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Born in 1975 and living in Osaka. After graduating from a B.A. in Fine Art in London, returning to Japan then experiencing being an artist in residence in Germany, France, and U.S. The art works explore life and death, nature and artificiality, as well as femininity. Media used are mainly video installations and the works contain elements of performance. Recent solo exhibitions are ‘Diary 2020’ at The Third Gallery Aya (2020), ‘Ghost’ at Art-U room (2017), ‘TEGAMI’ at FRISE, Hamburg (2016), “Project ‘Mirrors’”, at Kyoto Art Center (2013), The group exhibitions are ‘Casabranca Biennale’ (2017), ‘WROUGHT’ in Sheffield (2016), ‘Kyoto Current’ at Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art (2013). She continues her annual project ‘Doors’ – filming and editing one sequence in which she opens a door and enters a space every year since 2013.

2001: B.A.in Fine Arts at Middlesex University, England
2020: M.A. in Art and Media at Osaka University
2023: Live in Kobe and Osaka

Solo Exhibition

2002: Dream Island, CAS, Osaka
2003: Underneath the Twinkling Stars, Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna
2004: Soap Opera, Art-U room, Tokyo
2005: Dune/Trip, PH Gallery, NY
2006: The Dark Hours of the Forest in the Red Room, G-wings Gallery, Kanazawa
My Real Name, The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka
2007: Outo, Enghien les Bains Art Center, France
Wave, Dawn Center, Osaka
Vomit, Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Osaka
2019: Peals, The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka
2011: In-between, msc Gallery, Doshisha Women’s College of Liberal Arts, Kyoto
2013: Project ‘Mirrors’, Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto
2014: Forcing House, Art-U room, Tokyo
2015: Voice, The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka
2016: TEGAMI -Perspektiven Japanischer Künstler- Tomoko Inagaki, FRISE – Künstlerhaus Hamburg e.V.
2017: Ghost, Art-U room, Tokyo
2018: Decalcomanie, The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka
2020: Diary 2020, The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka
2021: Whiteout,CAS, Osaka
2022: Face, MAWA, Winnipeg, Canada

Group Exhibitions

1998: Dairy, Quicksilver Gallery, London（Toured to Paris and Brussels）
2000: Show Reel, Gallery 291, London
East End Collaboration 2000, Queen Mary and Westfield College, London
Bang, Standpoint Gallery, London
The Third Festival of Experimental Art and Performance, Manezh Central Exhibition Hall, St. Petersburg
2001: The National Review of Live Art, The Arches, Glasgow
2002: Kobe Art Annual Millefille, Kobe Art Villege Center,Hyogo
2003: Enter Human,CCA Kitakyusyu,Fukuoka
Komorebi, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki
2004: Osaka・Art・Caleidoscope ‘Spring・Flower・Life’, CASO, Osaka
Art Court Frontier, ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka
Pilot Plant, (Tour Exhibition), Contemporary Art Factory, Tokyo／CASO, Osaka
Bunkamura Art show 2004 ‘Landing’, Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo
2005: Open Submission, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima
Mirage in Summer, Gunma Museum of Art, Tatebayashi
2006: Image Forum 2006, Tokyo
2007: I meet…, CASO, Osaka
2008: Bains Numeriques #3, Centre des Arts Enghien les Bains, France
Nuitnumerique #6, Centre Culturel Caint-Exupery, Reims, France
Talk & Exhibition 2008 – Video Art Activities, Ox Warehause ,Macau
2009: Twinism, Kunsthaus,Hamburg / AD&A Gallery, Osaka
2010: Transmediale.10,the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
Duo Exhibition Tomoko Inagaki and Svenja Maass, Kunstverein Harburger Barnhof, Hamburg
video_dumbo,the Dumbo Art Center, Brooklyn, New York
2011: Nara Video Kotenpandant, Nara City
2013: Kyoto Current 2013,Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art,Kyoto
2014: I’m home Pre exhibition, Calo, Osaka
I’m home, Jisen Center, Osaka
2015: TEGAMI – Perspektiven japanischer Künstler,Das Japanesche Haus,Leipzig
Gakuen Art Week 2015, Gallery GM-1, Nara
2016: One to One Performance Festival WROUGHT, Sheffield
Biennale Internationale Casablanca
2017: 12 Messages -Marine,+1 art,Osaka
2019: Reading Fermentation,+1 art,Osaka
Waves and Frequencies, FRISE – Künstlerhaus Hamburg e.V. and toured to CAS,Osaka
2020: HER/HISTORY, Jisen Center, Osaka
2022: Kyotentai,+1 art, Osaka　Tourd；CAS, Osaka
Real Dream, Kawakyu Museum, Wakayama

Awards, grants and residencies

Awards and grants

1999: Ray Finnis Award 1999, England
2002: Selected for the 5th Art Documents Support Program (ADSP) by SHISEIDO
2006: Image Forum 2006, Tokyo
2008: Supported by Art by Zerox
2009-10: Nomura Foundation Grant
EU Japan Fest Grant
2012: Awarded for eAT KANAZAWA Digital Creative Award 2012
2013: Supported by Shiseido
2016: Art Support Kansai Grant
Sasakawa Foundation Grant
2022: the Toshiaki Ogasawara Memorial Foundation Grant
2023: Gyomu Super Japan Dream Foundation Grant

Artist in Residencies

2004: ARCUS PROJECT 2004, Ibaraki, Japan
2006-7: the 17th Art-Ex Osaka, Enghien les Bains Art Center, France
2009-2010: Kunstler zu Gast in Harburg,Hamburg, Germany
2014: Vermont Studio Center 2014, U.S.
2017: Sapporo Tenjinyama Art Studio, Hokkaido,Japan
2021: Artist in Hibernation, Nagano
2020-2021: Super Studio Kitakagaya, Osaka
2023: ART OMI, NY

Others

Curated Exhibitions

2014: Pre-exhibition Welcome back, Calo Gallery, Osaka
Welcome back, Jisen Center, Osaka
2016: Screening ‘Melting Point’, the Hide Sheffield, FRISE Hamburg, The Third Gallery Aya Osaka, Satellite Gallery at Aich Art University
2017: Bamboo x Art ⇒ Encounter Aisai Land, Osaka
Melting Point 2, MEM, Tokyo
2019-20: JISEN CONTEMPORARY SHORT FILM & VIDEO AWARD, Jisen Center, Osaka
2020: HER/HISTORY, Jisen Center, Osaka

Social Activities

2017-: Cultural Promotion Council Deliberation Committee in Kishiwada city
2019-20: Art producer at Kishiwada Cultural Association
2020-2022: Art Manager at Osaka Arts Council
2020-: Part-time lecturer at Osaka Sangyo University

Lecture and workshop

2022: Special lecture, Kyoto Art University