Artists

CV

Born 1966, Tokyo
Lives and works in London

 

Education

1997-1998
Associate Research Student, Goldsmiths' College, London.

 

1994-1996
Higher Diploma, Postgraduate Study in Sculpture, Fine Art,
Slade School of Fine Art, U.C.L., London.

 

1994
Part-time study in Ethnomusicology, SOAS, London.

 

1991-1994
BA Fine Art, Goldsmiths' College. London.

 

1990-1991
Intermediate Certificate Course, as Foundation, Goldsmiths College, London.

 

1985-1989
BA Fine Art, Oil Painting, Tama Art University, Tokyo, Japan.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2007
Leftover, Hales Gallery, London

 

2006
Crash Course@The University of Warwick, Mead Gallery

 

2005
'My Play Station', Serpentine Gallery, London.

 

2004
'No Money', Kunst Halle, Kiel, Germany

 

2002 
'Auditorium  Piece' Hammer UCLA, LA, USA.
'Deep Sea Diving', Kunsthalle Bern.

 

2001 
Galleri Charlotte Lund, Stockholm, Sweden.

 

2000  
Solo Web-Site Project 'Word Perhect', in collaboration with Jon Pollard, commissioned by Ch2 (Chisenhale Gallery and e-2).

 

1999
'The Day of Patience', with Ella Gibbs, Belt Space in Between, London.
Entwistle Gallery,London.
Grant Selwyn, Los Angeles, USA.
Solo project, Lift,London.
'Site Work', Galeria Pedro Cera, Lisbon,Portugal.
'Office Work' at Century Center, curated by Roomade, Antwerp, Belgium.
'Dark Room at Stills (For Clifford Haynes)', Stills Gallery, Edinburgh.

 

1998 
'Staff Stuff' at Staff Gallery, New York.
Solo Show, 'The Drawing Room', The Drawing Centre, New York.
'Clockwork at Hales', Hales Gallery, London.
'Info Only' at Tablet (formally the Tabernacle), Westbourne Park, London

 

1997  
'Untitled', at Beaconsfield, Vauxhall, London.
Claydon Heeley International, Battersea, London. Curated by David Lillington and Gillian Dunn ('Company Deal').

Selected Group Exhibitions

2008
The Freedom Center, 'This show will change your life!', Hales Gallery, London

 

2007
Organizing Chaos, PS1 MOMA, New York

 

2004
'Ticker Tape Parade Without Parade 2 in Roppongi Hills' in Rappongi Crossing  with Rupert Carey, Mori Art Museum, Japan.

2003
'Charlie's place', Annely Juda Fine Art
 'Living Inside the Grid' New Museum, New York.

 

2002
'Sprawl', The Contemporary Arts Centre, Cincinnati
'International Artists Fellowship Exhibition', Kunming, China and Gasworks, London.
'Room for improvement' Craft Museum, New Delhi, India 
'A Record of Events', collaborations with Tomoko Takahashi, Hales Gallery, London
'Ideal Home', Gimpel Fils, London

 

2000
Turner Prize, 'Learning to drive', Tate Britain, Millbank, London
'Parklight', all night performance, sculpture, installation & video experience, Clissold Park, Stoke Newington, London.
'Beautiful', Oxo Tower Wharf, London.
'Artworkers', Oriel Mostyn Gallery and Newlyn Art Gallery curated by Melissa Feldman.
'Found Wanting', Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, USA.

 

1999
'48 Hours' collaboration with Ella Gibbs, curated by Melanie Keen,at Tablet, London.
'Generation Z', PS1, New York.
'Laboratoreum', Antwerp,Belgium.
Neurotic Realism, Saatchi Gallery, London

 

1998
'The Best Surprise Is No Surprise', Curated by Mayday Productions, The Holiday Inn, China Town, New York.
'A Table Piece', a group show curated by Clarissa Dalrymple at  Mary Boone Gallery, New York.
'A Product of Many Departments', part of "The Campaign Against Living Miserably", Royal College of Art, Visual Arts Administration Exhibition. 

 

1997
'Gonzo', curated by Luke Gotellier, at the Old Bethnal Green Police Station, London, titled 'Authorised for Removal'.
'Low Maintenance & High Precision', Curated by Gavin Wade, at Hales Gallery, London, titled 'Low Maintenance at Hales Gallery'.
East International at Norwich School of Art & Design/SCVA/Norwich Gallery, titled 'The Painting Department Storage', 'The left-overs from the Painting Department'.

 

1996
Postgraduate Show at Slade School of Fine Art, U.C.L., London, titled 'See Dirge'.

 

1995
Shave '95 at Shave Farm, Somerset, titled '600 hills, 300m lines, 88 stakes, in 3.99ha Field.
Memory '95 at Riverside Studios, London, titled 'A Black Square, V.S.T.O.L./A.M.E.D.A.S'.

Awards

2000
Shortlisted for Turner Prize

 

1997
The Seventh EAST Award.  Selected by Nicholas Logsdail and Tacita Dean 

Publications

2005
Tomoko Takahashi, essay by Rochelle Steiner, Serpentine Gallery

 

2004
No Money. Dirk Luckow, ed. Kiel: Kunsthalle zu Kiel

 

2002
Catalogue of 'all most all' the works done by Tomoko Takahashi, between 1985 -

 

2002
'Residency at Upriver Loft, Kunming, China', with Ella Gibbs and Sebastian Lowsley-Williams

 

2000
'The One and Only User's Guide for Word Perhect' by Tomoko Takahashi for ch2, A5 booklet from web-site project collaboration with  Chisenhale Gallery and e-2
'Handbook of Turin Taidemuseuo Äbo Konstmuseum Turku Art Museum.Published by Beaconsfield. Limited Edition Print. Contemporary Magazine.
'The Booklet of Patience (Version June 1999)' Edited by Ella Gibbs.
'Peak of Mountains and Bottom of Valleys of a Piece of Crumpled Paper Pulgar, Issue 6.

 

1998
'Art of Letter Writing', Victoria, Issue 3.

Bibliography

 

2008
A meaningful Mish Mash,by Alice Thorson, The Kansas City Star, p.5

 

2007
Chaotic Creation in Silence and Smashing Guitars, by Roberta Smith, The New York Times
Dirty Gritty Things, by Adrian Searle, The Guardian, p.29
Tate Guide, Feb-March 2007, p.15
Tomoko Takahashi, by Helen Sumpter, Time Out, p.34

 

2006
Now we're free to make what we like, Rachel Campbell-Johnston, The Times
Staging Controlled Chaos, By Robert Preece, Art Asia Pacific, p.55

 

2005
Die Young Stay Pretty and Neurotic Realism, by Max Andrews, Contemporary Visual Arts,  p.60
Tomokko Takahashi, CD, Modern Painters, p.111
Culture Vultures: gallery visitors pick up the pieces at exhibition of rubbish, by Danielle Demetriou, The Independent, p.3
Kitchen sink included in Art giveaway, by Katherine Barney, Evening Standard, p.10
New Statesman, p.40/41
Mad about the toy, Space hoppers, plastic dinosaurs..playtime has invaded our galleries, by Morgan Falconer,The Times, p.16
Art at play in the Serpentine, by Louisa Buck, The Art Newspaper, p.34
Tomoko Takahashi, Serpentine Gallery, by Rachel Withers, Artforum, p.84
In the picture, by Francesca Martibn, Vogue

 

2004
Colette Chattopadhay. 'Tomoko Takahashi'. Sculpture, January-February, p.73

2005: an Art  odyssey, by Richard Dorment, The Daily Telegraph,

 

2003
'Ticker Tape Parade Without Parade 2 in Roppongi Hills' in
 Rappongi Crossing with Rupert Carey, Mori Art Museum, Japan

 

2000
Tomoko Takahashi, Accumulation of Memories' Claire Bishop,  Flash Art p.94-5 March-April
'Staging Controlled Chaos', cover and interview by Robert Preece, ARTAsiaPacific, Issue 25.
'And they don't use dead animals', Louisa Buck, Observer Magazine, 19 March 2000. 

 

1999
Respect', interview by Alexandra Bradley, Metropolis M, No.6, Dec.
'Chaos Theory', by Martin Herbert, Contemporary Visual Arts, Issue 26.
'High Art Lite', by Julian Stallabrass, Published by Verso.
'The Booklet of Patience', with Ella Gibbs, Tablet,London.
Lift/Entwistle, feature article p. 24 - 25 Time Out,August 18 - 25.
'Die Young Stay Pretty and Neurotic Realism Part 1', Contemporary Visual Arts, Issue 22, Max Andrews.
'Last orders in the waste land',
The Times 12 January,Richard Cork.
'Rubbish, Absolute Rubbish', The Independent 5 January, Kate Mikhail.
'Boys' Zone', Time Out, January 13 - 20.
'New Neurotic Realism', Saatchi Gallery Publication.

 

1998
Artforum, Summer 1998, Louisa Buck.
Frieze, March, Rachel Withers.
Artists Newsletter, Feb, Beaconsfield Installation,Julian Stallabrass.
Contemporary Visual Arts, Issue 17, Jan., 'Other Voices, Other Places', Maite Lores.
New Statesman, 2 Jan., 'Faces to watch in 1998', Louisa Buck.

 

1997
Art Newspaper, 'Southern Comfort',Louisa Buck.
The Times, 'Gonzo', Sacha Craddock.
Time Out, Oct, 'Gonzo'.
Art Monthly, Sept. (ref.: EAST/Low Maintenance)
Artist's Newsletter, Sept. (ref.: Low Maintenance)
Time Out, 7th-14th Aug. (ref.: Low Maintenance)
The Times, 30th Jul. (ref.: EAST)
The Times, Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, Daily Telegraph, 19th Jul. (ref.EAST)
Shukan Shincho, Japanese weekly magazine 22nd May (ref.:Company Deal)
The Times 19th Apr. (ref.: Company Deal)

 

Collections

Saatchi Collection
Tate Modern permanent collection
Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art - MIMA,
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
MUSEION - Museum für moderne und zeitgenössische Kunst