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Naoyuki Tsuji was born in 1972 in Shizuoka, Japan. He aimed to become an animator or cartoonist in his childhood. He graduated from Tokyo Zokei University in 1995, and currently lives and works in Yokohama, Japan. He studied sculpture in university, but recently creates animations that combine fine art and film.
His solo exhibitions have been held at Iwasaki Museum, Yokohama, Japan (2002), Corvi-Mora Gallery, London, UK (2008), etc. He has held many film screenings at film festivals including Bangkok, Seoul, London, and Paris, and many locations in Japan. He has been invited for Directors' Fortnight at International Film Festival, Cannes, France, both in 2004 and 2005. He also created a poster for the festival in 2005. Last year, Tsuji exhibited in a group exhibition, A Perspective on Contemporary Art 6: Emotional Drawing at The National Museum of Art, Tokyo (traveling to The National Museum of Art, Kyoto).

1972　Born in Shizuoka, Japan
1995　B.F.A. Tokyo Zokei University, Japan

2009
"Zephyr" Tomio Koyama Gallery Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan

2008
Corvi-Mora, London, England

2007
"MediaScope 2007, An Evening with Naoyuki Tsuji", Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA (screening)
"Picture Scroll of a Fantasy Journey", Gallery Simon, Yokohama, Japan

2005
"Trilogy about Clouds", Uplink X ,Tokyo, Japan (screening)
"Contemporary Art from ? to !", Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse No.1, Yokohama, Japan
"Naoyuki Tsuji - Art Animation", Uplink Factory

2002
"Imagination - Animation - Reality, Animation by Naoyuki Tsuji", Iwasaki Museum, Yokohama, Japan

2000
Gallery Le Deco, Tokyo, Japan

2010
"Shudder", The Drawing Room, London, England
Setouchi International Art Festival “100-Day Art and Sea Adventure”, The Seto Island area, Japan
Aichi Triennale 2010, Nagoya, Japan

2009
"Indies Theater!", Breath vol.15, Yonago Japan
"Running up That Hill", San Francisco Cinematheque, San Francisco
"Elu par cette crapule", Le Havre, France
"New Nippon: Contemporary Film and Video from Japan", Art Institute of Chicago
"The Animated Films of Naoyuki Tsuji", Union Theatre, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee_15 films de la Quinzaine, Institut Franco-Japanais de Tokyo, France
"Martha Colburn and Friends", Anthology Film Archives, New York
"HORS PISTES JAPAN 2009", Institut Franco-Japanais de Tokyo
Oulu Music Video Festival, Finland
"Seconds Under The Sun: A Screening of Japanese Animation", Film Fort, Toronto
The Shinsedai Cinema Festival, Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre, Toronto
Art Animation Festival, Aichi Arts Center
"The End of the Line: Attitudes in Drawing" MIMA, Middlesbrough (traveling to The Bluecoat, Liverpool ; City Museum and Art Gallery, Bristol; Fruitmarket, Edinburgh)
International Comics Festival, BilBOlBul, Bologna
International Academic Film Studies Workshop, Universita degli Studi di Udine, Gorizia 8th Japanese Experimental Film in France, toured around 6 cities in France
"Emotional drawing", Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, Seoul
Ebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions, Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
"Mind as Passion", Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
"The Animated Films of Naoyuki Tsuji", Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago

2008
"Emotional Drawing", The National Museum of Art, Tokyo (toured to The National Museum of Art, Kyoto)
Sea Art Festival, Busan Biennale, Busan, Korea
"Legende", Centre d’ Art Contemporain, Charamande, France
"Xeopolíticas da Animacíon", MARCO, Vigo, Spain
"Momentary Momentum:Part 2", Kettle's Yard, Cambridge

2007
"The Geopolitics of Animation", CAAC, Sevilla
"Momentary Momentum: Animated Drawings", Parasol Unit, London
"19th Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival", Chicago, USA
"Image Forum Festival", Tokyo, Kyoto, Fukuoka, Nagoya, Niigata,_ Sapporo, Japan
"Nippon Connection", Frankfurt Germany
"Ann Arbor Film Festival", Michigan, USA
"Animation-Adventures of Moving Picture", Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan
"Animationism", Uplink Factory, Tokyo Japan
"36th International Film Festival", Rotterdam, Netherlands

2006
"Media City 12", Windsor, Canada

2005
"11th Art Film Festival", Aichi Arts Center, Japan
"Edge in Yokohama, For Small Movies", Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan
"Yokohama Triennale 2005: International Triennale of Contemporary Art", Yokohama, Japan
"Kurzfilm Summer", Nurunberg, Germany
"37th Directors' Fortnight", International Film Festival, Cannes, France
"24th Vancouver International Film Festival", Vancouver, Canada
"18th Images Festival", Toronto, Canada_"49th London Film Festival", London, UK
"Faux Mouvement", Centre d'art Contemporain, Metz, France
"6th Japanese Experimental Film in France", Japan

2004
"9th Art Film Festival", Aichi Arts Center, Japan
"23rd Vancouver International Film Festival", Vancouver
"36th Directors' Fortnight", International Film Festival, Cannes
"17th Images Festival", Toronto

2003
"Brakhage Eyes 2003-2004" Stan Brakhage Film Exhibition in Japan, toured to Kochi, Yokohama, Nagoya, Kobe, Sendai and Tokyo
"14th Ankara International Film Festival", Ankara, Turkey
"New Experimental Film from Asia", Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC
"47th London Film Festival", London, UK
"4th Net and Film Festival", Seoul, Korea
"7th Bangkok International Short Film Festival", Bangkok
"5th Japanese Experimental Film in France", toured around 6 cities in France

2002
"Globang Film", Seoul, Korea

2001
"Globang Film", Jeonju, Korea
"Letina 2001", Letina, Hungary

1999
"Scrap Festival", Yokohama, Japan (Participated 5 times until 2005)

1995
"Dark Animation", La Camera, Tokyo