1964 Born in Akita, Japan 1964
1988 B.A. Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan.
1988-1997 Designer of Kawashima Textiles Co.,Ltd.
1997~ Established Design office of “T.O.TEX.STUDIO” in Kyoto, Japan.
1999-2012 Associate professor, Textile division, Kyoto University of arts, Japan.
Current Professor, Textile Course, Craft division, Kanazawa College of Art, Japan.
37 Solo Exhibitions
GalleryGallery / Kyoto, Japan・Gallery Suzuki / Kyoto, Japan
Gallery NW house / Tokyo, Japan・Gallery Saiensu / Morioka, Japan
White Gallery / Kagoshima, Japan・Wacoal Ginza Art Space / Tokyo, Japan
PS14Gallery / Pusan, Korea. MA Gallery・Shimacyo / Fukuoka, Japan
Senbikiya Gallery / Tokyo, Japan・Art Life MITUHASHI / Kyoto, Japan
AOAO Top Window Gallery / Kyoto, Japan・Gallery PLANNET / Nagoya, Japan
Gallery MARUFUKU / Kyoto, Japan・Komatsu Craft Space / Akita, Japan
Art Salon Ryubo / Okinawa, Japan・G -WING’S GALLERY / Kanazawa. Japan
Gallery cafe Gunjo / echizen, Japan・Gallery Keifu / Kyoto, Japan
Gallery 0, Ohtsu / Japan・Kobo, Tokyo, Japan
Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Traditional Arts and Crafts / Kanazawa, Japan
Group Exhibitions (Selected)
2017 Citation from contemporary Textile Art, Taiwan / Kanazawa Art Interchange Exhibition. 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan.
2016 15th international Triennial of Tapestry, Łódź 2016, Prize Medal of The Central Museum
of Textile, Poland.
2013 The8th Cheongju International Craft Biennale. Cheongju, Korea.
2012 Luminous/ Exchange exhibition of Ukeraine and Japan.
PROMO-ARTE PROJECT GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan. Gallery of National Artists’Union, Kherson,
Ukraine.
2007 Japanese Suppleness / Gjethuset, Galleri SPOT, Ågalleriet in Frederiksvaek,
Culture Center in Fredericia, Denmark.
2006 The International Biennial Exhibition on Textile Art “Scythia6″/ Kherson, Ukraine.
2005~06 8th International Triennial of Miniature Textile in Angers / Anger, France.
2005 TEXTILE 05 -KAUNAS ART BIENNIAL-(INVITATION) / Kaunas, Lithuania.
2005 4th International Biennial of Mini Textile “The Open Letter”/ Lithuania.
2005 TRENNAL INTERNATIONAL TAPESTRY AND TEXTILE ARTS EXHIBITION (INVITATION) / Tournai,
Belgium.
2003 Cheongju International Craft Biennale 2003 / Cheongju Art Center, Korea.
1998 Imaginations ’98 Japanese Textile Miniature / Gasthuiskapel, Popringe, Belgium.
1992 The 3rd International Textile Competition’92 -kyoto- / The Museum of Kyoto, Japan.
Statement: The work is machine embroidery on the print cloth. The embroidery produced an interference pattern on the print cloth that generated the moiré patterns with optical illusions, like the work to dazzle or fascinate by the crease in the cloth of embroidery and shrink with embroidery.
