高田冬彦
Fuyuhiko TAKATA
Born in 1987 in Hiroshima, Japan
Currently lives and works in Chiba
profile photo by cyndixxx, courtesy of Muuseo
WORKS EXHIBITIONS NEWS CV

WORKS

  • Solo Exhibition “Cut Pieces”
    2023
    installation view
    Venue: WAITINGROOM (Tokyo) / Photo by Shintaro Yamanaka (Qsyum!)
  • Cut Suits
    2023
    single channel video with sound, 6min. 12sec.
  • The Butterfly Dream
    2022
    single channel video with sound, 4min. 37sec.
  • NADA Miami 2022
    2021
    installation view
    Venue: Ice Palace Studio (Miami, US)/ Photo by Teri Romkey
  • Dangling Training
    2021
    single channel video with sound, 1min. 36sec.
  • Group Exhibition "Lost in Translation"
    2021
    installation view

    Venue: @KCUA (Kyoto) / Photo by Tomonori Nakai
  • Solo Exhibition "LOVE PHANTOM 2”
    2021
    installation view
    Venue: WAITINGROOM (Tokyo) / Photo by Shintaro Yamanaka (Qsyum!)
  • The Princess and the Magic Birds
    2020-2021
    single channel video with sound, 17min.27sec.
    video still
  • 1001 seconds
    2020
    single channel video with sound, 2min.52sec.
    video still
  • Self-portrait as a Red Bird
    2020
    single channel video with sound, 1min.35sec.
    video still
  • Exercises for new sexual organs #1 Firefly
    2019
    single channel video with sound, 5min.21sec. (Whole durations for #1-3)
    video still  Collaborator:Kazuki Fujita
  • Exercises for new sexual organs #2 Stretching Calvin
    2019
    single channel video with sound, 5min.21sec. (Whole durations for #1-3)
    video still  Collaborator:Kazuki Fujita
  • Exercises for new sexual organs #3 Deflating Ball
    2019
    single channel video with sound, 5min.21sec. (Whole durations for #1-3)
    video still  Collaborator:Kazuki Fujita
  • Dream Catcher
    2018
    single channel video with sound, 5min.32sec.
    Solo Exhibition "Dream Catcher" installation view / Venue: Alternative Space Core (Hiroshima) / Photo by Kenichi Asano
  • Dream Catcher
    2018
    single channel video with sound, 5min.32sec.
    video still
  • Love Phantom
    2017
    single channel video with sound, 1min.
    video still
  • Cambrian Explosion
    2016
    single channel video with sound, 2min.35c.
    video still
  • Afternoon of a Faun
    2015-2016
    single channel video with sound, 5min.27sec.
    video still
  • Ghost Painting
    2015
    single channel video with sound, 2min.44sec.
    video still
  • STORYTELLING
    2014
    single channel video with sound, 6min.33sec.
    video still
  • TOP OF THE MOTHERS
    2014
    photography, dimension variable
  • WE ARE THE WOMEN
    2013
    single channel video with sound, 24min.28sec.
    video still
  • LOVE EXERCISE
    2013
    single channel video with sound, 13min.8sec.
    video still
  • VENUS ANAL TRAP
    2012
    single channel video with sound, 2min.40sec.
    video still
  • MANY CLASSIC MOMENTS
    2011
    single channel video with sound, 3min.17sec.
    video still
  • JAPAN ERECTION
    2010
    single channel video with sound, 2min.8sec.
    video still
  • LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!
    2009
    single channel video with sound, 3min.34sec.
    video still
  • Strong Child
    2008
    performance, installation, single channel video with sound, 3min.30sec.
  • Great Stone Project
    2007-
    Found rocks, video recordings of performances and events, etc.
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NEWS

CV

EDUCATION
2017

Tokyo University of the Arts, Ph.D., Oil Painting

2013

Tokyo University of the Arts, Master’s degree, Oil Painting

2011

Tokyo Zokei University, Bachelor’s degree, Photography

2007

Graduated from Bigakko School

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023

Cut Pieces, WAITINGROOM, Tokyo, Japan

2021

LOVE PHANTOM 2, WAITINGROOM, Tokyo, Japan

2019

Fuyuhiko Takata Solo Exhibition, ViZ Laboratory for Visual Culture, Athens, Greece
MAM Screen011: Takata Fuyuhiko, MORI ART MUSEUM, Tokyo, Japan

2018

Dream Catcher, Alternative Space CORE, Hiroshima, Japan

2017

LOVE PHANTOM, Art Center Ongoing, Tokyo, Japan

2016

STORYTELLING, Kodama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2014

MY FANTASIA II, Art Center Ongoing, Tokyo, Japan

2013

MY FANTASIA, Kodama Gallery, Kyoto, Japan

2012

VENUS ANAL TRAP, Art Center Ongoing, Tokyo, Japan

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024

Art Basel Hong Kong, Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre , Hong Kong

SPRING SHOW, WAITINGROOM, Tokyo

2023

Fairy Tales, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
Yatsugatake Art Ecology 2023, Hokuto City, Yamanashi, Japan
MAD SPRING, Kanda & Oliveira, Chiba, Japan
Unmanned Arc (Study: Osaka Kansai International Art Festival 2023 Exhibition Program), Grand Front Osaka Umekita SHIP Hall, Osaka, Japan

2022

Storymakers in Contemporary Japanese Art, The Japan Foundation Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Exercise in Unlocking Heteronormativity, part II, UltraSuperNew Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2021

Lost in Translation, @KCUA, Kyoto, Japan
shelter - Art Collection by HIMEMOTO, Susaki Machikado Gallery / Former Miura House, Kochi, Japan
EMAF (European Media Art Festival), ONLINE
Emotional Rescue – Mitsuhiro Ikeda, Fuyuhiko Takata, Wisut Ponnimit, AL, Tokyo, Japan

2020

When It Waxes and Wanes, VBKÖ, Vienna, Austria

2019

Impossible Human, TAV GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan

2018

TERATOTERA Festival 2018, Around JR Mitaka Station, Tokyo, Japan

2017

SPRING FEVER, Komagome SOKO, Tokyo, Japan

2016

MOT Annual 2016 Loose Lips Save Ships, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

2015

Super Body Maniac, Kodama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
現在幽霊画展, TAV GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan

2014

Drawing03 – preference -, Shibutani Garou, Tokyo, Japan

2013

II TENKI group show with Japanese artists, WILLEM BAARS PROJECT, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Memento Mori: Eros & Thanatos, Shirokane Art Complex, Tokyo, Japan

2011

EMERGING/MASTER 1 – AIDA Makoto: Be it Art or not Art, Tokyo Wonder Site Hongo, Tokyo

2010

NEO NEW WAVE, island, Chiba, Japan

SELECTED SCREENINGS
2023

ART WEEK TOKYO VIDEO ” WOMAN WAS THE SUN”, SMBC East Tower 1F, Tokyo, Japan
“TAMAKI -eastern film promises-“, Kyoto city KYOCERA Museum of Art, Kyoto / Taipei, Taiwan
Takao Kawaguchi ”Rosentanz: Critique of Pure Sexualization”, Film Program ”A Vein of Japanese "Camp" ", ROHM Theatre Kyoto, Kyoto / NAHA CULTURAL ARTS THEATER NAHArt, Okinawa

2022

"Festival of the Fantastic" Fairy-Tale Video Art by Fuyuhiko Takata: Screening + Conversation with Fuyuhiko Takata, Kanagawa University, Minato Mirai Campus, Kanagawa, Japan
1970s - 2010s: A Vein of Japanese "Camp" Michio Okabe + Fuyuhiko Takata, Goethe-Institut Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest Presents, Fringe! Shorts: The Wondrous Worlds of Fuyuhiko Takata, RICH MIX, London, UK
Queer East Film Festival, Barbican Cinema 2, London, UK

2018

Bodyscapes:new film and video from Japan, Fabrica, Brighton, UK etc.

2016

The National Film Theater Okutama – The Scream of the Forest -, The National Museum of Art Okutama, Tokyo, Japan

2011

TERATOTERA Festival 2011 -post-, Kichijoji Baus Theater, Tokyo, Japan

OTHER PROJECTS
2018

[theatrical productions in collaboration with Satoko Ichihara (Q)] “CHITEIYOUSEI”, Waseda Dorama-kan Theatre, Tokyo, Japan

2017

[theatrical productions in collaboration with Satoko Ichihara (Q)] “CHITEIYOUSEI”, SCOOL, Tokyo, Japan

2015

[art project about dance and video / screening / talk] BONUS The Second Super Connect Creation “Afternoon of a Faun”, Vacant, Tokyo, Japan

CATALOGUES
FAIRY TAILES IN ART AND FILM, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, December 2023
Storymakers in Contemporary Japanese Art Exhibition Catalogue, The Japan foundation, 20 October 2022
Our Feardom of Expression and Internalization of Censorship, ARTIST’S GUILD/NPO Arts Commons Tokyo, May 2016
ARTICLES
”New Currents: Objects of Our Emotions”, Art Asia Pacific ISSUE 137, MAR/APR 2024, / https://artasiapacific.com/issue/new-currents-objects-of-our-emotions?locale=en
“Art Basel Hong Kong 2024 | 專訪日本藝術家高田冬彥,走進「莊周夢蝶」啟發的奇幻世界”, Vogue Hong Kong, 1st March 2024 / https://www.voguehk.com/zh/article/art-lifestyle/fuyuhiko-takata-interview/
“Art Basel Hong Kong 2024: Here are 8 up-and-coming artists to look out for at this year’s fair”, Tatler Asia, 27th February 2024, https://www.tatlerasia.com/lifestyle/arts/art-basel-hong-kong-emerging-asian-artists-2024
Art This Year: Nakamura Fumiko (Curator, Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka) Selects Three Exhibitions for 2023," Mainichi Newspaper, Mainichi Newspapers, December 25, 2023, p. 3
Yuzu Murakami "Experts' Top 3 Exhibitions of 2023: Yuzu Murakami (Photography Research / Art Criticism)," web Bijutsu Techo, Culture Convenience Club, 25 December 2023, https://bijutsutecho.com/magazine/series/s73/28198
Mugi Misawa “Positively perceiving and accepting "division". What does the newly launched "Yamanashi International Arts Festival" show us?”, web Bijutsu Techo, Culture Convenience Club, 8 November 2023, https://bijutsutecho.com/magazine/news/report/28032
Toshie Oowada “The "division" gave birth to rich diversity and solidarity! ?What is the message of the first "Yamanashi International Arts Festival"?”, Casa BRUTUS, Magazine House, 1 November 2023, https://casabrutus.com/categories/art/380978
[On View] “ART WEEK TOKYO”, Flash Art, Flash Art, 25 October 2023, https://flash---art.com/2023/10/art-week-tokyo/Photo Report “Fuyuhiko Takata: Cut Pieces” ARTiT, ART iT Co., Ltd,18 October 2023,
https://www.art-it.asia/en/top_e/admin_expht_e/241116/
Kenta Yamasaki ”Fuyuhiko Takata ”Cut Pieces” ”, artscape Review, DNP art communications,15 October 2023,
https://artscape.jp/report/review/10187961_1735.html
Souya Handa, “Fuyuhiko Takata "Cut Pieces" Review. Or, A Fan Letter to Fuyuhiko Takata”, Tokyo Art Beat, Art Beat, Inc., https://www.tokyoartbeat.com/articles/-/fuyuhiko-takata-cut-pieces-review-202309
Léon Kruijswijk, BODY POLITICS: ON MASCULINITY Volime1, KING KONG Magazine, March 2023, pp.70-79
Shiho Nakamura “Difficult to understand? Can I just enjoy it? Contemporary art video works, in fact, can be this interesting!”, Precious, Shogakukan, January 2023, p.288
Harrison Jacobs “The Beat Booths at NADA Miami 2022”, ARTnews, Art Media, LLC, 1 December 2022, https://www.artnews.com/list/art-news/market/nada-miami-2022-best-booths-1234648715/fuyuhiko-takata-at-waitingroom/
Rechel Summer Small ”Astroturf and Nostalgia Are on Display at the 20th Edition of NADA Miami”, Cultured Mag, Cultuerd Magazine, 1 December 2022, https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2022/12/01/nada-art-fair-2022-miami
Junya Yamamine “Music can be heard. Fuyuhiko Takata solo exhibition “LOVE PHANTOM 2” reviewed by Junya Yamamine”, web Bijutsu Techo, Culture Convenience Club, 14 December 2021, https://bijutsutecho.com/magazine/review/24720
Shiho Nakamura “Interview with artist Fuyuhiko Takata: ‘I think there is a fundamental, almost frightening, "laughter" that turns one's very existence upside down.’”, Tokyo Art Beat, Art Beat, Inc., 27 November 2021, https://www.tokyoartbeat.com/articles/-/fuyuhiko_takata_interview
Yasuhiro Arai “The impossibility of "translation" leads us to the future. Exhibition review by Yasuhiro Arai "Lost in Translation”, web Bijutsu Techo, Culture Convenience Club, 21 October 2021, https://bijutsutecho.com/magazine/review/24693
Miwa Taguchi [interviewer], Ichiro Fukano [moderator], Mei Fujita [text] “In Search of the Ideal Ridiculousness, Take 40: Fuyuhiko Takata's Love of Imperfection Hidden in Straight Sexual Expression”, MUUSEO SQUARE, Muuseo Inc., 8 April 2020, https://muuseo.com/square/articles/1315
Daisuke Miyatsu “A sharp critical spirit for the times hidden in slapstick expressions focusing on sex”, Art Collectors, No.128, Seikatsu no Tomo Sha, November 2019
Taisuke Shimanuki [interviewer], Satoko Ichihara [text] ”Beyond the hassle of self-consciousness and conflict.”, Bijutsu Techo, No.1072, Bijutsu Shuppan Sha, October 2018 special issue, p.76
Chie Sumiyoshi ”Selfie Reveals Hesitation and Embarrassment”, Art Collectors, No.109, Seikatsu no Tomo Sha, April 2018, p.28
Andrew Maerkle “[Review] Fuyuhiko Takata KODAMA GALLERY” ARTFORUM, September 2016, p.385 / https://www.artforum.com/print/reviews/201607/fuyuhiko-takata-63058
“My Favorite Art" Special Feature: Makoto Aida, POPEYE, No.836, Magazine House, December 2016, p.107
Ren Fukuzumi “The Body of Anarchism”, Bijutsu Techo, No.1038, Bijutsu Shuppan Sha, July 2016, p.176
Tamaki Sugihara [edit] “SPECIAL FEATURE: MOT Annual 2016 Loose Lips Save Ships–Art and Self-Regulation, as Told by the Organizers and Participating Artists”, Bijutsu Techo, No.1037, Bijutsu Shuppan Sha, June 2016, p.107
“Curated Showdown of New Generation Artists!!  Ryuta Ushiro (Chim↑Pom) x Yohei Kurose (CHAOS*LOUNGE)”, Bijutsu Techo, No.1021, Bijutsu Shuppan Sha, May 2015, p.35
“A Vision Born from a Six-Mat Room” Bijutsu Techo, No. 998, ART NAVI, Bijutsu Shuppan Sha, January 2014, p.9
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
HBC Global Art Collection
Takahashi Ryutaro Collection
The Taguchi Art Collection
Jean Pigozzi Collection
S-HOUSE Museum
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