Born in Mie, Japan in 1983, and raised in Tokyo and Mie.
Since 2018, lives and works in Berlin, Germany

Selected solo and duo shows

2025:
Color Album, Heerz Tooya, Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria (Solo)
Summer bugs, Bus station, Vishovgrad, Bulgaria (Solo)
Back of You, OK.Fridge, Berlin (Solo)

2022:  
Beyond The Curve,  Online (Solo)

2021:  
Rear Window,  Rathenau Hallen, Berlin (Solo)

2019:
Drive, GlogauAir showcase, Berlin (Solo)

2018:  
Doublethinkwise,  Tokyo Arts and Space Hongo, Tokyo (Solo)

2015:  
Soji Shimizu – Setagaya Art Award,  Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo (Solo)

2014:  
Midnight Experiment,  Green Sawa 2F in Shimokitazawa, Tokyo (Solo)
cross dissolve,  Youkobo Art Space, Tokyo (Duo, with Nobuo Yoda)

2011:  
Press,  Gallery K, Tokyo (Solo)

2010: 
Landscape,  Moineau, Tokyo (Duo, with Yoo Hyun)
On Prints,  University of Tsukuba Gallery T+, Ibaraki, Japan (Solo)

Selected group shows

2025:
Europa ohne Ende, Spor Klübü, Berlin
The Artists’ Autumn Exhibition, Den Frie, Copenhagen, Denmark
Dead Darlings XX, W139, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Alles vorbeivorbei, studio im Hochhaus, Berlin
The Value of a Place, Kulturhaus Baumschulenweg, Berlin
Anonymous Drawings, Kunsthaus Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany
Alive!, BankART Station, Yokohama, Japan

2024:
Curara de Carrera 3, Curated by C U AT SADKA, DOC and +DEDE, at DOC, Paris, France
Close To The Edge, Spor Klübü, Berlin
Anonymous Drawings, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin
Hammer Time, Zaratan – Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon, Portugal
A Letter from a Friend, Bacio, Bern, Switzerland
Curara de Carrera 2, a collaborative initiative by C U AT SADKA, DOC and +DEDE, at a former Rossmann, Berlin
Time Zones, Waves Project, Kanagawa, Japan
Day & Night, Galerie Gruppe Motto, Hamburg, Germany
The Strange Line, Park Klinik Weißensee, Berlin

2023:
AW, Hudiksvallsgatan 8, Stockholm, Sweden
5th Anniversary group show, Hotel The Knot, Tokyo
Alles V, studio im Hochhaus, Berlin

2022:  
Wall of Sound, LAGE EGAL, Berlin
Blind Vision,  Treptow Ateliers in the Rathenau Hallen, Berlin
Enclosure,  stella, Berlin
Herbst Digital #1 Berlin,  Deutscher Künstlerbund, Berlin
Dead Darlings #15 – Issue!²,  Vrij Paleis, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Anonymous Drawing,  Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin
The myth is gone,  Galerie Pankow, Berlin
Gestures of Innocence,  Armenia Art Fair, Yerevan, Armenia
Positionen aus dem Stadtbezirk,  Verwalterhaus/Kulturkapellen, Berlin

2021:  
Cancelled Order,  Rathenau Hallen, Berlin
The 22nd Triennale Grenchen, Switzerland
First International Festival of Manuports,  Kohta, Helsinki, Finland
Shadow Came Before The Sun, Kunstquartier Bethanien Projektraum, Berlin
New Currents, BBA Gallery, Berlin
Neumann Wunderwand, Neumannstraße 4.5, Berlin

2020:  
Down by the River, Rathenau Hallen, Berlin
ABRISS2020, Treptpw Ateliers on Mörikestraße, Berlin

2019:  
Boo, Projektraum 145, Berlin
Living Cities, Treptow Ateliers, Berlin
Open Studio, GlogauAIR, Berlin

2017:  
Tradition Créatricé – Cultural Festival in the Forest 2017, Kyoto University of Art & Design, Tokyo
The Violent Silence of A New Beginning, Studio Khana for Contemporary Art, Cairo, Egypt

2016:  
Bebop, XYZ collective, Tokyo

2015:  
Itch, Midori.so, Tokyo
Tokyo Wonder Wall 2015, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

2014:  
Sputnik, Commune 246, Tokyo
Group show, Gallery Soko, Hokkaido, Japan

2013:  
Arafudo Art Annual 2013, Fukushima, Japan
The 38th Tsuchiyu Kokeshi Festival, Fukushima, Japan
Asuka Art Village, Complex of Man’yo Culture, Nara, Japan

2012:  
Warehouse Project by Hayama Projects, Yokohama, Japan
Paintings Parade in Kotobuki-cho,  Yokohama, Japan
Radio Show, Daikanyama Art Street, Midori.so, Tokyo
BankART AIR Program, BankART Studio NYK, Yokohama, Japan
Graduation show, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba Museum of Art, Ibaraki, Japan

2011:  
Nakanojo Biennale 2011, Gunma, Japan
Art Student Exhibition, Ise Cultural Foundation, New York, United States of America

2009:  
Wonder Seeds 2009, Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya, Tokyo

Curatorial projects

2022  Gestures of Innocence,  Armenia Art Fair, Yerevan, Armenia

2021  Cancelled Order,  Rathenau Hallen, Berlin

2015  Itch, Midori.so, Tokyo ( with Nobuo Yoda )

Awards and Grants

2025 Contemporary Art Research Grant, Toshiaki Ogasawara Memorial Foundation, Japan

2024- Studio Rental Program (Funded by the Workspace Program of the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion), bbk berlin, Germany

2022  Neustart Kultur stipendium, Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn, Germany

2021  Neustart Kultur stipendium (Modul D), Deutscher Künstlerbund, Germany

2017  Selected for ‘Emerging 2018’, Tokyo Arts and Space, Japan

2014  Awarded the 4th Setagaya Art Award, Setagaya Arts Foundation / Setagaya City, Japan

2012  Awarded the Alumni Association’s Prize, University of Tsukuba, Japan

2011  Japan Arts Foundation Scholarship

Education

2008 – 2012  BFA, School of Art and Design, University of Tsukuba, Japan
2004 – 2006  Major in graphic design, Tokyo Zokei University, Japan