Kaoru Arima Biography

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born in Aichi, Japan, 1969 Lives and works in Miyagi Education 1990 B. F. A. from Nagoya Zoukei Junior College, Product Design Department Work

Solo Exhibitions ：

1993 "Here He Comes - the first part of the series of the Exhibition entitled The Man Who Dwells in Kiwamari House”, Westbeth Gallery, Nagoya. 1994 "Neo Giga - the second part of the series of the Exhibition entitled The Man Who Dwells in Kiwamari House”, Westbeth Gallery,Nagoya 1995 "Continuous Quotidian - the third part of the series of the Exhibition entitled The Man Who Dwells in Kiwamari House”, Westbeth Kozuka Gallery, Nagoya 1996 "Strange Life - in the fourth part of the series of the Exhibition entitled The Man Who Dwells in Kiwamari House”, Westbeth Kozuka Gallery, Nagoya 1997 “The Divine Life” Art Drug Center(Kiwamari House), Inuyama, Aichi 1998 “Art Dracula. Art Drug Center”(Kiwamari House), Inuyama, Aichi 1999 “Believing and Searching”, Art Drug Center(Kiwamari House), Inuyama, Aichi 2000 ”Souveniors of My Adventure”, Fukugan Gallery, Osaka 2001 “Appreciation and Hidden Beauty”, Art Drug Center(Kiwamari House), Inuyama, Aichi 2003 “Arima Kaoru exhibition”, Watari-um Museum, Tokyo 2004 “Arima Kaoru exhibition”, Gallery Honjyo,Tokyo “Arima Kaoru exhibition”, Gallery Cellar, Nagoya 2005 “Arima Kaoru exhibition”, Extraspazio, Roma,Italy “Arima Kaoru exhibition”, Galerie Dennis Kimmerich, Dusseldorf 2006 "The move of Drawing man - in the fifth part of the series of the Exhibition entitled The Man Who Dwells in Kiwamari House”, Art Drug Center (Kimawari House), Inuyama, Aichi "Vision literary criticism", Gallery Honjyo,Tokyo 2007 "Inside is in,Outside is out and Swallowed it", Art Drug Center, Mito, Japan 2008 "Veranda Serenade of the System", Art Drug Center, Mito, Japan 2009 "In the Lotus Root", ZENSHI, Tokyo 2012 “We are all monsters living together in a ghost town", MISAKO & ROSEN, Tokyo 2013 “And Then”Queer Thughts, Chicago 2015 “Face of human”, MISAKO&ROSEN, Tokyo 2018 “To See”, Queer Thoughts, New York 2019 Solo show, Édouard Montassut, Paris (scheduled)

Group Exhibition ：

1994 “Art Wave'94”, Nagoya NHK Center Building, Nagoya “Wemnptemptem 143”, Canovan Gallery, Nagoya 1995 “The Long Night at Sloe Bull House”, Iwata-senshinkan Gallery, Inuyama, Aichi “New Birth”, Nagoya Municipal Gallery, Nagoya 1997 “Six Artists”, Westbeth Kozuka Gallery, Nagoya “Rabbit Pen Institute”, Westbeth Kozuka Gallery, Nagoya 1998 “Art Rape 1998”, Art Drug Center, Inuyama, Aichi “Let's Go to the Living Room”, Watari-um Museum, Tokyo 2000 “Sparrow Style”, Gallery Caption, Gifu 2001 “Transit”, Laforet Harajuku Kokura, Fukuoka 2002 “Beautiful art life”, Art Drug Center(Kiwamari House), Inuyama, Aichi “Kageki Metonymics”, Stefan Stux Gallery, Newy York 2003 “Kageki Metonymics”, Linc Real Art,San Francisco ”How Latitudes Become Forms”, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis [touring exhibition :Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaubengo Per L'Arte,turin,Italy/Contemporary Arts Museum Houston ,Houston/Museo Rufino Tamayo,Mexico/Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey. Mexico] 2004 “Dessins Et Des Autres”, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris Galerie Catherine Bastide,Brussele “54TH Carnegie International”, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh “Blind Pilots”, The Proposition, New York 2005 “With Out Art Drug Or”, Art Drug Center(Kiwamari House), Inuyama, Aichi 2007 “The Age of Micropop:TheNew Generation of Japanese Artists”, Art Tower Mito Contemporary Gallery, Mito, Japan "Paper Trail - A Decade of Acquisitions ", Walker Art Center, Minneapolis 2008 “7th Gwangju Biennale”, Gwangju, Korea 2009 "Pulp Fiction - Papierarbeiten", Ferenbalm-Gurbru Station, Karlsruhe 2010 "Lucky Fortune",ZENSHI,Tokyo, "Aichi Art no Mori”, Mizutani House(Horikawa Project), Nagoya 2011 “G-TOKYO× NEW TOKYO CONTEMPORARIES Salon 2011“, Roppongi Hills Cafe, Tokyo “Addicted to hight and lows curated by Richard Aldrich”, Bortolami, New York “Happy Mind - my pleasure”, MISAKO & ROSEN, Tokyo “Family Affair”, XYZ Collective, Tokyo 2012 “FUYU NO TABI”, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago 2017 “Re-born Art Festival”, Miyagi, Japan 2018 “Happy Mind – Natural High”, MISAKO & ROSEN, Tokyo 2019 “Kaoru Arima Sitara Abuzar Ghaznawi Özgür Kar”, Édouard Montassut, Paris “Re-born Art Festival”, Miyagi, Japan (scheduled)


Kaoru Arima Biography

Kaoru Arima
born in 1969

Education

1990 B. F. A. from Nagoya Zoukei Junior College, Product Design Department Work


Solo Exhibitions
2019“FAUST IN MARIENBAD by Paris2019”Édouard Montassut, Paris
2018“To See”, Queer Thoughts, New York
2015“Face of human”, MISAKO&ROSEN, Tokyo
2013"And Then"Queer Thoughts Gallery,Chicago

2012"We are all monsters living together in ghost town","Misako & Rosen",Tokyo,Japan

2010 "natural freedom",ZENSHI,Tokyo,Japan
2009 "In the Lotus Root",ZENSHI,Tokyo,Japan
2008 "Veranda Serenade of the System",Art Drug Center,Mito,Japan
2007 "Inside is in,Outside is out and Swallowed it",Art Drug Center,Mito,Japan

2006 "The move of Drawing man," in the fifth part of the series of the
　　　 Exhibition entitled The Man Who Dwells in Kiwamari House.
"Vision literary criticism," ,Gallery Honjyo,Tokyo
2005 Arima Kaoru exhibition,extraspazio,Roma,Italy
Arima Kaoru exhibition,GALERIE DENNIS KIMMERICH,Dusseldorf,Germany

2004 Arima Kaoru exhibition,Gallery Honjyo,Tokyo
Arima Kaoru exhibition,Gallery Cellar,Nagoya
2003-4 Arima Kaoru exhibition, Watari-um Museum, Tokyo.
2001 Appreciation and Hidden Beauty. Art Drug Center ,Inuyama, Aichi.
2000 Souveniors of My Adventure. Fukugan Gallery, Osaka.
1999 Believing and Searching. Art Drug Center, Inuyama.
1998 Art Dracula. Art Drug Center ,Inuyama.
1997 The Divine Life. Art Drug Center ,Inuyama.

1996 "Strange Life," in the fourth part of the series of the
　　 Exhibition entitled The Man Who Dwells in Kiwamari House. 　
　 　 Westbeth Kozuka　Gallery, Nagoya.
1995 "Continuous Quotidian," the third part of the series of the
　　　Exhibition entitled The Man Who Dwells in Kiwamari House.
　　　Westbeth Kozuka　Gallery, Nagoya.
1994 "Neo Giga," the second part of the series of the Exhibition
　　　entitled　The Man Who Dwells in Kiwamari House.
Westbeth Gallery,Nagoya.
1993 "Here He Comes," the first part of the series of the
　　 Exhibition entitled The Man Who Dwells in Kiwamari House.
Westbeth Gallery, Nagoya.




Group Exhibitions
2019“Kaoru Arima Sitara Abuzar Ghaznawi Özgür Kar”, Édouard Montassut, Paris “Re-born Art Festival”, Miyagi, Japan
2018“Happy Mind – Natural High”, MISAKO & ROSEN, Tokyo
2017“Re-born Art Festival”, Miyagi, Japan
2012“FUYU NO TABI”, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago
2011“Happy Mind”, MISAKO & ROSEN,Tokyo
2010 "Lucky Fortune",ZENSHI,Tokyo
"AICHI ART no Mori(Horikawa Project),Nagoya
2009 "Pulp Fiction - Papierarbeiten",Ferenbalm-Gurbru Station,Karlsruhe,Germany

2008 7th Gwangju Biennale - Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju
2007　The Age of Micropop:TheNew Generation of Japanese Artists,ART TOWER MITO Contemporary Art Gallery/Mito.
"Paper Trail - A Decade of Acquisitions ",Walker Art Center
2005　 WITH OUT ART DRUG OR. Art Drug Center, Inuyama.

2004-5 54TH CARNEGIE INTERNATIONAL .CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART/Pittsburgh,USA
2004　Blind Pilots .The Proposition ,　New York
2004 DESSINS ET DES AUTRES, GALERIE ANNE DE VILLEPOIX, Paris.
Galerie Catherine Bastide,Brussele

2003 How Latitudes Become Forms ,Walker Art Center, Minneapolis,USA.
　 (Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaubengo Per L'Arte,turin,Italy/
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston ,Houston/
　 　Museo Rufino Tamayo,Mexico/
　 　MUSEO DE ARTE CONTEMPORANEO DE MONTERREY,Mexico)
2003 KAGEKI METONYMICS. LINC REAL ART, San Francisco.
2002 KAGEKI METONYMICS. STEFAN STUX GALLERY, New York.

2002 Beautiful art life. Art Drug Center, Inuyama.
2001 TRANSIT. Laforet Harajuku Kokura, Kitakyusyu.
2000 Sparrow Style. Gallery Caption, Gifu Prefecture.
1998-99 Let's Go to the Living Room. Watari-um Museum, Tokyo.
1998 Art Rape 1998. Art Drug Center, Inuyama.
1997 Six Artists. Westbeth Kozuka Gallery, Nagoya.
　　 Rabbit Pen Institute. Westbeth Kozuka Gallery, Nagoya.

1995 The Long Night at Sloe Bull House. Iwata-senshinkan　Gallery,Inuyama.
New Birth. Nagoya Municipal Gallery.
1994 Art Wave'94. Nagoya NHK Center Building, Nagoya.
Wemnptemptem 143. Canovan Gallery, Nagoya.

Public Collection
Walker Art Center,mineapolis,USA
Watari-um Museum.Tokyo,Japan
Iwata-senshinnkan Gallery,Inuyama,Japan





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