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Yoshiaki Watanabe

Yoshiaki Watanabe
* 1955 Hyogo Prefecture, Japan
1976-82 Studied at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
1980 B. A (in oil painting)
1982 M.F.A. (in mural painting)
1985-89 Studied at Academy of Art, Duesseldorf, Germany, under DAAD program
1989-92 Assistant instructor of mural painting, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
1992-99 Instructor of mural painting, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
1994 Research trip to Europe and the United States on Japan Airways Foundation Grant
Invitation as a guest artist at Rijksakademie of Fine Arts, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1999-05 Associate Professor, Department of Inter Media Art, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
Since 2006 Professor, Department of Inter Media Art, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music

Selected Solo exhibitions
2009 A trans Pavilion, Berlin
2007 SPICA-art, Tokio, Japan
2004 SPICA-art, Tokio, Japan
2001 SPICA Museum, Tokio, Japan
2000 Kobo, Tokio, Japan
1999 Saito Memorial Kawaguchi Museum of Contemporary Art, Kawaguchi, Saitama, Japan
Art-Forum Yanaka, Tokio, Japan
C-Square Art Gallery of Chukyo University, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Ausgewählte Solo Gruppenausstellungen
2006 “Wandering Wind - Three contemporary artists from Japan”, Gallery Apel,
Istanbul, Turkey
2005 “D/J brand〜The burning point of the artists who studied in Germany”, Museum of Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Tokyo, Japan
2003 “Green Space 2”, Bauhaus University , Weimar, Germany
“SYNAPHI”, Omotesando Gallery / Musse F Tokyo, Japan
2002 “The Essential”, Chiba City Museum, Chiba, Japan
1999 “zeit/LICHTE-Time Measured by Light- Yoshiaki Watanabe”, Saito Memorial Kawaguchi Museum of Contemporary, Japan
“Japandorf”, Kunstraum, Düsseldorf, Germany
1998 “Shibayama Open-Air Art Exhibition”, Chiba, Art, Saitama, Japan
“Dusseldorf, Seoul, Tokyo”, Kunstraum, Düsseldorf, Germany
1997 “Catching the Light-appearance of light as a material”, O Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
“Survey works”, Galleria Rasen, Tokyo, Japan
“Asian Inspiration”, Art Center Fairfield, California, USA