Biography
Born in Fukuoka, Japan in 1965
Lives and works in Tokyo, Japan
Education
1988…
BA, Osaka University of Arts, Osaka, Japan
Selected Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions
2007…
"Matsukage×Kosuke Tsumura - Fantasy Mode to Order" Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2004…
"The Miracle Worker", Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2002…
"ECHO -The Hall of Mirrors", Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2000…
"STAR", Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
"Matsukage", Canvas International Art, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1997…
"Bijin-Ga Makoto Aida vs Hiroyuki Matsukage", Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1995…
"My Life", Rontegen Kunst Institut, Tokyo, Japan
Selected Group Exhibitions
2007…
"Have You Eaten Yet? - 2007 Asian Art Biennial" National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung,Taiwan (cat.)
2006…
"BELIEF", Singapore Biennale 2006, Singapore, Singapore (cat.)
2004…
"Officina Asia", Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy (cat.)
"FUSION: Architecture + Design in Japan", The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
"Mediarena : contemporary art from Japan", Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand (cat.)
2003…
"COME RALLY", Museo de Arte Contemporanea de Vigo, Vigo, Italy; ARTIUM, Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporaneo, Victoria, Spain
2002…
"Tokyo GlamRock", Shoreditch Gallery, London, UK; traveled to The Hot Bath Gallery, Bath, UK: 2003- The Morley Gallery, London, UK; Plymouth Arts Center, Plymouth, U.K
2001…
"Big in Japan", Cambridge Galleries,Toronto,Canada / The Liane and Danny Taran Gallery of the Saidye Bronfman Center for the Arts, Montreal, Quebec, Canada / The Gendai Gallery of the Japanese Canadian Cultural Center in Tronto, Canada (cat.)
"S(h)itting in the Mirror", Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2000…
"Voices from Japan - The Girl U Want!", CBK Leiden, Netherlands
1996…
"Gaze & Perspective- 2", Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Performance
Selected Solo Exhibitions as Complesso Plastico
1993…
"Everybody knows NEWLIFE / Nobody knows NEWLIFE", Nanba City Hall, Osaka, Japan
1991…
"REALIZE - Everything will come to its maturity, in Radical Chip", Japan Festival'91, Old Library Gallery, Cadiff, U.K.
Selected Group Exhibitions as Complesso Plastico
1995…
"Art is Fun 6: Mechazone", Hara Museum ARC, Gunma, Japan
"90's Japan Media Art Scene", Fukuyama Museum, Hiroshima, Japan
"909-Anormaly 2", Rontegen Kunst Institut, Tokyo, Japan
1990…
"Beyond the Photographic Frame - 11 Recent Works", ATM Contemporary Art Gallery, Ibaraki, Japan
"La Biennale di VENEZIA, APERTO '90", Corderie dell 'Arsenale, Venezia, Italy
Selected Group Exhibitions as GORGEROUS
2004…
"XO", Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
2002…
"Tokyo GlamRock", Shoreditch Gallery, London, UK; traveled to The Hot Bath Gallery, Bath, UK: 2003- The Morley Gallery, London, UK; Plymouth Arts Center, Plymouth, U.K
2001…
"JAM: London-Tokyo", Barbican Gallery, London, U.K: 2002-traveled to Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
"Tokyo Life" Selfridge, London, U.K.
2001…
"ROCKTOBER", Tokyo, Japan
"The J-Way", Lydmar Hotel, Stockholm, Sweden
