Forest , Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Osaka, Japan
2005 DOTMOV FESTIVAL 2005 , SOSO, Hokkaido, Japan
Sendai Art Annual 2005 , Sendai Mediatheque, Miyagi, Japan

Profile

2004 B.F.A. in Sculpture, Kyoto City University of Arts
1980 Born in Osaka, Japan

Awards

2010 The 13th Exhibiton of Taro Okamoto Award for Contemporary Art

Solo Exhibitions

2017 Passage, Takuro Someya Contemporary Art , Tokyo
2016 Mirror, tools, boundary, Art Space Niji, Kyoto, Japan
2013 La Vouivre, ISBA Besançon
Who am I ?, Art Space Niji, Kyoto, Japan
2011 umbra, Takuro Someya Contemporary Art, Tokyo
2010 Bricoleur’s dishes, Art Space Niji, Kyoto, Japan
Sculptures and Paintings, Takuro Someya Contemporary Art, Tokyo
2008 Holy and Common, Takuro Someya Contemporary Art, Chiba, Japan
THE CORONA, Art Space Niji, Kyoto, Japan
Garden Study, gallery maronie, Kyoto, Japan
2007 Cosmos Service Home, Art Space Niji, Kyoto, Japan

Group Exhibition

2023 Circulation Holes, Kitayama Hole Center, Kyoto
2022 DEVIATING VOICES - Faculty Show Of The Department Of Fine And Applied Art, Kyoto University of the Arts Galerie Aube, Kyoto
2018 Exercise for Death 2, Midnight Museum, Kyoto
2016 Aomori EARTH 2016:Roots and Routes, Aomori Museum Of Art, Aomori
Ryuta Iida, Motomasa Suzuki, Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi, Yoshitaka Yazu | Group Exhibition, Takuro Someya Contemporary Art、Tokyo
2015 Narrative of Narrative, Art of Art, CUBE Shibuya Hikarie, Kanagawa, Tokyo
2014 Selected Artists in Kyoto The way of PARASOPHIA, The Museum of Kyoto 4th floor, Kyoto
2013 KYOTO ARTISTS MEETING 2013, AntennaMedia, Kyoto, Japan
TSCA Rough Consensus, HOTEL ANTEROOM KYOTO, Kyoto, Japan
2012 KYô, Institut Supérieur des Beaux-Arts de Besançon / Franche-Comté, France
BIWAKO BIENNALE 2012, OmiHachiman City, Shiga, Japan
The Cosmos as Metaphor, HOTEL ANTEROOM KYOTO and Taka Ishii Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
2011 Osaka Canvas Project, Osaka, Japan
gallerism 2011 TNE FINAL, Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Osaka, Japan
The form of Co-Creation: the reality in the Digital Fabrication Era, Kyoto City University of Arts Art Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
2010 The 13th Exhibition of Taro Okamoto Award for Contemporary Art, Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan
Kyogei Transmit Program #1 "Kyo-Sei," Kyoto City University of Arts Art Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
Biwako Biennale, OmiHachiman City, Shiga, Japan
2009 Wakuwaku JOBAN-KASHIWA Project, Cinema Sunshine, Chiba, Japan
In a landscape, Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto, Japan
Yazu Yoshitaka × Yamashita Kouhei "YORUYAMA -night watching-" Antenna AAS, Kyoto, Japan
2008 Curator's Eye 2008, Gallery Maronie, Kyoto, Japan

Publication

Collection

    Hilton Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
PREMIST Kyoto Gojo, Kyoto, Japan
Hotel Felice Akasaka, Tokyo, Japan

Others

2015 "KYOTO ART HOSTEL kumagusuku" open
Selected Solo Exhibitions as Byproducts Market
2026 Art Circulation Center by Byproducts Market: When One Door Closes, Another Door Opens , University Gallery Terra-S, Kyoto, Japan
Kyoto Seika
2025 Byproducts Marketʼs Gotenyama Osaka Art School: The Classroom at the End of the World , Hirakata City
Gotenyama Lifelong Learning Art Center, Osaka, Japan
UMA / UFO Research Project Exhibition , Kyoto University of the Arts Geijutsukan, Kyoto, Japan
2023 Byproducts Store Exhibition: The Byproduct Encyclopedia , Ogimachi Museum Cube, Osaka, Japan
2022 Byproducts Marketʼs Mass , kumagusuku, Kyoto, Japan
When one door shuts, another opens., NEWoMan YOKOHAMA, Kanagawa, Japan
2021 Japan Art Circulation Center by Byproducts Market , Kyoto City University of Arts Art Gallery @KCUA, Kyoto, Japan
2020 sono aida #Yurakucho: Byproducts Market Yurakucho Store , Kokusai Building, Tokyo, Japan
Selected Group Exhibitions as Byproducts Market
2026 Re birth - Stories Woven by Kyoto , Nihombashi Takashimaya S.C., Tokyo, Japan
2025 Kameoka Fog Art Festival : Castle Ruins Art Exhibition 2025 , Kyoto, Japan
Opening the Gaps , Kyoto City University of Arts Art Gallery @KCUA, Kyoto, Japan
Rebirth - Stories Woven by Kyoto , Kyoto Takashimaya S.C., Kyoto, Japan
Skeptically Curious: Multiple Approaches to the Transformation of Value , Mizuho Bank Kyoto Branch,
Kyoto, Japan
2024 ATAMI ART GRANT 2024: Beyond ATAMI , Atami Ginza Shopping Street, Shizuoka, Japan
Absolute Chairs , The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama; Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Saitama and Aichi,Japan
Takashimaya × Kyoto City University of Arts: NEW VINTAGE , Kyoto Takashimaya S.C., Kyoto, Japan
2023 ATAMI ART GRANT 2023: Voyage ATAMI , Atami Ginza Shopping Street, Shizuoka, Japan
MIND TRAIL Oku y amato: A Museum in the Heart , various locations in Yoshino Town, Nara, Japan
Kunitachi Art Center Open Production Program "GEI SHOW HALL 2023 ", Kunitachi Civic Art Small Hall,
Tokyo, Japan
Circulation Holes , Kitayama Hall Center, Kyoto, Japan
Kyoto City University of Arts Alumni Art Auction 2023 "Hand On" , Kyoto City University of Arts Art Gallery
@KCUA, Kyoto, Japan
2022 art bit - Contemporary Art & Indie Game Culture - #2 , HOTEL ANTEROOM KYOTO, Kyoto, Japan
Deviating Voices Faculty Show of the Department of Fine and Applied Arts , Kyoto University of the Arts,
Galerie Aube, Kyoto, Japan
2021 Yori, Michi, Scramble: A Fair to Warm The Heart , Sakurajo Bridge, Okazaki, Aichi, Japan
Meeting, Connecting, Mending by the River , Takasegawa / Shiki AIR, Kyoto, Japan
Kameoka Fog Art Festival 2022 "Fog Art Museum: Practices for Continuing to Draw Lines", Kameoka City
Museum of Culture, Kyoto, Japan
2020 Upcycle Week, NU chayamachi, Osaka, Japan
2019 Ya m baru Art Festival 2019 ‒ 2020: Yambaru Golden Forest , Former Shioya Elementary School, Ogimi Village,Okinawa, Japan
Selected Solo Exhibitions as Antenna
2006 Advent of Jappy , Takuro Someya Contemporary Art, Chiba, Japan
Selected Exhibitions as Antenna
2006 Toride Art Project 2006 , Former Togashira Sewage Treatment Plant, Ibaraki, Japan
RESFEST 10 , Laforet Museum Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan
The Boehm TradeCenter , Germany
Video Festival in Pusan , Pusan Metropolitan Art Museum and the Alternative Gallery Bandee, Busan, SouthKorea
L'image movement Sarajevo- Kyoto , Galerija 10m², Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
2nd Contemporary Art Competition Prizewinners Exhibition: Antenna × Kenji Yanobe, Let's Meet in a Forest , Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Osaka, Japan
2005 DOTMOV FESTIVAL 2005 , SOSO, Hokkaido, Japan
Sendai Art Annual 2005 , Sendai Mediatheque, Miyagi, Japan
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