Motohiro Tomii
1973 Born in Niigata, Japan.
1997 BA Fine Art (Sculpture), Musashino Art University / Tokyo, Japan
1999 MA Fine Art (Sculpture), Musashino Art University (Excellent Graduates) / Tokyo, Japan
The 4th contest for the best contemporary art work 2000 Grand Prix
Currently lives and works in Tokyo
Solo Shows
2011
“taking bump”switch point / Tokyo
“5×14” NADiff Window Gallery / Tokyo
“Placing Colors and Shapes” Radi-um von Röntgenwerke AG / Tokyo
“ball pipe ball” Tamagawa University Tamagawa Art Gallery Projects / Tokyo
“STACK” NADiff Gallery / Tokyo
“Works” NADiff a/p/a/r/t / Tokyo
“catch as catch can ” GENDAI HEIGHTS Gallery DEN / Tokyo
2009
“New works” switch point / Tokyo
“Paper works” Art Center OnGoing / Tokyo
“copy boy” Gallery Gen / Tokyo
2008
“Time to See” switch point / Tokyo
“Color and form in usual objects” Play Room (Toru Nakazaki + Endo Mizuki) / Ibaraki
“Temporary=Permanent Exhibition” ARCUS Studio / Ibaraki
2007
“Time to See” Musashino Art University Museum and Library, Folklore Archive Gallery / Tokyo
“αM Project - On the Trail vol.2” art space kimura ASK? / Tokyo
“Circles and Rectangles” switch point / Tokyo
“How to Make the World” art & river bank / Tokyo
2006
“Re-Meet” switch point / Tokyo
“Solo Show” Gallery Gen / Tokyo
2005
“Nap-like” Toru Nakazaki Playroom / Tokyo
“How to make a blank” U8 Projects / Aichi
“Solo Show” CAS / Osaka
“Usual Things” switch point / Tokyo
2004
“baggage” switch point / Tokyo
“THE COVER” ZaGallery Ariake / Tokyo
2003
“Up above the world” art & river bank / Tokyo
2002
“Neighbor Dreams” Naruse Bijutsuza / Tokyo
“Peripheral and Marginal” Moris Gallery / Tokyo
“Forward, Rewind,” ZaGallery Ariake / Tokyo
2001
“The way things are” Makii Masaru Fine Arts / Tokyo
“Be” Ai Gallery / Tokyo
2000
“Obvious” Moris Gallery(The 4th contest for the best contemporary art work 2000 Grand Prix Exhibition) / Tokyo
“Monologue” Shomeido Gallery / Tokyo
1999
“Smoke’s Dot” Gallery Gen / Tokyo
“An Invisible Room” GALERIA RASEN / Tokyo
“An Object-form” Naruse Bijutsuza / Tokyo
1998
“Daily Shapes” Gallery Gen / Tokyo
Group Shows
2011
“ART & PRODUCT” Ai Kowada Gallery/ Tokyo
“Okayama Art Corridor” Okayama Korakuen Garden / Okayama
“Re-Modernologio phase2: Observation and notation” Aomori Contemporary Art Centre / Aomori
“The Yanase Villa Art Education Project” Yanase Villa /Saitama
“CATCH THE LIGHT” Nagoya Boston Museum of Fine Arts,/ Tokyo
“Tokorozawa Biennial of Contemporary Art SIDING RAIL ROAD 2011”
----Tokorozawa City Lifelong Learning Promotion Center, Former Tokorozawa School Lunch Center Number Two/ Saitama
“Yokohama Triennale ‘Our Magic Hour’ How much of the world can we know ? ”
----Yokohama Museum of Art, NYK-Waterfront Warehouse (BankART Studio NYK) and the surrounding areas/ Kanagawa
“New Objects” Motohiro Tomii＋Yuken Teruya” Old walk pavilion (Planned construction location for Maebashi City Museum of Art)/Gunma
“Summer Camp for Sculpture, Earth bound” Mercian Karuizawa Art Museum / Nagano
“Motohiro Tomii + Fuminao Suenaga” switch point / Tokyo
“MOT Annual 2011 Nearest Faraway” Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo / Tokyo
“A POSSIBLE DIMENSION” PANTALOON / Osaka
" The weather and all one's life” ASAHI ART SQUARE / Tokyo
2009
"The 1st Tokorozawa Biennial of Contemporary Art -SIDING RAIL ROAD 2009” Seibu Railway Old Tokorozawa Vehicle Plant / Saitama
"Attempt 2 -Tokuzo Yabitsu, Yasuhide Kuge, Motohiro Tomii, Jumbo Suzuki” Museum Haus Kasuya / Kanagawa
“Inside Outline - Motohiro Tomii + Yuki Okumura” KABEGIWA / Tokyo
“Metamorphosis - Objects Today - Exhibition vol.2
Motohiro Tomii × Nobuhiro Nakanishi - Transmutable Objects” Gallery αM / Tokyo
“Renewal” Musashino Art University Museum and Library / Tokyo
“Kabegiwa” GENDAI HEIGHTS Gallery Den / Tokyo
2008
“BROKEN” TIME & STYLE MIDTOWN / Tokyo
”5 × 5” Bankokubashi Gallery / Yokohama
“Art Program Ome 2008 - Atmospheric Perspective, U-39” Ome Fabric Industrial Facility / Tokyo
“New Balance” gallery Archipelago / Tokyo
”DRAWING” TIME & STYLE MIDTOWN / Tokyo
2007
“New Vision Saitama Ⅲ - 7eyes × 7methods” The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama / Saitama
“pre” switch point / Tokyo
“Kabegiwa” KABEGIWA / Tokyo
2006
“Standard Skill” KABEGIWA / Tokyo
“Color and Form” KABEGIWA / Tokyo
2005
“12 DIVERS AT THE MOUNTAIN GATE” Old Yamaguchi Shoes Shop / Tokyo
“MATERIAL MIXTURE” node cube / Tokyo
“The Camp for preparing Issue No.0 of The Mountain of Art, Three Dimensional Section“ NADiff / Tokyo
“cat’s heaven...!” gallery Archipelago / Tokyo
“Constellation of Art 2005” Gallery Kumai / Tokyo
“Towards Azakai - Forms of Narrow Path” Nagakute Cultural Center/ Aichi
“Fukagawa HO-BO Art 2” Fukagawa Edo Museums Shopping Street / Tokyo
2004
“conran show” OKADA STUDIO / Aichi
“floating scale - A tour about scale” Gakushoku 2nd Floor / Aichi
“space” U8 Projects / Aichi
2003
“Small Works Exhibition” ZaGallery Ariake / Tokyo
“Bookmarks” Ai Gallery / Tokyo
“Jin Session 2003 Vol.4 - off topic” Gallery Jin / Tokyo
“PC2003” ZaGallery Ariake / Tokyo
“A New Century living with Art 4 – An Origin of Power” ZaGallery Ariake / Tokyo
2002
“PC Show” ZaGallery Ariake / Tokyo
“GALERIA RASEN session” GALERIA RASEN / Tokyo
2001
“minimum continuation” exhibit LIVE / Tokyo
“GALERIA RASEN 2001” GALERIA RASEN / Tokyo
2000
“Constellation of Art 1998-1999-2000” Naruse Bijutsuza / Tokyo
“TRANSIT -Via / Bandwidth” GALERIA RASEN (The 4th contest for the best contemporary art work 2000 GALERIA RASEN Prize Show) / Tokyo
“Yotaro Niwa × Motohiro Tomii - A Desk Plan” Gallery Maronie / Kyoto
“GALERIA RASEN selection 2000 Vol.2” GALERIA RASEN / Tokyo
1999
“Yutaka Kimura × Motohiro Tomii - House of being for unknown myself ” Metal Art Museum Hikarinotani / Chiba
“The 4th contest for the best contemporary art work 2000 Exhibition” Shinkiba SOKO Gallery / Tokyo
“An Undoable Nerves” Gallery Nayuta / Yokohama
“Selected MA Graduates Show” Musashino Art University Museum and Library / Tokyo
1998
“Talking Container” Gallery Nayuta / Yokohama
1997
“Motohiro Tomii × Yotaro Niwa – The dramaturgy, Daily Life Passing By” KID AILACK ART HALL / Tokyo
Commission work
2008
HYS (designed by Hiroyuki Tanaka Architects) / Kanagawa
Others
2009
Installation for the bookshelf of Shin Fukunaga / Junkudo Bookstore, Shinjuku / Tokyo
Installation for the bookshelf of Shin Fukunaga / Junkudo Bookstore, Ikebukuro / Tokyo
Prints book “Kabegiwa” (Printed by Itazu Litho-Grafik)
