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Motohiro Tomii1973-

paper work (post-it) - wall piece - #2
title: paper work (post-it) - wall piece - #2
medium: post-it, paste
paper work (post-it) - wall piece - #1
title: paper work (post-it) - wall piece - #1
medium: post-it, paste
four color carpets
title: four color carpets
size: 55 x 40 x 320 cm
medium: carpet tile

  • paper work (post-it) - wall piece - #2
  • paper work (post-it) - wall piece - #1
  • four color carpets

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Motohiro Tomii1973-

Born in Niigata in 1973, he creates artworks from materials that one is familiar with in everyday life such as carpet, ball, and post-it and combine these according to his sensibility by featuring their distinctive characters in size, colour and textures, and images. All of his artworks reveal his original vision on how artworks ought to be in relation to materials.

Biography
1973 Born in Niigata, Japan.
1997 BA Fine Art (Sculpture), Musashino Art University / Tokyo, Japan
1999 MA Fine Art (Sculpture), Musashino Art University (Excellent Graduates) / Tokyo, Japan
The 4th contest for the best contemporary art work 2000 Grand Prix
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Solo Exhibitions
2011 “taking bump”switch point / Tokyo
“5×14” NADiff Window Gallery / Tokyo
“Placing Colors and Shapes” Radi-um von Röntgenwerke AG / Tokyo
2010 “ball pipe ball” Tamagawa University Tamagawa Art Gallery Projects / Tokyo
“STACK” NADiff Gallery / Tokyo
“Works” NADiff a/p/a/r/t / Tokyo
“catch as catch can ” GENDAI HEIGHTS Gallery DEN / Tokyo
2009 “New works” switch point / Tokyo
“Paper works” Art Center OnGoing / Tokyo
“copy boy” Gallery Gen / Tokyo
2008“Time to See” switch point / Tokyo
“Color and form in usual objects” Play Room (Toru Nakazaki + Endo Mizuki) / Ibaraki
“Temporary=Permanent Exhibition” ARCUS Studio / Ibaraki
2007“Time to See” Musashino Art University Museum and Library, Folklore Archive Gallery / Tokyo
“αM Project - On the Trail vol.2” art space kimura ASK? / Tokyo
“Circles and Rectangles” switch point / Tokyo
“How to Make the World” art & river bank / Tokyo
2006“Re-Meet” switch point / Tokyo
“Solo Show” Gallery Gen / Tokyo
2005“Nap-like” Toru Nakazaki Playroom / Tokyo
“How to make a blank” U8 Projects / Aichi
“Solo Show” CAS / Osaka
“Usual Things” switch point / Tokyo
2004“baggage” switch point / Tokyo
“THE COVER” ZaGallery Ariake / Tokyo
2003“Up above the world” art & river bank / Tokyo
2002“Neighbor Dreams” Naruse Bijutsuza / Tokyo
“Peripheral and Marginal” Moris Gallery / Tokyo
“Forward, Rewind,” ZaGallery Ariake / Tokyo
2001“The way things are” Makii Masaru Fine Arts / Tokyo
“Be” Ai Gallery / Tokyo
2000“Obvious” Moris Gallery(The 4th contest for the best contemporary art work 2000 Grand Prix Exhibition) / Tokyo
“Monologue” Shomeido Gallery / Tokyo
1999“Smoke’s Dot” Gallery Gen / Tokyo
“An Invisible Room” GALERIA RASEN / Tokyo
“An Object-form” Naruse Bijutsuza / Tokyo
1998“Daily Shapes” Gallery Gen / Tokyo
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Group Exhibitions
2011“ART & PRODUCT” Ai Kowada Gallery/ Tokyo
“Okayama Art Corridor” Okayama Korakuen Garden / Okayama
“Re-Modernologio phase2: Observation and notation” Aomori Contemporary Art Centre / Aomori
“The Yanase Villa Art Education Project” Yanase Villa /Saitama
“CATCH THE LIGHT” Nagoya Boston Museum of Fine Arts,/ Tokyo
“Tokorozawa Biennial of Contemporary Art SIDING RAIL ROAD 2011”
Tokorozawa City Lifelong Learning Promotion Center, Former Tokorozawa School Lunch Center Number Two/ Saitama
“Yokohama Triennale ‘Our Magic Hour’ How much of the world can we know ? ”
Yokohama Museum of Art, NYK-Waterfront Warehouse (BankART Studio NYK) and the surrounding areas/ Kanagawa
“New Objects” Motohiro Tomii+Yuken Teruya” Old walk pavilion
(Planned construction location for Maebashi City Museum of Art)/Gunma
“Summer Camp for Sculpture, Earth bound” Mercian Karuizawa Art Museum / Nagano
“Motohiro Tomii + Fuminao Suenaga” switch point / Tokyo
“MOT Annual 2011 Nearest Faraway” Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo / Tokyo
“A POSSIBLE DIMENSION” PANTALOON / Osaka
2010“The weather and all one's life” ASAHI ART SQUARE / Tokyo
2009“The 1st Tokorozawa Biennial of Contemporary Art -SIDING RAIL ROAD 2009”
Seibu Railway Old Tokorozawa Vehicle Plant / Saitama
“Attempt 2 -Tokuzo Yabitsu, Yasuhide Kuge, Motohiro Tomii, Jumbo Suzuki” Museum Haus Kasuya / Kanagawa
“Inside Outline - Motohiro Tomii + Yuki Okumura” KABEGIWA / Tokyo
“Metamorphosis - Objects Today - Exhibition vol.2
Motohiro Tomii × Nobuhiro Nakanishi - Transmutable Objects” Gallery αM / Tokyo
“Renewal” Musashino Art University Museum and Library / Tokyo
“Kabegiwa” GENDAI HEIGHTS Gallery Den / Tokyo
2008“BROKEN” TIME & STYLE MIDTOWN / Tokyo
“5 × 5” Bankokubashi Gallery / Yokohama
“Art Program Ome 2008 - Atmospheric Perspective, U-39” Ome Fabric Industrial Facility / Tokyo
“New Balance” gallery Archipelago / Tokyo
“DRAWING” TIME & STYLE MIDTOWN / Tokyo
2007“New Vision Saitama Ⅲ - 7eyes × 7methods” The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama / Saitama
“pre” switch point / Tokyo
“Kabegiwa” KABEGIWA / Tokyo
2006“Standard Skill” KABEGIWA / Tokyo
“Color and Form” KABEGIWA / Tokyo
2005“12 DIVERS AT THE MOUNTAIN GATE” Old Yamaguchi Shoes Shop / Tokyo
“MATERIAL MIXTURE” node cube / Tokyo
“The Camp for preparing Issue No.0 of The Mountain of Art, Three Dimensional Section“ NADiff / Tokyo
“cat’s heaven...!” gallery Archipelago / Tokyo
“Constellation of Art 2005” Gallery Kumai / Tokyo
“Towards Azakai - Forms of Narrow Path” Nagakute Cultural Center/ Aichi
“Fukagawa HO-BO Art 2” Fukagawa Edo Museums Shopping Street / Tokyo
2004“conran show” OKADA STUDIO / Aichi
“floating scale - A tour about scale” Gakushoku 2nd Floor / Aichi
“space” U8 Projects / Aichi
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