Tatsuo Miyajima, Biography

Born 1957 in Tokyo, Japan. Lives and works in Ibaraki, Japan.

EDUCATION

1986

Completed postgraduate studies at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music (M.A.)

1984

Graduated from Oil Painting Course, Fine Arts Department, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2014

Tatsuo Miyajima – KU, Lisson Gallery, Milan, Italy

Counter Painting 2014, CAPSULE Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2013

Tatsuo Miyajima : I-Model, Lisson Gallery, London, UK

Life(Rhizome), Buchmann Galerie, Berlin, Germany

2012

LIFE I-model, SCAI the Bathhouse, Tokyo, Japan

House Lives with Time, Seoul, South Korea

2011

Three Time Train / Counter Voice on the Wall, Kunstmuseum St.Gallen, Lokremise St.gallen, St.gallen, Switzerland

ASHES TO ASHES, DUST TO DUST, UCCA, Beijing, China

2010

DIAMOND IN YOU, Galleri Andersson/Sandström, Stockholm, Sweden

DIAMOND IN YOU, Buchmann Galerie, Berlin, Germany

Tatsuo Miyajima Solo Exhibition, BLD GALLERY, Japan

2009

PILE UP LIFE, Lisson Gallery, London, UK

2008

Art in You, ART TOWER MITO, Mito, Japan

Time Train, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Recklinghausen, Germany

38, MONGIN ART CENTER, Korea

2007

FRAGILE WORLD, BUCHMANN GALERIE BERLIN, Berlin, Germany

2006

FRAGILE, SCAI the Bathhouse, Tokyo, Japan

2005

TATSUO MIYAJIMA, Lisson Gallery, London, UK

BEYOND THE DEATH, Museum of Contemporary Art, Kumamoto, Japan

CONTEMPORARY ART CENTRE OF SA, Adelaide, Australia

2004

TATSUO MIYAJIMA, Museo D’arte Contemporanea Rome, Italy

2003

Counter me on, Buchmann Galerie, Cologne, Germany

Tatsuo Miyajima, Galerie Javier Lopez, Madrid, Spain

2002

Count of Life, Artsonje Museum, Gyeongju, Korea

Count of Life, Artsonje Center, Seoul, Korea

White in You, SCAI the Bathhouse, Tokyo, Japan

2001

Changing Time with Changing Self, Galerie Buchmann, Cologne, Germany

2000

MEGA DEATH: shout! Shout! Count!, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Monism/Dualism, SCAI The Bathhouse, Tokyo, Japan

Counter pieces, Galerie der Stadt Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

Counter Café, Benesse communication Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Totality of Life, Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York, USA

1999

Studio Casoli, Milano, Italy

Studio Casoli, Rome, Italy

Galerie Buchmann, Cologne, Germany

Floating Time, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1998

Counter Room, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota, Aichi, Japan

Running Time, Johnson County Community Collage of Art, Kansas City, Kansas, USA

Floating Time, CCA Kitakyushu Project Gallery, Kitakyushuf, Japan

1997

Big Time, Hayward Gallery, London, UK

Time in Blue, Gallery Takagi, Nagoya, Japan

Counter Line, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA

Galerie Buchmann, Cologne, Germany

1996

Tatsuo Miyajima, Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain, Paris, France

Tatsuo Miyajima, Galerie Froment & Putman, Paris, France

Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo, Japan

Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, USA

Time House, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Canada

Big Time, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, USA

Time in Blue, Gallery Takagi, Nagoya, Japan

Time in Blue, Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London, UK

Centre International d’Art Contemporain de Montreal, Montreal, USA

1995

Running Time, Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York, USA

Running Time – Clear Zero, Queen’s House, Greenwich, London, UK

Gallery Takagi, Nagoya, Japan

Drawings and Mirrors, Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London, UK

1994

Model, Gallery Takagi, Nagoya, Japan

Galerie Buchmann, Basel, Switzerland

Hanaburanko yurete, Nasubi Gallery (moving gallery organized by an artist,Tsuyoshi Ozawa), ART VIVANT, Ikebukuro, Tokyo, Japan

1993

Running Time, Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

1992

133651, Iwaki City Art Museum, Fukushima, Japan

Opposite Circle, Gallery Takagi, Nagoya, Japan

1991

Tatsuo Miyajima, Het Kruithuis, Museum for Contemporary Art, `s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands

133651, DAAD Galerie, Berlin, Germany

Projects by Artists Series, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, USA

Region, Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan

Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne, Germany

Region 133651, Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London, UK

1990

Hiroshima Installation, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan

Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York, USA

Inter Sect, Gallery Takagi, Nagoya, Japan

1989

Counter History, Gallery Takagi, Nagoya, Japan

Circuit Drawing Installation, Gallery Surge, Tokyo, Japan

1988

Counter Circle, Galleria Vivita, Florence, Italy

1987

Es of the Future, Suntory Art: Box Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Lunami Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1986

Time, Maki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Akiyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1983

Human Stone, Gallery Parergon, Tokyo, Japan

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2014

Logical Emotion, Contemporary Art from Japan, Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, Switzerland

Lifescape, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Art Meeting 2014, Former Minamiohira Branch of Second elementary school, Tabito-cyo, Fukushima, Japan

2013

Asian Code-Zero, Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea

2012

Carpe Diem- Seize the day, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan

Marking Time, MCA Sydney, Sydney, Australia

2010

The Secret of Lafcadio Hearn, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan

IWAKI ART TRIENNALE 2010 [YARUKI], Amadaguan-Tei, Japan

2009

WAR & ART?-Terror and Simulacrum of Beauty, GALERIE AUBE, Kyoto, Japan

University of Art and Design, Kyoto, Japan

Incidental Affairs-Contemporary Art of Transient states, SUNTORY MUSEUM, Osaka, Japan

10th Habana Bienal -Meeting Point, Convento de San Francisco de Asis, Habana, Cuba

IN-FINITUM, Palazzo Fortuny , Venice, Italy

101st Anniversary Works-in-Progress for Mihoya Glass, AXIS Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Twist and Shout: Contemporary Art from Japan, Bangkok Art and Culture Center, Bangkok, Thailand

2008

Dome, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan

Happiness in Everyday Life, Contemporary Art Gallery of Art Tower Mito, Mito, Japan

Prospect.1 New Orleans, New Orleans, USA

2007

WAR & ART-Terror and Simulacrum of Beauty, GALERIE AUBE, Kyoto University of Art and Design, Kyoto, Japan

THE POWER OF EXPRESSION, JAPAN, THE NATIONAL ART CENTER, Tokyo, Japan

AGAINST THE CLOCK, IVAM (Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno), Valencia, Spain

Numerica, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy

Artempo – Where Time Becomes Art, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy

Beautiful New World : Contemporary Visual Culture from Japan, “798” Dashanzi Art District, Beijing, China

The short piece exhibition collected for ” Koji Enokura documentary ” by Liu xu Guang,Space23?, Tokyo, Japan

2006

TOKYO-BERLIN / BERLIN-TOKYO, MORI ART MUSEUM, Tokyo, Japan

BERLIN-TOKYO / TOKYO-BERLIN, NEUE NATIONALGALERIE, Berlin, Germany

PAUSE, DAUMO DI MILANO, Milano, Italy

THE FUTURE OF COMMUNICATION, NAGASAKI PREFECTURAL ART MUSEUM, Nagasaki, Japan

TATSUO MIYAJIMA ( BEPPU PROJECT), ONPAKU HOUSE, Beppu, Ooita, Japan

20 ARTISTS IN RECENT 20 YEARS, MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, SAPPORO, Hokkaido, Japan

2005

HOMAGE KOJI ENOKURA, NAGAI FINE ARTS, Tokyo, Japan

2004

The Snow Show, cities of Kemi and Rovaniemi, Finland

Mediarena’japanese art in the 21 st century, GOVETT BREWSTER ART GALLERY, New Plymouth, New Zealand

UNUSUAL COMBINATION, +Gallery, Aichi, Japan

And or Versus? : Adventures in Images, YOKOHAMA MUSEUM OF ART, Kanagawa, Japan

AKIMAHEN, Maison Folie de Lille Wazemmes, Lille, France

CyberArts 2004, Prix Ars Electronica Exhibition, Linz, Austria

Gwangju Biennale – A Grain of Dust A Drop of Water, Gwangju, South Korea

2003

Happiness, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

Hommes et Robots-De l’utopie a la realite-Fantaisies Cybernetiques, Palais De Tokyo, Paris, France

LOVE PLANET, Former Izushi Elementary School, Organizers/LOVE PLANET Exhibition

2002

Happiness, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

Attitude 2002, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan

2001

Art in Technological Times, SFMOMA, San Francisco, USA

Reflection, Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan

Black Box, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Swaziland

The Standard, Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum, Kagawa, Japan

Facts of Life, Hayward Gallery, London, UK

Art for the Sprit, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Hokkaido, Japan

Silence of the City, Gwangju City Art Museum, Gwangju, Korea

2000

Umedalen Skulptur, Umeå, Sweden

Time, NOB Gallery, Okazaki, Japan

Das f_nfte Element- Gelt oder Kunst, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Piece of Universe / Piece of Time, Nigata City Museum, Nigata, Japan

Game Over, WATARI-UM, Tokyo Japan

Yume no Ato _ Contemporary Art from Japan, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin / Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany

Orbis Terrarum, Museum Plantin-Moretus, Antwerp, Belgium

Gendai Japanese Contemporary Art-Between the Body and Space, Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland

Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China

1999

Prime, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Scotland, UK

Melbourne International Biennale, Melbourne, Australia

48a La Biennale di Venezia: Whither the Arts?, Venice, Italy

KRONOS&KAIROS, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany

The 3rd Asia-Pacific Triennale, Queensland Art Gallery, Sydney, Australia

Kunst-Welten im Dialog, Museum Ludwig Köln, Cologne, Germany

1998

Hikari-areba, Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan

The Edge of Awareness, WHO, Geneva / Secretariat Building of United Nations, New / SESC de Pompeia, Sao Paulo / WHO, New Delhi

Gene Worlds, Kunst-und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany

Over the Everyday, Museum of Shanghai, Shanghai, China

1998 Taipei Biennial: Site of Delhi, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan

Donai Yanen!, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France

Is This Art?, Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Sakura / Contemporary Art Gallery of Art Tower Mito, Mito, Japan

Taste and Pursuits: Japanese Art in the 1990s, National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi / Metropolitan Museum of Manila, The Philippines

1997

The magic of Number, Staatgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

Histoire de voir, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, Bordeaux, France

Into the Light, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan

1996

Tranquility, Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan

Internet World EXPO 1996, Dai Nippon Printing Co., LTD. (temporary event on Internet site)

Emits Light, Moves, Makes Noises: Non-Static Art in the 20th Century, The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama, Japan

Requiem: Koji Enokura and 33 Artists, Kawaguchi Museum of Contemporary Art, Saitama, Japan

Urban Evidence, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, USA

Against, Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London, UK

Video Art Saizensen, Kitakanto Museum of Fine Arts, Gunma, Japan 

Red Gate, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Gent, Belgium

Entgrenzung, Galerie Buchmann, Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Art Scene 90-96, Contemporary Art Gallery of Art Tower Mito, Mito, Japan

Project for Survival, The National Museum of Modern Art, / The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan

1995

Art Japan Today, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan

Resurrection of Topos 1, HILLSIDE TERRACE, Daikanyama, Tokyo, 11 April – 7 May / OXY GALLERY, Osaka, 6 October – 29 October / Shimin Plaza, Toyama, Japan

Japanese Culture: The Fifty Postwar Years, Meguro Museum of Art, Japan

Japan Today, Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark

Ripple Across the Water ’95, Urakami river, Nagasaki, 1 August – 10 August / WATARI-UM and Shibuyagawa park, Tokyo, Japan

Ducks Not on a Pond, Ganders Never Laid a Golden Egg, Rochdale Canal, Manchester, England, UK

4. Uluslararasi Istanbul Bienali – ORIENT / ATION, Istanbul, Turkey

1994

Of the Human Condition: Hope and Despair at the End of the Century, Spiral, Tokyo, Japan

Japanese Art After 1945: Scream Against the Sky, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama , Japan

Cosmovision, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, South Korea

Time / Art, The Museum of Modern Art, Otsu, Japan

Multiples Dimensions, O Museo Temporario, Lisbon, Portugal

Gaze, Carre des Arts du Parc Floral de Paris, Paris, France

Art Against AIDS Japan, Sogetsu Kaikan, Tokyo, Japan

Jetzteit, Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria

Art Today 1994, SEZON MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, Karuizawa, Japan

Cocido y Crudo, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain

1993

Azur, Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain, Jouy-en-Josas, France

Special Exhibition of Recycling Through Art, Taejon Expo, Taejon, South Korea

Oita Contemporary Art Exhibition’93, Propose to the Urban Enviroment: Impractical 2, City of Oita(sake store house, Hoashi family), Oita, Japan

1992

Shiga Annual ’92: Functions of Language in Contemporary Art, The Museum of Modern Art, Otsu, Japan

Art at the Armory: Occupied Territory, The Chicago Avenue Armory by museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA

Performing Objects, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA (video cat)

1991

Contemporary Arts: The Mind of Japan, The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Japan 

Zones of Love: Contemporary Art from Japan, Toko Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo / Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth / Art Gallery of South

Australia, Adelaide / Waikato Museum of Art and History, Hamilton, New Zealand / Dunedin Public Art Gallery, New Zealand / Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

Line in Contemporary Art-Destination of Eyes and Hands, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan, 10 September – 20 October

The 51th Carnegie International, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, USA

Zeitgleich Miyajima • Opalka, Japanisches Kulturinstitut, Cologne, Germany

A Cabinet of Signs: Contemporary Art from Postmodern Art, Tate Gallery Liverpool, Liverpool / Whitechapel Art Gallery, London / Malmo Kunsthalle, Sweden

1990

Reorienting: Looking East, Third Eye Centre, Glasgow Scotland/ Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London, UK

The Game of Manners: Japanese Art in 1990, Contemporary Art Gallery of Art Tower Mito, Mito, Japan

Drawing ’90 Original Works Exhibition, Kyo-ni Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

The 8th Biennial of Sydney: The Readymade Boomerang, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

The Koln Show, at the 9 galleries in Cologne: Daniel Buchholz / Galerie Gisela Capitain / Tanja Grunert / Galerie Max Hetzler / Jablonka Galerie / Galerie Isabella Kacprzak / Esther Schippier / Monika Spruth Galerie / Galerie Sophia Ungers, Germany

International Arts Show, Joensuu Art Museum, Joensuu, Finland

Artificial Nature, The Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athnes, Greece

Japanische Kunst der 80er Jahre, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt / Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany / Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna / Bregenzer Festspiele, Bregenz, Austria (cat)

The Disappearance of Distance, Deutsches Postmuseum, Frankfurt, Germany

Rhetorical Image, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA

1989

Japan: A New Generation, Silpakorn University Art Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand

Prospect ’89, Frankfurter Kunstverein / Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany

The Seven Artisits ’89, Hanae Mori Building, Tokyo, Japan

Magicien de la terre, Musee National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

What is Contemporary Art?, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö, Sweden

Against Nature: Japanese Art in the Eighties, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art  / Akron Art Museum, Ohio / MIT List Visual Arts Center, Boston / Seattle Art

Museum / The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati / Grey Art Gallery, New York University / Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston / Institute of Contemporary Arts, Nagoya

The 4th Contemporary Art Festival: Moving Images Now, The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan

Europalia Japan ’89: New Tools New Images, Museum Van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwer, Belgium

On Kawara, Again and Against: 24 Prominent Works of Japanese Contemporary Art 1966-1989, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Nagoya, Japan

1988

The 8th Hara Annual, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan

43a La Biennale di Venezia: Aperto ’88, Venice, Italy

Lunami Selection ’88, Lunami Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

The 7th Heiko Geijyutsu Ten (Parallel Art Exhibition): Shigerumonotachi, Curated by Toshiaki Minemura, Tokyo, Ogasawara-ryu Kaikan, Tokyo, Japan

Movement and Modern Art, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Urawa, Japan

East Meets West: Japanese and Italian Art Today, Convention Center Los Angels, Los Angels, USA

1986

Image Machine, G-Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1985

Exhibition of Towns and Villages, Kurashiki City Exhibition Museum, Kurashiki, Japan

The Hidden Animals in the City, Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Osaka, Japan

1984

Exhibition Kaiba, G-Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Sound Object Exhibition, WAVE Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Graduation Works Exhibition, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum, Tokyo, Japan

Exhibition of 8 Artists by 4 Critic, NEWZS, Tokyo, Japan

Fujiyama Geisha, Kyoto City University of Arts Exhibition Space, Kyoto / Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music Exhibition Space, Tokyo / Gallery Seian, Kyoto / R-Gallery, Kyoto, Japan

Fujiyama Geisha, Gallery K, Tokyo, Japan

1983

Performance Week, Kaneko Art G1 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Bigs Once More, Plan B, Tokyo, Japan

SCAN Spring Competition, Video Gallery SCAN, Tokyo, Japan

Kikou, Gallery M, Fukui, Japan

Monday, 26 September – Sunday, 2 October 1983, Kanagawa Prefectural Hall Gallery, Kanagawa Prefectural Hall Gallery, Yokohama, Japan; Kyoto City University of Arts Exhibition Space, Kyoto, Japan

Fujiyama Geisha, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music Exhibition Space, Tokyo, Japan

1982

Ueno ’82, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music Exhibition Space, Tokyo, Japan

O Voice, Kenya Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

The New World of Visual Expression, Seibu Department Store, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan

Peppermint Green, Plan B, Tokyo, Japan

1981

June Exhibition, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan

Space, Tokyo, Japan

Kanagawa Prefectural Hall Gallery, Yokohama, Japan

1980

Art Party, Subnard AC Hall, Tokyo, Japan