■Biography
1974 Born in Nagoya City
2003 Completed doctoral course at Kyoto City University of Arts
2006 Agency for Cultural Affairs Artist Domestic Trainee
2009 Lecturer, Faculty of Fine Arts, Kyoto City University of Arts ('14 - Associate Professor)
■Award history
1999 25th Spring Soga Exhibition [Spring Exhibition Award]
2000 8th Ryuko Kawabata Grand Prize Exhibition [Excellence Award] Wakayama City Civic Center (Wakayama)
2003 21st Ueno Royal Museum Grand Prize Exhibition [Painting Grand Prize] Ueno Royal Museum (Tokyo)
■Main solo exhibitions
2002 Yamato Gallery (Gifu) ('07,'09)
2005 21st Ueno Royal Museum Grand Prize Exhibition, Painting Grand Prize, IBM Japan Art Scholarship Award Commemorative Solo Exhibition / Yoshii Gallery (Tokyo)
2011 Art Life Mitsuhashi (Kyoto) (’13)
2013 Osaka Takashimaya Gallery next (Osaka) ('16)
2014 Ueno Royal Museum Gallery (Tokyo)
■Main group exhibitions
1997 Spring Soga Exhibition (~'08)
1998 Soga Exhibition (~'08)
1999 Kansai Today's Artist Exhibition / Sato Art Museum (Tokyo), Tomura Art (Tokyo)
2000 In search of the possibilities of mineral pigments - Proposals from young artists from Nagoya / Furukawa Museum of Art (Nagoya)
2002 10th Scholarship Art Exhibition / Sato Museum of Art (Tokyo)
INCUBATION 02 / Kyoto Art Center (Kyoto)
2004 21st Ueno Royal Museum Grand Prize Exhibition Winners Exhibition / Yoshii Gallery (Tokyo)
2007 Diversity of Japanese Painting Expression / Osaka Seikei University Faculty of Art Gallery Space B (Kyoto)
2009 Oriental Rock Painting Exhibition / Shanghai University Academy of Fine Arts 99 Creative Center Gallery (China/Shanghai)
18th Scholarship Student Art Exhibition Invited Exhibition / Sato Museum of Art (Tokyo)
2010 Exhibition connecting Japanese paintings / Gallery @ KCUA (Kyoto)
2011 Dunhuang Impressions - Chunichi Rock Painting Exhibition / Dunhuang Research Institute (China/Dunhuang)
2014 cracking the code / Kyoto Art Center (Kyoto)