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1959　Born in Fukuoka, Japan
1983　BA in fine arts in painting, Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan
1985　MFA in fine arts in painting, Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan
1990　MFA in arts (sculpture), Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
1992-93　International Studio Program, P.S.1 Museum, New York, USA
2005-　Associate Professor, Faculty of Art, Hiroshima City University
2008　Inujima Art Project Seirensho, Okayama, Japan
2008　Inujima Art Project Seirensho, Okayama, Japan

Grants, Prizes, and Awards
1992-93　Fellowship in Arts, Yale University, School of Art and Architecture, New Haven, Connecticut. USA
　　　　　Fellowship, Asian Cultural Council
1993　Award, Aperto'93, 45th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
1995　Prize, Gotoh Memorial Foundation, Japan
　　　　Grant for Commission Work, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art

Selected Individual Exhibitions
2005　Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan　
2000　Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
1998　University Art Gallery, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, USA
1997　Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, USA
　　　　Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK
1996　Capp Street Project, San Francisco, USA
1995　Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, USA
　　　　The Queens Museum of Art, New York, USA
1992　Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum-Benesse House, Kagawa, Japan
1991　Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Los Angeles, USA　　　
1990　Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, USA(brochure)

Selected Projects and Group Exhibitions
2008　Shelter x Survival: Alternative Homes for Fantastic Lives, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
　　　　Into the Atomic Sunshine: Post-War Art under Japanese Peace Constitution Article 9, Puffin Room, New York
2007　Scenes and Sequences, Allgaeuer Kunst House, Aarau, Switzerland
2006　In Focus: Living History, Tate Modern, London, UK
2005　Swarm, Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, America
2003　Permanent Collection: 50 years of contemporary art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
2002　The 2nd Fukuoka Triennale, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
2000　2000 Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
　　　　Vanitas-meditation of life and death in contemporary art-, Virginia Museum of Art, Richmond, USA　photo
　　　　Open-Ends-One thing after another-, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
　　　　2000 Kwanju Biennale, Kwanju, Korea　
1998　Taste and Persuits: Japanese art in the 1990, National Museum of India, New Dehli, India
1997　L'autre, Biennale de Lyon, Halle Tony Garnier, Lyon, France
　　　　Projects, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
1996　Universalis, Sao Paulo Biennale, Brazil
　　　　Islands, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia　
　　　　Asia-Pacific Triennial, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
1995　Japan Today, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark (travels to
　　　　Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway, Waino Aaltoner Museum of Art, Turku, Finland,
　　　　Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden, Osterreichisches Museum fur Angewandte Kunst,
　　　　Vienna, Austria, and Daichtorhallen, Hamburg)
　　　　Art in Japan Today-1985-1995, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
1994　Old Glory, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Ohio, USA (travels to
　　　　Gallery of Contemporary Art at University of Colorado, and Phoenix Art Museum, USA)
　　　　Mito Annual'94, Open System, Art Tower Mito, Ibaragi, Japan　
　　　　Japanese Art after 1945-Scream against the Sky, Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan
1993　Trade Routes, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA
　　　　Aperto'93, The 45th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy　
1992　My Sweet Home in Ruins-Urban Envinronment and Art in Japan, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
1991　New York Diary-Almost twenty-five different things, PS1 Museum, New York, USA