Bio

Education 2004 Ph.D. Art, Tama Art University 2001 M.A.,Tama Art University 1997 Diploma Media-Art, Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe 1992 Diploma Photo-Design, Fachhochschule Dortmund.

Exhibitions 2009 Art Space Youkobo, Tokyo (S) Trolls, Open Air Art Exhibition at Zempukuji Park, Tokyo (G) DYNAMITE 0000, Tokyo (G) ULTRA002 EMERGING・DIRECTOR’S・ART FAIR・‘ウルトラ002’, Tokyo (G) UND#4, PLATTFORM ZUR PRÄSENTATION VON KUNSTINITIATIVEN IN KARLSRUHE (G) International Art Village, Nishiaizu, Fukushima (S) 2008 Art Space Youkobo, Tokyo (S) Art Trace Gallery, Tokyo (G) UND#3, PLATTFORM ZUR PRÄSENTATION VON KUNSTINITIATIVEN IN KARLSRUHE, (G) 2007 alpha Gαllery, Saigon (S) Yatsuo Slow Art Festival 2007, Toyama (G) glue, Berlin (G) Poly Galerie, Karlsruhe (G) Art Space Youkobo, Tokyo (S) 2006 What have you got to say? Mana Fine Arts Jersey City, NJ (G) 「沖縄まちアート夏祭り“うまんちゅう”」 Contemporary Art Factory, Tokyo (G) 2005 wanakio, Okinawa (G) Sagamihara Photo-Festival, Tokyo (G·C) (G·C) Deutschlandjahr in Japan, TÜV Rheinland Forum, Shin-Yokohama (S) Galerie Altes Rathaus, Inzlingen/Lörrach (G) 2004 KEOPS Project / The Flanders Center Photographic Gallery, Osaka (S) International Art Book Fair, Seoul, Korea (G·C) Tama Art Museum, Tokyo (G·C) 2003 wanakio, Okinawa (G) 2002 Yokohama Museum of Art and Yokohama Portside Gallery, Yokohama (S·C) wanakio, Okinawa (G) 10-Jahres-Ausstellung HfG Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe (G·C) 2001 Best 12, Contemporary Art Factory, Tokyo (G) FIELDWORKS, Contemporary Art Factory, Tokyo (G) 2000 Gallery Shimada, Tokyo (S) Fuji Photo Salon, Tokyo, Osaka (S) Gallery Ohm, Munich (S) Nikon Salon, Tokyo (S) Gallery Space 21, Tokyo (S) 1999 LIGHT WORKS, Yokohama (S) Murata & Friends, Berlin (S) Commutation, Yokohama Civic Gallery, Yokohama (G·C) 1998 Art Festival in Tsurugi, Tsurugi (G) Yamagata Landscape Art Festival, Shinjo (G) 1996 Begegnungen mit dem Fremden, Reiss-Museum der Stadt Mannheim, Mannheim (G) 1995 Multimediale 4, Karlsruhe (G·C) Gallery Canolfan, Nagoya (S) Art Festival in Tsurugi, Tsurugi (G) Ausstellungsraum c/o Raile, Karlsruhe (S) 1994 Widerstand - heute?!, Galerie Villa Merkel, Esslingen (G·C) Stellwerk, Design-Zentrum Nordrhein-Westfalen Essen (G·C) 1993 Dauerbrand, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe (G·C) Focus Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Dortmund (G) 1992 Zeche Zollverein, Essen (G) 1989 The Other Photography, Gerrit-Rietveldt Academy, Amsterdam (G) Focus Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Dortmund (G).
(S) Solo (G) Group (C) Catalogue

Awards·Scholarships 2008-09 Artist in Residence, Nishiaizu International Art Village, Nishiaizu, Fukushima, Japan 2007 Artist in Residence, albb , a little blah blah, Ho Chi Min City, Vietnam 2000-2004 Monbukagkusho Scholarship Tokyo 1997-99 DAAD-Scholarship, Tokyo 2000 New Face Price, Fuji Photo Salon , Tokyo. Juna 21, New Face Price, Nikon Salon, Tokyo 1998 Yamagata Public Art Grant, Landscape Art Festival, Shinjo 1996 Award for Art and Media Technologies, ZKM, Karlsruhe 1994 Grand Prize at Student Art Exhibition, Nagoya University of Art and Design, Nagoya.