| BIOGRAPHY |
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Born in Yamanashi, Japan 1960 |
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| 1996 Pratt Institute, Painting, M.F.A., Brooklyn, NY |
| 1989 Moved to New York City from Tokyo, Japan |
| 1986 Tama Art University, Design, B.A. |
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| EXHIBITIONS |
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2012 |
Takashi Usui Works on Paper, 490 Atlantic, Brooklyn, NY |
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2010 |
“What’s so funny?” Curated by Linda Horn, Spencertown Academy Arts
Center, NY |
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2010 |
Takashi Usui recent works “Creature in the Pink World” ISE Cultural Foundation, New York, NY |
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2009 |
“Urban Sensitivity” Curated by Mako Wakasa, Gallery 128, New York ,NY |
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2007 |
“Comic Sense”, Gallery Lafayette, Lafayette, LA. Curated by Brian Guidry |
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2001 |
“Buying Time: Nourishing Excellence, The 2000 NYFA Painting Fellow” Curated by William Stover, Sotheby’s, New York, NY |
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2000 |
“Good Business is the Best Art”, Flat File + Slide Project, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx,
NY |
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1999 |
“4th Annual Small Works Benefit Raffle”, PS 122 Gallery, New York, NY |
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1999 |
“Size Matters” Curated by Mike Weiss, Gale Gates et al, Brooklyn, NY. |
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1999 |
“Artists in the Marketplace”, Curated by Marysol Nieves & Lydia Yee, The Bronx Museum of
the Arts |
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1998 |
“Phillip Morris Art Award Final Selection”, Junji Ito, Yuko Hasegawa, Kunio Yaguchi – Jurors, Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo, Japan |
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1996 |
“Teriyaki-Boy”, M.F.A. Thesis Solo Exhibition, Higgins Hall, Pratt Institute Brooklyn, NY |
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1996 |
“Pratt 16th Annual Symposium” Higgins Hall, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY |
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1994 |
“Legs”, DW Gallery, New York, NY |
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1994 |
“Black Sheep Exhibit”, 612, Brooklyn, NY |
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1994 |
“Fragment Action of the Body”, Orozimbo, New York, NY |
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1988 |
“Boracy Island to Manhattan” Solo Exhibition, Gallery Seibu Habitat, Tokyo, Japan |
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1987 |
Group Show, Aoyama Spiral Hall, Tokyo, Japan |
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1987 |
“6th Annual NAAC Award”, The Central Museum, Tokyo, Japan |
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1986 |
“Miniature Exhibit”, At Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
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1986 |
“The Choice Annual Award 1985” G7 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
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1985 |
“ Final Flower Party”, At Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
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1985 |
“Selection 22”, Kuala Rumpur Art Space, Tokyo, Japan |
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1985 |
“Cool-Five”, At Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
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| AWARDS |
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2005 |
Artist’s Fellowship (Drawing), The New York Foundation for the Arts |
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2000 |
Artist’s Fellowship (Painting), The New York Foundation for the Arts |
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1998 |
The Artists in the Marketplace Program, Featured Artist, The Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY |
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1998 |
Phillip Morris Art Award Japan, Finalist, Tokyo, Japan |
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1986 |
NAAC Award 1996, Drawings for Book cover, Art Directors Club, Second Prize winner,
Tokyo, Japan |
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1985 |
Illustration Magazine, “The Choice Annual Award” Second Prize winner, Tokyo, Japan |
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| ADDITIONAL |
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1996 |
Symposium Panelist, Donald Kuspit – Juror, Visiting Critics: Roberta Smith, Robert Storr, David Livi-Strauss, Kay Larson, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY |
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| COLLECTIONS |
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Daiko Corporation, Tokyo, Japan |
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Lacoste Corporation, Paris, France |
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| BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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2009 |
“Urban Sensitivity: Seven Contemporary Japanese Artists”, Brooklyn Rail |
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1999 |
“No Shortage of ‘Filth’ to Role Righteous Rudy”, New York Post |
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1999 |
Art Review “Bull Market”, Martha Schwendener, Time Out New York |
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1999 |
Art in Review “ Artists in the Marketplace”, Holland Cotter, The New York Times |
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1999 |
Artists in the Marketplace Catalogue |
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1998 |
Phillip Morris Art Award 1998 Catalogue |
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1996 |
“Sometimes Dance and Art Don’t Mix”, Monique Yazigi, The New York Times |
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1986 |
6th Annual NAAC Award Catalogue |
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