BIOGRAPHY

KOSUGE1-16’S MAIN WORKS:

PROJECT ART WORKS:

2017 Kyushu Geibunkan (Fukuoka,Japan)
2016 sendai mediatheque (Miyagi,japan)
2012-13 Hachinohe Potal Museum,hacchi (Aomori, Japan)
2011 Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art (Hiroshima, Japan)
2008 Duo League (Tokyo, Japan)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2012 mac birmingham (Birmingham, United Kingdom)
2009 Contemporary Art Factory (Tokyo, Japan)
2004 Contemporary Art Factory (Tokyo, Japan)
2002 Furuhouse (Tokyo, Japan)

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2017 3331 Arts Chiyoda (Tokyo,Japan)
The Museum of art, Kochi (Kochi,Japan)
Smart Illumination Midori (kanagawa,Japan)
2016 Susaki Art Assemble (Kochi,Japan)
Smart Illumination Midori (kanagawa,Japan)
2015 Echigo-Tsumari Satoyama Museum of Contemporary Art, KINARE (Niigata,Japan)
2014 Arts Maebashi (Gunma,Japan)
2013 Yokosuka museum of art (Kanagawa, Japan)
2012 A child subway and five mysterious stations (Hokkaido, Japan)
2011 Art leisurely tour Ichihara (Chiba, Japan)
2010 Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan)
2009 Towada Art Center (Aomori, Japan)
Sendai mediatheque (Miyagi , Japan)
Aqua metropolis Osaka 2009 (Osaka, Japan)
The Museum of modern art (Gunma, Japan)
Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art (Fukushima, Japan)
2008 Contemporary Art Center,Art Tower Mito (Ibaraki, Japan)
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art,Kanazawa (Ishikawa, Japan)
Taro Okamoto Museum of Art (Kanagawa, Japan)
2007 Sendai mediatheque (Miyagi, Japan)
Kitakyushu Innovation Gallery & Studio (Fukuoka, Japan)
2006 Sendai mediatheque (Miyagi, Japan)
2003 Daikanyama installation ’03 (Tokyo, Japan)
2002 Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney, Australia)
2001 Selfriges (London, United Kingdom)

INTERNATIONAL ART EXHIBITIONS:

2014 Ichihara Art x Mix (Chiba, Japan)
2013 Setouchi Triennale 2013 (Kagawa, Japan)
2010 Aichi Triennale 2010 (Aichi, Japan)
2005 Yokohama triennale 2005 (Kanagawa, Japan)

WORKSHOPS:

2017 The National Museum of Art, Osaka (Osaka,Japan)
2016 Ichihara Lakeside Museum (Chiba, Japan)
2015 mac birmingham (Birmingham, United Kingdom)
2014 Beppu Municipal South Children’s Hall (Ooita,Japan)
Abeno Harukas (Osaka,Japan)
2013 Galleria Takemachi Dome open space (Oita, Japan)
2012 Kawasaki City Museum (Kanagawa, Japan)
2010 art project room ARTZONE (Kyouto, Japan)
Bungo Ono City KAGURA hall (Oita, Japan)
2009 Sendai mediatheque (Miyagi, Japan)
2008 Okinawa-Jikan Museum (Okinawa, Japan)
Media seven (Saitama, Japan)
2007 Nishi-sugamo Arts Factory (Tokyo, Japan)
2006 Back water concert 2006 (Hyogo/, Japan)
2005 Rokko Island (Hyogo, Japan)
Kosuge Skate School (Hokkaido, Japan)
2004 Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan)
Mie Prefectural Art Museum (Mie, Japan)

PRIZES:

2008 The Taro Okamoto Award for Contemporary Art (Taro Okamoto First prize)
2003 Daikanyama installation ’03 (Judge special prize)

GRANTS:

2012 The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation
2012 The Japan Foundation

PUBLIC COLLECTION:

“Toy soldier” / Ichihara Lakeside Museum (Chiba, Japan)
“Heigh-Ho” / Ichihara Lakeside Museum (Chiba, Japan)
“PET 2m” /Kachidoki View Tower (Tokyo, Japan)
“Hard Float”/Chojamachi Art annual (Aichi, Japan)
“AC-21” / 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (Ishikawa, Japan)

EXHIBITION CATALOGUES:

“Soma’s tub exhibition” Kyushu Geibunkan, 2018
“Players” Arts Maebashi, 2014
“Ichihara Art x Mix” Ichihara Lakeside Museum, 2014
“Experience, adventure, art museum” Yokosuka museum of art, 2013
“KAKIKAKI KIKOKIKO DADADADADA” Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, 2011
“Aichi Triennale 2010″The Aichi Triennale Organizing Committee, 2010
“Rokko meets art 2010” Hanshin synthesis leisure Co., 2010
“Garden for Children” Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, 2010
“Aqua metropolis Osaka 2009” The Aqua metropolis Osaka Organizing Committee, 2009 “Every day,Art!!” The Museum of modern art,Gunma, 2009
“New generation of Fukushima 2009” Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art, 2009 “Happiness in Everyday Life” Contemporary Art Center,Art Tower Mito, 2008
“Play Innovation” Kitakyushu Innovation Gallery & Studio,2007
“Aoba-Ennichi” Sendai mediatheque,2006
“Yokohama triennale 2005” The Yokohama Triennale Organizing Committee,2005

SELECTED REFERENCES TO KOSUGE1-16’S WORK IN PUBLICATIONS:

Yuji Akimoto (2017)「おどろきの金沢」[Surprising Kanazawa] Kodansya.
Takayuki Yoshida (2015)「トリエンナーレはなにをめざすのか」[What does the Art Trien- nale pursue?] p.304. Suiyosya Publishing inc.
Junko Kumakura (2015)「 日本型アートプロジェクトの歴史と現在」 1990年→2010年
[An Overview of Art Projects in Japan: A Society That Co-Creates with Art] . pp119-123. Arts council Tokyo.
Hiroko Otsuki (2013). 「クリエイティブリユース」[Creative reuse] . pp. 118-119. Mille-
graph. Nissai Basic Research Institite & Iwaki Performing Arts Centre (Eds.) (2012)「文化からの
復興 市民と震災といわきアリオスと」[Regeneration through culture: Citizens, the earth- quake, and Iwaki Performing Arts Centre] pp.126-133. Tokyo: Suiyoosha.
Yuko Namba (2008). 「ビエンナーレの現在」[The Biennale today] p.108. Tokyo: Seikyusha.