Biography

1970 
Born in Kyoto Prefecture

1994     
Completed the Graduate course in sculpture at Kyoto City University of Fine Art

1999     
Participated in the HAAS Project-Harnessing the Sun: A journey Across America by Solar Car

Solo Exhibition

2001  
KOKUFUMOBIL: Virtual Past→Future, Vacant lot of Maebashi Fire Defense Agency building

2005
KOKUFUMOBIL, ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka

2007       
Premonition–KOKUFUMOBIL-Kokufu Osamu, Space B, Department of Fine Art of Oaka Seijo University

2008
Osamu Kokufu: move to moving, Matsumoto City Museum of Art, Nagano
Osamu Kokufu/ KOKUFUMOBIL, ART SPACE NIJI, Kyoto
(‘94,‘06)

2009
ACG eyes 3 : Osamu Kokufu -ROBO Whale-, ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka

2010
Osamu Kokufu : Surreal instruments, ART SPACE NIJI, Kyoto

Group Exhibition

1991  tabula rasa, Kyoto City Shijo Gallery

1994  PREVIEW, Gallery PREVIEW, Kyoto ('93)

1996 
Pilot Farm, ART SPACE・NIJI, Kyoto

1997 
conversion table, Nagoya Municipal Administration Museum
('93,'95)

1998 
INSECTOPIA, Nagoya Municipal Administration Museum

Keep moving: Journey of Spirit, Aichi Arts Center, Nagoya

1999 
Keep moving: Journey of Spirit, Gallery SOKAWA, Kyoto

2000 
Art Contact, Nagoya Citizen’s Gallery Viewpoint of Galleries 2000, Osaka Contemporary Art Center

2001
The 16th National Festival GUNMA 2001

2002
W.F.O.A.P., Rokko Island, Kobe ('96,'97,'00)

2003
Art Court Frontier, ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka

2004 
MOVIL”VJ car”, Kyoto Art Center
New Letters from Kyoto 2004, Katsura Campus of Kyoto University

2005
art-life vol.4 - Paradise Time - Shinji Ohmaki × Osamu Kokufu, Spiral, Tokyo

2006
Toride Art Project 2006, Ibaraki

2007
Selected Artists in Kyoto -2007 New Wave-, The Museum of Kyoto
the other side of KYOTO ART MAP 2007, Kyoto Art Center
The Vehicles of the future, ROBOTHINK, Robot Museum in Nagoya, Aichi

2008
Osaka Art Kaleidoscope 2008, Osaka City, Osaka
ARTS×TECHNOLOGY, Machi juu Art in Kitakyushu 2008, Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka
RIC Art Capsule, Rokko Island, Kobe ('03-'07)

2009
Eco & Art, Gunma Museum of Art, Tatebayashi
KOBE Biennale 2009 Invited artists Exhibition:
LINK - Flexible Deviation, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of ArtFirst Passage, ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka

2010
Chiriki: Art imagenation in KOBE, Hyogo('06,'08)

ROBO Whale, 2008-09
"LINK - Flexible Deviation", Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, 2009


Electric Tricycle, 1994-2004
The three wheeler is powered by a 48volt-800watt electric motor.
photograph:Seiji Toyonaga


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