Takako Oishi
Born in 1980, Kagoshima, Japan
Lives and works in New York City
Education
M.F.A., Hunter College, New York, U.S.A., 2011
B.F.A., Kyoto University of Art and Design, Kyoto, Japan, 2004
Solo Exhibitions
2011 Hypothesis Testing (two persons show with Ryan Compton), Weekend Labs, Arts & Sciences PROJECTS, New York
28 Rue Bonaparte 4, Boutique Eat Shop, New York
2006 Virginity, Aoi-heya, Tokyo, Japan
Geki-sha-shin-dan second show, Gallery Punctum, Tokyo, Japan
2005 Virginity, voice gallery, Kyoto, Japan
2003 Geki-sha-shin-dan: That's Arcadia!!, Gallery Prinz, Kyoto, Japan
2002 B01 Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
Group Exhibitions
2011 Gathering Hopes, Charity Exhibition for Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Relief, Japanese American Association of New York, New York
Japanese Earthquake Relief Photos, Smile Williamsburg Art Gallery, New York
sublime terrible sublime terrible, Emilia Cohen Gallery (ECHO), Mexico City, Mexico
NAGAS-North American Graduate Art Survey, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minnesota
2010 STUDIO_CUBE, The ACE Curatorial Collective, Hunter College, New York
MFAs curate MFAs, Times Square gallery, Hunter College, New York
Dance Ghost, Vaudeville Park, New York
2009 The 3rd IMC Exposition, Studio IMC Lab and Gallery, New York
NIGHTSHIFT III: Backstage, Hudson Guild Gallery, New York
Art Student Exhibition, ISE Cultural Foundation, New York
Digital Art Exhibition, Art Department Gallery, Hunter College, New York
2006 Himitsu, collaboration with Marmellow Hanairo gallery, Kyoto, Japan
Kyoto Photography Exhibition 07, Gallery Marronnier, Kyoto, Japan
GEISAI (art fair organized by Takashi Murakami), Tokyo, Japan
Portrait, Gallery Punctum, Tokyo, Japan
2005 Kyoto Photography Exhibition 06, Gallery Marronnier, Kyoto, Japan
Nudes, Exposure gallery, Vancouver, Canada
A Summer Salon, Exposure Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2004 Kyoto Photography Exhibition 05, Gallery Marronnier, Kyoto, Japan
2001 Boo Boo Book Show, Kyoto, Japan
2000 Kyoto, Gallery RAKU, Kyoto, Japan
Performances
2010 Joan Jonas, Mirror Piece I: Reconfigured (1969/2010), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (June 17) - Performer
2010 Rancourt/Yatsuk, SOLACE, Austrian Culture Forum, New York (Feb 18) - Performer
2009 Happy Hour , Kate Werble Gallery, New York (May 11) - Choreographer and Performer
Residency Program
2009 ART week, Artis Den Bosch, Netherlands
Awards
2010 William Graf Travel Abroad Scholarship Award, New York
Honorable mention, Camara Club of New York 2010 National Juried Competition, New York
2003 Gaien Photo Studio Award, Tokyo (commercial photo magazine)
Projects and Groups
2008 Joins Team Hirata, a group to organize the publication and exhibition of photographs by Minoru Hirata,
a photographer who documented performance art in 1960s Japan
2007 Launches AAproject, a nonprofit organization, to support Japanese artists
2002 Establishes and directs Geki-sha-shin-dan, a project of photographers
2000 Launches Web Magazine RIRI and serves as editor-in-chief
Lectures and Workshops
2011 Hypothesis Testing, Weekend Labs, Arts & Sciences PROJECTS, New York
2009 AAproject Art and English Workshop, Gallery Kitai, Tokyo (January 17)2010 Teaching Assistant, Professor Reiner Leist, Advanced Photography, Hunter College , New York
AAproject Art and English Workshop, Youkobo artspace, Tokyo (July 18)
Radio
2009 Rancourt Yatsuk and Trent Wolbe, Sound and Safe: Happy Hour,
WFMU 91.1FM, at Kate Werble Gallery, New York (May 11)
Articles
Daily SUN, The 3rd IMC Exposition, featured Takako Oishi, September 4, 2009
The 3rd IMC Exposition catalog, Semtember 2009
Rocket, issue 1.3, April 2007
Chinra, vol 12, 2006 (interview, Japanese)
Tokyodamage.com, 2006 (interview, English and Japanese)
Atsushi Takada, "Second Geki-shashin-dan show," Punctum, summer 2006 (review, Japanese)
Lmagazine, August 2005
Kiyoaki Saito, "Geki-shashin-dan show," Mainichi Daily News, November 18, 2003
Toshiaki Hibino, "Geki-shashin-dan," The Kyoto Shimbun News, November 7, 2003
Commercial Photo, April 2003
