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Profile
| 1955 | Born in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan |
| 1986 | Completed postgraduate course at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music |
| 1987 `88 | Art Residency at P.S.I Institute for Art and Urban Resources, New York (on a scholarship by Asian Cultural Council) |
| 1993 | Received a Dunedin Artists in Residence grant (sponsored by the Queen Ellizabeth II Arts Council of New Zealand) |
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Solo Exhibitions
| 1982 | Gallery Parergon, Tokyo |
| 1984 | Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo |
| 1986 | Lunami Galley, Tokyo |
| 1987 | Ai Galley, Tokyo |
| 1988 | Open Studio P.S.I, New York Lunami Gallery, Tokyo |
| 1989 | Gallery NW House, Tokyo Franklin Furnace, New York |
| 1990 | Gallery Kobayashi, Tokyo |
| 1992 | Lunami Gallery, Tokyo Gallery Q, Tokyo |
| 1993 | Gallery Kobayashi, Tokyo Lake District Museum, Allowtown, New Zealand Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand |
| 1995 | SAI Gallery, Osaka |
| 1996 | Gallery Te, Tokyo |
| 1997 | INDEX Gallery, Osaka Galleria Finarte, Nagoya |
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Grooup Exhibitions
| 1985 | "Kunst mit Eigen-Sinn" Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Vienna, Austria "Japanese Autumn '85" Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Aalborg, Denmark "Continuum '85" Gerstman Abdallah Fine Art International, Melbourne, Australia |
| 1986 | "The 6th Triennale-India 1986" Lalit Kala Akademy Rabindra Bhaven, New Delhi, India "Art Today-Dialogue with Asia Message from Japan" ICA Nagoya, Japan |
| 1987 | "Mono-ha and Post Mono-ha" The Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo |
| 1988 | "The 6th Annual Studio Artist Exhibition" P.S.I, U.S.A. "Centro Culturalea Arte Contemporanea Italia-Giappone" Galleria d'Arte Niccoli, Parma, Italy "Painting Part 2" The museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan |
| 1989 | "Painting and Writing : Lettering to be Painted / Painting to be Written" Hokkaido Hakodate Museum of Art, Hokkaido, Japan "Against Nature : Japanese Art in the Eighties" [toured in U.S.A. till 1991] |
| 1990 | "The Game of Manners : Japanese Art in 1990" Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Ibaragi, Japan "Woman Artists of the Day" IMP Hall, Osaka "The International Art Show for the End of the World Hunger" Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo "Japan Art Today" [toured in Northern Europe till 1991] |
| 1991 | "The 7th Art Now" The Museum of Fine Arts Gifu, Japan "Zones of Love - Contemporary Art from Japan" [after preview at Touko Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, toured in Australia and New Zealand till 1992] |
| 1992 | "Shiga Annual '92" The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Japan |
| 1994 | "Japan : the nature of now" Spirit Square Center for Art and Education, Charlote, U.S.A. |
| 1995 | "Circulating Currents - Japanese and Korean Contemporary Art" Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art / Nagoya City Art Museum, Japan "Artists in Yokohama '95" Yokohama Citizens' Gallery, Japan "'95 Kwangju Biennale : Beyond the Border" Kwangju Biennale Exhibition Hall, Kwangju, Korea "INAZAWA Present and Future(3) Forest of Image" Inazawa City Oguiss Memorial Art Museum, Japan |
| 1996 | "NOW HERE" Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark "SPIRITUAL FRAGMENT DRAWING LETTERS IN ART" Hokkaido Hakodate Museum of Art, Hokkaido |
| 1997 | "GINZA GALLERY NET '97, Post Womanhood" Gallery te, Tokyo |
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Literatures
| O'brien, Rodony "Gallery : In Character : Kaoru Hirabayashi," INTERSECT, May, 1987 |
| Mcgill, Douglas "Art People, Japanese Influence," The New York Times, March 4, 1988 |
| O'brien, Rodony "Yenless Artists Struggle as Society Thrives," INTERSECT, June, 1989 |
| Koplos, Janet "REVIEW OF EXHIBITION," Art in America, December, 1989 |
| Koplos, Janet "Some Kind of Revolution ?" essay, Art America, May, 1992 |
| Tylor, Linda "Public Practice," exhibition catalogue, South Island Art Projects, 1993 |
| Tylor, Linda "KOTOTAMA-The Word Spirit," exhibition catalogue essay, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, 1993 |
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