Born 1975 in Hyogo, JP
Lives and works in Nagano, JP
Selected Solo Shows
2019
Aitaisei-josei, Yokohama Museum, Yokahama, JP
Tabaimo: Ghost Running, KIDO Press, Inc., Tokyo, JP
Transparent Distortion, Pola Museum Annex, Tokyo, JP
2018
Tabaimo: Clue to Utsushi, James Cohan, New York, USA
2017
Hammer Projects: Tabaimo, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2016
Tabaimo, Asian Art Museum, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, USA
Tabaimo: Her Room, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, USA
2015
Tabaimo: aitaisei-josei, Fondation Vincent van Gogh, Arles, FR
Tabaimo: ikihura, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo, JP
2011
Tabaimo: MEKURUMEKU, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, AU
Tabaimo: DANDAN, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Tabaimo: teleco-soup, Japanese Pavilion, 54th Venice Biennale, commissioned by Yuka Uematsu Venice, IT
2010
Tabaimo: TeTeTe, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo, JP
Tabaimo: Boundary Layer, Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art, London, UK
TABAIMO: DANMEN, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, JP; travelling to the National Museum of Art, Osaka, JP
2009
Tabaimo, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, SE
2008
Tabaimo: house, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo, JP
Tabaimo, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2006
Tabaimo, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, FR
YOROYORON: Tabaimo, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, JP
In the kitchen, Takahashi Collection, Tokyo, JP
2005
yubibira, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo, JP
TABAIMO, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2003
haunted house, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, JP
Japanese Little Kitchen, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo, JP
HIROMI YOSHI + Gallery Koyanagi Viewing Room, Tokyo, JP
Tabaimo: ODORO ODORO, Tokyo Opera Art Gallery, Tokyo, JP (catalogue)
QuetaQueta of Tabaimo, Yasu Gallery, Tokyo, JP
TABAIMO – yumechigae, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, JP (catalogue)
2001
Chapter, Cardiff, Wales, UK
2000
Kirin Contemporary Award ’99 Grand Prize Commemoration Exhibition, Kirin Plaza, Osaka, JP
Japanese Zebra Crossing, Gallery 16, Kyoto, JP
Japanese Kitchen, Gallery Iteza, Kyoto, JP
1999
Japanese Kitchen – Tabaimo-ten, Gallery Iteza, Kyoto, JP
Selected Group Shows
2024
Here and There and Back Again, Japanese Art 1 960 – 2024, Nicolas Krupp Gallery, Basel, CH
2023
Nest, GL Strand, Copenhagen, DK
2019
Surrealist Painting –Influences and Iterations in Japan, Pola Museum of Art, Kanagawa, JP
James Cohan: Twenty Years, James Cohan, New York, NY, USA
Japan Supernatural, Art Gallery of South New Wales, Sydney, AU
Meet the Art, Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa, JP
The Life of Animals in Japanese Art, LACMA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
The Life of Animals in Japanese Art, National Gallery, Washington, D.C., USA
2018
The House Imaginary, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, USA
2016
Jitto, curated by Tabaimo, Anne Mosseri-Marlio Galerie, Basel, CH
2015
In Our Time: Art in Post-industrial Japan, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, JP
2013
Kiya’s Stain (collaboration with Yuko Nagayama and Yoriko Hoshi), Kiya Ryokan, At Art Uwajima, Uwajima, JP
HOMEwork: Selections from the Asia Society Museum Collection, Asia Society, New York, NY, USA
2012
The Beauty of the Moment: Women in Japanese Woodblock Prints, Museum Rietberg, Zurich, CH
Passage to the Future, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, San Antonio, TX, USA
The Collectors Show: Chimera, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore, SG
2011
Small Worlds, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH, USA
2010
Philagrafika 2010, Philadelphia Museum of Art (and other venues), Philadelphia, PA, USA
2009
Mi Vida. From Heaven to Hell. Life experiences in art from MUSAC Collection, curated by Agustín Pérez Rubio and Zsolt Petrányi, Mücarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest, HU
2008
Manga, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, DK
Great New Wave: Contemporary Art from Japan, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada in 2008; travelling exhibition: Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia, CA in 2010 Mobile Art, organized by Chanel, mobile ZahaHadidPavilion, travelling to Hong Kong, Tokyo, New York, London and Paris
2007
GOTH, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, JP
Geopolitics of the Animation, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo (CACC), Sevilla, SP
Think with the Senses –Feel with the Mind. Art in the Present Tense, 52nd Venice Biennale, Venice, IT
Momentary Momentum, Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art, London, UK; travelling to Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, UK, in 2008
Out of the Ordinary: New Video from Japan, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (May 9 only), CA, USA
2006
Meditations in an Emergency, MOCAD, Detroit, MI, USA
Zones of Contact: 15th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, AU
ARS 06 -Sense of the Real, Museum of Contemporary Art, KIASMA, Helsinki, FI
2005
Rising Sun, Melting Moon: Contemporary Art from Japan, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, IL
FUSION Aspects of Asian Culture in the MUSAC Collection, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y Leon, Leon, SP
Hans Christian Andersen: Fairy Tales Forever, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, DK
Kirin Art Project, Tamada Project Art Space, Tokyo; KPO Kirin Plaza Osaka, Osaka, JP
Blooming: A Summer Garden for the Picking, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, USA
2004
Living Together is Easy, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, AU (catalogue)
Passage to the Future: Young Japanese Artists from the Japan Foundation Collection, organized by Japan Foundation
D-Segni, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Per L’Arte, Turin, IT
MEDIARENA: Contemporary Art from Japan, TheGovett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, NZ
My Story, The Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam, NL
2003
How Latitudes Become Forms, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA; travelled to Fondazione Sandretto ReRebaudengo Per L’Arte, Turin, IT; ARC/Musée d’Art Moderne de la ville de Paris, FR; Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, FI; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX, USA; Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Monterrey, MX
Nippon-no Nana-kamura –Tabaimo x Yayoi Deki (two-person show), Kirin Plaza Osaka, Osaka, JP (catalogue)
2002
ForwArt-a choice, Fine Arts Department of the BondBeterLeefmilieu-Vlaanderen, Brussels, BE (catalogue)
Café in Mito, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, JP
Sao Paulo Biennale, Sao Paulo, BR
Takeo Paper Show 2002, MyDome Osaka, Osaka, JP
2001
International Triennale of Contemporary Art, Yokohama, JP
Rice Gallery by G2, Tokyo, JP
Asia Promenade, Tokyo, JP
Kontonkaradeta Hoshi tachi, Tokyo, JP
Valencia Biennale, program of video movie, Valencia, SP
Images Festival of Independent Film and Video, Toronto, CN
Ikiro-be alive, Kröller-Müller, Otterlo, NL
2000
Retina Festival, Retina, HU
Japanese Art Short Film-film Showing Exhibition, Frankfurt Film Museum, Oberhausen, DE
Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, DE
LIVE Exhibition, Gallery Chiisai Me, Nishinomiya; Suite, Osaka, JP
1999
Graduation Works Exhibition, Kyoto University of Art and Design, Kyoto City Art Museum, JP
Kirin Contemporary Award ’99 Prize-Winning Works Exhibition, Kirin Beer Head Office, Shinkawa, Tokyo; Kirin Plaza, Osaka, JP
Kobe Art Annual ’99, Kobe Village Center, Hyogo, JP
Exit, Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK
1998
Synthesis Project-wayfarer exhibition, Gallery Ishisu, Kyoto, JP
1997
Tokyo Selected Exhibition-Information Design Course, Space 21, Tokyo, JP
1996
Kofuku-ten, Gallery Raku, Kyoto, JP
Selected Collections
Asia Society and Museum, New York, NY, USA
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL, USA
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, USA
Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, FR
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, JP
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, IL
The Japan Foundation, Tokyo, JP
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, SE
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, USA
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y Leon, Leon, ES
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
National Museum of Art, Osaka, JP
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, USA
San Jose Museum of Art, CA
Seattle Art Museum, WA, USA
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, JP
Honors and awards
2011
Art Encouragement Prize by Agency for Cultural Affairs in Japan
2008
19th Takashimaya Art Award
2007
ARS ELECTRONICA 2007 HONARARY MENTION (HYBRID ART Department)
2005
12th Award to a Promising Artist and Scholar in the Field of Contemporary Japanese Arts
2004
Incentive Prize, 23rd Kyoto Prefecture Culture Prize
2002
The Goto Memorial Prize (Art department)
2001
Sauya-konohana Prize (Art department)
1999
BBCC Net Art and Film Festival, Grand Prize (Film Department)
Kirin Contemporary Award, Grand Prize Kyoto University of Art and Design graduation works exhibition, President Prize
1997
The 36th Kyoto Design and Art Prize Competition, Honorable Mention
1996
The 4th Fukui International Media Art Festival (International Department) BeAccepted
