Biography
2014 Lives and works in Los Angeles, California, U.S.A., and Tokyo, Japan
2003 New York Foundation for the Arts, U.S.A. (grant)
1997 Pola Art Foundation, Japan (grant)
1994 Lives and works in New York, New York, U.S.A. and Tokyo, Japan
1994 Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japan (grant)
1991 Fondation Cartier pour l'art Contemporain, France (artist in residence)
1990 Asian Cultural Council, U.S.A. (grant)
1988 Tama Art University Tokyo, Japan (M.F.A.)
1963 Born in Tokyo, Japan
Selected Collections
Cantor Center for Visual Art, Stanford University, Palo Alto, U.S.A.
Deutsche Bank Tokyo, Japan
Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, Cambridge, U.S.A.
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Ise Foundation, Tokyo, Japan
James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
New York Public Library, New York, U.S.A.
Norton Family Foundation, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
Private Collection, Malibu, California, U.S.A.
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Spiral/Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
Stiftung fur Gegenwartskunst, Balzers, Lichtenstein
The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
Tochigi Prefecture Museum of Fine Art, Tochigi, Japan
Tokyo Big Sight, Tokyo, Japan
Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.
Yves Klein Foundation, Arizona, U.S.A.
Daniel Long & Lauren Parmington, New York, U.S.A.
Tracy Lew, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
Private Collection, New York, U.S.A.
Private Collection, Tokyo, Japan
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2010 "Curatorial Studies 04 Emiko Kasahara-inside/outside', Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
2005 "Offering - Milde Garden", Volkskunde Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
2003 "Emiko Kasahara", ART & IDEA at SCOPE, New York, U.S.A.
2001 "Pink", White Box, New York, U.S.A.
1997 "Immaculate Fabrication", Deitch Projects, New York, U.S.A.
1993 Gallery Kobayashi, Tokyo, Japan
1992 Gallery Kobayashi, Tokyo, Japan
1991 Gallery Hals, Tokyo, Japan
1990 Gallery Kobayahi, Tokyo, Japan
1990 Gallery Lunami, Tokyo, Japan
1988 Gallery Yamaguchi, Tokyo, Japan
1987 Galleri Iteza, Kyoto, Japan
1986 Gallery Paragon, Tokyo, Japan
Selected Group Exhibitions
2015 "PARASOPHIA: Kyoto International Festival of Contemporary Culture 2015”, Kyoto, Japan
2014 "Yokohama Triennale 2014, ART Fahrenheit 451: Sailing into the sea of oblivion", Yokohama, Japan
2012 "Perfect", International Art Objects Galleries, LA, CA, U.S.A.
2010 "My Favorites-Index of a Certain Collection", Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
2009 "Unnatural Rubber", The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburg, PA, USA
2007 "Art House", Miami, FL, U.S.A.
"Simulation: Refiguring "Asia" for the 21st Century", Asian Contemporary Art Fair, NYC, U.S.A.
"Making at Home", Japan Society, New York, U.S.A.
James Corcoran Gallery at Art Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
"Infinity", Shoko Nagai Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2006 "CHIKAKU", The Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, Kawasaki, Japan
"Tokyo Blossoms", Hara Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
2005 "CHIKAKU", MARCO, Vigo, Spain
"Rosa", National Tokyo Art University, Tokyo, Japan
"CHIKAKU", Kunsthaus Graz, Austria
"25 Years of the Deutsche Bank Collection", Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany
"Art Nova - Between The Contemporary Avant-garde Art and the Crafts",
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
2004 "On Reason and Emotion", Sydney Biennale, Sydney, Australia
"Public / Private", Auckland Triennale, Auckland, New Zealand
2003 "SUPER YOU", Daniel Silverstein Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
"Formed to Function", John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, U.S.A.
2002 ART & IDEA at Art Forum Berlin
"Chat @ the MIMOCA", Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa, Japan
"Contemporary American Paper Artists", Columbia College Chicago, U.S.A.
"A Cabinet of Curiosities", The New York Public Library, New York, U.S.A.
"Oral Fixation", Center for Cultural Studies Museum at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, U.S.A.
"Reflex / Reflejo", Art & Idea, Mexico City, Mexico
2001 "Yokohama Triennale", Yokohama, Japan
"Truancy", Art & Idea, New York, U.S.A.
"Rags to Riches", Kresge Art Museum, travel to Maryland Institute College of Art,
Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Hecksher Museum of Art, Milwaukee Art Museum,
Fort Wayne Museum of Art, U.S.A. (-03)
"Made in Asia", Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, U.S.A.
2000 "Gendai, Japanese Contemporary Art - Between Body and Space - "
"The 3rd Kwangju Biennale", Kwangju, Korea
1999 "Visions of The Body: Fashion or Invisible Corset", The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan,
traveled to Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
1998 "Narrative Art from Collection, part I: Anthology - Books, Death, Mode, Gender",
Tochigi Prefecture Museum of Fine Art, Tochigi, Japan
"Tastes and Pursuits: Japanese Art in the 1990s", National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, India,
travel to Metropolitan Museum of Manila, Republic of The Philippines
"Emiko Kasahara + Donald Baechler", Edition Gallery at Dieu Donné Papermill Inc., NYC, U.S.A.
1997 "Art on Paper", Weatherspoon Art Gallery, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC, U.S.A.
"Resurrection of Topos 3", Asakura Gallery & Hillside Forum, Tokyo, Japan
"Japanese Art Exhibition", National Art Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
"Floating Image of Women in Art History", Tochigi Prefecture Museum of Fine Arts, Tochigi, Japan
1996 "Asia-Pacific of Contemporary Art Triennial", Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
"Nowhere -Incandescent-", Louisiana, Copenhagen, Denmark
1995 "The Age of Anxiety", Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
"Tokyo Big Sight Art Work Project", Tokyo International Exhibition Center, Tokyo, Japan
"Art in Japan Today 1985-1995" Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
1994 "Space, Time, Memory: Photography and beyond in Japan",
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan, traveled to Rufino Tamayo Museum, Mexico,
Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada, L.A. County Museum, CA, U.S.A.,
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.,U.S.A., Denver Art Museum, U.S.A.,
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, U.S.A. (-97)
1991 "Cabinet of Signs", Tate Gallery Liverpool, U.K.,
traveled to White Chapel Gallery, London, U.K., Malmo Kunstverein, Malmo, Sweden (-92)
"Zones of Love", Toko Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan,
traveled to Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney, Australia, and also in New Zealand
"The World of Boxes", Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Ibaragi, Japan
"Art Scene of 1990s", NambaCITY City Hall, Osaka, Japan
"A Hybrid Garden", Bigi Art Space, Kyoto, Japan
1990 "Japanese Kunst der Achtziger Jahre", Frankfurter Kunstverein, Germany,
traveled in Germany and Austria , (-91)
1989 "Emiko Kasahara + Monika Brandmeir -Floating Scale-", Spiral/Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
"Women Artist of the Day", IMP Hall, Osaka, Japan
"Japanese Clay Work Today", Tochigi Prefecture Museum of Fine Art, Tochigi, Japan
"The 26th Artists Today Exhibition", Yokohama Citizens Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
1988 "The 3rd Kanagawa Art Annual", Kanagawa Prefecture Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
"Step toward Arcadia", Gallery αM, Tokyo, Japan
"The 8th Hara Annual", Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
1987 "TAMA VIVANT '87", The Seed Hall, Tokyo, Japan
Lectures, Workshops
2015 "Art de Night”, blanclass, Yokohama
2015 Former Sunjin Elementary School Sunjin Area Kyoto City University of Arts ART GALLERY @KCUA
2015 "Aesthetic within the System/The System within Aesthetics: A Consideration from Modern Kyoto", Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
2015 "Trigonometry”, Film Theater, The Museum of Kyoto
2013 The Alumni Association of Tama Art University, Tokyo, Japan.
2012 Tama Art University Faculty of Art and Design Sculpture Department, Tokyo Japan (14)
2010 Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
Tama Art University Lifelong Study Center
2009 National Tokyo Art University, Japan
2007 Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan
Hochschule fuer Bildende Kuenste Dresden, Germany
2006 "Show and Tell", Monkeytown, NYC, U.S.A.
2005 "Everybody Model !!!", Workshop at Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum, Kagawa, Japan
Jyoshibijyutsu University Art & Design, Tokyo, Japan (06)
Tisch School of the Art at NYU, NYC, U.S.A.
"Sheer", Workshop at K.I.T. University, Architecture Department, Kanazawa, Japan
National Tokyo Art University
2002 Stanford University, Stanford, CA, U.S.A.
2001 Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, ML, U.S.A.
2000 Duke University, Durham, NC, U.S.A.
1999 "Subliminal Identity", Workshop at Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo, Japan
Tama Art University, Tokyo, Japan (00,01,02,03,04,05,06)
1998 C.C.A. Kitakyushu, Japan
1997 Tochigi Prefecture Museum of Fine Arts, Tochigi, Japan
1996 Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
1995 Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., U.S.A.
Museum of Art Kochi, Kochi, Japan
Keio University Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
Tamagawa University, Tokyo, Japan
1994 B-semi learning system, Yokohama, Japan (95,96,97,98,99,00,01,02,03)
Hara Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
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