PROFILE
1966 Born in Kyoto
1989 Graduated from Kyoto Seika University
2005 Full-time lecturer at Kyoto City University of Arts
2009 Appointed Associate Professor, Faculty of Fine Arts, Kyoto City University of Arts
2018 Appointed Professor at Kyoto City University of Arts
Career
1990 Selected for the first time at Nitten (and thereafter exhibited), Selected for the first time at Nisshunten (and thereafter exhibited)
1995 Selected for the Kyoto Nippon Gaka Kyokai New Artists Exhibition
1996 Selected Exhibition of New Art ’96 (1998)
1998 Selected Exhibition of Contemporary Art (2003)
1999 Japan Spring Exhibition (purchased by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
2000 Japanese Painting: Expressions from Kyoto NEXT (exhibited thereafter)
2001 Selected Exhibition of New Artists for Arts and Crafts
2004 Japanese Painting “Kyoto Today” Exhibition
2006 Kyoto Geihinkan, Kyoto, Japan
2008 Japanese Painting, Expression from Kyoto: 10 Years of NEXT 1998-2007, Tochinami City Museum of Art, Tochinami, Japan
2009 Eastern Rock Painting Exhibition: Development of Rock Painting in East Asia (Shanghai)
2010 Kyoto City University of Arts 130th Anniversary Exhibition: Connecting Japanese Painting (Kyoto, Japan)
2011 Dunhuang Icosa, China-Japan Icosa Exhibition, Dunhuang, China.
KIAF2011 Korea International Art Fair, Seoul, Korea
2013 Nihonga Kokoro no Kyoto (Kyoto, Japan)
2015 Rimpa School 400th Anniversary Exhibition: Japanese Paintings and Crafts by 200 Contemporary Artists, “The Beauty of Rimpa School Living in Kyoto” (The Museum of Kyoto)
Dedication of the painting “Ofunaboko” at Yasaka Shrine
2016 Rimpa 400th Anniversary “- Rimpa Descending: Touring the “Rimpa Code” of Modern, Modern, and Contemporary Art” (Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art)
Dedication of the folding screen “Muroo Sansui-zu” at MurooTemple.
2017 “Cats with Kyoto” exhibition (The Museum of Kyoto)
2018 Awarded Mayor of Kyoto Prize, Nitten
Currently, Associate Member of Nitten (Juror for 2028), Professor at Kyoto City University of Arts
Main Solo Exhibitions
2004 Mitsukoshi Nihonbashi, Daimaru Kyoto
Group NEXT: The Horizon of Contemporary Kyoto Art World (Sagawa Art Museum)
2005 Sogo Yokohama, Sogo Shinsaibashi Osaka
2006 Daimaru Kyoto store, Daimaru Kobe store
2007 Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi main store
2008 Art Fair Tokyo
2010 Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi main store
2014 Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi main store
2017 Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi flagship store
Awards
1992 Inochi-Hymn to Life 100 Japanese Painters Exhibition (purchased by Kyoto Prefecture)
1993 Kyoto Governor’s Prize at the Kyoto Nihonga Kyokai Selected Exhibition.
1996 Awarded Special Prize at Nitten.
2002: Special Prize, Nitten Exhibition, Kyoto, Japan
2003 Mainichi Newspaper Award, Kyoto Art Festival International Exchange Exhibition
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2004 Kyoto City Art Newcomer Award
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