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Noritoshi Hirakawa born 1960, Japan

lives and works in New York








BIOGRAPHY

1960
born in Fukuoka (J)

1993
moves to New York



SOLO-EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)


2009
“Unfold Universe”, Chi-Wen Gallery, Taipei (TW)
“An Attribute of living”, Gallery Ham, Nagoya (J)
“Seeking a light”, Galerie In Situ, Paris


2008
“Open Studio of Enola Carr”, Live performance, in the context of
“Cringe”, a five-part performance-based exhibition curated by Cecilia
Jurado, Dean Project, Long Island City, NY
“Vier Zwei Eins”, Newman Popiashvili Gallery, New York


2006
“Nothing incomprehensible”, Baukunst Galerie, Cologne
“Vier zwei Eins”, Baukunst Galerie, Cologne
“Pale Destiny”, Mars Gallery, Tokyo
“The Layers from Capital”, Galerie Ferdinand van Dielen, Amsterdam





2005
“The Layers from Capital”, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo
“Subject”, Galerie In Situ, Paris
“Subject”, Salon 94, New York


2004
Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp
“Subject”, The Eric Arthur Gallery - University of Toronto
Frieze Art Fair, Wrong Gallery, London


2003
“The Strings Of Light”, BMW Group Pavilion, Munich
“Streams By The Wind”, Kunsthalle Wien (project room), Vienna


2002
“Les Temps de Rien à Montpellier”, Noirmont Prospect, Paris
“The Intent of Gestures”, Hermès Forum, Tokyo
“I Am The Mother And I Am The Daughter”, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo
“The Manner of Living”, Art & Public, Geneva


2001
“Galeria 1991”, Lisbon
“An Inevitable Story as Coincidence”, Magazin4, Vorarlberger Kunstverein,
Bregenz


2000
“Le Mumure de la Mer”, Art & Public (guest room), Geneva



1999
“The Echos in a Mirror”, Kunsthalle St. Gallen (CH)
“Le Va et Vient”, Galerie Serge Ziegler, Zurich
“Shiosai”, Gallery HAM, Nagoya (J)


1998
Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan
“The Reason of Life”, Deitch Projects, New York.
“The Flame of Wandering”, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo
“Forty years behind Paris”, Taka Ishii Gallery, Santa Monica (USA)
           




1997
“Garden of Nirvana”, Deitch Projects, New York
“Reconfirmation”, Galerie Gabriele Rivet, Cologne
“La Vertu dans le Vice”, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris
Centre d’art Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel (CH)


1996
“A Window of Society”, Hiroshima Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima
and Ginza Komatsu Amuser, Tokyo
“Frostbite, Women, Children and Japanese”, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo
“Complex of Pieter Bruegel”, Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp


1995
“Why do the Japanese dislike the Japanese?”, Gallery HAM, Nagoya
“A Destination of Ego”, Galerie d’Eendt, Amsterdam
“L’autre permanent”, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris
“Khaosan Road”, Rum, Malmö (S)


1994
“Just before the last moment in the Twentieth Century”, American Fine Arts,
Co., New York
“Frostbite”, Art & Public, Geneva
“Women, Children and the Japanese”, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo


1993
“The Greatest”, Gallery HAM, Nagoya
“Dreams of Tokyo”, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main


1992
“Meanings rely on your Attitude”, Gallery Fukuyama, Tokyo
“A temptation to be a Man”, Galerie Marc Jancou (Project Room), Zurich
“Je veux être amoureux de vous!”, MA Galerie, Paris


1991
“Entropaia”, Gallery Fukuyama, Tokyo
“To become Dharma”, de Vleeshal, Middelburg (NL)
“Dreams of Tokyo”, Galerie d’Eendt, Amsterdam


1990
“Frostbite”, Gallery Surge, Tokyo
“Placebo is missing”, W139, Amsterdam


1989
“Entropaia”, Citicorp Citibank Shinjuku, Tokyo
“Yearnings of Montezuma”, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei (TW)
“Influenza”, Art Gallery of the Faculty of Painting, Sculpture and Graphic Art
in Silpakorn University, Bangkok


1988
“Passing moments”, Gallery Tamaya, Tokyo
“Out of breath”, Gallery Parergon II, Tokyo




GROUP-EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)

2008-09
“Diana und Actaeon - Der verbotene Blick auf die Nacktheit”, museum kunst palast, Düsseldorf (D)


2008
“An Attribute of Living - Noritoshi Hirakawa - Patrick Van Caeckenbergh
Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven - Cristof Yvoré”, Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp
“Noritoshi Hirakawa, Hiroshi Sunairi & Arto Lindsay / Joan Jonas”,
Wako Works of Art, Tokyo


2007
“Silence in the Light“, Venetia Kapernekas Gallery, New York
“Stripped Bare. Der entblößte Körper. Fotografien aus der Sammlung
Thomas Koerfer“, C/O Berlin - The Cultural Forum of Photography, Berlin
Kunstfilmbiennale Köln, Internationaler Wettbewerb, Kunstverein Köln
“Reality Crossings“, “2. Photo Festival Mannheim-Ludwigshafen-Heidelberg
2007”, Kunsthalle Mannheim
Loop 07, Barcelona
“Mulher, Mulheres“, SESC Avenida Paulista, São Paulo
“Lost Format“, BE-PART Platform voor Actuele Kunst, Waregem (B)


2006
“Sweet Ecstasy”, Nicola von Senger AG, Zurich
Galerie Cornelius Pleser, Munich
“Lichtkunst aus Kunstlicht”, ZKM | Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe (D)
“Don Giovanni”, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
“The Garden Party”, Deitch Projects, New York
“Mädels”, Galerie Gabriele Rivet, Cologne



2005
“Dark Places”, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica (USA)
“Femme(s)”, Museum Carouge, Geneva
“Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal”, Montréal
“Tirana Biennale 3”, National Gallery of Arts, Tirana (AL)



2004
“Mixed Farming”, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam
“Artists Speak”, Galerie Ferdinand van Dieten, Amsterdam
“Black & White”, Galerie Gabriele Rivet, Cologne
Galerie in Situ, Paris


2003
“Streams by the Wind - Heat Stroke”, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
“Tirol Transfer”, Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna
“The History of Japanese Photography”, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
“False Innocence”, Fundacio Joan Miro, Barcelona
“Das Lebendige Museum”, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main
Galerie Ferdinand van Dieten, Amsterdam
Grieder von Puttkamer, Berlin
Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp


2002
“Formen der Gewalt”, Galerie Gabriele Rivet, Cologne
“Departures” (with Alfredo Jaar), Torch, Amsterdam
“Composition of Desire” (with Vivan Sundaram), Galerie Ferdinand van
Dieten, Amsterdam
“Desire”, (curated by Peter Weiermair), Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna
“Magazin im Magazin. A Fruitful Wavers”, Magazin4, Vorarlberger
Kunstverein, Bregenz
“The Museum, the Collection, the Director and his Loves. Streams by
the Wind”, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main


2001
“The Beauty of Intimacy”, Gemeentemuseum, The Hague; Kunsthalle
Baden-Baden (D); Kunstraum Innsbruck (D)
“The Overexcited Body. The Meditation of Insight”, Museum of the
Arengario, Piazza Duomo, Milan; SESC, Sao Paulo (BRA)
“Desire”, (curated by Peter Weiermair), Ursula Blickle Stiftung,
Kraichtal-Unteröwisheim (D)
“Dévoler”, Institut d’art contemporain Villeurbanne (F)
“Playgrounds & Toys for Children. Pacha Mama”, United Nations Visitors’
Lobby, New York
“Casino 2001”, S.M.A.K., Ghent
“Images et identités”, capc Musée of Contemporary Art, Bordeaux













2000
“Cold Burn”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
“The Unseen. Whereabouts of Affections”, Galerie deux, Tokyo
Galerie Ferdinand van Dieten, Amsterdam
“Elbow Room” (curated by Grady T. Turner), Kim Foster Gallery, New York
“COS-PLAY” (curated by Paul Donker Duyvis and Christine Sluysmans),
Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam
“Contemporary Photography from Japan”, De Pont Foundation, Tilburg (NL)
“Autowerke - European and American Photography 1998-2000”,
Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
“Confession of a voyeur” (curated by Vasif Kortun), Dulcinea, Istanbul


1999
Galerie Ferdinand van Dieten (with Paul Donker Duyvis), Amsterdam
“Spaceship Earth. The Silence of Signs”, Art in General, New York
“Sweet & Sour”, Art & Public, Geneva
Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris
“Transmute”, (curated by Joshua Dector), Museum of Contemporary Art,
Chicago
“Shadows of the Soul”, Kunstcentrum de Boterhal, Hoorn
“Missing Link”, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern
“Dehors – Dedans”, capc Musée of Contemporary Art, Bordeaux
Gallery HAM, Nagoya
“Singulier, Pluriel”, Le Frac des pays de la Loire, Nantes
“A Girl Like You”, Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris


1998
ArtNation Projects, New York
“Terminating Angel” (curated by Joshua Dector), Galerie Ghislaine
Hussenot, Paris
“Where I am” (curated by Francisco Vaz Fernandes), Galeria Municipal
Da Mitra, Lisbon
Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp
“La Sphere de L’Intime. Do not be so close to be close ” (curated by Jérôme Sans), Le Printemps De Cahors, Cahors (F)
“Live and Let Die - The Home-Coming of Navel String ” (curated by Udo
Kittelmann), Apex Art C.P., New York
“Bathroom” (curated by Wayne Koestenbaum), Thomas Healy Gallery,
New York
“Voor het verdwijnt en daarna”, S.M.A.K., Watou
“Fétiches/ Fétichismes” (curated by Jean-Michel Ribettes), Passage de Retz,
Paris
“Diana 98. Memorable Memory”, Palais X-tra, Zurich
“Yesterday Begins Tomorrow: Ideals, Dreams, and the Contemporary Awakening” (curated by Francesco Bonami), Center for Curatorial Studies, Museum at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson (USA)
“Bangkok Art Project 1998”, SABAAI CHAI CHAI, Bangkok
Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp
“Crossings”, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna


1997
“Light - Invisible Scene”, Gallery NW House, Tokyo
“Absolute Landscape - Between Illusion and Reality”, Yokohama Museum
of Art, Yokohama (J)
“AJAR”, Galleri F15, Moss (N)
“Lust und Leere - Japanische Photograhie der Gegenwart” (curated by Peter
Weiermair), Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; Arken Museum for Moderne Kunst,
Ishøj (DK); Kunsthalle Kiel (D)
“vis-à-vis”, Galerie Art & Essai, Université Rennes 2, Rennes
“Love, etc.”, Galerie Esca, Nîmes (F)
“Noritoshi Hirakawa & Philip Reilly”, Galerie d’Eendt, Amsterdam
“Un bel été”, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg
“Truce: Echoes of Art in an Age of Endless Conclusions” (curated by
Francesco Bonami), SITE Santa Fé, Santa Fé
Biennale de Cétinie, Montenegro
“Heaven-Public View” (curated by Joshua Dector), P.S.1 Museum, New York
“Die Liebe, die Trauer, die Zeit” (Axel Heinrich Murken Collection),
Ludwig-Forum Aachen (D)


1996
Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp
“Traffic” (curated by Nicolas Bourriaud), capc Musée of Contemporary Art,
Bordeaux
“Urgence”, capc Musée of Contemporary Art, Bordeaux
Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris
E.S.Vandam, New York
“Nudo & Crudo”, Claudia Gian Ferrari Arte Contemporanea, Milano
“Non! Pas Comme Ça!”, Centre d’Art Neuchâtel (CH)
“Ideal Standard Life”, Spiral, Tokyo
“Disneyland After Dark”, Kunstamt Kreuzberg, Berlin
“CurriculumVitae (3as journadas de arte contemporãnea Porto ‘96)”,
Oporto’96, Oporto’s Festival of Contemporary Art, Institut Français de Porto
“Video arte del Japon - Maniáticos de la Desaparición”, Museo Nacional De
Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires
“Joint Ventures” (curated by Nicolas Bourriaud), Basilico Fine Arts,
New York
“Manics of Disappearance - Today’s Japan as disseminator of video
messages”, Gallery 101, Ottawa (CDN)
Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp
“Playpen & Corpus Delirium”, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich
“a/drift: Scenes From the Penetrable Culture” (curated by Joshua Dector),
Center for Curatorial Studies Museum at Bard College, Annandale-on-
Hudson (USA)
“Images of women in Japanese Contemporary Art 1930’s - 90’s”, Shoto
Museum, Tokyo
Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp
Wako Works of Art, Tokyo
“Video Art Channel - Five Artists N’On File”, NICAF, Yokohama (J)


1995
“Shift” (Aperto ’95), De Appel, Amsterdam
“On Board” (Aperto’95, curated by Jerôme Sans and Karin Schorm),
Il Nuovo Trionfo (Riva San Biago), Venice
“Campo” (curated by Francesco Bonami), Corderie dell’Arsenale, Venice
Conferenza Stampa -Fondazione, Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Per L’arte,
Torino; Konst Museet, Malmö (S)
“logiques imparables” (Aperto’95, curated by Ami Barak), Garage JP,
Conqueyrac (F)
“Art Basel”, Zeno X Gallery (Antwerp), Basel
“l’art d’aimer - curiousitas érotica”, Chez le Concierge, Sète (F)
“Ripple Across the Water” (curated by Jan Hoet) Aoyama, Tokyo
“Infra Sound” (curated by Jerôme Sans), Norddeutsche Landesbank,
Hamburg
“Feminin, Masculin” Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
“Orient / Ation – The Vision of Art in a Paradoxical World”, 4th International
Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul
“E.T.” (organized by Jay Koh), Chien Mai (CHN)


1994
“Of the Human Condition: Hope and Despair at the End of the Century”,
Spiral, Tokyo
“A Vision of Japan for 21st Century”, Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo
“Refreshment”, MA Galerie, Paris
“per la nostra società”, ARS LUX, Bologna
“Commerce” (curated by Nicolas Bourriaud), Carré des Arts, Saint-Nicolas,
Paris
“Play Off”, Art & Public, Geneva
“Gaze-L’impossible transparence” (curated by Hou Hanru), Carré des Arts,
Parc floral de Paris
“J’aime Regarder les Filles” (curated by Jean-Yves Jouannais), Galerie J.
Moussion, Paris
“Les memoires de l’authenticite”, Galerie d’Eendt, Amsterdam
“Art Basel”, Gallery HAM (Nagoya), Art & Public (Geneva), Basel
“Inbetween” (Project of Adem Yilmaz and Jårg Geismer) Archäologischer
Park, Xanten (D); Westliche Orangerie des Terrassengartens am Kloster
Kamp, Kamp-Lintfort (D); XLV. Biennale di Venezia, Turkish Pavilion, Venice
“Art in America”, Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp
“Desert of Desire” Spiral, Tokyo
“adieu, les frontières!”, ART & PUBLIC, Geneva
”Prospect 1986-1994”, Bob van Orsouw, Zurich
Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main


1993
American Fine Arts, Co., New York
“Neuvièmes Ateliers Internationaux des Pays de la Loire” Garenne Lemot,
Clisson (F)
“Prospect 93”, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main
Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp
“Curator’s Eye ‘93”, Gallery NW House, Tokyo
“Partners”, Galerie d’Eendt, Amsterdam
“NICAF”, MA Galerie (Paris), Yokohama (J)
“00-Collaboration” (with Michio Sato), Sagacho Exhibit Space, Tokyo
“Artists and AIDS”, Henie-Onstad Art Center, Høvikodden (N)
MA Galerie (with Eric Duyckaerts), Paris
“Une (in)position: humainement votre...”, FRAC Languedoc-Roussillon,
Montpellier
“Art Basel”, Art & Public (Geneva), Basel
“Breda Photografica ‘93”, De Beyerd, Breda (NL)
“Before the sound of the beep” (curated by Jerôme Sans), Paris
“Trade Routes”, The New Museum, New York
“In Between”, The Floating Gallery, Tokyo
Hôtel Carlton Palace Chambre 763 (curated by Hans-Ulrich Obrist), Paris
“Het Intellectuele Geweten Van De Kunst”, Galerie d’Eendt, Amsterdam
“Thoughts that fit like air”, Art & Public, Geneva
“Viennese Story”, Wiener Secession, Vienna


1992
“Unchain My Heart”, Galerie d’Eendt, Amsterdam
“NICAF”, American Fine Arts, Co. (New York), Yokohama (J)
“Summer Becomes Eclectic”, Mars gallery, Tokyo
“Oriental Spirit in Contemporary Zurich Flats”, Raymond Ludi’s flat, Zurich
“Nouvelles Scenes”, Atheneum, Dijon (F)
“The Photo Biennale of Rotterdam III”, Maddox, Rotterdam
“Art Cologne”, Zeno X Gallery (Antwerp), Cologne
“The 28th Artists Today”, Yokohama City Gallery, Yokohama (J)


1991
“Asakusae” (Japan / Belgium Contemporary Art Exchange Exhibition),
Asakusa old Kinryu school, Tokyo
“Orientation50? Nord” (Belgium / Japan Contemporary Art Exchange
Exhibition), Cinquantenaire, Brussel







PERFORMANCES (SELECTION)

2006
„Vier zwei Eins“, Baukunst Galerie, Cologne


2005
“In Search of a Purple Heart”, Salon 94, New York


2003
“Strings of Light”, BMW Group Pavilion, Munich


2002
“Shower in the Dark” (performance with Arto Lindsay),
Deitch Projects, New York


2001
“Les Temps de rien a Montpellier” (choreography with Didier Théron),
Montpellier Danse 01, Montpellier


2000
“The Day after Yesterday”, in: “Hotel New York”, PS1 Museum, New York
“Où est-ce quelqu’un que j’espère?”, in: “Les Soirées Nomades”, Fondation
Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris


1998
“Sufficiently Kinky” (performance with Arto Lindsay), in: “Crossings – Kunst
zum Hören und Sehen”, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna


1996
“In the same Pool”, in: “Cabines de Bain” (presented by “attitudes”), Piscine
de la Motta, Fribourg (CH)
“Heimweh nach der Heimat”, in: “Phase 2: Bildende Künstler im TAT”
(curated by Noemi Smolik and Hortensia Völckers), Das TAT, Frankfurt am
Main
“A Struggle for Heaven”, in: “Shopping” (curated by Jérôme Sans), Yohji
Yamamoto / Deitch Projects, New York











FILMOGRAPHY (SELECTION)

2006
”Vier zwei Eins”, 26 min. DVD
Exhibitions: “Vier zwei Eins”, Baukunst Galerie, Cologne (2006), “Nothing Incomprehensible”, Baukunst Galerie, Cologne (2006-07); “Loop - The Video Art Festival 07”, Museo de Erotica, Barcelona (2007)

“The Light of Sheung Wan”, 7 min. DVD
Exhibitions: “Nothing Incomprehensible”, Baukunst Galerie, Cologne (2006); “Loop The Video Art Festival 07”, Museo de Erotica, Barcelona (2007)


2005
”The Will of Petals”, 10 min. NTSC DVD
Exhibitions: Salon 94, New York (2005); “Mädels”, Galerie Rivet,
Cologne (2006); “Loop - The Video Art Festival 07”, Museo de Erotica Barcelona (2007)


2003
”Strings of Light”, installation: 4 plasma screens, 8 speakers
3 kinds (Salzburg, New York, Yokohama), each 7 min. PAL DVD
Exhibitions: BMW Group Pavilion, Munich (2003)

2001 “Les temps de rien à Montpellier”
installation: 5 LCD video projectors, 5 speakers, Hard Disk
120 min. PAL / Hard Disk
Exhibitions: “Montpellier Danse 01”, Aldébaran Création Contemporaine, Baillargues (2001); “CASINO 2001”, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent (2001)

“Les temps de rien à Montpellier”
11 separate stories, PAL DVD
Exhibitions: Noirmont Prospect, Paris (2002); “femme(s)”, Musée de Carouge-Art for the world Genève (2005); Taka Ishii Gallery (the viewing room), Tokyo (2006)

1999 “Belief of Appearance”, English Language,
installation: LCD video projector, speaker, 1 laserdisk player
7 min. NTSC / PAL Laser Disk
Exhibited at: “Big River 1999”, The National Museum and Art Gallery,
Port of Spain (1999)

“The Echos in a Mirror”, German Language
installation: 2 LCD video projectors, speakers
3 kinds of PAL 3/4 inch
Exhibitions : Kunsthalle St. Gallen, St. Gallen (1999)

“Le va et vient”, 10 min. NTSC / PAL Laser Disk
Exhibitions: Galerie Serge Ziegler, Zurich (1999); Gallery HAM, Nagoya (1999) ; Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent (2001); “The Beauty of Intimacy”, Gemeentemuseum, The Hague ( 2001); “The Beauty of Intimacy”, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck (2001); Griedervonputtkamer, Berlin (2003); “La Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot a le plaisir d’invite la Serge Ziegler Galerie”, Galerie Ghislane Hussenot, Paris (2004); “Nothing Incomprehensible”, Baukunst Galerie, Cologne (2006)


1998
“Resurrection de la Volupte”
installation: LCD video projector, red coloured water in a plexi-glass box
60 min. PAL 1/2 inch
Exhibitions: Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris (1998)

“Memorable Memory”, English Language, 56 min. NTSC / PAL
Exhibitions: Plais X-tra “Diana 98”, Zurich (1998);
Kunsthalle St. Gallen (2004)

“A Man Who Refuses To Make a Whistle”
installation: LCD video projector, speaker, 1 laserdisk player
50 min. NTSC / PAL Laser Disk
Exhibitions: Taka Ishii Gallery, Santa Monica (1998);
Gallery HAM, Nagoya (2006)

1996 “Early Spring to Late Autumn II”
installation: 1 LCD Monitor, 1 Video deck, 1 tripod
30 min. PAL VHS 1/2 inch
Exhibitions: Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp (1996)

“La première citoyenne de Genève”, French Language
30 min. NTSC, PAL / Laser Disk
Exhibitions: Art & Public, Genève (2000); Galeria 1991, Lisbon (2001)


1995
”A Destination of Ego”, 22 min, PAL VHS 1/2 inch
Exhibitions: Galerie d’Eendt, Amsterdam (1995); “Heaven - Public View”, P.S.1 Museum, New York (1997); “Where I am”, Galeria Municipal da Mitra Lisbon (1998)

“Fate of Babel”,
installation: 2 LCD monitors, 2 decks, 1 tripod, 30 min. PAL VHS 1/2 inch
Exhibited at: Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris (1995)

“Koto-no-Owari”, English Language
installation: 6 colour monitors, 1 video deck, 3 dividers
5 min. NTSC VHS 1/2 inch
Exhibitions: “Ripple Across the Water”, Aoyama district, Tokyo (1995);
“Non! Pas Comme Ça!”, Centre d’Art Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel (1996);
Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp (1996); Ginza Komatsu, Tokyo (1996); “TRUCE : Echoes of Art in an Age of Endless Conclusions”, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe (1997); “Out of Loop”, BICA, New York (2007)

1994 ”Just Before The Last Moment In The Twentieth Century”
installation: 3 video monitors, 60 min. NTSC VHS 1/2 inch
Exhibitions: American Fine Arts, Co., New York (1994)

”The First Recognition To Be An Adult”, English Language
New York / Tokyo, 43 min. NTSC VHS 1/2 inch
Exhibitions: “Desert of Desire”, Spiral, Tokyo (1994)


1993
“Drops in the Atlantic”, French Language, PAL 3/4 inch
Exhibitions: “Neuviemes Ateliers Internationaux des Pays de la Loire”, Garenne Lemot, Clisson (1993); “Rêves Party”, Salle Aragon, Trélazé (2001); “Chambre avec Vues”, Domaine Départemental de la Garenne Lemot, Clisson (2006)

“A cup of tea without milk and sugar”, English Language,
17 min. PAL 1/2 inch
Exhibitions: Henie-Onstad Art Center, Høvikodden (1993)

“Watanabe E-mi no namida no kisha-kaiken no su-u-jitsu-mae ni”
Japanese Language, 60 min., NTSC VHS 1/2 inch
Exhibitions: The Floating Gallery, Tokyo (1993)

“And nothing will change”, English Language
installation: 2 video B&W monitors and tapes, 30 min. NTSC VHS 1/2 inch
Exhibitions: NICAF Yokohama, MA Galerie (Paris), Yokohama (1993)

”Thank you for looking at the title of this work....” (with Michio Sato),
installation: 4 video LCD monitors and 4 tapes, 30 min. NTSC VHS 1/2 inch
Exhibitions: Sagacho Exhibit Space “00-Collaboration”, Tokyo (1993)

1992 “Meanings rely on your attitude”, English Language
20 min. NTSC VHS-HiFi 1/2 inch
Exhibitions: Gallery Fukuyama, Tokyo (1992); Galerie Fernand van Dieten, Amsterdam (2004)


1991
“Pretender” (Dialogue of Noritoshi Hirakawa and Masashi Ogura)
Japanese Language, 87 min. NTSC VHS 1/2 inch
Exhibitions: Wako Works of Art, Tokyo (1992)

“Khaosan Road”, English Language, 180 min. NTSC S-VHS 1/2 inch
Exhibitions: The New Museum “Trade Routes”, New York (1993);
Rum, Malmö (1995)









SYMPOSIA (SELECTION)


1992
“Modern Literature and Contemporary Art” (with Yoshio Shirakawa),
Wako Works of Art, Tokyo
“Pretender” (with Masashi Ogura), Wako Works of Art, Tokyo


1991
“Placebo is Missing” (with Tetsuo Kogawa, Shuhei Hosokawa, Kosugi Ando,
Hiroshi Yoshioka), Gallery Surge, Tokyo


1990
“Theory for Existence” (with Yoshio Shirakawa, Tatsuo Miyajima), Gallery
Surge, Tokyo




PROJECTS (SELECTION)


1997
“The Laws of Humans”, Art Forum Ad, September - January 1998, New York
“A Relief. The Thing Internet”, July, New York


1996
“A Way To Be”, DNP Award on Internet, Tokyo


1994
“The Laws of Humans” The Thing, on show, November, New York
“Don\'t Look Back”, below papers, vol. 1, number 4, Berlin


1992
“3407-9989”, Spiral Paper, Number 37 (Mai-June), Tokyo


1991
“Dreams Of Tokyo”, Art Works Magazine, Vol. 7, Number 2.63, Tokyo



WORKS IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS AND MUSEUMS (SELECTION)

Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main
capc Musée d’art contemporain, Bordeaux
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama (J)
Foundazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Per L’Art, Torino (I)
Museum Van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent (B)
FRAC des Pays de la Loire, Nantes (F)
FRAC Languedoc-Roussillon, Montpellier (F)
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Zurich
Fonds municipal d’art contemporain, Geneva
Caisse des Dépôts, Paris
Hauser & Wirth Museum, St. Gallen (CH)
Kunstmuseum St. Gallen (CH)
Yves Klein Foundation, Arizona


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