Biography

1970

Born in Kyoto

1993

BA (Sculpture), Kyoto City University of Arts, Kyoto

1995

MA (Sculpture), Kyoto City University of Arts, Kyoto

Selected Awards

2022

Grand Prize (KUKAN of the Year) at KUKAN Design Award

2021

Good Lighting Award
34th Kyoto Fine Arts Cultural Award

2020

Grand Prize (AACA Prize) at 30th AACA Award

2018

Special Jury Prize at Lighting Design Award
Excellence Prize at 28th AACA Award (Japan Association Of Artists Craftsmen & Architects)

2017

Good Lighting Award (also awarded in 2016)

2015

Exellence Prize at DSA Design Award

2010

Kyoto City Newcomer Artist Award

2008

Encouragement Award at Kyoto Prefecture Cultural Awards

2005

Grand Prize at the Kyoto Prefecture Art and Craft Selection Exhibition
Most Promising Young Talent Prize in Fine Art Division at the Gotoh Memorial Cultural Awards
Good Design Award (Environmental Design Section)

1995

Grand Prize at the Kirin Contemporary Awards

Selected Public Installations / Commissioned Works

2020

Facade lighting for Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art (Permanent)

2017

Hikariori (Weaving Light), Echigo-Tsumari Auditorium・Tokamachi Central Community Center "Danjuro”, Niigata (Permanent)

2016

Veil of Sliky Light, Wacoal New Kyoto Building, Kyoto (Permanent)

2015

Meeting with Shadow Play, Hamamatsu Machinaka Art, JR Hamamatsu station, Shizuoka

2010

Color Globe, Global Center, Aichi
Prism Liquid, Milano Salone, Canon NELREAL 2010, La Triennale di Milan

2008

Fragments of Color Cubes, Towada Art Center, Aomori (Permanent)