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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