Born in 1956 in Mie Prefecture

Graduated in 1978 from Hosei University, Faculty of Literature, Geographical Department

Currently a Professor at Tokyo University of Art and Design

 

■Exhibitions of Photographs

1990    "Coastal Line Wilderness" at Olympus Gallery, Shinjuku, Tokyo

1995    "Touch of Dream" at Nikon Salon, Shinjuku, Tokyo.

1996    "Beyond Scenes: Walking in the Worlds of Kenji Miyazawa and Santoka Taneda"

            in Konica Plaza, Shinjuku, Tokyo.

1995    "Surface of the Earth Picture 〈 Terrestrial Heat Zone 〉" in Gallery Sao, Tomos,

            in Nihonbashi, Tokyo.

2000    "Cabin: Innocent, Wild Construction" in INAX Gallery. Tokyo and Osaka.

2000    "Outer Layer Icon" (Icon) in Exile Gallery, Kyoto.

2001    "Street of Chirico" at Uchida, Azabu Juban, Tokyo.

2004    "Rising Darkness" in Il Tempo, Koenji, Tokyo.

2005    "N Town" in Uchida, Kayaba-cho, Tokyo.

2006    "R" in Toseisha Gallery, Nakano, Tokyo.

2007    "Monologues of Cabins" in Billiken Gallery, Aoyama, Tokyo.

1999-2008 "Night, Nature, another Tokyo" in Ottesen Museum and Modern Art Craft

            in Higashi Mukojima, Tokyo.

2008    "Ultra: Critical Night" in Chukyo Univ. C Square, Nagoya.

 

■Group Exhibitions

2006    "Bokuto Photograph Exhibition" in Kinshicho Warehouse, Tokyo.

2007    "Visibles and Invisibles" in Tokyo University of Art Museum,Tokyo.

2008    "Soil: Power of Earth" in Gumma Prefectural Museum of Art..

 

■Photographic Installations

2000    "Tenant House Labyrinth” in tenant houses at Mukojima, Tokyo.

2000    "Platform C" in the Caves of Cappadocia, Republic of Turkey.

2000    "Five Senses Factory" at a devastated thread factory at Mukojima.Tokyo.

2001    "World's Smallest Photography Exhibition" at Nikke Colton Plaza, Ichikawa, Chiba.

2002    "Fantastic View of Ome (Diorama) at SAKURA FACTORY, Ome, Tokyo.

2002    "Dead Stock Blues" in the 3rd Town Museum at an out of business hair salon,

            Fuji Yoshida, Yamanashi.

2002    "Brownish End" at the 1st WANAKIO at Agricultural Union Warehouse, Naha, Okinawa.

2003    "Green Darkness" at Art Space Mayu, Kyobashi, Tokyo.

2003    "Devil's Hour" at Gallery Rakufu, Urawa, Saitama.

2003    "Marilyn at Alley" at the 2nd WANAKIO at an out of business snack bar, Naha, Okinawa.

 

■Workshops

2002    "Moving Cabins" cabin-making with junk, Meguro-ku Museum Workshop Interesting

            Construction School, Tokyo.

2004    "Orange Shop Project" jam-making, Mukojima Year 2004, Tokyo.

2005    "Floating Cabin Project" at NPO Forest Museum of Art, Yokogawa Cabin Floating Project,

            Iwaki, Fukushima.

2008    "Town of Picture Postcards" at a town-walking and postcard-making project, Yanaka, Tokyo.

 

[ Books of Photographs ]

1991    "Coastal Line Wilderness" (Rokko Publication)

2000    "Portraits of Cabins"(Media Factory)

2002    "Town of Chirico" (Wise Publication)

2004    "Alleys" (Seiryu Publication)

2006    "R" (Toseisha)

2006    "Tokyo"(Mokudosui)

2007    "Four Towns" (Seiryu Publication)

 

■Collaborations

1999    "Cabin: Working Construction" (INAX Publication)

2003    "Devil's Hour" (Pie Books, text by Jun Nakano)

2004    "Tenant House Labyrinth" (Pie Books, text by Jun Nakano)

2005    "Night Travel" (Kawade Shobo Sinsha, text by Jun Nakano)

2007    "Monologues of Cabins", a book of photographs for children (Billiken Publication,

            text by Shuntaro Tanikawa) 2007 "Stones Beautiful, Stones Fantastic" (INAX Publication)

2008    "Sightseeing to the End of Tokyo" (Kotsu Sinbun, text by Jun Nakano)

2008    "Self-Build" (Kotsu Shinbun, text by Osamu Ishiyama)