Position

Vice-director, Curator
(current as of April 2023)

Research Themes

• Art in Hokkaido
• American art of the 1960s
• Museology

• Sacred Images (Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, 1989)
• Victor Vasarely (Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, 1993)
• Abstract Paintings of Hokkaido (Hokkaido Asahikawa Museum of Art, 1997)
• Susumu Sato Retrospective (Hokkaido Asahikawa Museum of Art, 1997)
• Scandinavian Landscape Painting in the Nineteenth Century (Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, 2002)
• Enku 2005 (Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, 2005)
• Hiroshi Abe’s Animal Orchestra (Hokkaido Asahikawa Museum of Art, 2009)
• Ultraman Art (Hokkaido Asahikawa Museum of Art, 2010)
• Ten'ei Abe Retrospective (Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, 2012)
• Abstract Paintings by Tatsuoki Nambata and His Contemporaries (Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, 2014)
• Art Chronicle: 500 Years from Our Collection (Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, 2014)
• Santaro Takahashi Exhibition (Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, 2015)
• Godzilla at the Museum (Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, 2016)
• Kotaro Migishi Exhibition for Children (Migishi Kotaro Museum of Art, Hokkaido, 2018)
• Inuit Wall Hangings (Kushiro Art Museum, Hokkaido, 2018)
• Chagall in Print (Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, 2023)
• Sapporo International Art Feastival 2024 Exhibition at Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art "1924-2024 FRAGILE [Handle with Care]" (Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, 2024)

• Chapter commentary, other writings and editing, Japanese Realism 1920s-50s exhibition catalogue, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, 1992
• "Abstract Paintings of Victor Vasarely," other writings, translation, and editing, Victor Vasarely exhibition catalogue, The Japan Association of Art Museums, etc., 1993
• Chapter commentary, other writings and editing, Susumu Sato Retrospective exhibition catalogue, Hokkaido Asahikawa Museum of Art, 1997
• "Photography, Urban Studies, Distance," in "Sketches 2000 Asahikawa" Photo Collection, Hokugen Photo Group, 2001
• "The Blue Paintings of Late Nineteenth Century Scandinavia," other writings, translation, and editing, Scandinavian Landscape Painting in the Nineteenth Century exhibition catalogue, The Japan Association of Art Museums, etc., 2002
• "Enku Buddhas in Hokkaido," in Enku 2005 exhibition catalogue, Chunichi Shimbun, 2005
• "The Plan for the Ultraman Art Exhibition," other writings and editing, Ultraman Art exhibition catalogue, Hokkaido Shimbun Press, 2010
• "The World of Abe Hiroshi's Writings and Picture Books," in Hiroshi Abe's Animal Orchestra exhibition catalogue, Shuppan Kobo Miru, etc., 2011
• "A Walk in Harukayama Art Fort," in Harukayama Art Fort 2011 exhibition catalogue, Harukayama Art Fort Executive Committee, 2011
• Co-author, Abe Ten-ei as a Young Artist: Exploring a Deep Sea of Images, Kyobunsha, 2012
• "On the Santaro Takahashi Exhibition at the Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art," other writings and editing, Birth of a Woodworker, Birth of Form, Nakanishi Publishing Co., 2015
• Commentary on works, Godzilla at the Museum exhibition catalogue, Hokkaido Shimbun Press, 2016
• "The Plan for Art of Uneasy Poetry," other writings and editing, Art of Uneasy Poetry exhibition catalogue, Migishi Kotaro Museum of Art, Hokkaido, 2018
• Commentary, "Enjoy One Special Piece: Chagall's Flowers above Paris," Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art Collection Gallery, 2020
• Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art gallery concept text, in Sapporo International Art Festival "SIAF2020 INDEX", Sapporo International Art Festival Executive Committee, 2021
• “On creativity and publicness of making museum collection,” Museum Studies, vol.57, no.3, 2022.
• "Opening the Fragile Box of a Century" etc., Sapporo International Art Festival 2024 Exhibition Record of Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art,  Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art,  2024

• ​​​​​Member, Sapporo Art Exhibition Executive Committee and Artist Selection Committee, 2002-03 
• Researcher, Northern Region Art Project, Northern Regions Academic Information Center, Hokkaido Asai Gakuen University, 2003-04
• Part-time Lecturer, Hokkaido University (Western Art), 2004
• Member, Editorial Committee, Music Criticism Quarterly Gauche, 2005-10
• Lecturer, "Enku Buddhas in Hokkaido," Tomakomai City Museum, 2006
• Ultraman Art Exhibition Talk (dialogue), The Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki, 2011
• Part-time Lecturer, Sapporo Otani University, 2013-16 (Contemporary Art), 2022- (Art in Hokkaido)
• Hokkaido Shimbun "Art Kaleidoscope" project collaboration, 2014-17
• Member, Otaru City Museum of Art Advisory Council and Materials Preservation Committee, 2014-15, 2020-2022
• SIAF2020 Curator for Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art and Migishi Kotaro Museum of Art, Hokkaido, 2018-21
• SIAF2024 Curator for Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Hokkaido, 2022-24