Motohide Takami’s work focuses on that which is truly frightening about the human heart. By evoking social phenomena in ways that evoke the distance that humans place between themselves and such occurrences, he draws the viewer’s attention to the dread born from our own indifference.
Profile
| Born in Ishikawa, Japan in 1986 Lives and works in Chiba, Japan |
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| 【Education】 | |
| 2012 | Received master’s degree at Tohoku University of Art and Design, Yamagata; specialized in culture and the arts, with a major in Western paintings |
| 2010 | Graduated from University of Toyama, Faculty of Art and Design, Fine Art and Craft |
| 【Selected Solo Exhibitions】 | |
| 2024 | Art Fair Tokyo “Motohide Takami: Fires on Another Shore” (SEIZAN Gallery Booth, Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo) |
| 2021 | Motohide Takami: Gazing at the Burning House of the Three Worlds (SEIZAN Gallery, Tokyo) |
| 2020 | Motohide Takami: Pay No Attention To The Rot (SEIZAN GALLERY TOKYO 凸, Tokyo) |
| 2019 | Motohide Takami: Fires On Another Shore (SEIZAN Gallery, New York) |
| 2018 | Motohide Takami: Taigan kara mieru Fūkei (JINEN GALLERY, Tokyo) |
| 2016 | Motohide Takami: Ishiki no Tozama (JINEN GALLERY, Tokyo) |
| 2015 | Motohide Takami: Tsugou no ii Fūkeitachi (JINEN GALLERY, Tokyo) |
| 2014 | Motohide Takami: Mitai monoshika Mienai (NICHE GALLERY, Tokyo) |
| 2013 | Motohide Takami: Utsushimoyou (SAN-AI GALLERY, Tokyo) |
| 2012 | Motohide Takami-ten (Gallery b. tokyo, Tokyo) |
| 【Selected Group Exhibitions】 | |
| 2023 | ART MIAMI (SEIZAN Gallery Booth, Miami, FL) VOLTA New York (SEIZAN Gallery booth, New York) Fluid Places (SEIZAN Gallery, New York) ROD GALLERY Group Exhibition “ROD Vol.2” (ROD GALLERY, Tokyo) |
| 2022 | PASSION!! (SEIZAN Gallery, Tokyo) The Way of Paintings 2022 (Sompo Museum of Art, Tokyo) Idemitsu Art Award 2022 (The National Art Center, Tokyo, Tokyo) |
| 2021 | FACE 2021 (Sompo Museum of Art, Tokyo) PLANETS (Nihombashi Mitsukoshi, Tokyo) JOKER (SEIZAN Gallery, Tokyo) |
| 2020 | Yairo no Mori no Art: Spin Off-ten (Ningyomachi Vision’s, Tokyo) Catenations (Tiger Strikes Asteroid、New York) ON THIS SHORE (SEIZAN Gallery, New York) A Single Ant Bite (SEIZAN Gallery, Tokyo; SEIZAN GALLERY TOKYO凸, Tokyo) |
| 2019 | LANDSCAPE (GALLERY TSUBAKI, Tokyo) FACE 2019: Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Art Award Exhibition (Seiji Togo Memorial Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Museum of Art, Tokyo) The 3rd Yairo no Mori Bijutsu-ten (Ikeda Art Museum, Niigata) Watashi no naka no Murakami Haruki (Gallery Echo-ann, Tokyo) |
| 2017 | ACT Art Award Exhibition 2017 (The Artcomplex Center of Tokyo, Tokyo) ACT Art Award Exhibition 2017: Winner’s Exhibition (The Artcomplex Center of Tokyo, Tokyo) |
| 2016 | KOWAII-ten V (Gallery 151A, Tokyo) GALLERY SELECTION-ten (Gallery b.Tokyo, Tokyo) Ikai yori Kokodewanai dokoka (Gallery Sugino, Tokyo) |
| 2015 | Gashou-ten (Gallery Kingyo, Tokyo) Engimono-ten (Gallery 151A, Tokyo) 2015 Autumn Ginza Art Dōbutsuen (YW Gallery, Tokyo) |
| 2014 | Tanzaku-ten (Arai Gallery, Art Data Bank, through 2015) |
| 2013 | Gallery b.Tokyo Gallery Selection (Gallery b.Tokyo, Tokyo) Kūsou Bijutsu Taishou-ten 2013 (Itochu Aoyama Art Square, Tokyo and Kyoto Zokyoudo Gallery, Kyoto) New City Art Fair Taipei (Songshan Cultural and Creative Park, Taiwan (ROC)) |
| 2012 | KOWAII-ten II (Art Data Bank, Tokyo) Derby-ten (Gallery n 0, Tokyo) Gallery SORA: Four Person Exhibition (Gallery SORA, Tokyo) |
| 2011 | Aozora DE Art @Gallery two-plus (Gallery two-plus, Tokyo) The 29th Ueno Royal Museum Grand Prize Exhibition (The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo) |
| 2010 | Graduate Exhibition at University of Toyama: GEIBUNI (Takaoka Art Museum, Toyama) University of Toyama, Faculty of Art and Design Gakusei sakuhin sougo kouryu-ten (Lahti Institute of Design and Fine Arts, Finland) The 8th Thumb Hole Awards Exhibition, Nishiwaki (Okanoyama Museum of Art, Nishiwaki, Hyogo) via art 2010 (Shinwa Art Museum, Tokyo) |
| 【Publications】 | |
| 2021 | Front page design of the book King of the Animals: Stories by Russell, Josh (2021) published by LSU Press |
| 2015 | Illustration for MONKEY Volume 25: Mississippi (from ‘The Watch’), Rick Bass (1989) Published by Switch Publishing Co., Ltd. |
| 【Awards】 | |
| 2022 | Eriko Kimura Award for the Idemitsu Art Award 2022 |
| 2021 | Honorable Mention for the FACE2021: Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Art Award |
| 2017 | Honorable Mention for the ACT Art Award Exhibition 2017 (The Artcomplex Center of Tokyo, Tokyo) |
| 2010 | Tatehata Award at the 1st graduate exhibition of the University of Toyama: GEIBUNI (University of Toyama, Toyama) |
Exhibitions
Art Fair Tokyo 2024 “Motohide Takami: Fires on Another Shore”
08/03/2024(fri) - 10/03/2024(sun)
PASSION!!
09/12/2022(fri) - 21/12/2022(wed)
Yukiko Hata, Yasushi Ikejiri, Shizuka Kanno, Mieko Noguchi, Shunsuke Ochi, ETE PIN, Asako Tabata, Kengo Takahashi, Motohide Takami, Takayoshi Terajima, Yohei Yashima
Motohide Takami: Gazing at the Burning House of the Three Worlds
24/09/2021(fri) - 02/10/2021(sat)
SEIZAN GALLERY & SEIZAN GALLERY TOKYO凸 A SINGLE ANT BITE
11/12/2020(fri) - 22/12/2020(tue)
Hiroyuki Aoyama, Yasushi Ikejiri, Sayaka Imai, Haruomi Yukiko Hata, Izumi, Emi Katsuta, Mao Kawasaki, Yoji Kumagai, Shunsuke Ochi, Akifumi Okuyama, Tomoaki Shimohira, Asako Tabata, Motohide Takami, Keitoku Toizumi, Koki Tsujimoto, Kaz Watabe, Yohei Yashima, Yuki Yatsu
SEIZAN GALLERY TOKYO 凸 MOTOHIDE TAKAMI: PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE ROT
04/11/2020(wed) - 13/11/2020(fri)