Ozawa Tsuyoshi, Vegetable Weapon-Chikuzenni1 (Simmered vegetables with chicken), Kyoto 2008,
Type C print, 156 x 113cm
BIOGRAPHY
Ozawa Tsuyoshi 小沢 剛
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Born in 1965 in Tokyo, Japan
Lives and works in Saitama, Japan
– Education and Residences –
| 2002-03 | Stayed in New York, granted by the Agency for Cultural Affair, Japan |
| 1996-97 | Stayed in New York, granted by the Asian Cultural Council |
| 1991 | Completed postgraduate studies in Mural Painting Course, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Japan |
| 1989 | Graduated from Oil Painting Course, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Japan |
– Selected Solo Exhibitions –
| 2020 | (Upcoming) The Return of All Returns(仮), Hirosaki Museum of Contemporary Art, Aomori |
| 2019 | J-ALERT, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo |
| 2018 | The Return of K.T.O. TALKS & SCREENING WITH LIVE PERFORMANCE, The Astor Hotel, Kolkata, India |
| Tsuyoshi Ozawa Imperfection: Parallel Art History, Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba | |
| 2017 | Geidai Chakai 2017, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo |
| 2016 | Everyone likes someone, as you like someone, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan |
| Xijing Men “Xijing Is Not Xijing, Therefore Xijing Is Xijing.”, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan | |
| 2015 | The Return of Painter F, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| Tsuyoshi Ozawa: Everyone likes someone, as you like someone, Saitama Triennale 2016 Pre-event at Plaza North Gallery 8, Saitama, Japan | |
| 2014 | The Return of Dr.N, Hajimari Art Center, Fukushima, Japan |
| 2013 | Can You Do It?, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2012 | Tsuyoshi Ozawa: White Out, Miidera Temple, Shiga, Japan |
| Tsuyoshi Ozawa: Everyone likes someone, as you like someone, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan | |
| 2010 | OPEN STUDIO 50 Tsuyoshi Ozawa Dekirukana 2010, Fuchu Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2009 | Tsuyoshi Ozawa: The Invisible Runner Strides On, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan |
| 2008 | Dazaifu Tenmangu Art Program: White Out, Dazaifu Tenmangu Shrine, Fukuoka, Japan |
| Tsuyoshi Ozawa Exhibition, Takahashi Collection, Tokyo, Japan | |
| Himming 2008: Vegetable Weapon at Himming, Himming Art Center, Himi City, Toyama, Japan |
– Selected Group Exhibitions –
| 2019 | The Windou: A journey of Art and Architecture through Windows, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo |
| Korea-Japan Interchange Exhibition <50/50>, Multiplex Art Salon, Seoul, Korea | |
| Multiples, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo | |
| PARERGON: JAPANESE ART OF THE 1980S AND 1990S, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, USA | |
| 2018 | The Street. Where the World is Made, (Xijing Men), MAXXI, the National Museum of 21st Century Arts, Rome, Italy |
| Foujita in the 1940’s: Tributes, Tokyo University of the Arts, Chinretsukan Gallery, Tokyo | |
| Table Manners: A Feast of Visual Arts, Theater and Culinary, The Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv University, Israel | |
| 2017 | Discordant Harmony: Observation of Artistic Practices in East Asia at the Transition between the 1980s and the 1990s, Beijing Inside-Out Art Museum, Beijing |
| Japanorama-new vision on arts in Japan since 1970, Centre Pompidou-Metz, France | |
| Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World, (Xijing Men), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York | |
| Culture City of East Asia 2017 Asia Corridor Contemporary Art Exhibition, (Xijing Men), Nijo Castle, Kyoto | |
| YOKOHAMA TRIENNALE 2017: Islands, Constellations & Galapagos, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama | |
| 2016 | SAITAMA TRIENNALE 2016, The former Saitama Prefectural Folklore Museum, Saitama, Japan |
| Setouchi Triennale 2016: P.S.S.40 Public School by The Group 1965, Ogijima Community Area, Ogijima, Kagawa, Japan | |
| 12 Rooms 12 Artists Works from the UBS Art Collection, Tokyo Station Gallery, Tokyo, Japan | |
| Group Mobile, Villa Vassilieff, Paris, France | |
| 2015 | Messages– Takahashi Collection, Towada Art Center, Aomori, Japan |
| TODAY IS THE DAY Exhibition for the 70th Anniversary of the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima, Art Gallery Miyauchi, Hiroshima, Japan | |
| Minna No Art, Gifu Media Cosmos, Gifu, Japan | |
| Collection 1 Where You Meet With Narrative, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan | |
| MAM Collection 001: Tow Asian Maps – Ozawa Tsuyoshi + Shitamichi Motoyuki, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan | |
| TAKAHASHI COLLECTION: Mirror Neuron, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan | |
| JUMP, (Xijing Men),Towada Art Center, Aomori, Japan | |
| 2014 | Lee Mingwei and His Relations, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan |
| Future Fiction, (Xijing Men) Z 33 House of Contemporary Art, Hasselt, Belgium | |
| Koganecho Bazaar 2014 Fictive Communities Asia, (Xijing Men), Koganecho, Kanagawa, Japan | |
| TOKYO STORY 2014 Part2, Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan | |
| Soccer, Urawa Museum, Saitama, Japan | |
| Asia Anarchy Alliance, (Xijing Men), Taipei National University of the Arts, Kuandu?Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan | |
| Playmaking, Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa,Japan | |
| Twentieth Anniversary Special MOT Collection Chronicle 1995-, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan | |
| A TABLE!-ART FEAST-, Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Mie, Japan | |
| Yebisu International Festival of Art & Alternative Visions 2014: TRUE COLORS (Xijing Men), Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Yebisu Garden Place, Tokyo, Japan | |
| 2013 | Festival Tokyo 2013, Jelinek Series: Prolog? (Direction, Design), Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre, Theatre East, Tokyo, Japan |
| SITE- Places of Memories,Spaces with Potential, Hiroshima City Museum of Sontemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan | |
| Tsuyoshi Ozawa + Masakatsu Takagi Going through Africa, Yokohama Creative City Center, Kanagawa, Japan | |
| Ohara Contemporary, Ohara Museum of Art, Kurashiki, Japan | |
| Stouchi Triennale 2013(The Group 1965), Social Studies Reference Room, Ogijima, Kagawa, Japan | |
| Re:Quest-Japanese Contemporary Art since the 1970s, Museum of Art, Seoul National University, Seoul ,Korea | |
| 2013 | The Xijing Men Collaborative, H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City, Missouri, USA |
| Zizhiqu Autonomous Regions, Guangdong Times Museum, Guangdong, China | |
| Group Show, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan | |
| Situations and Exchanges: Fukuoka Contemporary Art Chronicle 1970-2000, Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan | |
| 2012 | Beppu Contemporary Art Festival 2012: Mixed Bathing World, Beppu, Oita, Japan |
| ON PHOTOGRAPHY, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan | |
| Gwangju Biennale 2012, Gwangju, Korea | |
| Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2012, Echito-Tsumari, Niigata, Japan | |
| 2012-1 Building: Art in Relation to Architecture, Hiroshima City Musuem of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan | |
| Double Vision: Contemporary Art from Japan, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia | |
| 2011 | PROSPECT 2 BIENNIAL NEW ORLEANS, New Orleans, USA |
| The Global Contemporary Art Worlds after 1989, ZKM| Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany | |
| Between Utopia and Dystopia, University Museum of Contemporary Art, Mexico City, Mexico | |
| Xijing, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, Italy | |
| The Group1965 ? We are Boys!, Kunstahalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany | |
| Shifting Surfaces, Artsonje Museum, Korea | |
| 2010 | Double Infinity, (Xijing Men), Dutch Culture Centre, Shanghai, China |
| Aichi Art Triennale, (Xijing Men), Aichi Art Center, Nagoya,Japan | |
| AIZU URUSHI ART FESTIVAL, Aizuwakamatsu City, Kitakata City, Mishimacho, Showamura, Japan | |
| Tricksters Tricked, (Xijing Men), Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Nederland | |
| An Unexpected turn of events – Chen Shaoxiong and Tsuyoshi Ozawa, Osage Gallery, Shanghai, China | |
| TRUST Media City Seoul 2010, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea | |
| 2009 | Fact and Fiction – Recent works from The UBS Art Collection, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China |
| The first stop on the super highway, (Xijing Men), Nam June Paik Art Center, Seoul, Korea | |
| Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2009, Echigo-Tsumari, Niigata, Japan | |
| Aqua Metropolis Osaka 2009, Nakanoshima, Osaka, Japan | |
| 4th Fukuoka Asian Art Trinnale 2009, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan | |
| Xe Biennale de Lyon, (Xijing Men), La Sucrière, Lyon, France | |
| 2008-09 | Takahashi Collection: neoteny japan, Kirishima Open-Air Museum, Kagoshima, Japan |
| Sapporo Art Park, Hokkaido, Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan | |
| The Fifth Floor: Ideas Taking Space, (Xijing Men), Tate Liverpool, Liverpool,UK | |
| 2008 | Another Landscape: From Mori Art Collection, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan |
| Shelter x Survival, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan | |
| TOO EARLY FOR VACATION/ 32nd annual exhibition of visual+ art, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick, Ireland | |
| TOMYAM PLADIB, Jim Thompson Art Center, Bangkok, Thailand | |
| Heavy Light: Recent Photography and Video from Japan, International Center of Photography, New York, USA | |
| Dome: Artist’s Attempts around the Monument, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan | |
| ART as a BRIDGE, Asahi Beer Oyamazaki Villa Museum, Kyoto, Japan | |
| Xijing Olympics: Chen Shaoxiong, Gimhongsok, Tsuyoshi Ozawa, (Xijing Men), Bores-Li Gallery, Beijing, China | |
| The 3rd Nanjing Triennial, (Xijing Men), Nanjing Museum & RCM The Museum of Modern Art, Beijing, China | |
| Akasaka Art Flower 2008, Old Akasaka elementary school, Tokyo. Japan | |
| Kanazawa Art Platform, Owaricho choumin bunkakan, Kanazawa, Japan | |
| Platform Seoul 2008, (Xijing Men), Kukje Gallery, Seoul of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea | |
| Moving Horizons: The UBS Art Collection 1960s to the present day, National Art Museum, Beijing, China | |
| 13th Asian Art Biennale Bangladesh, National Art Gallery, Osmany Memorial Hall, Bangladesh National Museum, Dhaka, India |
EXHIBITIONS
J-ALERT
Ozawa Tsuyoshi
Nov 8 – Dec 21, 2019
Multiples
Iba Yasuko, Isozaki Arata, Kawamata Tadashi, Ozawa Tsuyoshi, Shinoda Taro
Mar 5-Mar 30, 2019
Everyone likes someone, as you like someone
OZAWATsuyoshi
April 15 – June 4, 2016
The Road Not Taken
OZAWA Tsuyoshi, AI Weiwei, Ken LUM, TOMATSU Shomei
Nov 27, 2015 – Jan 30, 2016
Can You Do It?
OZAWA Tsuyoshi
Mar 19 – May 2, 2013
Group Show
OZAWA Tsuyoshi, KAWASHIMA Kiyoshi, TERUYA Tuken, Pamela ROSENKRANZ
Jan 15 – Feb 23, 2013
ON PHOTOGRAPHY
OZAWA Tsuyoshi, BACK Seung Woo, SHIMIZU Jio
Sep 21 – Nov 2, 2012