1949
geb. in Kyoto, Japan
1975 M.Te. der Polytechnischen Universität Kyoto
1981
Kurator, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
1991 Senior Curator, The
National Museum of Modern Art
1985 „Contemporary Landscape: From the Horizon of Postmodern
Design” (The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto and Tokyo
1987 “Modern
Photography and Beyond” (The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto)
1989-91
“Against Nature: Japanese Art in the Eighties” (San Francisco Museum of Modern
Art)
1990 “Images in Transition: Photographic Representations of 1980s”
(The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto and Tokyo)
1992 “Crossroads-Toward
A New Reality”: Aboriginal Art from Australia (The National Museum of Modern Art,
Kyoto and Tokyo)
1993 “Anselm Kiefer-Melancholia” (Sezon Museum, Tokyo
and the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto)
1994-96 “Liquid Crystal Futures:
Contemporary Japanese Photography” (Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh)
1995
“Spirits on the Crossing-Travelers to/from Nowhere: Contemporary Art in Canada”
1995
“PANORAMA: Architecture and Applied Arts in Hungary 1896-1916” (The National Museum
of Modern Art, Kyoto and Tokyo)
1996 “Project for Survival” (The National
Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto und Tokyo)
1997 “Drifting Workshop in the Image
Archives: 18 exhibitions by 18 J. High-School-students from the Museum Collection
(The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto)
1998 “Morimura Yasumasa: Self-portrait
as Art History” (Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, and the National Museum of
Modern Art, Kyoto)
1999 “Visions of the Body: Fashion or Invisible Corset”
(The National Museum of Modern Art Kyoto and Tokyo)
2000 “Still/Moving:
Temporary Photography, Film and Video from the Netherlands”
2001 Künstlerischer
Direktor der “Yokohama Triennale 2001”
