Position

Senior Curator
(current as of April 2023)

Research Themes

• Art in Hokkaido
• Contemporary art
• Sculpture

• Passage: New French Art (Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, 1998)
• Matsushima Masayuki (Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, 2000)
• Ikeda Masuo (Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, 2001)
• Art for the Spirits (Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, 2001)
• The Sculptures of Yasuda Kan (Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, 2003)
• Nanmosa Masayuki Nagare Sculptures (Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, 2004)
• Hokkaido Art 1970-1990 (Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, 2005)
• Dalí multifaceted (Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, 2007)
• The World of Sunazawa Bikky's Sketches (Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, 2007)
• Yuzo Saeki: un peintre de génie qui a achevé ses jours à Paris (Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, 2008)
• The Paintings of Rumiko Sugiyama (Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, 2009)
• Trends in Contemporary Wood Carving (Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, 2010)
• The Sculpture of Norihiro Nakae: Beyond Time (Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, 2010)
• The Literature of Takahashi Kiichiro: Living in the Great Northland (Hokkaido Museum of Literature, 2013)
• Ueda Sokyu, Kaneko Otei, Kuwahara Suiho: Three Northern Stars of Contemporary Calligraphy (Hakodate Museum of Art, Hokkaido, 2013)
• Rey Camoy Retrospective: On the 30th anniversary of his death (Hakodate Museum of Art, Hokkaido, 2015)

• Iron and Space (Gallery Monma, 2013)

• Commentary on artists, Passage: New French Art exhibition catalogue, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, 1998
• "Matsushima Masayuki: The Man and His Work" and commentary on works, Matsushima Masayuki exhibition catalogue, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, 2000
• "Five Views Toward Eternity," in Art for the Spirits exhibition catalogue, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, 2001
• "The Sense-World of Yasuda Kan: Genealogy of Forms," in The Sculptures of Yasuda Kan exhibition catalogue, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, 2003
• "Nagare Dictionary, First Edition," in Nanmosa Masayuki Nagare Sculptures exhibition catalogue, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, 2004
• "Hokkaido Art of the 1970s and 1980s," in Hokkaido Art 1970-1990 exhibition list of works, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, 2005
• "Dalí's Visual Expressions: Image Sequences and Shock Montages" and commentary on works, Dalí multifaceted exhibition catalogue, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, 2007
• Commentary on artists, Cezanne-ism exhibition project plan, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, 2008
• Chapters and commentary on works, Yuzo Saeki: un peintre de génie qui a achevé ses jours à Paris exhibition catalogue, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, 2008
• "Sugiyama Rumiko: Light Abiding in Color," in The Paintings of Rumiko Sugiyama exhibition pamphlet, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, 2009
• "The Now of Nakae Norihiro: Escaping Time and Space," in The Sculpture of Norihiro Nakae: Beyond Time exhibition pamphlet, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, 2010
• "Kiichiro the Artist," in The Literature of Takahashi Kiichiro: Living in the Great Northland exhibition catalogue, Hokkaido Museum of Literature, 2013
• "Thoughts on the Red Self-Portrait" and chapter commentary, Rey Camoy Retrospective: On the 30th anniversary of his death exhibition catalogue, Hakodate Museum of Art, Hokkaido, 2015
• Introductory text, 3D Expression in Hokkaido exhibition catalogue, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art (rental), 2006, 2008
• "Gathering at Harukayama," in Harukayama Art Fort 2013 exhibition catalogue, 2013
• "For the Imagination to Open Up the Future," in Contemporary Figurative Art, Hokkaido No. 6 exhibition catalogue, 2012

• "Thoughts on Art Literacy," Arte Piazza Bibai, 2011
• "Arte Piazza Bibai and the Art Museum," 6th Art Museum Conference, Art Piazza Bibai, 2017
• "Can an Art Museum Transform a Community?," FY2015 New Downtown Goryokaku Council Regular Meeting, 2015
• "Museum-Centered Community Development," Asahikawa Sculpture Festa 2017 Lecture Meeting (dialogue), 2017
• "Art Gallery Hokkaido: Can a Collection Save a Community?," Hokkaido University of Education Iwamizawa Campus, Lectures on Museum Education, 2019
• "Area Studies and Exhibition Planning," research and writing, Hokkaido University Recurrent Curator Training Program, Hokkaido University, 2019

• Author, "Seasonal Review: Art" column, Hokkaido Shimbun Evening Edition, 2007-16
• Author, "Hokkaido Art Area 21st Century" column, Hokkaido Shimbun, 2008-10

• CAI Art School, "A Curator Thinks Out Loud," 2006-12
• Sappporo School of the Arts, "Modern and Contemporary Art History," 2006-08　
• Sapporo Otani Junior College, "Contemporary Art Theory," 2003-11