-BIOGRAFHYborn 1972 in Osaka, Japanlives and works in Berlin 1999-03 1997-99 1993-94 1992-96 Universitt der Knste, Berlin

Hochschule fr Bildende Knste, Braunschweig, Germany Semester Exchange to Canberra School of Art, Australian National University Kyoto Seika University, Japan

S o l oE x h i b i t i o n s 2009 Unconscious Anxiety Galerie Christophe Gaillard, Paris, France solo show Chiharu Shiota Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Flowing Water Nizayama Forest Art Museum, Toyama, Japan a long day Rotwand Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland waiting Gallery Goff + Rosenthal, New York, USA inside / outside Gallery Goff + Rosenthal, Berlin, Germany Zustand des Seins / State of Being CentrePasquArt, Biel / Bienne, Switzerland Breath of the Spirit The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan solo show Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya, Japan from in silence / art complex Kanagawa Arts Foundation, Kenmin Hall, Kanagawa, Japan collaboration with: Dorky Park / Constanza Macras, Toshi Ichiyanagi x young musicians, Leipziger Streichquartett, Yoko Tawada + Aki Takase, Valery Afanassiev Trauma / Alltag Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan Dialogue from DNA Wildnis + Kunst, Saarbrcken, Germany work on paper Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Zerbrochene Erinnerung Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan When Mind Become Form Gallery Fleur, Kyoto Seika University, Kyoto, Japan During Sleep Museum Moderner Kusnt Krnten, Austria RAUM / room Haus am Ltzowplatz, Berlin, Germany Du ct de chez in the church Sainte Marie Madeleine in Lille, France Dialogue from DNA Manggha, Centre of Japanese Art and Technology, Krakow, Poland In Silence Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan solo show Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan The Way Into Silence Wrttembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Germany Bleibend von der Stimme ... Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan In Silence Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya, Japan Dialogue from DNA Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland Uncertain Daily Life Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan In Silence Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany Chiharu Shiota exhibition Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya, Japan Under the Skin Prss & Ochs Gallery, Berlin, Germany Breathing from Earth Kunstraum Maximillianstrasse, STADTFORUM Mnchen, Munich, Germany Bathroom & Bondage Projectroom ARCO, Madrid, Spain Dialogue from DNA Prss & Ochs Gallery, Berlin, Germany Where are you from? Performance, K&S Galerie, Berlin, Germany From Memory to Memory Kunsthaus Tacheles, Berlin, Germany Gods Play Galerie C. Delank, Bremen, Germany Similary Akiyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Direction of Consciousness HfbK, Hamburg, Germany Return to Consciousness Galerie im Vorwerkstift, Hamburg, Germany

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My existence as a physical extension Hounenin Temple, Kyoto, Japan Becoming painting A.N.U. Canberra School of Art, Canberra, Australia Accumulation Hoya Galery, Canberra, Australia Native-600Masks Gallery Preview, Kyoto, Japan Five Paintings Shunjukan Gallery, Kyoto Seika University, Kyoto, Japan

GroupExhibitions 2009 Cherchez la femme Nieves Fernandez Gallery, Madrid, Spain Trans Figurative Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Hundred Stories about Love 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan Tattoo (Dea Loher), New National Theatre Tokyo Tokyo, Japan stage director: Toshiki Okada Walking in my Mind Hayward Gallery London, England ECHIGO-TSUMARI ART TRIENNIAL 2009 Niigata Prefecture, Echigo Tsumari, Japan The World is Yours Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebk, Denmark 3rd Moscow Biennale Moscow, Russia Oedipus Rex Constanza Macras / Dorky Park Festspielhaus Hellerau, Dresden, et al. Trans Figurative Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Kunstrume Museum Friedberg, Friedberg, Germany Eurasia. Geographic cross-overs in art MART (Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Revereto), Italy HEARTQUAKE Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel Platform 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan Drawn in the Clouds Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA, Helsinki, Finland NEWS-new painting Kenji Taki Gallery (Nagoya) Thermocline: New Asian Waves ZKM (Center for Art and Media), Karlsruhe, Germany Thread Koroska Gallery of Fine Arts in Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia The Body Sings of Life Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagaw, Japan Fiction for the Real The National Museum of Mondern Art, Tokyo, Japan Absolutely Private: On Photography from 2000 to the Present Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan Streaming Poesy Wildnis + Kunst, Saarbrcken, Germany March II Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya, Tokyo Imbenge Dreamhouse In Transit '06, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany Tokyo - Berlin / Berlin - Tokyo Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany The Joyful House Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan Fever Variations, 6th Gwangju Biennale 2006 Gwangju City, Korea Affinity of the Jomon and the Contemporary Aomori Museum of Art; Aomori, Japan Bathroom PI Performance Intermedia Festival, Szczecin, Poland Dreaming Now The Rose Art Museum, Waltham, USA Imbenge Dreamhouse Durban, South Africa Fairy Tales Foreve ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark Parallel Realities Asian Art Now 3rd Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale 2005 Fukuoka, Japan Oogstrelend Schoon - Shining Beauty Apeldoorns Museum, Apeldoorn, Netherlands Embroidered Action Herzliya Museum of Art, Herzliya, Israel The joy of my dreams 1. International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville, Sevilla, Spain Senatsstipendiaten Kunstbank, Berlin, Germany First Steps: Emerging Artists from Japan P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Philip Morris K.K. Art Award 2002 ,New York, USA Solitude stage design, Akademie Schloss Solitude, cooperation with Stadttheater Stuttgart and Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart Germany Eine Bilanz Kulturverein Zehntscheuer e.V., Rottenburg am Neckar, Germany Paysages fminins et grondements du monde Institut franco-japonais de Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan Walking on Art Kunstverein Ludwigsburg, Germany all A lone all A lone, stage design, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland Rest in Space touring exhibition, Knstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany

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Rest in Space Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway The First Move Philip Morris K.K. Art Award 2002 ,Tokyo Kokusai Forum, Tokyo, Japan Some kind of Dream Contemporary Art Museum of North Carolina, Raleigh, USA de waan manifestation of both art & psychiatry, Venray, The Netherlands Another World-Twelve Bedroom Stories Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Schwitzerland Miss You Museum fr Neue Kunst, Freiburg, Germany A Need For Realism Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland Translated acts touring exhibition, Museo de arte alvary carment de carrillogil, Mexico Die Welt aus deutscher Sicht Stichting Odapark, Netherland Exit 2001Maison Arts Crteil, Paris, France Translated Acts Queens Museum of Art, New York, USA VIA Theatre du Maubeuge, Maubeuge, France MEGA-WAVE Yokohama Triennale 2001, Yokohama Japan Translated Acts Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany Marking The Territory Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland Kunst und Kur / arte e benessere Kunsthaus Meran, Meran, Italy Heimat Kunst touring exhibition, Kulturverein Zehntscheuer, Rottenburg am Neckar, Rottenburg, Germany Continental Shift Ludwig Forum, Aachen Germany, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, the Netherlands, Muse d'Art Moderne et contemporaine Lige, Belgium Strange Home Historische Museum, Kestner Museum, Hannover, Germany Dorothea von Stetten-Kunstpreis Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany Yume no Ato Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany Yume no Ato Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany ...und ab die Post! Postfuhramt Berlin, Germany unfinished business Marina Abramovic & students, Haus am Ltzowplatz, Berlin, Germany Fresh AirE-Werk Weimar, Germany Open 999 -2nd International exhibition of sculptures and installations Venice-Lido, Italy Finally Kunstverein Hannover, Germany Untersicht Kulturamt Mitte, Galerie Weisser Elephant, Berlin, Germany Notes Across Asia Konzerthaus Berlin, Schauspielhaus, Gendarmenmarkt, Berlin, Germany Objekte und Stelen im Dorfpark Dorfpark, Buchholz, Germany Textil exhibitions Meguro museum of Art ,Tokyo, Japan White Asia Kyoto City Conference Center, Kyoto, Japan

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Prizes/Nominations/Scholarships 2009 2008 2005 2004 2003 2002 1998 Kyoto Seika University Graduate Award Docks Art Fair Montblanc Culture Award The Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technologys Art Encouragement Prize ofr New Artists, Japan Sakuya Kono Hana Prize, Osaka City, Japan Agency for Cultural Affairs (Bunka-cho), Japan Arbeitsstipendium Bildende Kunst 2004, Berliner Senat Pola Art Foundation Philip Morris K.K Art Award 2002 Akademie Schloss Solitude, scholarship for 18 months Kunstpreis 1998, Landkreis Gifhorn, Germany

Collections Shiseido Art ,Shizuoka House 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan Centre Pasque Art ( Biel / Vienne) Switzerland The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan Sammlung Hoffmann Berlin, Germany Museum fr Neue Kunst Freiburg, Germany KIASMA, Helsinki, Finland