RESUME YASUFUMI TAKAHASHI

Education
1987-89 Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Art de Paris
1984-86 Graduate School of The University of Tsukuba / M.F.A.
1980-84 Department of Fine Arts, Faculty of Education, Utsunomiya University / B.Ed in Fine Arts

Teaching
2000-2003 Instructor of Utsunomiya Media Arts College, Japan
1995-2002 Instructor of Oyama Polytechnic College, Japan
1999-2001 Teacher of Utsunomiya Gakuen High School, Japan

Artists' Residencies
1996 Funded Residency at Sculpture Space, Utica, New York
1995,96,'02 Artist-in-Residence Program, Est-Nord-Est Sculpture Center, Quebec, Canada
1994 Artist-in-Residence Program, TAMA Art Studio, Hinode, Tokyo
1988-89 Residency at Cite International des Arts, Paris

Awards and Grants
2004 Japanese Goverment Overseas Study Programme for Artists
2002 1st Utsunomiya Award for emerging artists from Utsunomiya City
2001 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
2000 The Fine Work Prize at 29th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan
1997 Cultural Encouragement Award from Tochigi Cultural Association
1992 Art Support Program Grant of Heineken ASP, Tokyo
1987-89 Scholarship Program Grant of French Goverment
1982,83,85 The Encouragement Prize at Tochigi Art Festival

Assistance
1990 Assistant of ANDY GOLDSWORTHY

Solo Exhibitions

2006 INAXgallery2, Tokyo, Japan
2004 "The Matrix of Space" Utsunomiya Museum of Art, Tochigi, Japan
2002 "Graft -Inbanuma- "Metal Art Museum HIKARINOTANI, Chiba,Japan
2001 "Graft" Gallery in the Blue, Utsunomiya,Japan
2000 "Hot Bed 2000" Gallery Fresca, Tokyo
1999 "Hot Bed 1999" Gallery in the Blue, Utsunomiya,Japan
1998 "Injurious Inertia" Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Albert, Canada
1997 "Pages" Galerie deux, Tokyo
1996 "Red Reflection" Gallery in the Blue, Utsunomiya , Gallery VA , Tokyo
　　　"Red Reflection"　The New Gallery, Calgary, Mercer Union, Toronto
(Supported by Japan Canada Fund, Japan Foundation)
"Injurious Inertia" La Chambre Blanche, Quebec , Deleon White Gallery, Toronto
1995 "Red Reflection" SKOL Art Center, Montreal
1994 "Vein" Plus Minus Gallery, Tokyo
"Copper Forest" Plaza Gallery, Tokyo
1993 "Memory of Forest" Gallery Nikko, Tokyo
"Copper Forest" Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo
1992 Plaza Gallery Tokyo (Supported by Hineken ASP)
1991 Galerie Maison des Beaux-Arts, Paris
"Linkage" Kaneko Art G1, Tokyo
1990 "Mass and Void" Gallery Ciel, Utsunomiya
1989 Cite International des Arts, Paris

Group Exhibitions
2005 "Drawings and three Dimensions" Gallery 128, New York

　　　"８th Annual Williamsburg Salon Part 3, Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, New York

2003 "The Present Art Scene of Utsunomiya" Utsunomiya Museum of Art, Tochigi, Japan
2002 "Sculptor of Eastern Japan" Tokyo Station Gallery, Tokyo
2001 "Epiphany -Art Village Project in KANUMA-" Old Factory of Empire Textile Company, Tochigi
　　　"Door to Millennium"　Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Art, Tochigi
2000 "Hiroshima Art Document 2000" Old Army Clothing Depot, Hiroshima
"29th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan" Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum/Kyoto Municipal Art Museum
1999 "28th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan" Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum/Kyoto Municipal Art Museum
1998 "Art/Ecosystem" Utsunomiya Museum of Art, Tochigi, Japan
1997 "Effet d' utilitaire" Le Centre d' Exposition de Baie-St-Paul, Quebec
"The Present Art Scene of Utsunomiya" Utsunomiya Museum ofArt,Tochigi, Japan
"INTER/CHANGE" Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, Cazenovia, New York
1992 "4th Tokyo Outdoor Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture" Kinuta Park, Tokyo
1991 "Jan Hoet in Tsurugi" Ishikawa, Japan
"Jan Hoet Eyes" Mitsubishi Artium Gallery, Fukuoka
1990 "Plastic Arts Today" Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Art, Tochigi
"18th International Art Exhibition of Japan" Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum/Kyoto Municipal Art Museum
"2nd Contemporary Japanese Wood Sculpture Festival" Seki Municipal Cultural Center, Gifu
1989 "Artistes du Monde" Cite International des Arts, Paris
"Sculpture Symposium in Antwerp" Belgium
1998 "Exhibition of French Goverment Scholarship recipients" Gallery Bernanos, Paris
"Young Artists in Rochefort" France
"International Sculpture Symposium in Les Avins" Belgium
"Salon des Realites Nouvelles" Grand Palais, Paris
1987 "Japanese and Korean Sculptor" South Korea Cultural Center, Tokyo
1986 "Japanese and Korean Sculptor" Seoul Gallery, Seoul

Public Collections
National Museum of Quebec, Canada
Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, New York

Polomy Community Park, France
Les Avins Sculpture Park, Belgium
Antwerp Mecenat, Belgium
Union Street Park, Japan
Japan Energy, Japan
Tochigi Prefectural Oyama High School, Japan
Watarase Valley Railroad, Tsudo Station, Japan

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