Education

M.F.A., Hunter College, New York, U.S.A., 2011

B.F.A., Kyoto University of Art and Design, Kyoto, Japan, 2004

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

Solo Exhibitions

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

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

　　Happy Hour (performance), Kate Werble Gallery, 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

Awards

2003 Gaien Photo Studio Award, Tokyo (commercial photo magazine)

Radio

2009 Rancourt Yatsuk and Trent Wolbe, Sound and Safe: Happy Hour,
WFMU 91.1FM, at Kate Werble Gallery, New York (May 11)

Residency Program

2009 ART week, Artis Den Bosch, Netherlands

Lectures and Workshops

2009 AAproject Art and English Workshop, Gallery Kitai, Tokyo (January 17)

　　AAproject Art and English Workshop, Youkobo artspace, Tokyo (July 18)

Articles

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