Artists

Tatsuo Miyajima

1957	Born in Tokyo, Japan
1984	Graduated from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
1986	Completed postgraduate studies at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
1991	DAAD Scholarship, Berliner Kunstprogramm, Berlin Lives and works in Tokyo

One Man Exhibitions

1983	Gallery Paregon, Tokyo
1986	Maki Gallery, Tokyo Akiyama Gallery, Tokyo
1987	Suntory Art-Box Gallery, Tokyo Lunami Gallery, Tokyo
1988	Heineken Gallery, Tokyo Galleria Vivita, Florence
1989	Gallery Takagi (cat.), Nagoya
1990	Hiroshima Installation , Hiroshima Museum, of Contemporary Art (cat.), Hiroshima Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York Gallery Takagi, Nagoya
1991	Museum Het Kruithuis (cat.), Hertognebosch 133651, DAAD Galerie (cat.), Berlin Projects by Artists Series , National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne Region, Nagoya City Art Museum (cat.), Nagoya Region 133651, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London
1992	Okawi Museum (cat.), Okawi Gallery Takagi, Nagoya
1993	Running Time , Zurich Kunsthalle (cat.), Zurich
1994	Gallery Takagi, Nagoya Galerie Buchmann,Basel,Switzerland Nasubi Gallery,Tokyo
1995	Running Time, Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York Running Time, Queen's House, Greenwich, London (organised by Art Angel) Drawings and Mirrors, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London Galerie Takagi, Nagoya, Japan Tatsuo Miyajima, Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain,Paris Tatsuo Miyajima,Galerie Fromant & Putman,Paris Tatsuo Miyajima,Oakville Galeries,Oakville,Canada
1996-7	Big Time, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas Time In Blue, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London
1997	Big Time, Hayward Gallery , London Counter Line, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, USA
1998	Counter Room, Toyota City Museum, Japan Johnson Community College Gallery of Art, Kansas City, USA Floating Time, CCA Kitakyushu Project Gallery, Japan
1999	48th Venice Biennale, Japanese Pavillion San Zeno, Pisa, Italy Floating Time, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2000	MEGA DEATH: shout! shout! count!, Tokyo Opera City, Japan 5 RaumInstallationen, Galerie der Stadt Stuttgart, Germany Tatsuo Miyajima, Galeria Javier Lopez, Madrid Spain Time Go Round, Studio Casoli, Milan, Italy

Selected Group Exhibitions

1983	Performance Week , Kaneko G1 Art Gallery, Tokyo Bigs once more , Plan-B, Tokyo SCAN Spring Competition , Video Gallery SCAN, Tokyo
1984	Sound Object Exhibition , Wave Gallery, Tokyo
1985	The Hidden Animals in the City , Osaka Prefectural Contemporary Art Center, Osaka
1988	Hara Annual , Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo Aperto'88 , The Venice Biennale, Venice Movement and Modern Art , The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama East Meets West: Japanese and Italian ArtToday, Los Angeles
1989	Japan: A New Generation , Silpakorn University, Thailand Prospect '89 , Frankfurter Kunstverein/Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt The Seven Artists '89 , Hanae Mori Building, Tokyo Magiciens de la Terre , Centres Georges Pompidou, Paris What is Contemporary Art? , Rooseum, Malmo Against Nature: Japanese Art in theEighties , San Francisco, toured to: Akron Art Museum, Ohio; MIT List Visual Art Center, Boston; Seattle Art Museum; The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati; Grey Art Gallery, New York University; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; ICA Nagoya Moving Images New , The 4th ContemporaryArt Festival, The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama New Tools, New Images , Europalia Japan '88, Museum Van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp ON KAWARA Again and Against - 24 Prominent Works of Japanese Contemporary Art 1966-1989 , Institute of Contemporary Art, Nagoya
1990	Reorienting: Looking East , Third Eye Centre, Glasgow Reorienting: Looking East , Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London The Game of Manners: Japanese Art in 1990 ,Contemporary Art Gallery of Art Tower Mito, Tokyo The Readymade Boomerang , The 8th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney The Koln Show , Max Hetzler Galerie, Cologne Worlds Maailmat 90 , International Art Show, Joensuu Art Museum, Finland Artificial Nature , Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens Japanishce Kunst der 80er Jahre ,Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, tour to: Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna and Bregenzer Festspiele The Disappearance of Distance , Deutsches Postmuseum, Frankfurt Rhetorical Image , The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
1991	Contemporary Arts - The Mind of Japan , The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu Zones of Love - Contemporary Art From Japan , Touko Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo tour to: Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth; Art Gallery of SouthAustralia, 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 A Cabinet of Signs - Contemporary Art from Postmodern Art Tate Gallery, Liverpool and tour to Whitechapel Art Gallery, London and Malmo Konsthall The 51st Carnegie International , Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh Miyajima/Opalka , Japanisches Kulturinstitut, Cologne (cat.)
1992	'Shiga Annual'92-Functios of Language in Contemporary Art' The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Japan 'Art at the Armory:Occupied Territory' , Chicago Avenue Armory.Chicago 'Performing Objects' ICA,Boston
1993	Strange Hotel , Arhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark, Arhus (cat.) 'Azure' Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain,Jouy-en-Josas,France 'Special Exhibition Of Recycling Through Art' Taejon Expo,South Korea 'Propose to the Urban Environment-Imprctical' Oita Contemporary Art Exhibition .Japan
1994	Gallery K Oslo 'Of the Human Condition:Hope and Despair at the End of the Century' Spiral, Tokyo 'Japanese Art After 1945: Scream Against the Sky' Yokohama Museum of Japan 'Cosmovision' Kukje Gallery Seoul,South Korea 'Time In Contemporary Art'.The Museum of Modern Art,Shiga,Japan 'Multiples Dimensions'. O Museo Temporario,Lisbon(cat) 'Gaze' Carre des Arts du Parc Floral de Paris 'Art Against Aids' Japan , Sogetsu Kaikan.Tokyo 'Jetztzeit'Kunsthalle Wien,Vienna 'Art Today 1994' Sezon Museum of Modern Art,Karuizawa,Japan 'Cocido y Crudo' Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia,Madrid
1995	'Art Japan Today' Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo 'Field For Intersect' Hillside Terrace ,Japan 'Japanese Culture;The Fifty Postwar Years' Meguro Museum of Art, Japan 'Japan Today' Louisiana Museum,Denmark 'Ripple Across the Water`95' Nagasaki, Tokyo ,Japan 'Ducks Not On A Pond , Ganders Never Laid A Golden Egg' Rochdale Canal ,Manchester,England 'Istanbul Biennale Orientation',Istanbul , Turkey
1996	'Tranquility'Chiba City Museum of Art,Japan '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, Japan Urban Evidence, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Against - Thirty Years of Film and Video, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London Video Art, Kitakanto Museum of Fine Arts, Gunma, Japan Project for Survival, The National Museum of Modern Art Kyoto, Kyoto Red Gate, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Gent, Belgium ART SCENE, Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito, Japan Internet 1996 World Exposition MEET THE NETWORK
1997	The Magic of Number, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany Histoire de voir, Mecenart the Fondation Cartier, Bordeaux, France Into the Light, Kyoto City Museum, Japan
1998	A light is burning, Chiba City Museum of Art, Japan The Edge of Awareness, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland Gene Worlds, Kunst-und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany Over the everyday, Museum of Shanghai, China 1998 Tapei Biennial - Site of Desire, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan The Edge of Awareness, United Nations, New York, USA Donai yanen!, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France Is this arts?, Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Art Tower, Ibaraki, Japan

Work in public collections

Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo

Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art

The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga

Nagaya City Art Museum

Iwaki City Art Museum, Fukushima

Dannheisser Foundation, New York

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Samsung Cultural Foundation, Seoul

National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto

Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba

Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, Paris

Tokyo Opera City, Tokyo

The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama

Uni Dufour Project at Geneva University, Geneva

Toyota City Museum, Toyota

Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo

Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum, Kagawa

Tate Gallery, London

Residencies

1990	ACC, New York
1990-91	DAAD, Berlin
1993	Fondation Cartier, Paris

Selected Bibliography

1989	Mechanical Garden , 'Bijutsu Techno' no.560, April, pp136-140
1987	Hidao Namba , 'Atelier' no.724, June, p87
1988	The Device Doing Art , Masashi Ogura, 'Atelier' no.733, March, p.96 Tatsuo Miyajima , Fumio Nanjo, Japan Technology Demystified , 'PHP Intersect' no.214, July, pp34-35 Tatsuo Miyajima and Fumio Nanjo in discussion , 'Subaru', September, pp328-329 Interview, 'Nikkei Image Climate Forecast', no.6, October pp58-59 Silvia Sperandio, 'La Gazzetta', November Maria Luisa Frisa, 'Flash Art International' no.147, December, p99
1989	Alessandra Mammi, 'ArtForum' no.5, January, pp125-126 Miyajima, Yukio Kondo, Gallery Takagi, Nagoya Interview, 'Atelier' no.753, November, pp112-115 Yasushui Kurabayashi, 'Bijustu Techno' no.607, April, pp105-114 Janet Koplos, 'Art in America' no.10, October, pp225-227 The Locus of Light , Keiko Sonoda, 'Tokyo Times' December pp.25-28
1990	Lynne Cooke, Reorienting: Looking East , Third Eye Centre, Glasgow and Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London, pp16-17 Tatsuo Miyajima: Hiroshima Installation, Hiroshi Minamishima, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art Trans Art Map, Shimei Shinohara, 'Eureka', February, pp148 The Game of Manners: Japanese Art in 1990, Yuko Hasegawa, Contemporary Art Gallery of Art Tower Mito, Japan Gaining Face: Japan's Artists Emerge, Carol Lutfy, 'ARTNews' no.86, March, pp146-147 Technology and Art , Hideto Fuse, 'Tetsugaku' no.10,Spring, pp108-113 Tatsuo Miyajima: Death of Time , Hideto Fuse, 'Studio Voice' no.173, May, pp72-73 International Art Show, Maaretta Jaukkuri, Joensuu Art Museum, Finland
1991	Electronic Art by Tatsuo Miyajima , Hideto Fuse, 'Anatomy of Hyper Art, pp25-32 Hyper Installation by Tatsuo Miyajima, Hideto Fuse, 'Studio Voice' no.186, June, pp72-74 133651, Lynne Cooke and Jos Poodt, Museum Het Kruithuis, Hertognebosch and DAAD Galerie, Berlin Dreaming by Numbers , Mary Haas, 'ARTNews' November, pp79-80 Region, Kazuo Yamawaki and Joe Takeba, Nayoya City Art Museum Miyajima/Opalka, Dr Helmut Friedel, Japanisches Kulturinstitut, Cologne
1992	Tatsuo Miyajima, Okawi Museum Tatsuo Miyajima, James Lingwood, Frieze Magazine, London
1993	Running Time , Berhard Burgi, Zurich Kunsthalle
1994	Multiplas Dimensoes , Luis Serpa, O Museo Temporario, Lisbon
1996	Big Time, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (organized by Michael Auping)
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