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  • Born in Osaka, Japan
    Lives and works in Bologna, Italy and Kawanishi, Japan 


    Education:
    Kyoto City University of Fine Arts
    Academy of Fine Arts Bologna


  • Selected Solo Exhibitions:


  • 2023
    "温故知新 - Forming new art from classics", KATSUYA SUSUKI GALLERY, tokyo, Japan

    2021
    "Woven - つむぐ ", KATSUYA SUSUKI GALLERY, tokyo, Japan

    2018
    "Facing Histories ", Galleria I VOLPINI, Bologna, Italy

    2016
    "Facing Histories ", Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna (MAMbo), Bologna, Italy

    2015
    "Facing Histories ", Roppongi Hills A/D gallery, Tokyo, Japan
    "Facing Histories ", @Kcua Kyoto City Univesity Arts Art Gallery, Kyoto Japan
    "Facing Histories in Hiroshima “, Prefectural Gallery, Hiroshima Prefectual Art Museum, Hiroshima, Japan

    2014
    "Spriti evanescenti - Dal Giappone al Marfisa d'Este”, at Palazzina Marfisa d'Este in Ferrara, Italy 
    "FACING HISTORIES”, Galerie Houg, Lyon France

    2013
    "Tokyo- Monogatari ", Studio Carlotta Pesce, Bologna, Italy

    2011
    "Tokyo Stories- Vol.3 ", Galerie Houg, Lyon, France

    2010
    "It’s Our Tokyo Stories.", Mizuma Action( Mizuma Art Gallery), Tokyo, Japan

    2009
    "Tokyo Stories", fabioparisartgallery, Brescia, Italy

    2006
    "BUNSHIN-everyday life", Mizuma Action( Mizuma Art Gallery), Tokyo, Japan

    2005
    "T/okyo AGERS ", fabioparisartgallery, Brescia, Italy

    2004
    "FACING HISTORIES", Teatro Nuovo Giovanni da Udine, Udine, Italy

    2002
    "FACING HISTORIES", Marcel Scheiner Gallery, Hilton Head Island, U.S.A.

    1999
    "HINO IZURU KUNI YORI", Museo Luigi Franco Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
    "TOKI NO FUIN", Prefectural Gallery, Hiroshima Prefectual Art Museum, Hiroshima, Japan
    "MODERN CRIMES", Viafarini, Milan, Italy

    1998
    "SPAZIOAPERTO",Museo d'Arte Moderna Bologna, Bologna, Italy

    1996
    "TOKI NO FUIN", Art Forum Gallery, Merano, Italy

    1995
    "BANZAI", Museo Guido Carbone, Turin, Italy


  • Selected Group Exhibitions:

  • 2021
    “+Divenire. Dove inizia il numero di esodo”, Corciano Festival, Corciano, Italy

    2019
    “Turn over #1”, Galleria Paola Verrengia, Salerno, Italy

    2018
    “Lari- gli spiriti protettori della casa", Triennale di Milano, Superstudio, Milan, Italy, Moscow design week, Russia, Antonio Colombo Arte Contemporanea, Milano,Italy
    “EX-NOVO”, Fondazione Plart, Naples, Italy

    2017
  • “Roberto Daolio – vita e incontri un criticod’arte attraverso le opere di una collezione non intenzionale” Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna (MAMbo), Bologna, Italy

    2016
    "Tam Tam: Normali Meraviglie, la Mano”, Triennale di Milano
    "La Casa do ut do- Art for Hospice-i valori dell’ABITARE",Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna, Bologna, Italy

    2015
    "SILENT @KCUA”, @Kcua Kyoto City Univesity Arts Art Gallery, Kyoto, Japan

    2014
    "SHOWN OR TO BE SHOWN”, Galerie Houg, Lyon France

    2012
    "Do ut do – Art for Hospice", Spazio Carbonesi, Bologna, Italy

    2009
    "Run ,Jump and Throw-Athletics in international Contemporary Art", the Berlin City Hall, Berlin, Germany
    "Second Skin" Spazio Paraggi,Treviso, Italy

    2007
    "RED HOT -Asian Art Today from the Chaney Family Collection", The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, U.S.A.

    2006
    "LA DONNA OGGETTO-Miti e metamorfosi al femminile 1900-2005", Castello di Vigevano,Vigevano,Italy

    2005
    "CHRONOS- il tempo nell'arte dall'epoca barocca all'eta contemporanea", Il Filatoio, Caraglio, Italy
    "ALTRE LILITH-Le Vestali dell’Arte – Terzo Millennio"Scuderie Aldobrandini per l’Arte,Frascati,Italy
    "BOLOGNA CONTEMPORANEA", Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
    "XIV QUADIENNALE DI ROMA", Museo Nazionale d'Arte Moderna di Roma, Rome, Italy

    2004
    "FAR EAST-Volume 1, Yu Hirai + Yumi Karasumaru ", Agenzia04, Bologna, Italy
    "COMUNITA' COMMUNITY ", Premio Internazionale d'Arte "Ermanno Casoli settima edizione" Cartoteca Storica Regionale ,Serra San Quirico, Italy
    "FEMALE DIGNITY - Inszenierung der Weiblichkeit in der modernen Kunst ", Schloss Ulmerfeld, Ulmerfeld, Austria
    "OFFICINA ASIA", Museo d'arte Ex-Pescheria, Cesena, Italy

    2002
    "Small Works", Marcel Scheiner Gallery, Hilton Head Island, U.S.A.
    "Mountain Way - I sentieri dell'arte per la montagna", Palazzo Frisacco, Tolmezzo

    2001
    "Figure del Novecento 2. Oltre l'Accademia", Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
    "MY OPINION", Palazzo Lanfranchi, Pisa, Italy

    2000
    "INSIGHTS", Fondazione Adriano Olivetti, Rome, Italy

    1999
    "Video. it - Young Art at S. Pietro in Vincoli", S. Pietro in Vincoli, Turin, Italy

    1998
    "Nuovi collezioni degli ultimo due anni ", Museo d'Arte Moderna Bologna, Bologna,Italy
    "SUBWAY-arte negli spazi della metropolitana del passante della stazioni ferroviarie ", Milan, Italy
    "ROMAGNA-KASSEL", Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Vero Stoppioni, Santa Sofia, Italy

    1997
    "UNIVERSARTE", S.Giovanni in Monte, Bologna, Italy

    1996
    "UP TO DATE", Spazia Art Gallery, Bologna, Italy

    1995
    "ATOMICA", Maniero Associazione Culturale, Rome, Italy
    "Biennale di Venezia, APERTO '95 - OUT OF ORDER", Museo d'Arte Moderna Bologna, Bologna, Italy

    1994
    "DON CHISIOTTE", Museo Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, San Marino, Most Serene Republic of San Marino

  • Selected Performances:


  • 2020
    “The Storyteller, il narratore 2020 – Kodanshi per la Galleria de’foscherari”, Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna (MAMbo), 20th September, Bologna , Italy
    "Yumi-transformer, Life changing program 2020-2021” on 24th and 25th June at Galleria de’ foscherari, Bologna, Italy
    "The Story-teller, il narratore 2020 – Il nome di quell’uomo è Pasquale", on 24th January at Galleria de’ foscherari, Bologna, Italy

    2019
    “The Bumper Car Kodanshi - Circolare”13th of October, at the amusement park, Baggio, Milano, Italy
    “The Story-teller, Kataribe 2019 – Make yourself at home” from 1st to 3rd of February, at artist’s home studio,
    in the program of ART CITY – Arte Fiera 2019, Bologna, Italy

    2018
    "The Story-teller, Il narratore 2018 – The Four Pop Songs" at I VOLPINI antiques & interiors for ArtCity Bologna, 31th of January, Bologna, Italy

    2017
    "Facing Histories in Hiroshima- versione speciale per Torino 2017", Museo Ettore Fico, 4th of November, Torino, Italy
    "The Story-Teller – il narratore -versione speciale per Napoli 2017", Palazzo San Teodoro, 15th of June, Napoli, Italy

    2016
    "Facing Histories in Hiroshima", Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna(MAMbo), 6th of August, Bologna , Italy

    2015
    "Facing Histories in Hiroshima", @Kcua Kyoto City Univesity Arts Art Gallery, 6th ,9th of August, Kyoto Japan

    2014
    "KOROSù-to Kill -Versione speciale per Marfisa 2014", at Palazzina Marfisa d'Este in Ferrara, Italy 
    "The Story-Teller, Kataribe 2014", at Galerie Houg, Lyon, France

    2013
    "The Story-Teller, il narratore", at Studio Carlotta Pesce, Bologna, Italy
    "The Story-Teller, il narratore", ”KOROSù-to Kill”at Ex-chiesa di San Mattia, Bologna ( the event of Arte Fiera- ArtCity Bologna)

    2011
    "The Story-Teller", at Gallerie Houg, Lyon, France

    2010
    "The Story-Teller", at Mizuma Action (Mizuma Art Gallery), Tokyo

    2009
    "The Story-Teller", at Coin department store, Treviso
    "The Story-Teller", at fabioparisartgallery, Brescia

    2006
    "Koros-Aikiru (I Kill)", at Mizuma Action (Mizuma Art Gallery), Tokyo

    2002
    "SHORT STORY OF JAPAN", Via Magenta,14, Varese
    "FACING HISTORIES", Marcel Scheiner Gallery, Hilton Head Island, USA

    2001
    "KATARIBE-the narater" ( Domestic Art ), at Dt. G. Masini & Dr. M. Paoletti, l6th of September, Pisa

    2000
    "INSIGHTS- glimpses and actions between public and private spaces", Fondazione Adriano Olivetti, Rome
    "BUNSHIN", Museo Civicadi Arte Contemporanea Trento, Trento
    "Serata FLUXUS", Chiostri di S. Domenico - ex Stalloni, Reggio Emilia

    1999
    "BUNSHIN", Museo Luigi Franco Arte Contemporanea, Turin
    "DOMESTIC ART ON TOUR", at Dr. M. De Michelis & Dr.A Kohlmayer, l8th of May, Venice
    "DOMESTIC ART ON TOUR", at Dr. Gemma De Angelis Testa, 2Oth of April, Turin
    "DOMESTIC ART ON TOUR", at Dr. Ruben Levi, 24th of February, Turin
    "DOMESTIC ART ON TOUR", at Dr. Claudio Guenzani, 11th of February, Milan

    1998
    "DOMESTIC ART ON TOUR", at Dr. Patrizia Brusarosco (Via Farini), l6th of December, Milan
    "SHORT STORY OF JAPAN", Sancarlino Theater - Brescia Music Art Festival - Brescia
    Television program "LE NOTTI DELL'ANGELO", Italia 1

  • Public Collections

  • Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna (MAMbo), Bologna, Italy
    Galleria civica d’arte moderna e contemporanea di Torino, Italy
    Microsoft Foundation, U.S.A
    The Museum of Modern Arts, Republic of S.Marino
    The University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy