Yoshinori Niwa
Education
2005
Tama Art University Department of Moving Images and
Performing Arts - BA
Solo Exhibitions
2016
2015
2014
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
Selling The Right to Name a Pile of Garbage, Nagoya (proposed)
Historically Historic Historical History of Communism, Edel Assanti,
London
Research and Production: Artistic Methods in a Transitional Period,
Tamsui Historical Art Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
Never Trust in People without Contradiction, 1335MABINI, Manila,
Philippines
Possibilities is The Antonym of Today, Ai Kowada Gallery, Tokyo
Possibilities is The Antonym of Today, GALLERY TERRA TOKYO, Tokyo
Clapping hands for The Bears in Bern, NADiff window gallery, Tokyo
Searching for Community, or Their Escape Drama, Ai Kowada
gallery, Tokyo
No Solution, But Brawl, Ai Kowada gallery, Tokyo
The Poetics of Activism, gallery alpha M, Tokyo
Communicating with Thieves, HIAP project room, Helsinki, Finland
Face round, Community!, Migigawanikenme, Tokyo
Transforming puddle A to puddle B, Art in General, NYC, USA
Shaking hands with 100cats in Norway, Gallery Coexist, Tokyo
Group Exhibitions
2015
2014
2013
Hommage for Tadeusz Kantor, @KCUA Kyoto University of Arts Art
Gallery (proposed)
Rivers – The way of life in Transition, Asia Contemporary Art Link,
The Pier-2 Art Center, Kaohsiung, Taiwan (proposed)
Some Like It Witty, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong
Forces at Works, Jorge B. Vargas Museum and Filipiniana Research
Center, Manila Philippines
Susukino Triennale 2014, Sapporo
Censorship, The 7th Move on Asia, Alternative Space LOOP, Seoul,
South Korea
Aichi Triennale 2013, Aichi Arts Center, Nagoya
Roppongi Crossing 2013 OUT OF DOUBT, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
2012
2011
2010
2009
2007
2006
2005
2004
Double vision: Contemporary Art From Japan, Moscow Museum of
Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
Double vision: Contemporary Art From Japan, Hiafa Museum of
Art, Haifa, Israel
New Gallery × New Artists × New Works, Ai Kowada Gallery, Tokyo
RYUGU IS OVER, Ryugu Bijutsu Ryokan, Yokohama
ARTSHOW BUSAN 2012 "Similiarities and differences" Asian
contemporary media arts from Daisuke 2012 Miyatsu Collection,
BEXCO, Busan, South Korea
Identity VIII - curated by Shihoko Iida-, Nichido contemporary art,
Tokyo
Daikanyama Art Street, HILLSIDE FORUM, Tokyo
But Fresh, Tokyo Wonder Site, Hongo, Tokyo
Social Dive, 3331 Arts Choyoda, Tokyo
Gallery Artists’ show 2011, Ai Kowada gallery, Tokyo
Art struction, 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo
Re-Modernologio, Aomori Cotemporary Art Center, Aomori
Busan biennale Sea Art Festival 2011, Busan, South Korea
BONE14 festival fur aktionskunst, Schlachthaus Theate, Bern
Switzerland
Utopia of exotic, Pavilion Unicredit, Bucharest, Romania
The Arts of Togetherness, Gendai gallery, Toronto, Canada
Emblem of Men, M100, Santiago, Chile
Beauty Farm, Neue Kunst im Hagenbucher, Heilbronn, Munich,
Germany
Living art from Tokyo and San Francisco, The Lab, San Francisco,
USA
On going vol.4 -Read Look Look , BankART1929, Tokyo
BOY!BOY!BOY!, Ochanomizu women university, Tokyo
The Experimenter Project, Artpool Art Research Center, Budapest,
Hungary
Eyelevel gallery summer performance series 2004, Eyelevel gallery,
Halifax, Canada
While you were away: Mail Art Show, 667shotwell, SanFrancisco,
USA
In transit, M100, Santiago, Chile
Who are you going to meet?, BankART1929, Yokohama
Performances, Screenings
2015
2011
2010
Bakawan project, University of Philippines Film Center, Manila,
Philippines
6th Carnival of e-creativity, Sattal Estate, Bhimtal, India
Bone-Festival, international performance art festival in Bern,
Switzerland – Bern, Switzerland
Communicating with thieves, Helsinki, Finland
Tossing Socialist in the Air in Romania, Bucharest, Romania
2008
2007
2006
Make Tama Art University Pikapikapikapika, Tokyo
6th DaDao Live Art Festival, China
UP-ON First Live Art Festival, China
Bucharest Biennale 3 parallel event, National Theater Bucharest,
Romania
Videoscreening II, Lothringer 13, Munich, Germany
East-West Study Project 2007 The Art of “Encounter“, Koln,
Dusseldorf, Hanover, Germany
KargArt Video Festival, Istanbul, Turkey
INPORT,International Video-Performance Art Festival, Tallinn
Action art after Zerojigen generation, Tokyo
Performance-Festival SPRINGTIDES, Salzau Castle, Germany
Artist-in-Residency
2015
2014
2011
2010
2007
2005
Tobacna 001, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Hotspring Project, Taipei, Taiwan
1335MABINI Working in Residency, Manila, Philippines
Contemporary Art Centre Aomori, Aomori, Japan.
HIAP-Helsinki International Artist-in-residency Programme, Helsinki,
Finland
TOAH artist-in-residency progarmme, TOU SCENE centre for
contemporary art, Stavanger Norway
VENT Live Art Residency, Oxford, United Kingdom
Guest Lectures
2015
2014
2012
2011
Goldsmiths University, London
Tamkang University, Taipei
Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow
Japan Foundation, Moscow
The Rodchenko Moscow School of Photography and Multimedia,
Moscow
Waseda University, Tokyo
Tama Art University, Tokyo
Aomori Contemporary Art Centre, Aomiri, Japan
Art Fairs
2015
2009
Art Fair Philippines 2015, Manila, Philippines
ART TAIPEI 2014, Taipei, Taiwan
3331 Art Fair Various Collectors' Prizes, 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo,
Japan
ULTRA 2009, Tokyo, Japan
Awards, Scholarships
2014
Prudential Eye Award 2015, Prudential Contemporary Art,
Singapore (nominated)
Future Greats 2014, ArtReview, UK
Follow Fluxus – After Fluxus2014, Nassauischer Kunstverein
Wiesbaden, Germany (nominated)
Publications
2013
Reenacting Publicness - Translating Art Work Descriptions into 23
Different Languages (Artistbook), MyBookService, Tokyo
ISBN 978-4-907490-02-7
Public Collections
Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo