Tam Ochiai

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1967 Born in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
1990 B.A., Wako University, Japan
1993 M.A., New York University, New York, NY, USA
  Lives and Works in New York

Solo exhibition

2010
"spies are only revealed when they get caugh" WATARIUM Museum, Tokyo, Japan

2008
"Tiam O'Shian IV" Team Gallery, New York, USA

2007
"scratching, blood or cat carving" Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo

2006
"occhialli & libreli" Arndt & Partner Zurich, Switzerland

2005
Galerie Lisa Ruyter, Vienna, Austria
"tail (exercises in punctuation)" Team Gallery, New York

2004
Galeria Francesca Kaufmann, Milan
"mystery of tail" Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
"maroon drawing" Aoi Gallery, Osaka, Japan

2001
"Installation No.8" Dorothee De Pauw Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
"august" Team Gallery, New York
"foreskir" Ardnt and Partner, Berlin, Germany

2000
"inavgurazione" Galleria Francesca Kaufmann, Milan, Italy
Team Gallery, New York

1999
"Madeleine" Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo

1997
Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Team Gallery, New York

1996
Jose Freire Fine Art, New York

1995
Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Ibaragi, Japan

1993
Jose Freire Fine Art, Project Room, New York
Washington 80 Galleries, New York

Group exhibition

2011
"MOT Collection / Silent narrator: on plural stories" Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Collection Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Yokohama Triennale 2011, "Our Magic Hour" Yokohama Museum of Art, NYK Waterfront Warehouse(BankART Studio NYK), Kanagawa, Japan

2009
"Winter Garden:The Exploration of the Micropop Imagination in Contemporary Japanese Art", Curated by Midori Matsui, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan [touring Japanisches Kulturinstitut, Cologne, Germany, 2009 / The Japan Foundation, Tronto, Tronto, Canada, 2010 / Galeri'a Arnold Belkin, Museo Universitario del Chopo、Mexico City, Mexico, 2011]

2007
"The Door into Summer" ART TOWER MITO, Mito, Ibaraki, Japan

2006
"10th Anniversary" Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo

2005
"Flashback" Kunstverein Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
"25 Years Deutsche Bank Collection" Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin
"Honeymoon with Romeo" Groeflin Maag Galerie, Basel, Switzerland
"Works on Paper" Arndt & Partner Berlin

2004
"Yoshitomo Nara, Tam Ochiai, Hiroshi Sugito: New Prints" Space Force, Tokyo
"New Generation Heavenly Creatures" Galerie Thaddaeus Ropas, Salzburg, Austria
"The Rose Garden Without Thorns" Galerie Lisa Ruyter, Vienna, Austria
"Repulsion" Illinois State University, Normal, IL, USA

2003
"Opening Exhibition" Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
"Japan: Rising" Palm Beach ICA, Miami, FL, USA
"Pop Jack" Denver Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO, USA

2002
"Fiction? Painting in the Age of the Virtual" Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo

2001
"The Place of Happiness" Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
"Jap in a box" Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
"E/Motion Studies" Queens Museum of Art, New York
"Superimposition" Caren Golden Fine Art, New York

2000
"Dark mirrors from Japan" De Appel, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo
"Portrait" Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
"Tectonic" La Panaderia, Mexico City, Mexico
"The Nocturnal Dream Show" Pat Hearn Gallery, New York
Lidmar Hotel, Stockholm, Sweden

1999
"Tam Ochiai / Steven Parrino" Team Gallery, New York
"VOCA '99" The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo
"The Bastard Kids of Drella, Part 9" Le Consortium, Dijon, France
"Soap" Gallery Zero, Osaka
"On Paper" Stalke Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
"Spiral TV" Spiral Garden, Tokyo

1998
"Remix" Team Gallery, New York
"Sassy Nugetts" A-1 Artspace, Knoxville, TN, USA

1997
"Gallery Artists" Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo

1996
"Benefit" White Colums, New York

1995
"M & M" Jose Freire Fine Art, New York

1994
"For Collections" New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ, USA

Public collection

Takahashi Collection
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

Books
The Age of Micropop: The New Generation of Japanese Artists / Midori Matsui / PARCO 2007
tail tale Tam Ochiai / Little More 2004

  • Tam Ochiai
  • 1967 Born in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

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