Born in Kobe City, Japan 1967
Studied at Kyoto University of Fine Art (MA : 1990)
Lives in Kyoto
2001 "My Grandmothers" Kodama Gallery, Osaka
2000 "My Grandmothers" Art Space Niji, Kyoto
Galerie Almine Rech
1999 "Midnight Dream Awakening" Kodama Gallery, Osaka
1998 18th Street Arts Complex, Santa Monica
Art Space Niji, Kyoto
1997 "Elevator Girl House" Gallery Aoi, Osaka
Criterium 31 / Contemporary Art Museum, Art Tower Mito, Mito
"Elevator Girl House" Gallery Muramatsu, Tokyo
1996 Gallery MOCA, Nagoya
1994 "Looking for the next story" Gallery Sowaka, Kyoto
1993 "The White Casket" Art Space Niji, Kyoto
2000 "Japanese medium light" Monte Video, Amsterdam
"Department Store of Contemporary Art" Yamanashi Prefectural Museum
"Elysian Fields" Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
"Freeze" Espaco Cultural Sergio Porto, Rio de Janeiro
1999 "A Sense of Reality" Utsunomiya Museum of Art, Utsunomia
"Looking for a Place" 3rd. International Biennial / Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe
"Fancy Dance" Art Sonje Center, Seoul
"Signs of Life" Melbourne International Biennial, Melbourne
"A Window Inside Outside" Kwangju City Art Museum, Kwangju, Korea
"Visions of the Body: Fashion or Invisible Corset" The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto (Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo)
The Vision of Comtemporary Art '98 / The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo
1998 "Tastes and Pursuits, Japanses Art in the 1990s" National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi (Metropolitan Museum of Manila)
"Technotherapy produced by Yasumasa Morimura" Nakanoshima Public Hall, Osaka
"Between the Unknown Straits, Korea and Japan in Now Art" Meguro Museum of Arts, Tokyo (The National Museum of Art Osaka / The Korean Cultuer & Arts Foundation, Art Center)
Max Mara Japan Art Collection / Max Mara Japan, Tokyo
"Japanese Women Photography" Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY
Taipei Bienneal / Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei
"Architecture and the Modern Mask" Galerie Wohn Maschine, Berlin
"Subterranean" Nikko Gallery, Tokyo
First prize winner of Leopold Godoesky Jr.Color Photography Awards / Photographic Resource Center at Boston University, Boston
1997 "Legende" Centre Regional d'Art Contemporain Sete, France
"Cities on the Move" Secession, Vienna (CAPC, Bordeaux)
"Moment Ginza" Forgfabriken , Stockholm
"Du Construit, Du Paysage" Centre Regional d'Art Contemporain Sete, France
"Future Recollections" Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto
"Lust und leere japanische photographie der gegenwart" Kunsthall Wine, Vienna (Arken Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen / Kunsthalle zu Kiel)
1996 "Oh,My 'Japanese Landscapes'?" Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka
Prospect '96 / Schirn Kunsthall Frankfurt, Frankfurt
1995 Contemporary Art From Galleries '95 / Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Osaka
1994 Art Now '94 / Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe
1993 Kyoto Arts Festival '93 / Murinan Hermitage, Kyoto
Amway Collection, Tokyo
Caldic Collection, Rotterdam
Estee Lauder Collection, New York
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Max Mara Art Collection, Milano
The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
New School University, New York
Tokushima Municipal Museum of Modern Art, Tokushima