based in Tokyo
Works in the mediums of painting, printing, artist books, and in collaboration with sound artist "yxetm+ (Yurihito Watanabe)". Lived and worked in Düsseldorf, Germany, on a fellowship from Japanese Culutural Affairs 0ct.2001 to Sep.2002. Contributed to an illustrated page of David Toop's "Haunted Weather" (Serpent's Tail, 2004) with an original drawing.(see below)
(solo show "PARADEISOS-enclosed garden" Apr.2007 in Gallery Kobayashi, Ginza, Tokyo)
(making a garden; sowing seeds; watering; pruning or cutting the tree which is growing up from its own heart 2007; acrylic, pigment, Japanese paper on canvas; 194.0x130.3cm)
(fighting against its own tail; each has another face and life 2007; acrylic, pigment, Japanese paper on canvas; 194.0x130.3cm)
(two heads putting on decorative helmets and their one body; a violent hand and a suffering hand; sleeping people, a musician and an acrobat 2007; acrylic, pigment, Japanese paper on canvas; 194.0x130.3cm)
(falling down; demolition of fountain; blindfolded people, wandering 2007; acrylic, pigment, Japanese paper on canvas; 194.0x130.3cm)
(fighting against its own tail; a tree of life 2007; acrylic, pigment, Japanese paper on canvas; 145.5x145.5cm)