1970

Born in Kamakura-city, Japan

1995

Graduated from Sokei Academy of Fine Art and Design, Tokyo

1999-2000

Stay in Germany, granted by Gotoh Memorial Foundation

2002-2003

Stay in Germany, granted by Pola Art Foundation

2013

Stay in NYC, USA, granted by Asian Cultural Council

2020

Paintings & Sculptures, Galerie Tokyo Humanité, Tokyo

2015

"Gardian Angel - Taiyo Kimura" Ginza Maison Hermes, Tokyo *window display

2014

"Taiyo Kimura: 55 Bethune Street, NYC" ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka [ -'15]
“Taiyo Kimura” Sprout Curation, Tokyo, Japan

2012

“Taiyo Kimura ‒ new works” nca | nichido contemporary art, Tokyo, Japan
“Taiyo Kimura ‒ The milk-white darkness” Osaka Seikei University Gallery, Osaka, Japan

2008

“Taiyo Kimura, Propagation” Branch Gallery, North Carolina, USA

2007

“Japanada: A Cross-Cultural Curatorial Exchange, Part One Taiyo Kimura” Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, Canada

2005

“TAIYO KIMURA” Yokohama portside Gallery, Yokohama, Japan

2004

“TAIYO KIMURA ‒ Unpleasant Spaces” Wuerttembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany

1998

Gallery Yamaguchi, Tokyo, Japan (Also held in ʼ97 and in March, July, September ʼ96 )

1997

“TAIYO KIMURA” Gallery Point Kunitachi, Tokyo, Japan

1994

Kunitachi Art Hall, Tokyo, Japan

2018

15 Years, ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka

2017-18

Prospect.4: The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp, various locations, Prospect New Orleans, New Orleans, USA

2016

International Animation Exhibition - “Very Addictive-Re extension of Aesthetics in Daily Life”, Yinchuan Museum of Contemporary Art, China

2015

Osamu Kokufu: His Work and His Circle (Special exhibition), ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka
Warau Bijutsu, The Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki

2014

“SOUND VISION” Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, North Carolina, USA
“Systematic Paradox” VCFA Gallery, Vermont, USA
“¬ preference” (Held by the laboratory of Shinji Ohmaki at Tokyo University of the Arts), Gallery Shibuya Ginza, Tokyo, Japan
“Mixed Up!” Galerie Paris, Yokohama, Japan
“Gray” Sagacho Archive / Dragged out studio, Tokyo, Japan

2013

“Expo 1: New York” MoMA PS1, NYC (2013) / Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio, Brazil (2013-2014)
“SiteWork/HOPSCOTCH” Raleigh, NC
“Curate NYC 2013″ Gallery at 60 Bay NYC
“Constellations” NARS Foundation Gallery, NYC
“Borderline Collection 1″ “Borderline Collection 2″ 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
“The Garden” NARS Foundation Gallery, NYC
“Yebisu International Festival for Art Public⇄Diary” Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan

2012

“theatre of the world” Museum of Old and New Art,Tasmania, Australia (2012-2013) / La Maison Rouge Fondation
Antoine de Galbert, Paris France (2013-2014)
“Given/Lost” Sprout Curation, Tokyo, Japan
“Son et Lumière, et sagesse profonde” “Son et Lumière ‒ Material, Transition, Time” 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
“Gray” Kamiya Community Center / Beppu Art Month program, Beppu, Japan

2011

“MONANISM Opening Exhibition” Museum of Old and New Art,Tasmania, Australia
“OAP Sculpture Path 2011″ ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka, Japan
“Teleporters :Katsuhiro Saiki/ Taiyo Kimura” Maki Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan
“3 artists show” Kobayashi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
“Identity VII ‒ curated by Fumihiko Sumitomo-” nca | nichido contemporary art, Tokyo, Japan

2010

“The RECORD:Contemporary ARTand VINYL” Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, North Carolina, USA (2010) / The Institute of Contemporary Art/ Boston, USA (2011) / Miami Art Museum, Miami, USA (2012) / Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, USA (2012)
“The Big Wave / August In Art 2010″ Varna City Art Gallery, Varna, Bulgaria
“Sense of Reality” Water and Sculpture ICHIHARA, Chiba, Japan
“The Gotoh Memorial Foundation 20th Anniversary Exhibition Stream of Art” Bunkamura The Museum, Tokyo, Japan (also join in its 10th Anniversary in 2000 and 15th Anniversary in 2005)
“0 gms” whitesp ce g llery, Bankok, Thai
“0 gms drawer / Ivan Moudov” Stiftung Binz39, Zürich, Swiss

Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco, USA
Museum of Old and New Art Tasmania, Australia
Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, USA
Artsonje center, Seoul
21st Century of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama, Wakayama, Japan