1951

Morioka City, Iwate, Japan. Lives and works in Tokyo, Japan.

1975

Studied at Tokyo University of Art and Design, B.A.

1977

Studied in the Postgraduate Program at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, M.A.

2008

Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, New York

2004

Annely Juda Fine Art, London (with Ernst Barlach) Traveled to Ernst Barlach Haus, Hamburg

1999

Annely Juda Fine Art, London

1998

Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1997

Ibara Municipal DENCHU Art Museum, Ibara, Okaymama, Japan

1996

Annely Judd Fine Art, London, England

Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1995

Annely Juda Gallery, London

Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1994

Steven Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1989

Arnold Herstand Gallery, New York

1988

Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 1982

Gallery Okabe, Tokyo, Japan

1985

Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2014

Art Taipei 2014, Taipei, Taiwan

2012

The Power Of Japanese Contemporary Sculpture, Aki Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

2000

"Der Verlorene Blick. Der Kopf in Skulptur, Zeichnung und Bild", Galerie Lelong, Zürich

1998

"ART: Selected Works from the Collection", Aichi Perfectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan

"Human Figure" Asahikawa Sculpture Museum, Japan

"Art 1998", Chicago Festival Hall, Chicago

"SUMMER SHOW 1998" Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo

"ACAF6" Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, Australia

1996

"Kundst des 20", Jahrhunderts, Museum Ludwig K, Germany

"Narcissism: Artists Reflect Themselves", California Center for the Arts Museum

"Enjoy Art Part, Masterpieces of Corporation Collection, Hotel Okura, Tokyo, Japan

"A Dialogue Between Tools and Arts", The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura, Japan

"Images of Women in Japanese Contemporary Art: 1930's-90's"

The Shoto Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan

"NICAF TOKYO '97" International Contemporary Art Fair", Tokyo International Exhibition Center, Tokyo, Japan

"Collection 1: Sculpture", Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1995

"Japan Art Today 1985-1995", Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan

1995

"Japanese Culture: The Fifty Postwar Years 1945-1995",Meguro Art Museum, Hyogo Perfectural Museum of Modern Art, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art

Fukuoka Perfectural Museum of Art, Japan

1994

"SETAGAYA ART '94" Setagaya Art Museum, Japan

"Contemporary Human Figure", Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Japan

"New Works", Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

"A Sculpture Show", Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1990-91

"The 65th Annual Competition of Prints", The Print Club, Philadelphia, PA

1990

"Transformation of Material and Space", Kanagawa Prefectural Hall Gallery, Yokohama.

"Toyama Now '90", The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama.

"Recent Releases", Crown Point Press, NY

1989

"Sculptors Now", The Gallery of Tokyo Department StoreNihonbashi, Tokyo, Japan.

"Art Exciting '89", The Saitama Museum of Modern Art,Saitama.

"Sculpturesque Image", Gallery Haku, Osaka, Japan.

"Against Nature", San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; traveling to MIT, Boston; Seattle Art Museum; The Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati; Grey Art Gallery, New York University; Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, Texas.

"Bienal de Sao Paulo", Brazil.

1988

"Contemporary Japanese Sculpture", The Rotunda Exchange Square, Hong Kong, China.

"The Forty-third Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy.

"Seven Sculptors", Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.

1986-87

"New Trend in Contemporary Sculpture: Ten New Outstanding Sculptors of America and Japan", Contemporary Sculpture Center, Tokyo; Osaka; Sapporo Art Park and Salvatole Alla, New York.

1986

"Exhibition of Mono-iu-hito", Orb, Tokyo, Japan.

"Art in Tokyo '86 IMA", Factory, Tokyo, Japan.

"Three Artists", Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.

1985-86

"Nichido Sculpture", Galerie Nichido, Tokyo, Japan.

1985

"Black by Four Artists", Morioka Daiichi Gallery.

"Tama Vivant '85", Tama University of Fine Arts, Gallery SPACE 21, Tokyo, Japan.

1984

"Tenth Anniversary Exhibition of Sculpture of Ayumi Kai", Chiba Prefectural Art Museum.

"Evolution of Sculpture 1930-80", Gallery Seiho, Tokyo, Japan.

"Oyama-City with Sculpture", Hakuo Womens Junior College, Tochigi.

"Exhibition of New Figurative Sculpture", Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum (exhibited annually until 1984).

Our Lady of the Light House Trappist Monastery

Zushi Catholic Church

Oyama City

Museum of Contemporary Sculpture affiliated Chosen-In Temple

Tochigi Prefectual Museum of Fine Arts

Setagaya Art Museum

Nagoya City Art Museum

Tokushima Prefecture