Mika Kato

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1975 Born in Mie, Japan
1999 B.F.A., Aichi Prefectual University of Arts and Music
2001 M.F.A., Aichi Prefectual University of Fine Art and Music
  Most Promoising Young Talent Prize, Fine Art Division of Gotoh Memorial Cultural Award
2004 Roppongi Crossing International Advisory Board Prize

Solo exhibition

2006
Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2005
White Cube, London, U.K.

2001- 2002
Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan

2000
"Canaria" Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Group exhibition

2011
"The Most Requested Top 30 / 10 Years of Takahashi Collection" TABLOID GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
"Taguchi Art Collection, Global New Art" Seiji Togo Memorial Sompo Japan Museum of Art、Tokyo, Japan

2010
"Garden of painting―Japanese Art of the 00s" NMAO: The National Museum of Art, Osaka、Osaka, Japan
"Trans-Cool Tokyo - Contemporary Japanese Art from MOT Collection" Singapore Art Museum, Singapore

2009
"In the Little Playground -Hitsuda Nobuya and his surrouding students-" Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art、Aichi, Japan / Nagoya City Art Museum、Aichi, Japan

2008
"Selections from the Hara Museum's Permanent Collection" Hara Museum of Contemporary Art、Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan(Mar 1 - Jun 1)
"neoteny japan: Contemporary Artists after 1990s from Takahashi Collection" KIRISHIMA OPEN-AIR MUSEUM, Kagoshima, Japan [touring Sapporo Art Park, Hokkaido, Japan, 2008-09 / The Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art、Niigata, Japan 2009 / Akita Museum of Modern Art、Akita, Japan 2009 / Yonago City Museum of Art、Tottori, Japan 2009-2010 / The Museum of Art EHIME、Ehime, Japan 2010 ]
"MOT Collection" Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

2007
"Selections from the Hara Museum's Permanent Collection" Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan

2006
"Idol!" Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan

2005
"Very Very Human" Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan
"Rising Sun, Melting Moon" The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel

2004
"ROPPONGI CROSSING" Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
"Mediaruna" The Govette-Brewester Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
"Officina Asia" Galleria d' Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy
"Fiction Love" MOCA Taipei, Taiwan

2003
"girls don't cry" Parco Museum Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
"New Generation Japanese Painters" Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
"Japan Rising" Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, FL, U.S.A.

2002
"Coloriage" Foundation Cartier pour l' art Contemporain, Paris, France
"Fragile Figures" Pallette Club, Tokyo, Japan

2001
"My Reality - Contemporary art and the Culture of Japanese Animation" (Toured in USA until 2004) Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines /Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY / Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH /Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL / Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago /Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH / Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL /Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA / Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL
CASINO 2001 Stedelijk Museum Voor Actuel Kunst Gent, Belgium

Public collection

MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART TOKYO, Kiyosumi, Tokyo, Japan
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan
Takahashi Collection

  • Mika Kato
  • 1975 Born in Mie, Japan

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