Education
2006
Brock University Center for Adult Education – Ontario, Canada (withdrawn remaining one last credit)
1993 – 1995
New York Academy of Art – M.F.A. – New York, the U.S.A.
1990 – 1993
School of Visual Arts – B.F.A. – New York, the U.S.A.
1989 – 1990
Wagner College – Liberal Arts Studies – New York, the U.S.A.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2021
Kon Art Space – Kungming, China (Up coming)
2020
“untitled studies of anonymous women,” Galeri Youn – Montreal, Canada
2018
“Beautiful Yamadera,” Yamagata Retorokan (former Yamadera Hotel) – Yamadera, Japan
2016 – 2017
“Breaking the Waves (opening live performance by Clara Venice; closing live performance by Isntvan Kantor featuring Louise Liliefeldt, Vivian Wilder, Blattella Germanica and Alexander Braun, poetry reciting by Eldon Garnet and Daisuke Takeya),” Christopher Cutts Gallery – Toronto, Canada
2017
“Fukushima NO ALICE,” Yamagata Central Library – Yamagata, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan
2016
“Indoor Playground,” The Ruins and on the streets , Escolta – Manila, the Philippines (organized by 98B COLLABoratory)
2015
“Tunnel to Jomon,” Najomon, Jomon Period Natural History Museum – Tsunan, Nigata Prefecture, Japan
2013
“GOLD ~ exspando (- over the letter o, organized by Naoaki Bab),” Block House – Tokyo, Japan / “Beautiful Singapore,” INSTINC – the Republic of Singapore / “Somewhere There (curated by Heather White),” – Toronto, Canada (postponed indefinitely)
2012
“GOD Loves Japan,” The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art – Toronto, Canada
2011
“No. w. here,” James Baird Gallery (opening live painting with cellist Vernon Regehr) – St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada / “”Everybody Loves You 2,” St.John’s downtown Water Street storefronts – St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
2010
“PERFECT WORLD (opening performances: deVah String Quartet / sushi by the artist),” Christopher Cutts Gallery – Toronto, Canada / “Beautiful Japan,” Showcase/ Megumi Ogita Gallery – Tokyo, Japan / “Beautiful Kyoto,” Shibunkaku Gallery – Kyoto, Japan
2009 – 2010
Roppongi Hills Club (organized by Fumio Nanjo), Roppongi Hills Mori Tower 51st floor – Tokyo, Japan
2008
Pouch Cove Foundation – St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada / “Kara ~ Daisuke Takeya,” The Embassy of Japan in Canada (Canada – Japan 80th Anniversary of Diplomatic Relations event) – Ottawa, Canada / “Kara (lecture by Gordon Hatt),” The Japan Foundation, Toronto (Canada – Japan 80th Anniversary of Diplomatic Rela tions event) – Toronto, Canada
2007
“Everybody Loves You 2,” Pages Window Gallery – Toronto, Canada
2006
“eyes of a child,” Christopher Cutts Gallery – Toronto, Canada
2005
“eyes of a child,” Wagner Collage Gallery – Staten Island, New York, the U.S.A. / “eyes of a child,” Galeria Punto – Okayama prefecture, Japan / “eyes of a child,” Kyoto Art Centre – Kyoto, Japan / “eyes of a child,” Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art Annex – Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan
2004
“eyes of a child (opening performance by Hideo Arai),” Prince Takamado Gallery at the Embassy of Canada (Japan – Canada 75th Anniversary of Diplomatic Relations event) – Tokyo, Japan (catalogue)
2001
“Everybody Loves You,” Christopher Cutts Gallery – Toronto, Canada / “Everybody Loves You,” Pages Window Gallery – Toronto, Canada
2000
“Everybody Loves You,” Saison Art Program : Saison Museum of Modern Art – Tokyo, Japan (catalogue)
1999
Tate Tokyo Residency – Tokyo, Japan
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021
”Memories and Distance (*please see Curatorial Studies section below),” the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) – Metro Manila, Philippines / “Anonymous Women,” various locations (TBD)
2014 – Present
”Field Trip Project Asia (*please see Curatorial Studies section below),” traveling in Asia
2020
Above the Clouds International Live Art Festival (curated by He Libin) – on line (China), GO ON International Performance Art Festival (curated by Rafi Ghanaghonian), Samara Contemporary – online (Canada)
2019
ECHT JETZT International Performance Art Festival, Stuttgart – Tübingen – Reutlingen, Germany / Above the Clouds International Live Art Festival, Nanchang – Kunming – ChuXiong – Lijiang, China / Kathmandu International Performance Art Festival 2019, Nepal / 9th Tam – Awan Internatioanl Arts Festival, Tam – Awan Village – Baguio, Philippines
2018
“Mountainous 100 Stories –Yamagata Biennale 2018 (curated by Natsunosuke Mise),” Tohoku University of Art & Design, Yamagata, Japan / SIPAF (Solidarity in Peace Performance Art Festival), Manila, Philippines / ZERO PLATFORM: A FESTIVAL OF PERFORMANCE ART 2018, Yangon, Myanmar / undisclosed territory #11, Solo, Indonesia / Canon New Cosmos of Photography 2018 (Honorary Mention Award), Tokyo Photographic Museum / “Summer Group Show,” Christopher Cutts Gallery – Toronto, Canada
2017
UP – ON International Live Art Festival, Art Museum of Sichuan University – Chengdu, China
2016
”City of Dream (curated by Kelly McCray) ,” First Canadian Place Gallery – Toronto, Canada / ”Rebirth-Extensions (curated by Cai Qing),” Chongqing Chanjiang Contemporary Art Museum – Chongqing, China / ”POWER TO THE PEOPLE II (*Please see Curatorial Studies section below),” EARTH+GALLERY / EARTH+ cafe & bar – Tokyo, Japan / Contemporary Art Biennale of Fukushima 2016 (directed by Koichi Watanabe) – Fukushima Prefecture, Japan
2015
”DIRECTOR’S CHOICE II,” Christopher Cutts Gallery – Toronto, Canada / “Fukushima NO ALICE at Unknown Asia Art Exchange Osaka 2015,” Osaka City Central Public Hall (Osaka-shi Chuo Kokaido) – Osaka, Japan / 3331 salon des artistes independents – Chiyoda 3331 Arts Festival 2014 (directed by Masato Nakamura), 3331 Arts Chiyoda – Tokyo, Japan / “311 Memorial Exhibition (organized by Takashi Murakami),” Space Zero – Tokyo, Japan / Kensington Market Art Fair – Toronto, Canada
2014
”POWER TO THE PEOPLE I (*Please see Curatorial Studies section below),” Green Plaza at Tohoku Electric Power Co., Inc. – Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan / Contemporary Art Biennale of Fukushima 2014 (directed by Koichi Watanabe) – Fukushima Prefecture, Japan / “MEDI-ARTz Zushi (directed by Michiyuki Ishita),” – Kanagawa prefecture, Japan / “Anti-War & Resistance against the Anticipated War (coordinated by Seiichi Tsuchiya, Kenji Kubota, and Mizuki Takahashi),” SNOW Contemporary – Tokyo, Japan / Shinjuku Creators’ Festa 2014 (coordinated by Tatsui Watanabe) – Tokyo, Japan / ARTabata Orihime Project (organized by Takashi Murakami) – Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan / ”Eighth Annual Summer Exhibition (juried by Matthew Flowers/ director of Flowers, Laura Hoptman/ curator of painting and sculpture department at the MOMA, and Patterson Sims/ president of the board of ICI),” Flowers – New York, the USA / ”Landscape (with Kent Monkman, Kim Dorland and Holly Farrell),” Showcase Megumi Ogita Gallery – Tokyo, Japan / ”Contemplation (curated by Peter Chan),” M Gallery – Toronto, Canada / Yoshiwara Super Art Service (organized by Keisuke Abe, Takumi Hashimoto, Azusa Kobayashi and coordinated by Mina Osawa) – Tokyo, Japan
2013
”subtleties ~ expand (- over the letter o, organized by Naoaki Bab),” Block House – Tokyo, Japan / ”Cloud Museum 2013 (directed by Isamu Muto, coordinated by Emiko Kato and AAN),” Nogoya TV Tower – Nogoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan / ”NIPPOOUUNPO – GODZILLA and the PHOENIX,” a curatorial project presented by OuUnPo, ten day event for Tokyo / Yokohama, June 17 – June 27 (coordinated by Per Hüttner and Samon Takahashi, initiated in collaboration with Vision Forum, Global Art and the Museum (at ZKM) in Karlsruhe and Linköpings universitet in Sweden) – Japan / ”Bridge Over Troubled Water ~ Izushima Project,” Onagawa Art Season (coordinated by Chie Kajiwara) – Town of Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan / ”Bell of Hope Shopping Street Art Museum (coordinated by Chie Kajiwara),” – Town of Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan / ”Light from 311/ Kesennuma memorial exhibition (coordinated by Michiari Saito),” – Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan (Postponed) / ”Paint The Halls,” Women’s College Hospital Foundation and Art Battle Canada – Toronto, Canada / ”Love ~ Life ~ Laugh: Field Trip Project (with Alex McLeod & Krystle Tabujara, David Trautrimas, and Michael Toke, coordinated by Maki Sato),” Roppongi Art Night 2013, co- presented by the Embassy of Canada in Japan and the Grand Hyatt Tokyo – Tokyo, Japan / ”A Day in the Park @ Kwun Tong (curated by Cybil Chiu),” OSAGE Foundation – Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China (Postponed)
2012
Contemporary Art Biennale of Fukushima 2012 (directed by Koichi Watanabe), Fukushima International Airport – Fukushima Prefecture, Japan
2011
”Tohoku Daishinsai Tsunami Relief Charity Exhibition ~ Art for Life (organized by Fumio Nanjo),” Mori Art Center – Tokyo, Japan / ”Looking Backward to the Future: 50 Years of Art at the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, an exhibition of selected award winners (curated by Jennifer Rudder),” First Canadian Place Gallery – Toronto, Canada / ”Artbound Project,” Kisaruni School for Girls – Masai Mara, Kenya / ”Bakers Dozen,” Christopher Cutts Gallery – Toronto, Canada / Galerie St Laurent + Hill – Ottawa, Canada
2010
”Star Portraits wrap-up party and exhibition,” Edward Day Gallery – Toronto, Canada / ”Confessions of Love (with Tad Hozumi),” XPACE Cultural Centre – Toronto, Canada (catalogue) / ”BAGART (with BIRDHEAD, curated by Yan Wu),” Up Art Contemporary Art Fair, Gendai Gallery booth, the Gladstone Hotel – Toronto, Canada (catalogue) / ”TITLES VI (traveling artist book exhibition, organized by WAY UP WAY DOWN collective),” Musée d’art de Joliette – Quebec, Canada / ”Artists’ Book of the Moment,” Art Gallery of York University – Toronto, Canada / ”NO ISBN, Salon für Kunstbuch. An Artwork as enterprise,” Neue Kunst Galerie – Leipzig, Germany / Galerie St Laurent + Hill – Ottawa, Canada
2009 – 2010
”BAGART (with BIRDHEAD),” on line project with Art Metropole/ Gendai Gallery – Toronto, Canada / Galerie St Laurent + Hill – Ottawa, Canada
2008
”Art in Hospital Project,” Okayama Municipal General Hospital – Okayama prefecture, Japan / Galerie St Laurent + Hill – Ottawa, Canada
2007
”Everybody loves you 2 (curated by Michelle Jacques),” Nuit Blanche – Toronto, Canada / ”Super PHAT (curated by Marshal Arisman, Reà Sato – Manni, and Retsu Takahashi, organized by Elaine Chow),” School of Visual Art Gallery – New York, New York, the U.S.A. (catalogue) / ”20th Anniversary Group Show,” Christopher Cutts Gallery – Toronto, Canada
2006
”Humans,” James Baird Gallery – St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada / ”Island Hopping (with A Collection of Foreign Objects, curated by Jessica Rose),” My Secret city, Nuit Blanche – Toronto, Canada / ”Generated Habitat (a site-specific installation, curated by Aleksandra Rdest, Steve Newberry, and Leiko Shimizu),” A Collection of Foreign Objects – Toronto, Canada
2005
Galeria Begona Malone – Madrid, Spain / ”Good in Bed,” James Baird Gallery – St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
2003
”Woman,” James Baird Gallery – St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
2001
”Et in Arcadia Ego,” milk, bedroom gallery – Toronto, Canada
2000
”Figuratively Speaking,” Michael Gibson Gallery – London, Ontario, Canada / ”Still/Motion,” Edward Day Gallery – Toronto, Canada / ”HUGS-Self Reflection (curated by Tiff Izsa),” Art System – Toronto, Canada / ”Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition,” Toronto City Hall – Toronto, Canada
Curatorial Studies
2014 – Present
Representative / Curator, ”Field Trip Project Asia,” Shinjuku Creators Festa 2014 (Tokyo, Japan, coordinated by Testui Watanabe, sponsored by Shinjuku Ward), National Institute of Education Art Gallery (Singapore, co-curated with Twardzik Ching Chor Leng, sponsored by the National Arts Council of Singapore), The Philippines (UP Vargas Museum – Manila/Tanauan Elementary School – Layte / University of Philippines Baguio/Cafe Yagam – Baguio, co-curated with Dr. Laya Boquiren, sponsored by the Japan Foundation, Manila and the Asia Center) , Indonesia (Jakarta at Gudang Sarinah Ekosistem, Edwin’s Gallery co-curated by Leonhard Bartlomeus / coordinated by Ayu Oomelo), Aceh Tsunami Museum (Banda Aceh, Indonesia, coordinated by the director Tomy Mulia Hasan)
2012 – Present
Representative / Curator, ”Field Trip Project (Canada – Japan joint traveling exhibitions, coordinated by Chie Kajiwara for venues in Japan),” Onagawa Temporary Housing, Birdo Flugas (Shiogama), Minamimachi cadocco (Kesennuma), Echigo Tsumari Triennale (guerilla exhibit, Nigata), TOKYO SOURCE preview room, Kofu Art Festival, Hiyori Art Center (Ishinomaki), Sagami Kazekko Children’s Outdoor Art Festival/Joshibi University Art Museum (Sagamihara), Sakuradai Elementary School Museum (Sagamihara), Maebashi Children’s Cultural Centre, Seishin Kindrgarten (Maebashi), Roppongi Art Night/Roppongi Hills Program (coordinated by Maki Sato, Tokyo), Enokojima Art, Culture and Creative Center Osaka Prefecture, Onagawa Art Season (coordinated by Chie Kajiwara, Onagawa), Artown in Misato 2013 (directed by Koichi Watanabe, Aizu Misato, Fukushima), Kamiyama Artist In Residence (coordinated by Emiko Kato and AAN, Tokushima), Cloud Museum (directed by Isamu Muto, coordinated by Emiko Kato and AAN, Nagoya), Prince Takamado Gallery at the Embassy of Canada in Japan, IDEA Exchange Design at Riverside (co-curated by Esther Shipman), The Maritime Museum of BC (coordinated by Jonathan Irwin, co- curated with Anissa Paulsen), The Textile Museum of Canada (Eutopia, an exhibition curated by Farah Yusuf) (New) and more locations TBA – Japan/ Canada
2018
Curator, ”Multi Layered Surfaces (with Alex McLeod, Clara Vennice, Curtis Talwst Santiago, Daisuke Takeya, Douglas Walker, Dyan Marie, Janieta Eyre, hisaka, Jon Sasaki, Masatake Kozaki, Matthew Carver, Natsunosuke Mise, Sakura Koretsune, Sasha Pierce, Vincent Twardzik Ching, Winnie Truong, Yo Ishihara),” the Prince Takamada Gallery and Oscer Peterson Theatre at the Embassy of Canada in Japan / Denchu Hirakushi House and Atelier – Tokyo, Japan / Nihonbashi Institute of Contemporary Art (NICA) – Tokyo, Japan
2018
Curator, ”Multi Layered Identities (with Jon Sasaki, Zikri Rahman, Yuki Higashino, Chris Mosdell, Samuel André ; curated by Daisuke Takeya + ANEWAL Gallery <Katsumasa Iitaka, Naoyuki Nakagawa>, special thanks to Takaaki Soga, dedesign support: TANJC),” Contemporary ArtGallery, Bazaar Café Koshoji Temple – Kyoto, Japan
2016
Curator, ”POWER TO THE PEOPLE II (with Urich Lau, Alex McLeod, Kento Nito, Mineki Murata, Curtis Talwst Santiago, Tatsuko★88, Aokid, Parco Kinoshita, Daisuke Takeya, Takashi Murakami, Eiji Moribe, Emelie Chhangur, Clara Venive, David Trautrimas, Machida Power Station, CAMP; Talk sessions with Taro Amano, Chie Sumiyoshi, Makiko Hara, Javier Luna),” EARTH+ cafe & bar – Tokyo, Japan
2014
Curator, ”POWER TO THE PEOPLE I (with Takashi Murakami, Eiji Moribe, Yozo Takada, Emelie Chhangur, Clara Venive, David Trautrimas, and Machida Power Station),” Green Plaza at Tohoku Electric Power Co., Inc – Sendai, Japan
2013
Curator, ”Love ~ Life ~ Laugh: Field Trip Project (with Alex McLeod & Krystle Tabujara, David Trautrimas, and Michael Toke, coordinated by Maki Sato),” Roppongi Art Night 2013, co- presented by the Embassy of Canada in Japan and the Grand Hyatt Tokyo – Tokyo, Japan / Coordinator, ”A Day in the Park @ Kwun Tong (with Cybil Chiu), ” OSAGE Foundation – Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China (Cancelled)
2011
Co- director, ”Ashita: Artists for Japan, a disaster relief event for Japan (with Rafi Ghanaghounian),” The Great Hall – Toronto, Canada
2010
Co- curator, ”New Creators Series 03: Bungalow Colony (with Siya Chen),” Gendai Gallery – Toronto, Canada (catalogue)
2009
Co- curator, ”New Creators Series 02: EXTENSIONS (with Meiko Maruyama),” Gendai Gallery – Toronto, Canada (catalogue) / Co- curator, ”Extension II: SKETCHES, MODELS + PROTOTYPES Documentation (with Meiko Maruyama),” The Japan Foundation, Toronto library – Toronto, Canada
2007
Co- curator, ”New Creators Series 01: Photo Lab (with Maiko Tanaka),” Gendai Gallery – Toronto, Canada (catalogue)
Project Based
2013
”Kangaeyo (Think) Project, 10th Anniversary Roppongi Hills (coordinated by Maki Sato),” a special message ~ hint to be inspired, to think, and to imagine – Roppongi Hills, Tokyo, Japan / ”Bell of Hope Shopping Street Art Museum (coordinated by Chie Kajiwara),” the official poster image painting – Town of Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan / ”Debris,” original postcard created with OuUnPo, at ”NIPPOOUUNPO – GODZILLA and the PHOENIX,” Tokyo/ Yokohama – Japan/ ”University of Toronto New Music Festival,” live painting with violinist Lynn Kuo, featuring original composition Interior Design for solo violin by Steven Mackey, Walter Hall, University of Toronto Faculty of Music – Toronto, Canada / “Somewhere There (curated by Heather White)” – Toronto, Canada (Postponed) / ”A Dream Called Laundry (theatrical play with writer Sang Kim),” – Toronto, Canada (Postponed) / Arte Infinitus (live painting with violinist Lynn Kuo, dancer/ choreographer Jeremy Nasmith, and dancer Tomoe Yamasaki),” – Toronto, Canada (Postponed)
2011 – 2013
”Travelling into your bookshelf project by Movana Chen” – Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China
2012
“Elements of Essence,” Les AMIS concert, featuring Süsse Stille, sanfte Quelle from Neun Deutschen Arien fur Soprano by G.F. Handel, La Fontaine d’Aréthuse from Mythes for Violin and Piano by K. Szymanowski, and Jeux d’eau for Piano by M. Ravel, with Erin Cooper Gay (soprano), Lynn Kuo (violin), and Erika Crinó (piano), Gallery 345 – Toronto, Canada / ”The Underdogs reading (coordinated by Sarah Beaudin),” live painting with poet Michael Scott as Wateredown, Culture Days, The Central – Toronto, Canada / ”Acts of Poetry (coordinated by Dyan Marie),” BIG on Bloor Festival project with Toronto New School of Writing – Toronto, Canada / ”Why Does Chocolate Taste So Delicious?,” live painting and story telling based on the titled book by Nodoka Handa with VPV, JAVA Pub Night, Alio Bar – Toronto, Canada / ”Mini Art Koinobori + Daichi Capsule (with Koichi Watanabe and Fukushima University),” – Fukushima International Airport, Japan/ the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Magic Pony, the Art Metropole, and the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre – Toronto, Canada/ OSAGE Foundation – Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China / ”Light from 311/ Kesennuma (coordinated by Michiari Saito),” the official project image painting – Miyagi Prefecture, Japan
2011
”Friend Me, Facebook profile paintings by Carole Freeman,” Edward Day Gallery – Toronto, Canada / ”Viva La Vida (a Coldplay variation), live painting with deVah String Quartet featuring Emily Hau, Moira Burke, Liza McLellan, and Sharon Lee,” VIP reception, Evolution of POP/ ARTBOUND pARTty – Toronto, Canada / ”Opening live painting with cellist Vernon Regehr,” James Baird Gallery – St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada / ”Fencer vs. Samurai (with fencer/ painter Nils Fischer),” Bloor Alternative Art Fair (coordinated by Johnson Ngo), Big on Bloor Street Festival – Toronto, Canada / ”Seven Samurai directed by Akira Kurosawa (opening live painting with VPV),” The Japanese Canadaian Cultural Centre – Toronto, Canada / ”Akes Waves Makes Wakes (live poetry reading with VPV),” Ashita: Artists for Japan, a disaster relief event for Japan, The Great Hall – Toronto, Canada
”Akes Waves Makes Wakes (live painting and poetry reading with Tatsu),” Humber College fundraising dinner, Humber College – Toronto, Canada / ”311 (live painting with VP+V),” Soul For Japan, a disaster relief event for Japan, Hart House (Amber Room), University of Toronto – Toronto, Canada
Awards
2018
Honorable Mention Award, Canon New Cosmos Photography, Tokyo Photography Museum – Tokyo, Japan
2015, 2009
Mid career grant (Visual Arts), Ontario Arts Council, Canada
2014
Grand Prize, Revive Japan Cup Art Section, Eco Japan Cup & Revive Japan Cup
2013
Grant in Support of Art-Related International Exchange (curator, Field Trip Project), Pola Art Foundation, Japan
2012
Canada Council for the Arts Travel Grant, Canada Council for the Arts, Canada
2011, 2009
Canada Council for the Arts Art Bank Purchase Award, Canada Council for the Arts, Canada
2000
Ken Purvis Best Portrait Award, The Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, Canada
1997
Special Prize, Tama Sogo Bijyutsuten Competition, Japan
1995, 1991
Liquitex Excellence in Art Award, the U.S.A.
1993 – 1995
New York Academy of Art Scholarship, the U.S.A.
1993
Dean’s Award, School of Visual Arts, the U.S.A.
1992
Hachette Filipacci Award, Society of Illustrators, the U.S.A.
Auctions
2011
”The 13th Cutting Edge,” Seoul Auction – Seoul, the Republic of Korea
2010
”The 12th Cutting Edge,” Seoul Auction – Seoul, the Republic of Korea
Art Fairs
Art Miami (2018), with Christopher Cutts Gallery / Art Toronto (2017, 2010), with Christopher Cutts Gallery
Ultra (2014), with Lana Tran / Kensington Market Art Fair (2014), with DAICHI Projects / Up Art Contemporary Art Fair (2010), with BAGART/ Gendai Gallery / SCOPE Miami (2009), with Christopher Cutts Gallery / Art Fair Tokyo (2009, 2010), with Christopher Cutts Gallery / Art Chicago (2009), with Christopher Cutts Gallery
Selected Collections
Canada Council for the Arts Art Bank Collection, Ottawa, Canada / Sengokuyama Hills, Tokyo, Japan / Jeffrey E. Epstein Collection, New York, the U.S.A. (* whereabout of the works unkown) / Taylor Thompson Collection, Toronto, Canada / Yoshiko Mori Collection, Tokyo, Japan / Dr. Horst Melcher, Berlin, Germany / Josh Coger, the United Kingdom / Craig Kielburger, Toronto, Canada / Seamus O’Reagan, Toronto, Canada / Dale Haddon, New York, the U.S.A. / Ron Murphy, Toronto, Canada / Christopher Cutts, Toronto, Canada / William Halkiew, Toronto, Canada / Fumio Nanjo, Tokyo, Japan / Sanae Yamauchi, Kyoto, Japan / Dai Tanaka, Kyoto, Japan / Art Collector Magazine, Tokyo, Japan
Artist in Residence
2019
Tentacles – Bangkok, Thailand
2016
98B COLLABoratory Escolta – Manila, the Philippines / Chongqing Chanjiang Contemporary Art Museum – Chongqing, China
2015
Inaugural project at Najomon, Jomon Period Natural History Museum – Tsunan, Nigata Prefecture, Japan
2013
INSTINC – the Republic of Singapore / Kamiyama Artist In Residence with Field Trip Project (with Emelie Chhangur, Dyan Marie, Jon Sasaki, KAIR: special short residency invitation at its 15th anniversary, coordinated by Emiko Kato and AAN) – Tokushima Prefecture, Japan / Onagawa Artist In Residence – Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan
2008, 2006
Pouch Cove Foundation – St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Texts
2018
”Multiple layering by simultaneous multiple occurrence ~ Multi Layered Surfaces ~,” Monthly Gallery Magazine, pp82-86, May issue, Gallary Station, Inc. – Tokyo, Japan
2012 – 2014
Monthly column, ”World filled with ART by Daisuke Takeya,” TORJA – Toronto, Canada
2014
”Field Trip Project: traveling 3D Art Exhibitions,” Art Collectors Magazine – Tokyo, Japan / ”Art directly connects the disaster affected areas and Canada,” TORJA Magazine – Toronto, Canada
2013
”Field Trip Project: Connecting Canada and the disaster affected areas(co- text with Chie Kajiwara),” Maple Tohoku – Tohoku Canada-Japan Society, Miyagi, Japan / Exclusive interview, ”Rapidly, Beautifully, and Rhythmically. A fighter, artist Ushio Shinohara,” TORJA – Toronto, Canada / Exclusive interview, ”The making of David Liss, the artistic director of Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art by Daisuke Takeya,” TORJA – Toronto, Canada
2012
Exclusive interview, ”What kind of person is Koki Tanaka? The representative of the Japanese Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biannual,” TORJA, July issue – Toronto, Canada / Article, ”Artists in Conversation – Max Dean and Hiraki Sawa at the AGO,” TORJA, June issue – Toronto, Canada / Article, ”What Toronto’s art needs,”TORJA, September issue – Toronto, Canada
2011
Essay inclusion, ”BAGART Toronto shopping guide,” BAGART/ Gendai Gallery – Toronto, Canada
2007 – 2010
Monthly column, ”Daisuke Sensei no Zatsugaku Art (Teacher Daisuke’s Art Trivia),” BITS Magazine – Toronto, Canada
2010
Catalogue essay, ”Problem Forward, New Creators Series 03: Bungalow Colony,” Gendai Gallery – Toronto, Canada
2009
Catalogue essay, ”Never ending family, New Creators Series 02: EXTENSIONS,” Gendai Gallery – Toronto, Canada
2007
Catalogue essay, ”New Creators Series 01: Photo Lab,” Gendai Gallery – Toronto, Canada
2006 – 2008
Monthly column, ”Children’s artwork selected by Daisuke Takeya,” MADO – The Window of Arts – Tokyo, Japan
2006
”My attempt to teach art- effective use of starter in class,” Jijitsu to Sozo (Reality and Creativity, a critical educational journal in Japan), pp17-24, March, Ikkei Shobo Press – Tokyo, Japan, ISSN – 0285-208X
2004
”Life and works of artist Kazuo Nakamura,” The New Canadian – Toronto, Canada
2002
Introductory essay, ”Risa Campaign in Toronto – Big in Japan: 6 Japanese contemporary art stars,” Nikka Times – Toronto, Canada
Bibliography
2019
Franklin, Kei: DIRE ART, Creative Interventions in Environmental Trauma, pp34 – 49, BRACK Issue No.4, The Energy Issue – Singapore
2017
Kidd, Sophia: Inside/Outside-Black and White: 5th Chengdu Up-On International Live Art Festival, p 94, Yishu Magazine – Chengdu, China / ICAOS: buku wet-wet punge blang cut – Banda Aceh, Indonesia
2016
Nanjo, Fumio: Daisuke Takeya and Contemporary Poetic Sentiment, Christopher Cutts Gallery catalogue – Toronto, Canada
2015
Soria De Veyra, Jojo: Kinds of Relief on Field Trip Project Asia’s take on the randoseru as relief carrier, diskurso, Filipino art magazine on line, November 23 – Manila, Philippines
2014
Miyata, Ken: An art exhibit with energy issues opened after 3days delay, Kahoku Shimpo Publishing Co., Social section p25, October 10th – Miyagi Prefecture, Japan / Ishibashi, Hideaki: Tohoku-Electric Power Co., Inc. requested the removal of an artwork from an exhibition, Asahi News Paper, Miyagi section p29, October 13th – Miyagi Prefecture, Japan / Miyata, Ken: Energy issue provoked by Art, Kahoku Shimpo Publishing Co., Culture section p22, October 5th – Miyagi Prefecture, Japan / Okamoto, Sayaka: An interview with Daisuke Takeya about his work GOLD Coating, Shinjuku Creators Festa 2014 website, September 1st – Tokyo, Japan / Smart, Amy: Art exhibit at Maritime Museum honors tsunami relief effort, Times Colonist, LIFE section p1, June 20th – Victoria, Canada / Saunders, Keiko Miyamatsu: Toronto artist Daisuke Takeya holds Field Trip Project exhibit in Victoria, July 24th – Toronto, Canada
2013
Tokushima Shimbun Newspaper: Kamiyama Artist In Residence exhibition starts tomorrow, p17, October 28 – Tokushima Prefecture, Japan / Tokushima Shimbun Newspaper: Backpacks as relief suplies reused as artworks – exhibition starts tomorrow at Kamiyama, p18, October 26 – Tokushima Prefecture, Japan / Sankei News Paper: Backpack artwork makes cities and its people energetic – relief supplies for the Great East Japan Earthquake reused, p20, August 7 – Osaka Prefecture, Japan / Japan Today: Grand Hyatt Tokyo joins Roppongi Art Night in support of Tohoku recovery effort, March 22 – Tokyo, Japan / Fukushima Art Biennale 2012 Book – Fukushima Prefecture, Japan / TORJA, New Music Festival: Chamber Music of Steven Mackey II, p29, January 2013 issue – Toronto, Canada
2012
ArtSync Book 2012-2013 – Toronto, Canada / Whyte, Ewan: GOD Loves Japan – Toronto, Canada / Morgenstern, Yoko: Nikkei Voice, Japanese section, May issue – Toronto, Canada / Lee, Kyungmin: Special feature: ‘ Making as Living,’ After 3.11 Great East Japan Earthquake ~ Takeya Daisuke, Wolganmisool Monthly Art Magazine, p94-95, March issue – Seoul, the Republic of Korea / White, Heather: On Now >> God Loves Japan @ MOCCA, ArtSync – Toronto, Canada / Kim, Sang: ” God Loves Japan,” installation by Daisuke Takeya, Toronto To Japan: Hope Blossoms, March 6th – Toronto, Canada / Fane, Kate: On Now >> Tasman Richardson, Peter Doig, Tim Gardner, Sarah Anne Johnson, and Daisuke Takeya at the MOCCA, ArtSync – Toronto, Canada / Grigorescu, Alexsandra: Hot Art: Immersive Experiences at MOCCA, Where.ca, February 3rd – Toronto, Canada / Reheel, Jason: Five things to do this week: Feb.4-10, POSTED TORONTO, National Post, February 3rd – Toronto, Canada / Museum Publicity.com: Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art announces Daisuke Takeya. GOD Loves Japan, January 28 / ART TORONTO: Daisuke Takeya: GOD Loves Japan – Toronto, Canada / Art Knowledge News: The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art Features Three New Exhibitions / The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art: Newsletter winter 2012 – Toronto, Canada / Iromoto, Nobuo: Daisuke Takeya, GOD Loves Japan, an exhibition on a theme of The Great East Japan Earthquake, Nikka Times, February 23rd – Toronto, Canada / BITS Magazine: GOD Loves Japan, February 17th – Toronto, Canada / Iromoto, Nobuo: Toronto artist Daisuke Takeya creates official poster for ” Light from 311/ Kesennuma,” Nikka Times, February 23rd – Toronto, Canada / TORJA: GOD Loves Japan, April issue – Toronto, Canada / Wén, J.C.: God Loves Japan raises awareness about Japan’s recovery efforts, Nikkei Voice, REVIEW, p10, March issue – Toronto, Canada / Academy on view: DAISUKE TAKEYA (MFA 1995), God Loves Japan, New York Academy of Art, January 9th – New York, the U.S.A.
2011
Haire, Cecil: “I Love You,” interview with Daisuke Takeya, The St. John’s Morning Show, CBC Radio, September 9th – NewFoundland and Labrador, Canada / Bradbury, Tara: Daisuke Takeya, Japanese artist presents three new works, Entertainment section, The Telegram, September 9th – NewFoundland and Labrador, Canada
Uddin, Farhana: Art Show benefit victims of Japan earthquake and tsunami, The Toronto Observer, March 28th – Toronto, Canada / Chen, Marcia: Drinking tea, buying art for Japan, City TV News Toronto, March 24th – Toronto, Canada / Iromoto, Noriko: Soul for Japan, Nikka Times, March 31st – Toronto, Canada / Hirata, Makoto: ASHITA: Artists for Japan, Nikka Times, March 31st – Toronto, Canada / Hirata, Makoto: PechaKucha Night in Toronto, Nikka Times, April 21st – Toronto, Canada
2010
Star Portraits: Interview with an artist Daisuke Takeya, Bravo TV – Toronto, Canada / ORBITAL – Roppongi Hills Club News: Gazing at the Japanese sky from just a little further beyond – Daisuke Takeya kara, Art at Roppongi Hills Club/ Lifestyle section, p18, January/February 2010 issue – Tokyo, Japan / Purvis, Matthew: Daisuke Takeya at Christopher Cutts, Art Agenda, BlogTO, July – Toronto, Canada / Dick, Terence: Daisuke Takeya at Christopher Cutts, AKIMBLOG, June 24th – Toronto, Canada / Sandals, Leah: Unedit my heart, June 1st – Toronto, Canada
Neave, Marissa: Confessions of Love: Interview with Tad Hozumi & Daisuke Takeya by Marissa Neave, XPACE Cultural Centre, February – Toronto, Canada / Dick, Terence: Daisuke Takeya at XPACE, AKIMBLOG, March 4th – Toronto, Canada / KALONSNET: Daisuke Takeya: Beautiful Japan, March 25th – Tokyo, Japan / BITS Magazine: Confessions of Love, Topics, February – Toronto, Canada / Iromoto, Nobuo: 10th Anniversary in Toronto, 40 years old, Daisuke Takeya at Christopher Cutts Gallery, Nikka Times – Toronto, Canada
2008
Milanovic, Maja: On a journey with curious mind, Current, cover story, September 4 – 15th – St.John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada / Milanovic, Maja: On a journey with curious mind, exhibition catalogue, The Japan Foundation, Toronto – Toronto, Canada / Jager, David: Outsider Takeya looks in, Japanese artist bridges cultures in works full of double meanings, NOW MAGAZINE, ART section, March 20 – 26th – Toronto, Canada / Thérrien, Marie-Josée: Interview with Daisuke Takeya, Metro Morning, CBC Radio, March – Toronto, Canada
CFRA 580 Radio: Kara ~ Daisuke Takeya at the Embassy of Japan in Canada, July 12 – Ottawa, Canada
2006
BITS Magazine: Special Dialogue: Artist Daisuke Takeya x York University professor Ted Goosen, cover story, March – Toronto, Canada
2005
Visual Arts Briefs: Book ‘Em, School of Visual Arts, December 16th – New York, U.S.A. / Zushi Hayama Akiya Newspaper: Welcome back elder brother as a teacher, p11, March 1st – Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
2004
Satterthwaite, Julian: Artist’s inner child comes out to play, THE DAILY YOMIURI, ART section p7, December 2nd – Tokyo, Japan / Kuriyama, Fumiko: Daisuke Takeya’s eyes of a child, MADO -The Window of Arts, Exhibitions Preview, p169, October 21st – Tokyo, Japan / Croissant: Welcome to exhibitions, p147, November 25th – Tokyo, Japan / Asahi News paper: Exhibitions, November 30th – Tokyo, Japan / The Japan Times: Artist views world with child’s eyes, December 17th – Tokyo, Japan / Tokyo News Paper: Take a walk with art, eyes of a child: by Daisuke Takeya, p22, October 28th – Tokyo, Japan
2001
Farkas, Suzanne: TORONTO’S WINDOW GALLERIES- All you need is love – YEAR 01 FORUM: ISSUE#8, Spring 2001 – Toronto, Canada / Sato, Sumi: Everybody Loves You: Mixed media installation by Daisuke Takeya, The New Canadian, English p1, February 15th – Toronto, Canada / Sato, Sumi: Everybody Loves You: Mixed media installation by Daisuke Takeya, The New Canadian, Japanese p7, February 8th – Toronto, Canada / Gordon, D: Sheets come off &, Toronto Star, February 25th-Toronto milk.bedroom gallery: Bravo! News, March 22nd – Toronto, Canada
2000
Purvis, Jennifer: Untruly, unmadly, shallowly in love, The Japan Times, Art section, August 6th – Tokyo, Japan / Ishii, Masanobu: Everybody Loves You, Saison Art Program exhibition catalogue, Saison Museum of Modern Art, August – Tokyo, Japan / Saison Museum of Modern Art: Everybody Loves You, Newsletter #14, August – Tokyo, Japan / Neumann, Peter: Everybody loves you, Art Reviews(independent) – Tokyo, Japan
Zushi Hayama Akiya Newspaper: Emerging Artist Daisuke Takeya, August – Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
TV / Radio Appearances
2013
”HEART TO HEART～WE ARE ONE～,” JAM THE WORLD (hosted by Junya Hiura), 21:37 ~ 21:42, October 28, J Wave – Tokyo, Japan
2012
”Interview with Daisuke Takeya at the MOCCA – Museum Hop February 2, 2012,” ArtSync, Rogers TV channel 10, February 10 – Toronto, Canada
2011
”Artbound pARTy – Interview with visual artist Daisuke Takeya,” CP24, September 23 – Toronto, Canada / ”ASHITA: Artists for Japan,” Wai Wai Wide, Japanese TV program, Station CFMT, April – Toronto, Canada
2010
”Star Portraits – portrait of Craig Kielburger,” Bravo TV, October 16th – Toronto, Canada / ”Interview with an artist – Daisuke Takeya,” Wai Wai Wide, Japanese TV program, Station CFMT, February 21st and 28th – Toronto, Canada
2008
Rogers Cable 10, Interview with Daisuke Takeya, Asian Inspiration, April – Toronto, Canada / Omura-Harkness, Eri: Interview with an artist – Daisuke Takeya, Wai Wai Wide, Japanese TV program, Station CFMT, March 23rd – Toronto, Canada
2001
”Interview with an artist – Daisuke Takeya,” Wai Wai Wide, Japanese TV program, Station CFMT, March 18th – Toronto, Canada
Publications
2013
”Perfect World (essay by Fumio Nanjo),” Christopher Cutts Gallery – Toronto, Canada, ISBN 978-1-927376-04-1
2005
”eyes of a child (essays by Goro Suzuki and Atsuko Harada),” Ikkei Shobo Press- Tokyo, Japan, ISBN 4-87074-137-7 C3037
Teaching Experience / Lecture / Workshop
2020
Menter, Water Tower Art Residency Online (organized by Nia Pushkarva) – online (Bulgaria)
2019
Artist talk, Above the Clouds International Live Art Festival – Lijiang, China
2018
Presentaion, Ubud Writers and Readers Festival, Bali, Indonesia / Panelist, “Resistance towards the Global Mechanism in Contemporary Art Practice (with Fransisca Retno and Ratu R. Saraswati),” Studio Plesungan – Solo, Indonesia
2017
Panelist and presentator, “The Power of Inclusiveness. Are we the others? at the panel: Beyond Exotic Body: The Body as Medium in Political Statement,” symposium at JIWA: Jakarta Biennale 2017, Alliance Francaise, Jakarta – Jakarta, Indonesia / Presentaion and lecture, “How is it working with communities? Socially Engaged Art (SEA) along with Field Trip Project Asia,” Public Discussion #50, International Centre for Aceh and Indian Ocean Studies (ICAIOS) – Banda Aceh, Indonesia
2016
Presentation, ”Should we admit our failure in Multiculturalism (but still investigating it)? Case studies from Field Trip Project,” Cultural Typhoon 2016, Tokyo University of the Arts – Tokyo, Japan / Lecture, ”Field Tripping, Art Chats (organized by Farah Yusuf),” Textile Museum of Canada – Toronto, Canada
2015
Art workshop for grade one and two students, ”Trauma Release workshop ~ Field Trip Project Asia: Philippines (with Paul Albert Quiano, Aze Ong, Jason Domling, organized by Laya Boquiren),” Cabuynan Elementary School – Tnauan, Layte, Philippines / Lecture, ”Disaster Risk Management and Trauma Release Symposium~ Field Trip Project Asia (with Dr. Arnel E. Jovan, Dr. Arthur Joseph I. Vito Cruz, coordinated by Ria Cayton), ” the PLDT Hall, the Departments of Arts, History, and Asia Pacific Studies of the College of Arts and Sciences, University of Asia and the Pacific – Ortegas, the Philippines / Lecture, ”Field Trip Project (with Joan Medrano, organized by Laya Boquiren)” University of Philippines Baguio, the Philippines / Artist Talk, “Field Trip Project Asia (with Andres Jose Garcia Bolarda, Paul Albert Quiano, Aze Ong, Mervy Pueblo, Noell El Farrol, moderated by Marika B. Constantino, organized by Laya Boquiren and 98B)” 98B Escolta – Manila, Philippines / Artist Talk, “Field Trip Project Asia (with local artists, organised by Laya Boquiren and Mariko Sorimachi),” Cafe Yagam – Baguio, the Philippines
2012 – Present
Art workshop, ”Field Trip Project + DAICHI Projects” – Japan/ Canada
2014
Lecture, ”Field Trip Project Asia (organized by Alexander Yang),” Independent Archive & Resource Centre – the Republic of Singapore / Opening special talk session, Shinjuku Creators’ Festa 2014 (with Noboru Tsubaki, Vincent Twardzik Ching, Twardzik Ching Chor Leng, Emiko Kato, Hiroko Nakayama / the mayor of Shinjuku Ward, moderated by Tetsui Watanabe) – Tokyo, Japan / Lecture, ”Takashi Murakami and his influence in Contemporary Japanese Art, and Mono-ha (coordinated by Janfer Chung),” A Selling Exhibition of Contemporary Asian Art, Waddington’s Auction House – Toronto, Canada / Art workshop for children with Artbound in support of Free The Children, Kisaruni School for Girls – Masai Mara, Kenya
2013
Panelist in a symposium, Kamiyama Artist In Residence (KAIR) – Tokushima Prefecture, Japan / Presenter ” Hills Breakfast Vol. 29 (coordinated by Maki Sato),” Roppongi Hills – Tokyo, Japan / Facilitator/ live interpreter for ”Kamiyama Good!,” a children’s art workshop with Emelie Chhangur, Dyan Marie and Jon Sasaki, Kamiyama Artist In Residence (KAIR: special short residency invitation at its 15th anniversary, coordinated by Emiko Kato) – Tokushima Prefecture, Japan / Organizer/coordinator/moderator, ”Crossing boundaries: Possibilities of Field Trip Project – a symposium (with Shingo Yamano, Shinya Ominami, Kuniyoshi Katsu, Dyan Marie, Kazushi Mogi, Chihiro Nakadaira, Chie Kajiwara, Emelie Chhangur, Emiko Kato, Jon Sasaki and Yoko Kobayashi-Baker, co-organized with Reiko Kosaka and Waon Yoshihara),” Enokojima Art, Culture and Creative Center Osaka Prefecture – Osaka, Japan / Concept maker/instructor, Everyone’s ABC (Brand new art school for children) – Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan / Presenter, ”AAN Portfolio Meeting vol.8 (Critics: Hori Motoaki/ chief curator of Tokyo Opera City Gallery and Shingo Yamano/ director of Koganecho Area Aanagement Center),” Creative Hub 131 – Tokyo, Japan / Panelist for a symposium, ”Can art and culture bind communities’ need? (with Fumihiko Sumitomo, Kenichi Nagata, Chie Kajiwara, Yuta Nakajima, moderated by Kazuji Mogi),” Seishin Kindergarten – Maebashi, Japan / Art workshop for children, ”Smiling City Project,” OSAGE Foundation – Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China (Postponed)
2012
Panelist for a symposium, ”A year after : Artists talk on activities for recovery from Tohoku quake (with Katsuhiko Hibino, Yoshiaki Kaihatsu, Kensuke Miyazaki, moderated by Toshio Shimizu, and coordinated by Takahide Tsuchiya),” Roppongi Agora, Roppongi Art Night, Tokyo Midtown Atrium – Tokyo, Japan / Guest presenter, ” Pechakucha 14 (coordinated by Vivien Leung),” The Gladstone Hotel – Toronto, Canada / Art workshop for children, ”GOD Loves Japan ~ We will build our city! (coordinated by Katy Laird),” The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art – Toronto, Canada / Lecture, ”GOD Loves Japan,” The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art – Toronto, Canada / Art workshop for children, ”Listen with your eyes, A Musical Life-Drawing Class (featuring Music in the Barns Chamber Ensemble, coordinated by Carol Gimbel),” CLASSICAL FOR KIDS! (a series with Barry Shiffman and David Amram), Music in the Barns/ Theatre Direct – Toronto, Canada
2011
”Best painting ever! – first time in life,” painting workshop and mural for children with Artbound in support of Free The Children, Kisaruni School for Girls – Masai Mara, Kenya / Guest presenter, ”Global Pechakucha Day + Inspire Japan/ a presentation of ASHITA: Artists for Japan (with Rafi Ghanaghounian, coordinated by Vivien Leung),” Toronto Design Exchange – Toronto, Canada
2010
Panelist for a symposium, ”Extracurricular Part I: Panel 1 – Between the Classroom and Studio (with Amos Latteier, Stephanie Springgay on Diane Borsato’s work, moderated by Carmen Mörsch, and organized by Maiko Tanaka),” Justina M Barnicke Gallery, University of Toronto – Toronto, Canada
2009
Co- moderator for a panel discussion, ”Extension I: Natural/ Intervention, featuring works by Heather Keung, John McMinn, Yam Lau, and Haji Nakamura (with Meiko Maruyama),” The Japan Foundation, Toronto – Toronto, Canada
2007 – 2008
Faculty (painting and figure structure), Avenue Road Arts School – Toronto, Canada
2008
Lecture,”Artist Daisuke Takeya, On a journey with curious mind,” The Japan Foundation, Toronto – Toronto, Canada / Lecture,”Artist Daisuke Takeya, On a journey with curious mind,” The Embassy of Japan in Canada – Ottawa, Canada
2006
Workshop and lecture ”The Third Annual Okayama Children’s Art Book Festival” – Okayama Prefecture, Japan / Lecture ” eyes of a child (with Laura Horne),” Christopher Cutts Gallery – Toronto, Canada
2005
Lecture ”eyes of a child,” Wagner College Gallery – Staten Island, New York, the U.S.A. / Workshop and lecture ”Nihongo Art Contest 2005,” The Japan Foundation, Toronto – Toronto, Canada / Art workshop, Galeria Punto – Okayama Prefecture, Japan / Art workshop, Kyoto Art Center – Kyoto, Japan / Art workshop for G1-G9 students, Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art – Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan / Invitational lectures on self-portrait, Hayama Municipal Elementary School – Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
2002 – 2007
Faculty (visual art: pre-kindergarten – Grade 12), La Citadelle International Academy of Arts & Science – Toronto, Canada
1997 – 1999
Faculty (anatomical drawing, painting, figure structure), Tokyu Seminar BE Shibuya – Tokyo, Japan
Additional Education
2012
”Poetry Chapbook Workshop (led by James Dewar),” The League of Canadian Poets – Toronto, Canada
2011
”Influency Poetry Salon (led by Margaret Christakos),” Continuing eduction, University of Toronto – Toronto, Canada
2006
”Building Effective Programs from Quality Assessment,” Certificate of Professional Learning, Curriculum Services Canada – Toronto, Canada
2006, 2002
International Baccalaureate Visual Art Instructor Workshop – Toronto, Canada
2005
”Seikatsuga wo Kangaerukai,” pedagogy workshop for art teachers, Hayama International Exchange Centre – Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
2003
The 10th Summer Pedagogy Workshop for K-12 Teachers of Japanese Language in North America, The Japan Foundation Language Centre – Los Angeles, the U.S.A.
Other Activities
1991- Present
Freelance interpreter/ translator, Japanese and English
1991- Present
Independent art writer
2010 – 2013
Artist and Ambassador, ARTBOUND
2013
Member, Onagawa Art Season organizing committee – Town of Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan
2012
Official interpreter for Ando Masanobu, Mjölk – Toronto, Canada
2001- 2012
Executive member, {president (2002, 2003), advisor (2004- 2012)}, Japanese Visitors Association (JAVA) – Toronto, Canada
2006 – 2010
Executive member, {member of the board of directors (2006-2009), programming director (2009-2010), the programming committee member (2006- 2010)}, Gendai Gallery – Toronto, Canada
2005 – 2009
Executive member, {chair judge (2005), vice president (2006, 2008), president (2007)}, Nihongo Art Contest Organizing Committee, The Japan Foundation Toronto (2005), Gendai Gallery (2006 – Present) – Toronto, Canada
2009
Official interpreter/ assistant for Kyohei Sakaguchi, ” Nuit Blanche (curated by Makiko Hara),” Liberty Village – Toronto, Canada
2007 – 2008
Japanese language instructor, Toronto District of School Board – Toronto, Canada
2008
Official interpreter/ assistant for Takahiro Fujiwara, ” Nuit Blanche (curated by Gordon Hatt),” Eaton Centre – Toronto, Canada
2002 – 2007
Japanese language instructor, the third language department {department head (2004 – 2006)}, La Citadelle International Academy of Arts and Science – Toronto, Canada
2002 – 2004
Japanese literature and history instructor, Nisshu Gakuin Japanese Heritage School – Toronto, Canada
2004
Official translator/ interpreter of Shoichi Aoki lecture, ”No Kimono (Japan – Canada fashion show curated by Rafi Ghanaghounian),” Toronto Design Exchange – Toronto, Canada
2002
Assistant painter, Jeff Koons Studio – New York, the U.S.A. / Official interpretor/ assistant for Hiroyuki Matsukage, Takahiro Fujiwara, and Risa Sato, ”BIG in Japan (curated by Catherine Osbourne),” Cambridge Gallery – Cambridge, and Gendai Gallery – Toronto, Canada
1998 – 1999
Gallery assistant, Nishimura gallery – Tokyo, Japan
1996 – 1998
Art director, Yomi Studio – Osaka, Japan
1995 – 1996
Mural painting specialist, MODE WORKS – New York, the U.S.A.
1991 – 1995
Apprentice, sushi and tempura chef, Genji Japanese Restaurant – New York, the U.S.A.