ABOUT

My practice questions the idea that human beings can control the world around us.

This focus began with an intimate awareness of breathing. Living with asthma for many years made me deeply conscious that something as fundamental as breath is not always within our control. With every inhalation, the outside world enters the body; with every exhalation, it returns. Underwater, this relationship becomes even more distinct: breathing turns into a deliberate act, rendering the continuous exchange between body and environment physically tangible. This experience led me to consider how human beings exist within their surroundings, and how much of this relationship remains beyond our control.

Human beings constantly shape the world according to what we believe is necessary, useful, or beneficial. We act with clear intentions, yet what we create rarely remains static. Over time, materials degrade, environments shift, and the consequences of our actions take forms we could not have predicted. Something designed to solve a problem may give rise to another; an intervention intended to stabilize a situation may yield an entirely different reality.

I am drawn to these shifts between intention and consequence—moments when objects lose their original functions, materials transform, and actions lead to unexpected outcomes. These transformations reveal the limits of human foresight. Crucially, human beings are not separate from these processes. Our bodies are physical matter, just like the materials we manipulate and the environments we alter. We shape the world, but we are also continuously reshaped by it.

Painting is the core of my practice. I use images and subjects that suggest human intervention, altered environments, and damaged or transformed objects to raise open questions rather than offer fixed conclusions.

My technical process is an extension of this inquiry. Working with Japanese paper, mineral pigments, metal leaf and acrylic, I scrape, layer, peel, burn, remove, and rebuild surfaces. At times, I allow materials to react naturally to time and environment. These physical operations serve as a direct language to ground the conceptual questions raised on the canvas.

In recent years, I have expanded my work into spatial installations, extending these painterly questions into physical space to engage the viewer’s body directly. Yet painting remains central. I seek to hold open that precise moment when what we attempt to control moves beyond our intent—asking what happens when the world we seek to shape begins to shape us in return.

CV

Born in 1968 in Yokosuka Kanagawa,Japan.

Resides and works in Tokyo, Japan

EDUCATION/TRAINING :

1974-1981, Jyun Furusawa Art School Kanagawa,Japan

2001-2017, Kyogen Izumi Style (similar to traditional Japanese Noh Theatre.

The master is Manzo Nomura Ⅸ ) Tokyo,Japan

2007-2009, Voice Studies Bill Pepper Head of Voice Studies, NIDA -National Institute of Dramatic Art ,Sydney, Australia

2022-2025, Takeshi Nagai Japanese Art School Tokyo,Japan

2024-2025, Yabuta Kashu , Yuri Nakabayashi Kyoto Hanging roll school, Tokyo ,Japan

AWARDS, RESIDENCIES, GRANTS :

2025,
･ Aesthetica Art Prize 2025 , Longlist, UK
･ Takahiro Komatsu Prize,The 10th SHIBUYA ART AWARDS2024
SHIBUYA ART AWARDS, Elephant Studio ,Tokyo, Japan

2024,
･ Mr. & Mrs. Abe Arts & Culture Prize 2024,Selected Artist, Japan



SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2026,
　　･Open Atelier by the Sea and the Grass ー Seeing, Drawing, and Being , Sea Square , Yokosuka Museum of Art ,Kanagawa , Japan

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS :

2025,
･ Aesthetica Art Prize 2025, Longlist Exhibition, York art gallery,UK
･ CHIYODA × SHIBUGEI SHIBUYA ART AWARDS, Le Ginglet, Tokyo,
Japan
･ The 10th SHIBUYA ART AWARDS 2024 Prize exhibition, Elephant Studio,
Tokyo, Japan

2023-2025,
･ Takenoko kai Group Exhibition The Japan Art Institute, Tokyo,Japan

SELECTED PRESS :

2026,
　　･Interview on SHONAN PLAY GROUND, FM YOKOHAMA SHONAN BY THE SEA , Japan
　　･Tokyo Art Beat - Exhibition listing, 2026

2025,
･ Aesthetica Art Magazine,UK
2024,
･ Mr. & Mrs. Abe Arts Culture Prize 2024 ” Maison Catalog ,Japan

COLLECTIONS:

2026,
･Because There Is No Planet B　Collection of Javier Goyeneche, Founder of Ecoalf

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES :
Selected professional actives include international workshops and lecture I Noh and Kyogen performance in Portugal, Chile , and Australia.