■Education
2010 Ph.D. Candidate, The Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
2007 M.F.A. Candidate, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China
2002 Ph.D., Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan
1999 M.F.A., Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan
1997 B.F.A., Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan
■Teaching Affliations
2010 - Adjunct Instructor, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan
2009 - 2010 Art Researcher in China, Union Foundation, Tokyo, Japan
2006 - 2009 Art Researcher in China, The Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs, Tokyo, Japan
2005 - 2006 Part-time Instructor, Waseda Industrial Elementary School, Tokyo, Japan
2005 - 2006 Art Researcher, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan
2004 - 2007 Part-time Instructor, Kyoto University of Art and Design, Kyoto, Japan
2002 - 2005 Part-time Instructor, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan
2001 - 2005 Part-time Instructor, Takayama Architectural School, Gifu, Japan
2000 - 2002 Research Assistant, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan
1999 - 2000 Teaching Assistant, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan
Art is means of travel for me. My creativity was awakened at the age of fifteen when I travelled around Japan. Afterwards, I travelled to the United States, South Korea, Taiwan, and Germany etc…. currently, I have been based in Beijing since 2006.
I received Ph.D from Tokyo University of the Arts in 2002 in Tokyo. My international debut exhibition was, "Storing Wind and Securing Water" at Tsurugi International Art Festival in Kanazawa in 1997. Afterwards, I created twelve sculptures of the sundial at Mogami Environmental Arts Festival '97 Landscape Art Contest in Yamagata. They have become landmarks at rural sites. Both demonstrate the effects of human intervention on things.
I began executing landscape projects that connect nature and the art in a dynamic way. It may sound like only for the moment, however, I am intentionally focusing on the mighty truth of the fact of physical metamorphosis itself.
At the age of 24 I was chosen to be a participating artist in the Kyoto International Art Festival. I have been taking a part in Chinese Biennial, Echigo Tsumari Art Triennial and other international exhibitions since then.
I am best known for my clay sculptures and large-scale earthwork projects exploring the exchange between people and the larger universe. My works incorporating KARESANSUI(traditional Japanese landscape garden) and FUSUI(Chinese feng shui) into contemporary art have won me high international acclaim.
I am interested in relationships with the others. For instance, between nature and people, people and people. I have collaborated with architect, dancer, ecologist and various professionals in my earthwork projects.
My recent earthwork seeks new approaches to natural global environment, while I investigate the fundamental issues of a view of nature in collaboration with scientists, psychologist, and folklorist.
We must protect the global environment through international cooperation.
This latest exhibition will feature new pieces that represent a development of the “Storing Wind and Securing Water” series I displayed at the Chinese Biennial in 2008. I also intend to show drawings made using a clay and water. These will take the form of organic shapes inspired by my own imagination rather than borrowed from actual objects.
“I am constantly thinking about situations in which the sense of the sight and the sense of touch are stimulated simultaneously”